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      11-24-2021, 10:44 AM   #32
Joe-BMW33
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Drives: '18 M550i|'21 X5|'03 540i
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Originally Posted by pbonsalb View Post
If you don’t really drive it or use it for the practicality it offers, sell it and buy the 911 Turbo. I have a 21 Cayenne S as well but the M5 can do most of what it can do. If I really needed an SUV and had to drive one mist of the time, I would get a Cayenne Turbo or maybe an X5M. My view is that the car I drive the most should be the one I like the most. I am not trying to save happiness for later or rare occasions.
I hear you, I definitely should drive the M550 more, it's not like it's a Ferrari. I just like to keep nice things nice. It is ZERO fun for me to put on snow tires and rims annually and drive a car around to get filthy as shit in and out and full of road salt. It's also no fun dodging winter potholes, that's not enjoying a performance car. I'd rather keep it in the garage and use the cars I care way less about. I also don't need to drive my top car to work 5 miles each way in the summer to sit and bake in the lot and get door dinged in the summer. Just personal hang-ups. Back in the day when my top car was my only car, I had no choice. I am in car accumulation mode these days. I am honestly going to try and keep all my German cars for a long, long time. Do you know how many cars I see on BaT that I had and that I wish I still had? I want to be that guy with a small collection someday. It may be hard to think about a current M550 or M5 being treasured someday, but I thought the same way about my E30 and E39.

Since this will be my first Porsche, I most likely will trade up after a year or two just because I don't know the brand well enough. It took me a lot of BMW's to get really selective.
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Prior BMW's: 1987 325e|1993 740i|1998 740il|2001 530i|2002 745li|2007 750li|2006 750li|2001 530i|2012 535xi|
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