What stole your attention from HiFi?

Yeah, cars...

Just got a new Toyota 4WD Matrix a few weeks ago, with a Mini Cooper Convertible coming next week (my order just arrived from the UK). Was talking to the TRD guys at my Toyota dealer this week in desperate hopes of being able to come up with a trick suspension kit that will once again make me smile while I drive in the triple digits on the Turnpike or try to carve up the twisty two lane Pennsylvania roads. Now, if I could only convince Toyota to sell the 4WD with a manual transmission!

Matrix really disappoints in the fun department after having driven a couple of Audi A4s. Probably should have kept my 1998 A4 1.8 Turbo Quattro and went to town on it, minus the pimp/boy racer stuff.

The Slapster is most correct in that the auto hobby will definitely drain your bank account like the audio life.

For what it's worth, the best thing that stopped me from spending money on women was to finally marry one...

Drugs and drink . Now, where'd I put that Iron Butterfly album? Oh, there it is on the floor in the hallway. Now, where's the sleeve and jacket? :--))

Cooking and Chefs' knives. :-) Let's kick it up a notch! I hear everyone on the car hobby, but for me cars are way more expensive than audio. So that's kind of the killer for me. $10k seems to go farther in audio that it does with cars. Maybe I'm approaching it all wrong, though?

Now, the freakiest part about the person who posted this 18 year old actually has a drivers licence and a heavily modded supercharged 4.6l V8 that he can run a 1/4 mile in the mid 11's....

How times have changed, I used to own a 1970 Chevelle SS454 and if a car ran in the 12's it was something, still is to me, yet today it is common place and that from "kids"; as for turning left and right, that is something you did at the end of the strip. BTW, I am not talking about 20-30 years ago, but rather 10 and 15 years ago.

Slapster,

Your current infatuation is completely normal, guys dig cars. I don't have muscle car envy, technology wins every time. My "rice burner" '89 Supra Turbo is set up to take on most wanna-bes but I stopped tinkering with it after I upgraded the fuel system last year (bigger MAF, 550CC injectors, SAFC II 'puter). The car forums are pretty damned funny, and the car audio is even more amusing. Scary that these guys can drive a car and legally vote. Hmm... I'll leave it at that.