Well, I hope your car is properly washed now after this noisy rainstorm (greetings, readers in San Francisco!) You did move it outside, right? Even my friend with a garage knows to move his Teslas outside when it rains, just to get it wash by nature. Alas, I’ve become that lazy as well, even though I’m a card-carrying car enthusiast. Ever since I bought the M2 Competition back in October, I’ve washed it myself a grand total of once.
I am at a stage where anything that doesn’t involve actually driving the car, I’m not all that enthused about. Spending an afternoon changing the oil? Not me! I rather pay the money and take it to the dealership. Good thing about new BMW cars is that the first three year’s maintenance is free. That’s partly why I bought the car brand new, instead of saving on depreciation in a used one. It’s not about the money: it’s about saving time.
With COVID lockdowns still in effect, I didn’t really do much outside this weekend. I went to Costco for the usual groceries, and that’s about it. I took a circuitous route to get there, though, because the M2 doesn’t get driven during the week, and I wanted to give it an appropriate amount of running time to get everything mechanically warmed up. That’s the only piece of driving I’m doing these days.
It was the weekend, so I encountered a few drivers taking their weekend sports cars out for a spin. A mint first-generation Acura NSX, a really orange Honda S600, and an early-model Porsche 911. All three were driven by seemingly older fellows, which leads me to believe those are cars they’ve kept for a very long time. It makes me wish I had the (mental) ability to keep a car for similar periods. Sadly, my record thus far is only three years.
The Porsche 911 was suppose to be my “forever car”, but “adulting” got in the way. I’m not yet sure if I want to keep the M2 for a long time. BMW’s spotty history of reliability is not conducive to that once it’s outside of the warranty period. Besides, these days I’m pining for something truly JDM: going back to my roots and getting a car produced by a Japanese manufacturer. With a manual gearbox.
Let’s see what happens after I’m done paying for the lease on my dad’s Hyundai Tucson in October…
Someone’s missing a lid.