Starting To Think About Next Year
Some of you may know that my MM is a lease car. Our firm decided to lease cars for the partners, and our lease will be up in March of 2006. If we decide to lease for partners again (budget, tax considerations, etc.) I will need to decide what car to lease next time. Since the leases will be up in March next year, we will have to start shopping around for cars/lease deals late this year.
Like always, I want/need a car that meets the same basic configurartion as the MM:
4 door
8 cylinder
AMERICAN MADE (I know, the MM was assembled in Canada)
Rear Wheel Drive
Full size (REAL full size, not a Taurus that they are calling full size)
Since I have had my MM, I will never settle for a slow car again.
So, obviously GM is out, unless they come out with something new between now and then.
Ford is still a possibility, but without the MM, there won't be any fast cars that meet the above description. I could get a CV or GM with a PI engine, but without significant mods, it just wouldn't be the same.
OK, let the flames begin---It looks like I might have to consider either a Chrysler 300C or Dodge Charger. They wouldn't be my first choice, but how many other choices will there be out there next year?
What I really fear is that after we get into another 3 year lease early next year, that LM will come back out with another MM for release in the fall of next year.
It's early, but this will be a decision that I will live with for the next three years, so I'm starting to think about it now.
2003 MM 300A
Born June 18, 2002
Adopted Christmas Eve, 2002
First Factory Rebuilt Ford P.O.S. Engine at 81,000 miles
Second Factory Rebuilt Ford P.O.S. Engine at 101,000 miles
Ford Racing 4.10's
Reinhart/XCal2 Custom Tune
Reinhart Underdrive Pulleys
K&N Conical Air Filter
Reinhart Exhaust with 18" Magnaflows
Silencer Removed
Bosch Micro Edge Excel Wiper Blades
Bob White Red Bumper Inserts
Lone Star Beer in cup holder
Fellowship of Christian Cowboys
license plate bracket
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God and the soldier we adore, In times of danger, not before.
The danger gone, the trouble righted, God's forgotten, the soldier slighted.
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Cynicism is the smoke rising from the ashes of burned out dreams.