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Sorry to step on your digiti pedis, doc. I said medical "culture," not medical culture. I fully understand the centrality of heritage to the OP. The kid on CL was also of a similar heritage (likely the same one) and the same career track. People of traditional American culture tend to read into these threads a destructive parental overindulgence that results in offspring possessing an intensely self-referential worldview, an overblown sense of entitlement, and a shocking callousness regarding the struggles of most other people. I am one of those traditional Americans.
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But hey, in all honesty, coming from Vancouver Canada, I do feel you. I just wish I had a rich dad that would cover all my expenses till I got a steady job/career. Life is life and we don't get to choose the lifestyle or parents when growing up. If you really loved cars and driving, a miata would blow your mind. Your 3.0 is fine for now, maybe bitch about it a little more in a year to your dad and move up to an 458 or sth. That will show your uncle who's boss. Im sure your dad will like the idea of who's son has a nicer car.
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1. I get it, it pisses me off when I see 8 year olds with iPhones when I didn't get a phone until I was 13. Same concept. I get why some of you are mad.
2. Calm down, everyone. Haha 3. The "not tooooo douchey" thing was a joke, but I forget you guys have a sense of humor much different from mine. 4. If your father offered you a nice car at your graduation, would you have said no? 5. Some of you guys crack me up. 6. I truly wanted to tell you guys what I thought about the power in the 30i, I wasn't trying to bitch and moan about anything. 7. If I needed a car to get girls, I'd honestly just give up on life. Haha 8. If you're mad at me, I'm so sorry I didn't ask for a shitty car and to get kicked out of the house into a shitty apartment. 9. Screw the "American dream". I hate to say it, but the traditional values are dead. Have you SEEN my generation? Take a good look at us. 10. You mad? Oh, and thank you to the serious replies, you guys have actually been really helpful. And to everyone who is acting personally affronted, keep commenting. They say laughter adds a day to your lifespan. At the rate you guys are going, I'll be immortal! And someone should send me a link to that clublexus thread, I'd love to read those comments as well! Last edited by keepittrill; 04-22-2013 at 12:57 AM.. |
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Honestly, I'll put some up tomorrow. I don't even care about the dust at this point. Even with it being garaged, it accumulates SO much dust. Expect pics tomorrow!
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There was a similar thread on 6speed recently as well that got shut down pretty quickly. Supposedly it was a school project for a kid in Malaysia that he had to play Internet troll.
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Yep, I'm done with this one. Outta here.
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First and foremost everything is relative. Getting 5 year old car, be it that it may a Z4 for graduation is still a 5 year old car. To some it seems excessive as it took them years to get a car of their own, to others it seems petty as they have had a brand new 35is since they were 16 and their drivers license, not some petty 5 year old heaven forbid non tubro car. Point is its ridiculousness which ever point of you you use as you look at it subjectively. Objectively, its 18 year old receives 5 year old car for graduation. Blowing it up either direction isn't very productive.
In short nobody should care OP got a 30k car. It happens a 1000 times a day in the US where a kid gets a car on graduation. MANY of those are worth more than 30k. |
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5 years old? It was a 2010...3 years old...well, since they usually start selling the year before their model number, I guess it could be 4 years old. Could my parents have bought me a 2014 Sdrive35is? Absolutely. Would they? Not after my sister totaled her brand new IS350 within 6 months. She didn't end hp spoiled and unable to fend for herself. She went to a reputable 6 year Med program and is currently in residency. She would argue that having nice things has motivated her to KEEP ON GOING in order to be able to provide the same nice things for her kids. Whatever, anyway, the point is that everyone usually gets a reward for doing something that their parents ask of them. That reward is always within the parents means. (Not always , but usually.) My dad had the cash, I did what was asked of me and they got me the car. Plain and simple. Yeah, they could have made me get a job to try to make the payments, but why pay interest? (The car was bought on cash) And yeah, I suppose one could argue that I shouldn't get anything for graduation because im SUPPOSED to graduate. I also have never had a grade below A in high school, I'm graduating with a projected 4.3 GPA. (Actually, I got a C Junior year. Whatever, it was Ceramics, unimportant haha) My parents aren't paying a cent for my college. So why not? Should I reward myself for all the hard work by driving a junker? Should I ignore the fact that I was never allowed to really participate in the social aspect of high school? Did anyone here go to their Prom? Yeah, I didn't. I wasn't allowed. I feel like the car was a good trade-off for every experience I have not been allowed to have. Say what you need to say, but that's my opinion. Yeah, I complained a little about the power. So? It's not like I marched up to my parents and told them that I hate the car. No, I just wanted to get some opinions on what you guys think of the power in your respective vehicles. Should I have mentioned how I got the car? I think not. But should it matter? At the end of the day, were all here because we want to be apart of a community of individuals who share a similar passion. I have to say, I'm "a little disappointed" in this community. Have a great day, guys. Sorry if I offended.
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Well, if one looks at this whole thread objectively, the OP does come across to be somewhat of an ingrate (not that he is or is not, it just appears to be that way on the net...however, he did have an inkling that he might be as he said it himself). Yes, I agree it's irrelevant how he got the car, his backgrd, etc, so he shouldn't put it out there if it's extraneous info, or else someone's bound to comment about it: that post about his 'culture'/medical destiny was waaay out there...I dunno what to say but saying that it's totally inappropriate for this forum is an understatement.
I personally don't care if OP got a brand new Ferrari as a grad gift, good for him; I didn't bother to comment on his 'extraneous' info either. I don't think that anyone here actually showed any disdain for the guy getting this car, but, rather, his attitude. What I don't get is that he is a self-professed amazing student/intelligent guy but he didn't know immediately upon driving the various trim levels that there is a big power difference between the non/turbos? Community is a 2-way street, you get what you give. To be fair, if one rereads everything in this thread, it's hard to say that the forum decided to just jump him out of nowhere and w/o any provocation. He may actually be a nice guy in real life, but he just needs to tone down the rhetoric online, it's a car forum(!), that's it. No need to go on too much about the other stuff, esp when it doesn't lend anything to the topic and only casts one in a disparaging light. |
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The world has changed. These kids are brought up swimming in social media where EVERYTHING is disclosed to EVERYBODY. Want to know how solid your relationship with your girlfriend is, you check her reported relationship status on her Facebook page. If you're FBO ("Facebook Official), you're in, if not you've been dumped and better start looking. It is incredible that traditional boundaries between the private and the public are not just disintegrating - THEY ARE GONE! The OP kid, and most of his cohort, simply don't understand what we - most of us that is - are objecting to. They are used to hanging everything out there and demanding, like every one else, to be accepted for "who I am." Yecchh!
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Mods its time to lock this thread so we can get back to talking about z4s and not the OP be it negatively or positively. For all our sake just lock this thread.
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Has driving it in sport mode changed your outlook of the car, even a bit? |
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