Everywhere I Go.
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Everywhere I Go.
Maybe someone can answer this for me, everywhere I go i see atleast 1 xB, and evertime i expect it to be some younger person whose gona do something with it, it turns out to be some geriactric person driving it. I even see ones with aftermarket rims, and dark tint, and it's always some old people that should be driving a Lincoln Town Car or something along those lines.... Why?
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I saw an Elderly Couple in a Copper Penny Xb with Wheels. He had some cool sunglasses as well. I'm almost 40 and I have done a lot work on my TCM. Some people never get old, just wiser. (mpg, msrp). I'm also in a Scion Car Club.
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Re: Everywhere I Go.
Originally Posted by InExe
Maybe someone can answer this for me, everywhere I go i see atleast 1 xB, and evertime i expect it to be some younger person whose gona do something with it, it turns out to be some geriactric person driving it. I even see ones with aftermarket rims, and dark tint, and it's always some old people that should be driving a Lincoln Town Car or something along those lines.... Why?
Just cause they are old doesn't mean they aren't hip. I'm 44 but act and feel more like 21. Age is just a number nowadays.
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Re: Everywhere I Go.
Originally Posted by InExe
Maybe someone can answer this for me, everywhere I go i see atleast 1 xB, and evertime i expect it to be some younger person whose gona do something with it, it turns out to be some geriactric person driving it. I even see ones with aftermarket rims, and dark tint, and it's always some old people that should be driving a Lincoln Town Car or something along those lines.... Why?
[Pooder toddles off, swinging his cane at anyone who dares call him "geriatric" -- especially at those who don't know how to SPELL it . . . .]
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I am 58 and love my xB. I use it for my business and have modded the hell out of it.
I feel I get the cold shoulder from the younger owners around here and that kind of ____es me off but that is life. When I do run into a 20 something hangin' around my box in a parking lot I can see he is intially put off by my age but after a little Scion talk we are alright.
Mike
I feel I get the cold shoulder from the younger owners around here and that kind of ____es me off but that is life. When I do run into a 20 something hangin' around my box in a parking lot I can see he is intially put off by my age but after a little Scion talk we are alright.
Mike
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Maybe someone can answer this for me, everywhere I go i see atleast 1 xB, and evertime i expect it to be some younger person whose gona do something with it, it turns out to be some geriactric person driving it. I even see ones with aftermarket rims, and dark tint, and it's always some old people that should be driving a Lincoln Town Car or something along those lines.... Why?
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Some day you'll get it.Cars are fun!We have two XB's,one moded out and the other,a RS4 that's stock.We also have a Hybrid Highlander,A 1938 Ford with a Buick engine and a 914 with a 911 engine and brakes.Like I said cars are fun,so chill out.
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Wow, some really good, intelligent, logical responses on this subject for once! 
I'm hoping that the original poster now has more of a sense of why we "old guys" drive fun cars. I know it's tough to relate to old people when you're in your teens and twenties. What you don't get at that age is that all those old people weren't dropped onto the earth as gray-haired, mouth-breathing, cane-wielding codgers. Yup, hard as it may be to believe, they were all as young and hip as you at one time! The body ages and looks different to the outside world, but the guy inside still feels - and thinks - like the 19 or 20 year old he once was.
Scions are fun to drive, easy and cheap to work on and mod, get great mileage and haul lots of stuff. I've had a blast with mine, and as I've stated here before, have embarrassed other cars from Austin-Healey sports cars to new Minis on local country roads with the suspension mods I've done. I own my own business and my income is well into the six-figure range, so I could easily afford a more impressive car, but I chose to buy one of these for both logical (mpg, load capacity) and visceral (handles great, fun to drive) reasons.
Personally, I love fun cars. I've got a prize-winning '66 Mustang coupe for cruising, a '74 BMW for carving canyons, and a '73 Mach I for burning up the boulevards (you really think there are a lot of young guys in sport compact cars that can hang with that???) We're just older now, not dead!
So give the older folks a break - we're driving these cars for the same reasons you younger guys are!
I'm hoping that the original poster now has more of a sense of why we "old guys" drive fun cars. I know it's tough to relate to old people when you're in your teens and twenties. What you don't get at that age is that all those old people weren't dropped onto the earth as gray-haired, mouth-breathing, cane-wielding codgers. Yup, hard as it may be to believe, they were all as young and hip as you at one time! The body ages and looks different to the outside world, but the guy inside still feels - and thinks - like the 19 or 20 year old he once was.
Scions are fun to drive, easy and cheap to work on and mod, get great mileage and haul lots of stuff. I've had a blast with mine, and as I've stated here before, have embarrassed other cars from Austin-Healey sports cars to new Minis on local country roads with the suspension mods I've done. I own my own business and my income is well into the six-figure range, so I could easily afford a more impressive car, but I chose to buy one of these for both logical (mpg, load capacity) and visceral (handles great, fun to drive) reasons.
Personally, I love fun cars. I've got a prize-winning '66 Mustang coupe for cruising, a '74 BMW for carving canyons, and a '73 Mach I for burning up the boulevards (you really think there are a lot of young guys in sport compact cars that can hang with that???) We're just older now, not dead!
So give the older folks a break - we're driving these cars for the same reasons you younger guys are!
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Young is as young does.
I've been driving fun cars for 40 years, nearly all of them with mods of one type or another. God willin' an' the crick don't rise, I'll be modding away 40 year from now, too.
My secretary thinks it's "cute" that I have an iPod, can tell her who Feist is, can actually IM and even text my friends on my blackberry. Where does it say in the rule book that once you turn 40...or 50...or 60....that you have to start acting old? Geesh.
Wait..does this rant make me a Grumpy Old Man?
I've been driving fun cars for 40 years, nearly all of them with mods of one type or another. God willin' an' the crick don't rise, I'll be modding away 40 year from now, too.
My secretary thinks it's "cute" that I have an iPod, can tell her who Feist is, can actually IM and even text my friends on my blackberry. Where does it say in the rule book that once you turn 40...or 50...or 60....that you have to start acting old? Geesh.
Wait..does this rant make me a Grumpy Old Man?
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I love the look and the "form follows function" philosophy, the fun-to-drive factor, the room inside, and it's a helluva lot easier to get in and out of than the '94 Del Sol I've been driving and loving for the last 14 years!
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Originally Posted by Scotty_Dietz
Some day you'll get it.Cars are fun!We have two XB's,one moded out and the other,a RS4 that's stock.We also have a Hybrid Highlander,A 1938 Ford with a Buick engine and a 914 with a 911 engine and brakes.Like I said cars are fun,so chill out.
Scotty is the baddest mother out there. He may be an "old guy" but he is so cool. I think it's awesome to see the older crowd modding and driving boxes. I've learned some pretty awesome stuff from watching and listening to old timers, so keep on trucking ya' old farts,
