Originally Posted by pentoman

I'm bored and want to buy a car (I am really into cars and don't car for much else, like mortgages and stuff).


I'm only 22 and can afford something reasonably good (let's say I could afford a 1993 ish 500SL or 2000ish E320).


I like Mercedes but it's not that sensible to buy another German saloon car like the one I already have ('86 190E)... and feel there's few other MBs with as good a match of quality/ride/handling/economy anyway. And I wouldn't mind a manual 'box either.



So right now I REALLY want a Honda NSX ("Acura NSX"?!), but people (including myself) say I'll get speeding tickets and won't be happy to pay the 'exotic' prices for parts/tyres/etc especially as it's a pretty rare and now quite old supercar and I'd be better off with, say, an S2000 or Lotus Elise.


But I WANT an NSX! But still the questions hover in the back of my mind...
What advice can you guys give me? Have you followed your dreams when younger? Would you go back a few years and tell your youthful self not to splash out on that 240Z/911/Corvette and save for a mortgage? Or would you do it again and leave even more smoky rubber ?


I'm interested in your insights,


Russ

P.S. I have a girlfriend so don't need the chick magnet thing. Also was born equipped with a lady-pulling Hugh-Grant-like British accent anyway.