• Apathy Tree@lemmy.dbzer0.com
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    18 days ago

    My dream car is a T-top, any make/model, and afaik the only vehicle even remotely in my price range that has a T-top option and isn’t old as shit is a corvette. I priced it out well over a decade ago and it would cost more than my house did just a couple years prior…

    Yep, doubt I could ever justify that even if I had that kind of money, just because of the mental money breakdown of what a car should cost relative to a house…

    What’s sad is fast forward to today and just about -any- new car is in that same price range… yet my wages never really increased by that much… hmm…

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      18 days ago

      Is a Honda Del Sol close enough? I know it’s a one-piece roof instead of a two piece, but it’s still a cheaper car with a removable hardtop.

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        17 days ago

        Thanks for the suggestion, it probably drives very similarly to my civic, I’ll keep it in mind! But honestly it’s not really something I want to pursue at this point even if it is a dream car thing. Maybe in the future when things are more stable all around, and I can afford to keep it running properly, get it a nice wrap, you know, dream car stuff :)

        For now it can stay in my dreams; I’m gunna either drive my current car into the ground and figure it out whenever I have no choice, or (hooooopefully) pick up a reasonably cheap used EV soon before they get more expensive. I have big power outlets in my garage that a charger could plug right into (town is mostly hydro power, though I have space for a couple small solar panels too and with how much I drive that’s probably more than plenty), and it could work as a battery backup for certain things in power failures. Win win.