Is There A Car You REGRET Not Buying? If So, What Was It?

Every now and then, I'll be happily going about my day and then it shows up. It's a pretty rare occasion, I must admit, but every single time I see it, I stop what I am doing and I wonder "What if?"

Even though I am happy with my BMW M2, when I see an Alpine White or Jet Black BMW 1M, I am always thrown for a loop. It's kind of like an ex that makes you stop and go "Hmm..."

I go back to my time with the 1M. The driving dynamics, the sound, the interior, the way the dash used Alcantara and the seats used an orange stitch.

Ultimately, it was a slightly different experience, soup to nuts. The M2 is more refined in just about every way where as the 1M is, overall, more raw in its delivery.

With a greater emphasis on simplicity, I do have some regret I didn't hold out on my search. Then again, I do appreciate memory power seats when I valet and then again it is handy to leverage the features of BMW Connect through the navigation unit.

All that said, I've got to ask: Is there a car you REGRET not buying? If so, what is it?

Foncool - 8/7/2019 8:14:09 AM

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Too many to name.

MDarringer - 8/7/2019 10:22:39 AM

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I didn't buy it, but my previous company car--for a nanosecond--was a shit show: Giulia.

MDarringer - 8/7/2019 10:23:52 AM

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After I dumped it, I imagined what it would be like to try to stuff a Hemi into it...like can be done on a Ghibli.

Foncool - 8/7/2019 6:17:00 PM

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And the ketchup on a steak crowd is heard from.

MDarringer - 8/7/2019 8:29:56 PM

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Go buy a Giulia, but don't be a crying bitch when it breaks down on you.

carloslassiter - 8/7/2019 1:48:30 PM

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2001 Z3 3.0, Oxford Green, Tan interior, wood interior trim. In 2002 they switched to aluminum trim which looks like garbage. And then the Z4 came out in 2003 and crapped all over the category.

vdiv - 8/7/2019 4:22:01 PM

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With all of its imperfections and absurdly high price, a Z8.

xjug1987a - 8/7/2019 2:27:39 PM

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65-67 Corvette... before I married a CPA...

TomM - 8/7/2019 6:19:04 PM

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I had always wanted a 59 Cadillac El Dorado Convertible. However - it was a choice between that or putting some of my kids through College - so I really cannot say I regret the decision. My 61 Chevy Biscayne came sans motor and trans - and I even put in a radio a year later.

I now have the Caddy too. Somehow it is not the same though

mre30 - 8/7/2019 9:50:55 PM

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Wow...memory lane...I was saving up my money and no sooner did I have enough accumulated in the 1990's, to plunk it all down on an Isuzu Vehicross

(https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Isuzu_VehiCROSS)

...then Isuzu packed it up.

I bought an Acura Integra instead and was very happy!

All kidding aside, there were some seriously bizarre Japanese cars in the 1990's and 2000's.

Tiberius1701A - 8/9/2019 9:46:59 AM

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OK I am old and have never had any interest in exotics or high maintenance German machines, the car I most regret not buying was the 1985 1/2 Mustang SVO.