Liking something and being emotional about it are not mutually inclusive for me. Maybe you but not me. I rarely get emotional about objects as it is but that has absolutely no connection to me liking something. Do I like my cars? Yes. Do I have a strong attachment to then now that I own them? Yes. Do I have memorable experiences with them? It is a car and in contrast I have memorable experiences with a person instead.
Assumptions can be off the mark many times. Take the smart comment. I never used the word. I will say one thing and that is while I can see many cars I would like to have I can still live without it while you apparently cannot. That's fine to each their own or was that an assumption on my part.
Not to keep this going much more, but I don't see as unusual having a memorable driving experience with my cars as opposed to memorable experiences just with people.
Are my friends more important to me than my cars? - yes, and partly because without them, the cars are much less enjoyable to me. Shared experiences with friends make everything much more enjoyable. I just don't understand why it is so important to not pay a few extra $$ above what a car would bring on the open market to get a really desirable (to me) car and one that is very hard to find. In my using the word smart, to me at least, you come across as somehow taking the higher road (smug) by not getting emotional about buying cars. But maybe I am just reading you wrong. If someone really wanted this New Yorker and paid above market value, it wouldn't bother me at all, nor would I criticize them for it, even though it isn't worth the current price to me either. If the potential new owner can't sell it for what he paid for it, so what? Many of us C body owners will even put more money into our cars restoring them that will put us upside down forever, but it seems you would never do this - it would be crossing a line that isn't acceptable to you. Buying a new Tesla will drop the resale price probably more than the cost of this New Yorker in total once the new Tesla owner drives it off the lot. So, what, the Tesla owner probably didn't mind at all and is immensely enjoying his new insane mode (that one is only $127K). I guess we are all different and products of our experiences. Peace.
