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06-06-2019, 08:03 PM | #42 |
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06-06-2019, 08:25 PM | #43 |
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06-06-2019, 09:14 PM | #44 |
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06-06-2019, 10:12 PM | #45 |
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Congrats!
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06-06-2019, 10:14 PM | #46 |
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Ha ha congrats. That’s great news.
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06-07-2019, 09:10 AM | #47 |
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Thanks everyone! Our daughter turns 4 at the end of June, so I'll be counting on her to handle the bulk of the childcare for the new guy. Unfortunately, this new addition will likely mean I can't retire until I'm 110 years old rather than the 105 we had been counting on.
Back to cars, we've been using the e36 nearly every weekend -- for fun but also to try to make a use case for a newer fun car. Daughter really loves the M3 but says it "needs a screen" (she likes looking at the album art and map on the infotainment screen in the x5). I really want a 997 or 991 but nearly all our driving is with the whole family so we'd have basically no room for any thing but people. Oh well. |
06-07-2019, 09:12 AM | #48 |
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It’s cool.
The engine sound is addictive.
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A 911 actually makes some sense in the narrow age range where the older kid is big enough to buckle herself in but small enough to not be bothered by the lack of rear seat room. At the same time, I'd recommend taking your kid to sit in a 911 and see what she thinks. Even at 4, my daughter was...not impressed by the legroom or lack thereof. The other thing is that rear facing seats have gotten even bigger somehow and need to be rear facing even longer. There's no way one of those is going in a 911; my guess is that even an F80 is going to be tight in the front passenger seat with a rear facing seat behind it. We could barely fit a rear-facing seat in the middle of the E90 back in 2011, which is one of the reasons we ended up with a 535XiT. It made the front seat unusable if it was in the right-hand rear seat. The F80 is bigger and might be better in that regard, though. |
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