[belaud]

If I decided to not buy anything for the car, I'd be down to 25% of my income towards the car. I am not in an irreversible state of debt (not in any really, besides the usual CC every month), I'm lucky and taking advantage of the fact that I still live at home, I pay very little "rent" towards it, because my parents allow me to do so, I don't see how this would degrade me as a person at all.

I may be 21, but I am not a $16 dolla baller, I chose to do this because I've been saving for it, living frugally from beginning of highschool -> 2nd year out of high school, the most I ever bought myself was two computers. I was wearing hand me downs from two brother's, while everyone was decking themselves out in Ed Hardy and True Religion. Ask anyone that knows me, I still dress like a ragged hobo with shorts/sweatpants and sandals, simply because it's comfortable, I'm not impressing anyone with Le Alligator (Or whatever) or Bench jackets. While everyone was busy partying and getting puking drunk, I was busy honing my skills with electronics, audio and computers. if I ever went out with friends, I looked for the bread & butter, while everyone else decided on the prawns and steak. I had the choice between a newer 2010 Impreza vs '03Echo Hatchback, I insisted on the echo so I can save even more money, pay less insurance, get 800kms to a tank as opposed to 400 on the Impreza, fill 40L instead of 62L.

Here I am now, 2 years into a job I love, and a car I dreamt of on the race tracks of Gran Turismo/Forza. I went from a computer assembler earning next to minimum wage, to having my own office building system proto types, getting my hands on engineering samples of Haswell's, and I'll be travelling for the company starting this year, because I work hard for what I love.

The STI is my dream car, always has been since my brother's '06 WRX hawkeye, I plan to keep this for my life's time, I plan to dump a fuckload of money into it, I would be lying if I said I didn't look at my bank account sometimes and cringe, but once I get into my car, once I get under my car, once I start turning the wrench, it's all worth it.

You may think this is dumb of me, you're right, I could spend the 65% on real estate, RRSP, TFSA, stocks, google, vacation, hookers & blow. It's been an entire year's worth of fuckery and I still don't fully regret dumping money into it, simply because I love it. I don't care what you think what will happen in 10 years from now, I'll contact you then when I'm poor and living out of my STI, I'll still be happy that I built a car out of mechanical love.

I am happy on the current status of my life, I do regret a little on not putting a lot more into savings, but shit, race car ain't gunna pay itself off.