So how did the look / test drive go?

Is the interest still there? Fire stoked? Or bloom off the rose?

Salesmen are universal...presuming 'poverty think' and knowing it works 90% of the time. I try my best to ignore it.

 

Um, yeah bruh, you can afford one. Pull the trigger and don't look back!!!

 

Head vs. Heart.

No one "needs" a $110,000 sports-car that has a rated capacity of about 420 lb of people and luggage and minimal room for the luggage. I was smitten by the C-X16 concept car and when the F-Type Coupe was released I was no longer in love with my old ride, I couldn't wait to sell it and order the F-Type (Wife said "one mistress/toy at a time").

My wife INSISTED that I apply to Suze Orman for the F-Type and get Suze Orman's "APPROVED" T-Shirt before she would go along with the purchase. I filled out the paper-work and was slated to be called for her show, but did not get her call: based on my financial profile it was a NO BRAINER that I could afford the car. So with Suze Orman's implicit blessing and the green light from our financial advisor, my wife went along with the purchase (I intend to hold the car for a long time or trade it if it's not reliable -- so far, no problems).

My wife has now fallen for the F-Type too. 1 week 1,200 mile road-trip proved it to be a comfortable cruiser with room for our stuff. Then my wife took it 350 miles round-trip to Maryland. Driving home at night in the rain she engaged the "rain and snow" mode -- when she got home, she was totally in love with the car: loved the lights, the automatic wipers, the rock-solid handling, the speed and the driver-centered experience. She understands now...

Sounds like you can afford it too -- to quote JLR: "How alive are YOU?"

 

Booked a flight to the dealership for May 6-7th (that's how far away I am from civilization).

 

You have to walk a fine line....you want the wife to approve of the car, but you don't want her to fall madly in love with it and want one herself!

Glad you (and your wife) are enjoying it!

 

I brought my wife Karen to the dealership so SHE could test-drive a F-Type. I already did my $800 test drive at the Jaguar Performance Driving Academy.
Karen walks in and they have a convertible parked next to a coupe, she says "they are beautiful cars!"
Salesman walks around back and opens the hatch / boot on the convert and says "Karen, come here and look a this." He says "not much trunk space in the convertible."
Karen exclaims "what the hell are you thinking? we couldn't possibly go away for a weekend in the convertible! -- you'll have to buy the coupe!"

So I did...

 

Smart man!! Nice job in tricking her into the car you wanted. =)

 

Traded in my C5 Vette for a Miata for my wife. Then I needed a car. She loves hers, and doesn't drive mine.

 

That's what the F-Pace is for...

 

If you're a financial advisor then you know you should by a low mileage 2014 for 65k and laugh all the way to the bank. I make much more than you and world not consider buying one new. My boat is used as are both my cars, my 4 wheeler, and my house. You know you want one. Just do it. But do it the right way.

 

Some of the dick flapping in this thread is astonishing....

 

That's what an F Type is for.LOL

 

Agreed, however since I am a car lover I hold nothing against the "dick flapping," as I enjoy looking at their cars. Lol

However, I realize after this post that I have very few "virtual friends" and I will be forced to make friends and boost my ego using the old fashioned way....talking to people without the use of machines.

I fully understand I will not be a forum wizard, with great humility, I accept my future....Godspeed.

 

So you have a commitment problem: don't keep cars or friends for very long.

I would think as a financial advisor you would be into long term (client) relationships. I treasure long term friends and relationships and clients. I thing most of us bought the F-Type with our hearts, not our logical brains. We are in love with them.

Look at it as an advertising expense...

 

Where did you come up with the thing about friends and clients? That seems like quite a leap.

 

Maybe I'm reading too much of myself into this thread -- I'm a financial adviser too, so when 084runnerltd started the thread I took a personal interest. And the question of affordability did cross my mind (and the wife's): both kids were mid-way through private colleges when I bought my F-Type.

My career path has changed: I used to work with 10-12 clients at a time, now I work with only 1. My key client has been good to me (I've closed 10 deals with them), and I consider some of the people I work with there to be friends, not just "clients." I found it is easier to keep one client happy than constantly going to look for new ones.

I had my last fun car for 31+ years, I'm planning on staying with the F-Type for a long time (although I might change-it-up for a newer MY). I've been serving the same client as a financial adviser since October 2003. I still talk to some high-school and college friends. Different strokes...

Life is good when you can work with your friends for mutual fun and profit.

Life is great when you have an F-Type out on the road...

 

And we can all be virtual friends -- short term commitment to the mark or long time...doesn't matter. If you're here on the forums you have a passion.

 

None of those things have anything to do with one another. I change cars every few years but I've worked at the same company for 10 years (which makes me a DINOSAUR in tech) and still hang out with many of my high school friends.

 

Good question LobsterClaws, I was thinking the exact same thing...??

 

Exactly, if I didn't have car forums, I would have very few people to talk cars with....my wife quickly grows tired of my "car talk." (Small town in the middle of no where...the car enthusiasts here are mainly domestic truck enthusiasts.)

I can't imagine how much money the forums have saved me over the years in repair bills!