Wow - is that a little 5th gear teaser in the Forum Title?

[RC45]

Originally Posted by dingo Originally Posted by RC45 Interesting enough youended up buying a Japanese econobox (albeit a rather peppy one at that ) and not some exotic Italian Alfa when you went car shopping - does that not say something about your search for "bang for the buck" rather than exclusivity? yes but we are talking about a completely different price range, nothing in the $35-40K region impressed me as much as the WRX did.....the selection of performance cars is pretty limited. When you buy an F430/Gallardo SE/whatever (over a Z06) you get both exclusivity and amazing performance in the same package.....an Alfa might be more exclusive but it can't match the WRX's performance.

You just quoted many Z06 buyers word for word.

AT this time in the $25,000 to $100,000 range in the USA there is NOTHING that comes close to the Z06 performance.

That's right, used 2001 Z06s are getting to be as low as $25,000 now - so that is F360CS/P911TT/Viper ACR, Ford GT performance for LESS than a Toyota Camry.

On the new-car front, same story - just the budget is $70K.

Think about it, if you DID have $70K AUSD what woudl you have bought - remember only one car, your daily driver and peformance drug fix?

Do you think a Boxster (that may be slower than your cyurrent WRX) would really satisfy you?

Anyway, hopefully you realize this is all in jest... right?