Howard, looks like you brought a new word into the conversation.. EXOTIC..? (-:
My guess it is whether the owner finds "IT" to be exotic that matters in the first instance, followed by how long he continues to think it`s exotic once it has been owned for a while.. ? I suspect if you get to the stage where you walk away from it without looking back, you might be loosing some degree of attraction, similarly if you feel some level of added excitement when you decide to choose to use "IT" for a journey as opposed to your daily, then the magic is perhaps still there... ? (-:
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Being a logical and down to earth type, I find what you say with both car and boat. I really enjoy driving the Ferrari - sensible level of power, open top, manual gearbox, really comfortable seats and little electronics. When its in the garage, I wonder why I have the car and what sense it makes. Same with the boat though I admit to much more of a romantic attachment to the sea and to boats that I do to driving anything in the UK. And I always look back at the boat when I walk away from the pontoon. Back home I again wonder why.
