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the car-shopping thread

Yay! I’ve got permission to trade-in my land-barge for a new car. Aiming for about $50K purchase price. Requirements – wagon/hatch, auto and “sporty”. Here’s my short-list that I’m currently pondering..

1. Subaru Forester S-Edition

2. Subaru WRX Hatch

3. Passat R36 (Used)

4. Volvo V50 T5 R-design (Recently discountinued. Only available used or demo)

5. Volvo V60 T5 or T6

And here’s a few “outside-the-square” options I’ve considered…

1. Citroen DS5 (Coming out in June)

2. Mercedes C250 CGI Estate (Not sporty, but it’s the only Merc I can afford)

3. Falcon XR6 Turbo/Commodore SS V8 Sportwagon (Yes, it’s bogan. But the amount of KW you get for the $$ is ridiculous)

Any other suggestions similar to the above? At the moment, I’m pretty keen on the Forester. Being an “SUV”, the wife won’t realise it’s actually a WRX under the bonnet. I’m not sure I could get away with blatantly buying a WRX. The massive bonnet air-scoop, and the letters “WRX” plastered all-over the car might give it away…

YPR #66.6

K: That stripey t-shirt is a bit hipster.

H: WTF?

YPR #66 The ride that almost wasn’t

It was a real struggle to wake up this morning, but I eventually willed myself out of bed after pressing the snooze button on the alarm at least 5 times. There was a last-minute call to go help J. Yap move a massive 8-person dining table 16 floors up an apartment building by the fire escape because it wouldn’t fit in the lift. It almost seemed like an impossible task but it took 5 of us a sweat-drenched half hour to get it into the apartment.

Anyway, this morning I made it to Yarra Boulevard just past the usual meeting time. At first I thought everyone else had bailed on me but after one and a half laps by myself, Geek and Keith finally showed up. The three of us managed a couple more laps before obligatory coffee at Niche on Bridge.

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YPR #65 And then there were five…

After going to all that trouble to pick up my road bike from work last night, I realised as I was standing in my laundry bike room this morning that I forgot to grab my road shoes. So I made the quick decision to ride down to the Boulevard on my broken Yeti.

Yay for having several bikes. Boo for not having several pairs of shoes with the right cleats ready to go.

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YPR #64 Does my bum look fat in these shorts?

Waiter: Do you want Equal with your coffee?

Wayne: ???