So, are both my Boxster S and Plus 8 "toys"? [Can't say man or woman now]
I'd argue that any vehicle that is more complex or more powerful than the minimum needed to transport the intended load is a toy.
By my reckoning about 33% of all cars on the road are "toys", most of them the product of German or Italian owned companies.
I'm not going to speculate on what this means, but comment that toys are bought to make the owner happy. Both the Porsche and Morgan make me happy, in very different ways. They also annoy me in very different ways.
Let's go further....most of the things I buy are toys, in that they do more than the basic job, but make me and SWMBO happy.
Ho hum....
I shall disagree Peter as seems to be in my nature...
at least on the man/woman thing, for it seems the Scottish government may be in the process of decreeing that you can indeed choose to be recognised as either...!
I find it more difficult to generate an argument on the subject of cars and much else we might gather around ourselves being considered as "toys," though I do concede that such choices may be made on the basis of our perception of that which by it`s acquisition might enhance our quality of life..?
The memories created relative to ownership of my Morgan seem unlikely to have been repeated by any other vehicle to the same extent.. and very unlikely to get even close to it, if my transport choice had been restricted to a Dacia, NOT that there is anything wrong with Dacia.
I owned and made good use of utilitarian transport over decades as my primary transport, LR and mostly 1 ton p/up trucks, but that was no substitute for the metal mistress kept in the garage for use as an occasional escape from day to day life...Be that spending months nailing it back together, or finally firing it up and taking to the road...More than just a toy for sure.. ?
