Stop winging & embrace a can-do attitude & maverick hero persona. You can accomplish anything you set your mind to accomplish. You can do anything you set your mind to. Your not behind held up by anyone other than yourself. Do you think my blog produces itself? Do you know that I hand type most of my blog content right on the seat of my chair.
The gasoline fueled 2023 Toyota Camry with the Dynamic Force Engine & 8-speed direct shift transmission is a wet dream of engineering. A reliable, trustworthy, crashworthy, awesome, well made, respectable sedan with good performance & good fuel economy that will last 20 or 30 years of daily use. These sterling reliability reputation Toyota vehicles are so well made that they are famous all over the world as being the most reliable & longest lasting vehicles available.
I love the GR Yaris & GR Corolla & dream of owning one but resent the low fuel economy from the turbo 1.6L with 29 PSI of boost that makes 300 HP. That seems like a lot of engines stress & I know from studying the WRC & custom-made one-off factory world rally championship & group B rally cars that stuff breaks down on those vehicles all the time.
Rally teams carry multiple sets of spare tires, spare suspension, engine wear items, all sorts of spare in trailers filled with spare parts. I am talking about supercharged & turbocharged small engines that make 500+ HP sent through a LSD on both axel superlative torque vectoring all wheel all the time drive systems. Now WRC requires Toyota Homologation, so they have to engage in serial production of the rally cars, thus the GR Yaris & GR Corolla are actually being sold to the public.
Under 30 MPG a no go for me since it would be my daily driver, and I reset paying $45K for a GR Corolla out the door, then have to take it in the wallet at the gas station pump fueling it all the time. It would cost 2X or more to fuel than the Hybrid Corolla which is fast enough. That 2ZR-FXE & HSD shove the Corolla Hybrid down the highway at much faster than legal speeds easily.
I don't care about peak acceleration in the real world, my work commute not a race anyways, and often low skill drivers abound along my route, people with more money for fancy cars than driving skills blocking my way with stop & go traffic congestion on the way home at night, so I don't want the 21 MPG city fuel economy in stop & go traffic, nor a manual transmission for commuting that would cycle wear my left knee hip & ankle with hundreds of stop start cycles daily.
I am a cheapskate or tightwad or wisdom enhanced frugality focused science nerd and find energy efficiency entertaining. Going further with less fuel the reason we have taken Meg's 3rd Gen Toyota Prius on so many really long road trips throughout America during the summer. To put it this way, if we had take our 2.8L Audi A4 quattro on these same trips, it would have been 4X more expensive, in part because it requires premium fuel.
That would take money from our food budget, our fun budget, reduce where we could visit, our housing budget for hotels. If we had to waste 22mpg fuel economy budget on fuel, it would make the entire trip worse, well thats true of my daily commute too. I only drive the Audi on Sunday to church & back, about 80 miles per week, and that costs $25 in fuel. What a gas hog, and it hogs the most expensive premium fuel. Back when my mother purchased this Audi in 2001, gasoline was just over $1 per gallon. That $1 dollar also had more buying power back then than it does now.
I actually think that 44 mega joules of chemical energy in gasoline for $5 a gallon a really good deal. The problem with most gas-powered cars is that the greedy manufacturers use cheap low efficiency engine technology in order to maximize their profits per vehicle sold. So that means people who buy many vehicles get burned by poor reliability & poor fuel economy, forced to pay more per mile for each reason. This is why so many luxury vehicles depreciate rapidly.
Get a Toyota or if you really want something fancy, a Lexus, since Lexus just a brand of Toyota.
Luxury vehicles are expensive to buy, expensive to operate, expensive to fix, expensive to maintain, and lose capital value in depreciation faster, making them a poor man's choice, for rich men are tightwads or frugal and invest the money the save, so save your money & invest it into profitable investments, just like rich people do, on a smaller scale.
Most of them started out small to. You know the guy who started Amazon.com was just a regular bookstore owner, who had a great e-commerce epiphany. Now Jeff B of Amazon one of the wealthiest people in the world.
E-commerce serves a function by enabling people to buy things they can't even procure locally. Some people telling me about it, amazon, eBay, and Alibaba, describe it as "search online to fit it, click to order & it shows up like a magic trick", sometimes the same day, next day or just a few days later if you are like me & have an Amazon Prime subscription, and live within reasonable proximity to a slave life working conditions Amazon fulfillment center.
I think in law & order some criminals should be ordered to work in a Amazon Fulfillment center, that doing so would teach them a lesson about how to be an accountable person with personal integrity, moral courage & ethical ideology. After all, is that not what most parents should be teaching their children anyway. In another way, we are all, as they say, God's Children, imperfect hypocrits, who makes mistakes, and fail, where no one has all the answers except God.
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