Well, drat.
But, at same time, how sweet that he won’t part with it. Bet he’s named it, too. 
And the new Mustang can be the daily work horse while the pampered restored mustang will be used for special occasions.
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I like a reliable car but currently drive a nice, fairly new car, a 2016 Lexus RX. Not complaining after twenty years of second hand station wagons and vans. Back when we bought this car I flirted with getting a truck but could not justify it.
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Ha, yes!
EVs have a lot of market share where we are - a lot of our town has Teslas and a number of others around but I have noticed when we have visited certain other parts of the US they are very scarce. I’m sure it’s going to grow.
I think the Ford is both going to get people driving trucks who might not otherwise have done so (as above) and I am sure will also tempt some people into EVs who weren’t considering before, so maybe the kind of towns I hadn’t seen many EVs will start seeing more too.
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Subarus seem to be cars that people either love or hate. I drive a Legacy (we’ve owned 3 now). I would like to have an Outback but for where I live the Legacy is just about as functional, gets a bit better gas mileage and my pickup (with a cap) can handle the hauling duties.
Some things I wouldn’t go without now that I’ve had them are adaptive cruise control, heated seats (I like to call them rear defrosters but that’s already taken) and in my newest vehicle I can hook up my phone via the USB and the navigation and texting functions show up on my screen. It will read you the text and if you want to respond you just tell it what you want it to say.
I tend to drive my vehicles a ridiculous amount of miles. I’ve had two that have gone over 300k and my pickup has nearly 220k. My first Subaru had over 200k when someone rear ended me. My second has 144k and I sold it to my business so in a way we still own it.
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True. One of my sons has a Forester. I’ve ridden in it quite a bit and don’t see the appeal, but he loves it and would replace it with another Subaru if he had to get a new one.
What no Ferrari people here? That’s surprising. 
I’ve always loved vintage sports cars, muscle cars, etc., but I’ve always wanted a Ferrari. Just can’t afford the maintenance on one.
There’s a nearby “Cars and Coffee” event, once a month. I’ll occasionally go and talk cars with the locals for an hour or so.
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I came of age in the late 70’s when frankly the cars with few exceptions were slow, ugly and got horrible gas mileage. I had a hankering for the VW Rabbit GTI. With a whopping 90 horsepower a gear ratio fit for a tractor (I exaggerate but it was running around 3200 rpm at 60 mph). It went to 60 in under 10 seconds which isn’t bad considering the Corvette of the same year came in just under 9 seconds. What made it really fun is that it had german car handling and sounded and felt fast at speeds that were mostly still legal. I’m now old enough that the new ones are too fast for me 
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I really like Subarus. I owned one for several years, and got my son one when he needed AWD. I am thinking my husband’s next car “should be” a Subaru Crosstrek (however you spell it). He’s a Honda guy though, and has owned at least 5 Honda’s that I can think of. He drove a Civic until we got married. With 3 kids I strongly suggested he upgrade to an Accord, and now he has the Crosstour, which has AWD, but I think it was discontinued in 2015 (the year he got his). Hopefully his Honda will last at least 4 more years.
My Volvo is intended to be the long car trip, and it’s what we use for almost all of our travel. My husband uses his car to go back and forth to work and whatever else he does near home.
I’ll occasionally watch the auction market for all sorts of different cars that interest me. Subaru’s aren’t one of them, but recently an auction for 1998 Subaru Impreza STi caught my attention because of the “hammer price” of $313,000.
Wow, another sign of the ‘Everything Bubble’. That is one ugly car.
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Most of our cars have been Toyotas which we drive until we get tired of the cost of repairs. I replaced my Siena last January and got a new hybrid Rav4. My husband got rid of his beloved 2004 Corolla last week, though we’ve actually had it’s replacement since the end of March my son’s old Prius. He was deployed to Japan then. I think it’s seven years old.
Except for A/C there’s nothing I need, though especially for cars like vans and SUVs I think the backup cameras should be required.
We are not car snobs and we don’t drive much so we just want the cars to be functional and trouble free. We always buy new cars and keep them for over ten years. The car I have now is a 2015 MBZ e350 - a gift from my son who promised to purchase a luxury car for me when he was 10 years old if and when he achieved a 7 figure income. Besides heated seats and heated steering wheel, I like it because of the safety features
-forward collision warning
-blind spot protection
-lane departure warning
-backup cameras
My husband drives a 2011 Toyota Corolla which we purchased new for our daughter when she went to grad school and handed it down to us when she moved to NYC after graduation. We plan to upgrade to a car with more safety features soon, maybe a Tesla. And we still have our 20 year old Toyota SUV, bought after we got rid of the 7 passenger van we used to ferry the kids a long time ago.
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I wouldn’t buy this car, but those buying it are not buying it because of its looks, but because of its history. This car was the basis for Subaru winning the World Rally Championship for a few years starting in the mid 90s.
Rally racing is particularly demanding because the track varies from smooth pavement to rough dirt roads to gravel to ice. The cars (and drivers) that win have to do many things well.
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Your son is a sweetheart.
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Well that makes some sense
Once we went to 2 cars we went for small reliable (Chevy Cavalier) for around town and mini-van for trips and sports equipment. When the Cavalier died, we replaced it with the Chevy Sonic.
My wife drives our current Sonic and I drive the mini-van.
I’m definitely not a car guy-- I simply view them as a tool.
By this point in the season, the van is kind of mess with soccer gear all over the back.
Vans are more comfortable and easy to use in terms of carrying people and cargo than SUVs. But people in the US do not like them for some reason.
Not nearly the “car guy” that I once was. CRX Si, RX-7 R1, M3, S6, M5, with the CRX and RX-7 as track/SCCA competition cars. I’d do all maintenance and performance modifications myself, up through suspension modifications, brake rotor/caliper changes, valve adjustments. The only work I recall have a shop do is downpipe/ECU/pulleys/boost valve/etc. on my RX7.
Most of these, plus my wife’s cars, were purchased 2-3 years old and we’d keep them to 200k miles or they fell apart. (Current cars have 210k, 220k, and my “new” one at 60k)
Kids put those days in the past. Competition/track days ended about 15 years ago and I traded in my 220k E39 M5 for a 3 year old Audi A4 with 30k miles about two years ago. It’s still (pretty much) stock.
I still have a cabinet full of cleaners, polishes, waxes, etc. with an orbital sander and 5 grades of pads, but haven’t had them out in a while. It’s probably time, as the weather is getting warmer.
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With the risk of making a lot of people on this thread crazy green with envy…I am rocking a 2015 Subaru Outback with 6 cylinders and relatively new tires!
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@RichInPitt A Le Mans Blue Metallic E39 M5 has always been on my list of favorite cars, if I could own and maintain a collection of cars. A '93-'95 Mazda RX-7 too.
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