I’ve had a lot of people asking me why I change cars so much and it got me thinking about it.
For me, cars are not a necessity, more like a luxury and nowadays it’s not uncommon to own a car as a hobby instead of just for means of transportation. From restoring to racing, there is a whole number of worlds to involve yourself in when it comes to cars. I see cars the same way I see video games, I’m happy with the ones I have but when someone starts talking about how amazing another is, I forget about any of the others and all I can think about is how much I want to experience that fun for myself.
I think every car lover feels the same in that as much you love your current car, the idea of another car is always looming overhead. That feeling is sometimes too great to ignore, I’ve driven and owned some very nice cars in the last few months and still every time I see a well tuned car rumble past I think to myself “I want that, I want to build one of those” and I start researching the car and before I know it I’m 100 percent invested in this new car that I’ve only seen for 5 seconds on the road.
It’s a slippery slope because once that idea gets in your head it’s almost impossible to forget, you start to pay more attention to that particular car, you see it everywhere and you can’t help but think you’d be better off selling your car to get one.
I’m fairly new to the car scene so 9/10 cars that catch my eye are cars that I desire to own or drive and I can’t help that I have that wired into who I am, I don’t know where this passion came from but cars are the first thing I think of in the morning and the last thing I think of before bed. I would honestly spend my entire life with cars if I could and that’s why I’m trying so hard to become an automotive journalist.
Cars are the only thing I could see myself dedicating my entire life to. There are millions of cars out there and each one has a different story to tell, a different feeling to express and a personality to share so why wouldn’t I want to experience as much of that as I can? I’d be crazy not to.
So to answer the question, why do I swap cars so much?
Why not?
– L