I know we all want M3s but I always wanted a 2002. This car will be driven. It will probably be left outside, occasionally might attend a few autocrosses and it will be parked in a university parking lot where girls in Jettas do not know how to drive.
I have a chance at a mint M3 (cosmetically), but it will need engine work. We know how much that will cost. It will take atleast the summer to get everything replaced so it will be a reliable daily. Probably all rotted from sitting in a garage for 10 years. The car is being sold cheap, I can part it and make atleast double what I am going to spend, but I am not soulless and that will never happen.
On the otherhand I also know of a 2002 that will be sold. Roundie, stock, runs good, looks ok. Little bumpers, Chamonix white. Probably can fix it up into good running shape quickly and cheap. It will be missing a lot of creature comforts, probably not too much of a concern, I do have the Big5 that I will never sell.
Which do I buy? Basically which car will be harder for me to find in 5 years because that is probably the time I will have time/money to work on it. But I don't know how to live within my means and I want one of these cars now.
I have a chance at a mint M3 (cosmetically), but it will need engine work. We know how much that will cost. It will take atleast the summer to get everything replaced so it will be a reliable daily. Probably all rotted from sitting in a garage for 10 years. The car is being sold cheap, I can part it and make atleast double what I am going to spend, but I am not soulless and that will never happen.
On the otherhand I also know of a 2002 that will be sold. Roundie, stock, runs good, looks ok. Little bumpers, Chamonix white. Probably can fix it up into good running shape quickly and cheap. It will be missing a lot of creature comforts, probably not too much of a concern, I do have the Big5 that I will never sell.
Which do I buy? Basically which car will be harder for me to find in 5 years because that is probably the time I will have time/money to work on it. But I don't know how to live within my means and I want one of these cars now.
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