Morning all!
Posted: Wed Apr 03, 2024 8:43 am
Greetings from Hertfordshire!
A little recent history - back in Covid (remember that?) having loved every minute of owning my "practical" RX8 I agreed to sell it as it hardly got any use and was essentially burning money sitting outside the house. A brilliant but ruinously expensive second car for a family with three children, we decided after much life-reflection to prioritise super-cheap motoring and allocate more of our resources to holidays and time with the children etc.
Enter the Mazda 2...or as my wife dubbed it, the "student's car".
Fast-forward to now, triggered by some recent tragic bereavement and further life-reflection (with the conclusion life is short), some discussions have been had about replacing the Mazda 2.
Initial conversations were shockingly directed towards a newer, safer, more comfortable 5 door hatchback like a Volvo V40 or Mazda 3....god help me.
Last week however I raised the question of "do we think we could manage with a two-seater?"...and I was not shot down in flames
A very rapid shortlist based on a budget of £6-10k was pulled together:
- original Boxster ("too expensive, too showy")
- Mk3 MX5 ("we love them but have had two already")
- Nissan 350Z ("meh")
Z4??? ("mmm yes I do like them")
So here I am on the initial stages of a Z4 hunt. My biggest dilemma is wind-in-the-hair Roadster v "that-shape" Coupe...
I can tell already this site is going to be a) an absolute treasure-trove of information; b) an enemy to my wallet
Regards!
L83
A little recent history - back in Covid (remember that?) having loved every minute of owning my "practical" RX8 I agreed to sell it as it hardly got any use and was essentially burning money sitting outside the house. A brilliant but ruinously expensive second car for a family with three children, we decided after much life-reflection to prioritise super-cheap motoring and allocate more of our resources to holidays and time with the children etc.
Enter the Mazda 2...or as my wife dubbed it, the "student's car".
Fast-forward to now, triggered by some recent tragic bereavement and further life-reflection (with the conclusion life is short), some discussions have been had about replacing the Mazda 2.
Initial conversations were shockingly directed towards a newer, safer, more comfortable 5 door hatchback like a Volvo V40 or Mazda 3....god help me.
Last week however I raised the question of "do we think we could manage with a two-seater?"...and I was not shot down in flames
A very rapid shortlist based on a budget of £6-10k was pulled together:
- original Boxster ("too expensive, too showy")
- Mk3 MX5 ("we love them but have had two already")
- Nissan 350Z ("meh")
Z4??? ("mmm yes I do like them")
So here I am on the initial stages of a Z4 hunt. My biggest dilemma is wind-in-the-hair Roadster v "that-shape" Coupe...
I can tell already this site is going to be a) an absolute treasure-trove of information; b) an enemy to my wallet
Regards!
L83