I know I'm preaching to the choir here, but maybe someone can help me here.
I practice logical induction. I think many people don't seem to have that ability based on the cars they end up buying.
Here's how my though process goes:
- People like cars with rear spoilers
- people like cars with bigger/wider rear tires
- people love throaty muscly exhaust sound
- people like cars with sporty brakes
- people like cars with sporty wheels
- Conclusion: buy a RWD/AWD sporty car.
However, most people buy FWD cars instead. I don't get it. The way they mod their cars, it's obvious that what they really wanted was a RWD/AWD sporty car like say the FR-S but instead they buy something like a Honda Civic or a Mitsubishi Eclipse.
Price is not an issue IMO because there are plenty of inexpensive RWD/AWD cars on the used market. The only thing I can think of is that FWD cars are cheaper to own for winter roads but if a person is modding a car to have a sporty look, one would think that "practicality" can be compromised for sportiness - just buy winter tires!!
Maybe the person just wants something to look sporty, but is good on gas and has Honda reliability? They're not interested in performance? That to me is like saying "I like to have a spoon, but I want it to function like a fork". If you're going to spend $5000 in visual mods to give your car the appearance of sport, you obviously love sports cars - then just buy one!!
Someone please educate me.
How much do you guys think this guy spent? It still looks like a cartoon Minivan and probably performs like one too. He could have bought a stock sports car for cheaper, it would have looked better, performed better and it would have been
real. Second hand Boxsters can be had for $16k. This guy comes off as having a split personality - he so desperately wants a sports car, and yet he bought an econo car. I DON'T GET IT!!!
ps. I am posting this here because I suspect posting this on an econobox forum will get me lynched whereas I expect that I'll get more sympathy here.
