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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Would you prefer he bought a Porsche or Corvette instead?  [/quote]

LOL. Who buys a corvette?

I’ll just buy a Porsche for myself. 
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A Corvette is pretty much the textbook midlife-crisis car purchase for men, no?  [/quote]

I don’t think there’s any crisis element to it at all.  You work your ass off for 30 years, put a couple kids through college, and then when all the paying for stuff for other people is over with, you treat yourself to something fun.

That’s a “crisis” in your eyes ?

Sounds more like petty jealousy to me. Which is weird, because why be jealous of a corvette? There’s lots of them, and they’re actually in the realm of affordability when it comes to extravagances. Pick something else. A private jet or a yacht. A Corvette is too common. [/quote]

I'm a car guy, so there's no need to convince me about the argument above.  I'd love to get a C6 Z06, gut it, cage it, and track it once the kids are older.  A GT3 would be a great track car as well, but that's not going to happen.  I only mentioned the "midlife crisis" angle to rebut the poster who said nobody buys Corvettes.  Seeing that some have likened the OP's husband's lusting after a Jeep as a midlife crisis (I disagree), that angle seemed to work for a rebuttal.  [/quote]

Gotcha.

I had a C6 and got my SCCA race license so I could do track days at VIR and SP. It was a lot of fun. Met my wife-to-be at VIR. [/quote]

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