sawood12
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Well it is a strange feeling when it finally happens. To see someone else get into your car, re-adjust the seat, mirrors, get themselves comfortable then watch a car that has been your pride and joy for nigh on 6 years drive off down the road never to return again, is a feeling I can only imagine I hasten to add, that can be compared with getting home from work early one day to find your wife in bed with the milkman. You are left standing there wondering where you go from here. So as you can guess my car has finally gone to its next lucky owner and i'm sure she'll bring him much fun and joy as she did me. The new owner is known on this forum and i'm sure he'll be along in a couple of days, once he's finished familiarising himself with his new purchase, to announce the fact he has joined the ranks of 944 turbo owners.
Anyway I wont dwell on it too much, life goes on, I had a blast and my life has moved on over the past couple of years so I have lots of new challenges and things to occupy my time and wallet. And I now have a nice nearly new Ford S-Max to enjoy (or will have when I pick it up next week). To be fair it is a great peice of kit for what it is, drives very well, as all Fords do these days, handles like a much smaller and lighter car, so is capable of raising the occasional smile. Not that impressed with these new fangled turbo-deisel engines - and i've got the upgraded 2.2ltr turbodiesel. Yes it pulls like a train at lower revs and in lower gears, but the power band has no width to it. I guess if you had a thumping great 3.0ltr twin sequential turbodeisel under the hood it would be a different matter (which can be said of any engine). But anyway, it is primarily a tool and not a toy. At least it has plenty of toys inside to occupy me.
I 've had plenty of wobbly moments over the past week between agreeing the sale and the car being picked up, and the biggest one was just this morning when I popped out to the shops and upon returning home, turning the corner to see the car on the drive looking gleaming in the sun. I had taken for granted what a pretty car the 944 really is, especially from the side view. Anyway, i'll miss her and maybe in another 10 - 15yrs i'll be in a position to have another go at Porsche ownersihip.
Anyway I wont dwell on it too much, life goes on, I had a blast and my life has moved on over the past couple of years so I have lots of new challenges and things to occupy my time and wallet. And I now have a nice nearly new Ford S-Max to enjoy (or will have when I pick it up next week). To be fair it is a great peice of kit for what it is, drives very well, as all Fords do these days, handles like a much smaller and lighter car, so is capable of raising the occasional smile. Not that impressed with these new fangled turbo-deisel engines - and i've got the upgraded 2.2ltr turbodiesel. Yes it pulls like a train at lower revs and in lower gears, but the power band has no width to it. I guess if you had a thumping great 3.0ltr twin sequential turbodeisel under the hood it would be a different matter (which can be said of any engine). But anyway, it is primarily a tool and not a toy. At least it has plenty of toys inside to occupy me.
I 've had plenty of wobbly moments over the past week between agreeing the sale and the car being picked up, and the biggest one was just this morning when I popped out to the shops and upon returning home, turning the corner to see the car on the drive looking gleaming in the sun. I had taken for granted what a pretty car the 944 really is, especially from the side view. Anyway, i'll miss her and maybe in another 10 - 15yrs i'll be in a position to have another go at Porsche ownersihip.
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