The lease on our second Lexus LC500 came up. Mrs Gman got herself a year old BMW X3M. She said she needed more space for her "work", which is a youtube fitness channel that's fairly popular. I asked her how much space fucking yoga pants and a rolled up mat take, and she threw shit at me. So ya, no more 2 door GT car, and now our primary daily is a fucking BMW. Gay. And not my idea.
I retaliated by getting a car she absolutely loathes. I wanted a year round car that I could stomp around in in the winter time as well, and with Nokian studded tires, this thing is close to unstoppable by all accounts, what with the full time 4 wheel drive which is always 50/50 front to rear. I got it tuned, some minor bolt on mods, about $5000 CAD to get it up to around 340BHP, not sure on what it's putting down at the wheels yet. But it's faster than I thought, the stupid nany shit can all be disabled with a single button. It's a 2024 and had about 4000 miles, under 7000km. So far so good. Just SO few manual cars like this, I could have gotten an AWD manual BMW, but having 2 of those? I'd eat my chunk first, so fuck that. Mrs Gman had a 2022 Subaru BRZ manual, and I loved that car, but it's not drivable in winter with the RWD even with winter tires I figured. Looking at an R8 or C8 2021 or 22 Corvette possibly as the "good" car.
Next is a new truck, I've looked at the Ford Rangers mostly, our ZR2 is having the dreaded transmission issues and I'm not even sure if it's worth fixing, so I might trade it off on a 2024 Ranger. I liked the Rangers more than the Chev/GMC equivalent. I don't need to tow anything heavier than a sea doo or dirt bike trailer, so another Duramax or even F150 seems overkill.
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