I feel I've achieved all the things I've set out to do - I've managed to live far longer than I thought I would and now .... I don't really know. I'm just existing and slowly turning invisible. I don't have that thing inside of me driving me. Sure I have goals to get much fitter, lose some weight, and buy a property on the coast, but I'm not driven - like I used to be. The only way I can reconcile or explain my feelings is I must be having another Mid Life Crisis - which is how I opened the thread. Maybe buying a Porche Cayenne could help me turn that corner.

sounds pretty selfish, it maybe depression, it maybe the effect of a life in marketing finally catching up with you... go for a paddle, open a door for someone who's got their hands full, ride a moped through asia, listen to someone on a soapbox in the cities park, funny thing is, u wanna f*you car, most people if not are all-atleast those with brains-are just gonna think, f*you family, and the dawn of a new day is all that really matters

If that's the case, why don't you do something constructive... build a kit car or plane. http://www.caterhamcars.com.au/ http://www.autosource.com.au/car-kitcar-manufacturers.php I'm going to do it one day. It has to be easier than building a 3D remote control heli.

your lucky Adolf to still be talking mid life crisis, reality checkpoint, I'm having a 3/4 time crisis, my advice is, throw out the middle class soft music of the corrs n gotye, get the latest hilltop hoods and black keys, [I have] and play them loud not because you wanna impress, just so you can hear them [ I'm 3/4 deaf] heh sonny, I agree with the doctor spend your money on an extended surfing holidays, thats what is important all the other is just crap anyway, that way the f' you can take a bigger picture meaning rather than just the f'you to people at the traffic lights.. If thats no good then get a late model toureg, I'm in for a surf trip, I'll bring the hoods...

Get off the treadmill. Instead of buying a new car to impress people you don't like it sounds like that $40 000 would be better spent on a Caravan. Wifey would be stoked with a nice neat nearly new 2nd hand one. Most of them have the feeling of a 4 star hotel room. Plush as. If you wanted to inflate your ego you could even strut smugly passed the poor people camping in tents during a rain shower. You've been talking about moving to the coast and travelling around in a combi sometime in the future. Is the 40K inheritance money? It would be well spent if it brings you closer to the dream of living on the coast. Well you could easily be living on the coast with wifey for a weekend by the end of this month. Then you could go again three weeks after. There's no downside. When leaving the city the caravan has the F-You factor and you'll still be able to drink 5 bottles of wine and log onto seabreeze to start these multi-page threads. Stop diddle dandling around the edges and jump in.

^^^ That's a nice looking car... esp. for the price. Low Km's too...

That's a brilliant idea. I just hopped on the website - sadly, it's not available:

You've never driven one that hits 110 in 4 sec have you?

Have you ever been at a set of traffic lights next to some kid driving a rotary Nissan Skyline in the left hand lane that merges into one lane in about 100m? I'd like to see the look on the guys face through my rear vision mirror as he sees my finger and reads my rear number plate after the light goes green.

I reckon this one looks sweet!!! and $40K should be plenty...

13B? 12A? 20B? 10A? Oh hang on, I know what you mean.....

You can get that experience in a crappy commodore. The crappier it looks the easier it is to piss people off. It is surprising how many people want to do 'ferrari lane changes (i.e. accelerating and assuming they are in front before changing), and get upset when you are alongside them or even a tad in front. Whack a supercharged v6 in a commodore, and suddenly you can be a pain in the ass too!

What? Felix?

Ironically, for a mid-life crisis thing, you have to advertise the fact that you're midlife. If they can't see your grey ponytail flogging in the breeze the point is lost. Fellow commuters will assume it's just another young gun that has borrowed dad's Cayenne. You'd get a Lotus 7 replica for under $40k. At only 6 or 700 kgs they win all traffic light getaways.

DO NOT GET THAT CAR!!!