Your sense of humor finally came through and I think FOO FOO is perfect for describing those fast cars that don’t have anywhere to drive so fast.

My fiance has an old truck, but he also has an SUV that he won’t allow the dog in! So, as a native NY’er (tho from just outside the limits technically), I have to laugh and remember the ads that sell MUD for those folks who drive SUVs and want to keep them “purty.” I’d have one and have worn it out if they got as good a gas mileage as my Honda Odyssey, but couldn’t see doing it.

Course, there are some places to drive fast in the world – any in Australia, Adrian??? Otherwise, it’s just for looking purty in when ya go out to eat, right? (Or to a ball game of sorts)…impressing the valets (wink)!

My post is coming but I like your ending with – no plans to replace it til you make some more money – that’s about how it is with me; no frou-frou until I make the money for it, and then cash deals, negotiated hard. And most of my buys have historically been 5 year old vehicles with 65,000 miles on it. You’ll see in my post that the vehicle I have now was bought new with cash and has 215,000 miles on it now (9 years later).

@ Lee – I’m sure that I don’t need to tell you that the ‘problem’ isn’t with the pickup truck … kind of like having one foot in a bucket of hot water and the other in a bucket of cold water, but ‘on average’ feeling just fine

In other words, you still have too much of your Net Worth tied up in your vehicles and you probably got there by paying way too much (in terms of finance payments over the years).

It seems like lesson learned though? No more cars for you!?

And here I thought I was doing great with a ’97 Chevy Cavalier with over 140,000 miles on it! (I did just give that to a friend a couple months ago when I finally had to get a larger car to hold the family – but the thing is still running fine!)