>>>>>>>>Anyone can say this is a self indulgent act. My daughters will mock me for it until I die. I have never been self indulgent and feel like I owe myself a favor.
>>>>>>>>http://www.raychevrolet.com/new-Fox+Lake-2013-Chevrolet-Camaro-2dr+Cpe+LS+w%2f1LS-2G1FE1E35D9232196
>>>>>>>>UPDATE: They didn't have the lime green I wanted so I went for the Pull Me Over Red.
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>>>>>>I changed my mind and cancelled the order. It's not because I lost interest in the Camaro. I have had very little work in the past year and should be saving my money, not blowing it on sports cars.
>>>>>>I will probably twitch every time I see one of them on the road. For once I am making a responsible decision, not an impulsive one.
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>>>>>Hey, they will keep making them and you can get exactly that car next year as a pre-owned certified car for a whole lot less. I buy 2 year old-certified cars (STS) and they are about half what they are new and have a better warrantee. New cars and virgins are very over-rated <s>
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>>>>That is what I have read: buy used. Even if you lease you are paying for the most expensive part of a car's life.
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>>>Kept my fingers still when you were happy with the idea of the car, but now I can easily say that Charles is totally correct - did stat analysis on that subject for quite some time last century in more detail and with more data available to me than to almost everybody else over here. Except that I would temper Charles advice a bit: don't go looking for a car half the price you were aiming for, but add another 15% for luxuries you decided against at "new" prices but also reduced in price in a used car. For me that means best seats available for the car (form, leather, options to adapt to your body) as that is your basic contact with the car and perhaps the more powerful engine you don't really need, but at half the price... Or the sports/high performance package, as that not only has the better engine, but better breaks and suspension can switch between comfortable and direct ;-)
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>>>>As far as virgins, let's not go there. It has been a really long time since I was with one.
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>>>Ok, look at it from the other end: you want the car to be interesting to your less rational side even after driving around for 2 years. The 15% luxury/impulse perks might make more sense that way ;-)
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>>I'm all for the luxury stuff in a used one rather than a vanilla new one (cars or women I guess)
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>>I started doing the certified car thing in 97 when I priced a new Toyota and a 2 year old tricked out Cadillac Eldorado ETC with a killer Northstar engine, Z run-flat tires and a Bose sound system personally made by God. Test driving the 2 made it a no-brainer.
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>Personally made by God, I like that.

Back in the day of high priced stereo systems I remember a system described as "the kind of system God would have, if he could afford it."