Let me start off by saying that this idea is only about 30% about money. As I get older, I'm starting to realize the benefits of comfortable transportation. I'm also finding myself becoming more aware of evironmental issues and preservation of natural resources, but I'm getting ahead of myself.
Let's focus on the comfort issue. After 2.5 years of storage at my parent's house, I finally brought the mustang home to my own garage. It's fun to drive, but it feels heavy, I have to reach for the shifter and the interior feels like it was made by fisher price. Oh, and let's not forget that you can really only carry 2 adults confortably. Finally, the whole way home I had to listen to the exhaust drone and the whine from the transmission and rear end.
Now, I really have no plans to race my car, so my worries are that I'll spend cubic dollars on tubular suspension and aluminum heads for power, handling and weight loss and end up with something that feels like a race car. In short, it will be too unrefined.
Then again, maybe having a mostly stock Mustang with 200K miles on it has me only seeing one side of the coin. Maybe a 100hp bump and better handling/braking actually would make the car more what I want.
Has anyone else here been in the same dellima? I suppose I'm probably asking this in the wrong place, since obviously nobody on here has jumped ship yet........
Let's focus on the comfort issue. After 2.5 years of storage at my parent's house, I finally brought the mustang home to my own garage. It's fun to drive, but it feels heavy, I have to reach for the shifter and the interior feels like it was made by fisher price. Oh, and let's not forget that you can really only carry 2 adults confortably. Finally, the whole way home I had to listen to the exhaust drone and the whine from the transmission and rear end.
Now, I really have no plans to race my car, so my worries are that I'll spend cubic dollars on tubular suspension and aluminum heads for power, handling and weight loss and end up with something that feels like a race car. In short, it will be too unrefined.
Then again, maybe having a mostly stock Mustang with 200K miles on it has me only seeing one side of the coin. Maybe a 100hp bump and better handling/braking actually would make the car more what I want.
Has anyone else here been in the same dellima? I suppose I'm probably asking this in the wrong place, since obviously nobody on here has jumped ship yet........