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<p>Oh, mackinaw! </p>
<p>I’m SO bt,dt! 
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<p>[Also the mole check thing, but no facial enhancements, yet. No $$.]</p>
<p>Mackinaw, I’m right there with you and Lhasa, no facial what not for me, either, but its fun to look at the brochures!</p>
<p>Ha! I test drove a convertable mini cooper yesterday- I would have to say Booyah! Pretty good gas mileage, you can fit some one in the back seat, if need be :p</p>
<p>Booyah! is a good thing, right? I was with my daughter getting pizza when we saw a guy outside with a mini. I asked him if it was an unreliable as Consumer Reports said. He said it was quite reliable, and then offered to let my daughter sit in the back seat to test it out. As he was outside the car, and I was standing there next to him, I thought it was safe. She said it was okay though she wouldn’t want to go cross-country in it. I assured my husband that with one back seat down, he can get three golf bags in it. No other luggage, I don’t think, but three golf bags.</p>
<p>I had a 1953 red chevy convertible, nosed and decked when I was 17. Now I love my Isuzu Trooper (apparently the only person in the US who does.)</p>
<p>What happened to me?</p>
<p>I’m trying to sell my wife on a new Chrysler 300 with the souped up Hemi and 4 wheel drive. Kind of a grandpa’s M-5.</p>
<p>UUUmmmmmmm me thinks BAR wants the Chrysler 300 lol uuummmmm lol</p>
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<p>Fit? One? Is that all the back seat is good for in our mid-life crisis? :eek:</p>
<p>tsdad: Look to the left of your post for the answers to your questions…</p>
<p>You betcha. Already have the two-seater thing covered–now I want a nice big long distance cruiser that still does 0-60 in 5 seconds. I do lots of driving for my job. I AM a car geek.</p>
<p>There’s a great Star Trek parody (recording) where Capt. Kirk bails on the Enterprise for a bleach blonde and a red convertible on the planet Schwartz. Sounds better than pushing Priceline but what do I know?</p>
<p>Not going the sports car route but I think there’s a good chance the next car I buy will be the first brand new car I’ve ever owned. First, I could only afford used. Then, for a good long time, I’ve always been prudent, buying a two-year-old car and letting someone else pay for the stiffest depreciation. I’m now a little tired of being prudent…though enough so that I will probably buy an upscale sedan with relatively low depreciation.</p>
<p>And I’m starting to use Frequent Friar miles to upgrade to Business Class on any trip longer than LA-Chicago.</p>
<p>But to some of my [to her] outlandish suggestions, TheMom says, “That’s nice dear…you can take that up with your trophy wife.”
Hmmph.</p>
<p>Is business class a subtle sign of mid-life crisis?</p>
<p>Uh oh. <em>Previous smugness (ie no red car lust) evaporates</em></p>
<p>Cheers, if you want to do anything in the back seat of a mini other than sit there and ask “are we there yet?” you’d better be a darn good yogi :D</p>
<p>Cheers, as a measure of self-indulgence, which is what mid-life crisis is essentially all about, yes. If you’ve always traveled business class, then upgrade accordingly.</p>
<p>My husband wandered all the local car lots looking at little red sportscars for the WHOLE week before he turned 50. My neighbor, ever so wisely, said: you know how conservative he really is, let him think he can do that if he wants to do it, and he never will, unless you argue with him about it. So I kept my mouth shut, having already planted the seed of the Volvo S80 Turbo, which he convinced himself is really a sports car. VROOM!</p>
<p>I forgot the part that about this time one of his colleagues who he really respects made some crack about mid-life crisis and men who buy little red sports cars. The colleague probably should get more credit than I should.</p>
<p>Oh lord. Mid life crisis can be equated to simple self-indulgence? :eek:</p>
<p><em>winces as fondly recalls many many instances of self-indulgence</em></p>
<p>What’s the expression? To hell in a hand basket?</p>
<p>Upgrade to first…hmmmm. I don’t even know how many miles that is. Double? Not worth it with the new lie-flat business class seats. Don’t think the buy-one get-one free Plat Amex deal covers First Class…</p>
<p>Yeah, not feeling the first class thing. Yet. Don’t even need the business class on the US domestic flights. Yet.</p>
<p>btw, Why red? Advertising coup?</p>
<p>LOL lorelei</p>