I thought this too until I had my son and I sadly had to give up my Bimmer for a family dependable 4 DOOR Honda... Your prioritys change then....HOWEVER...my son is old enough how and not in a car seat anymore and I just got my new 3 series coupe! Never say never. It would have been hard in a 2 door with a car seat, but I will admit I did miss my Bimmer. Hondas are fine, but Germans make the best cars!🙂
Children aren't in my future, ever, besides adoption I guess, but it'd take a lot of cognitive decision for that to happen and I'm just not interested... So, with that out of the way, I can safely say that a 4-door car will not be titled in my name for the remainder of my existence on this planet.
I agree, Hondas are decent cars. The S2000 revs like a champ and is pretty fun in corners, especially for the money. The Lotus cars use Toyota motors. Excellent work, Japanese do. But it's all too high-spun, ADHD action. Rev to 9000 RPM before anything happens. Even the damn GT-R doesn't make piss for torque until its needle sweeps past 6k. Just personal preference, that's all car stuff is. It's impossible to say that it's "better" one way or another. I'm not trying to tell anyone their car sucks or whatever. Just that I think X and Y, here's the reasoning, and I'm perfectly open to hearing both sides.
Germans make fantastic cars, but I find the repairs to be tedious and in that, expensive to have professionally done. I remember when I was working at Kragen, an auto parts store here in CA, similar to Pep Boys or O'Reilleys (I think O'Reilleys actually bought Kragen recently, or the other way around) for other parts of the country. An alternator for a Ford or Chevy would run about 89 bucks for the reman. unit. Same model year Porsche 911 wouldn't have a reman. option, just a new one, for 249 bucks. Yeah, if you can own a Porsche, you can afford the repairs, right? I guess, but I enjoy working on my car myself. Open a Porsche's hatch and what do you have? A shell of polymer and aluminum. It takes a special tool set just to get the damn shell off. Not so with my 3 valve V8. Pop the hood and I can do damn near any routine maintenance myself, with not much more than my 101 piece Snap-On toolset, hex keys, and one Torx bit.
You could always get the 5-Series which is a 4-door, right? I refuse to have my life dictated by something that I bring into the world. If I had a kid, it'd live by
my rules, not the other way around. Like my dog. My cute little Labrador Retriever. He lives by my (and my wife's) rules. He doesn't need special schooling, and he's just as comforting if I've had a hard day as my sister's absolutely precious (heavy sarcasm) 6 year-old son. No. Thank. You.
2 doors are awesome because lots of people can't fit in your car and beg you to give them a ride haha.
I definitely took full advantage of that in the military. Unit lunches in garrison, every Friday... Everyone would try to pile into someone else's car to avoid gas money or whatever. I shrugged and said, "only one in my car" and it cut down on how many people I ended up having to ferry around. I hate being a chauffeur. I mean, who actually likes it? Some people, I s'pose...
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(is it just me or does this "laughing" smiley look like it's choking.)
