Maybe it’s another birthday. Or maybe it’s just Facebook. Here are all the ways to try out new cars, pose, acquire a car that suggests there’s a crisis of some kind, or just enjoy beating other people…
It probably doesn’t sound terribly healthy. But the Facebook option – aka Petrolhead – does mean that you have a few big advantages to trying to do these things in real life:
a) no cost of car – in any way
b) change your mind and switch to another car in the same kind of group – apparently at whim, but certainly with no car dealer involved
c) no petrol, no pollution, no driver tiredness either, as you’re only allowed ten races every day
d) you can’t cut out road rage and general obnoxiousness in driving, but at least you are not personally directing it at others. Perhaps the fact that many people race their peers makes it easier to be good. (Or maybe not. Competition can be sweeter when you know who you’re beating.)
e) yes, your car choice still says something about you.  But it can be a more interesting car, or one you would never hope to own, but like the look of. I was quite chuffed to ‘drive’ the Morgan Aero, new car in the Morgan range, having previously lived up the road from the Morgan factory.
(If you don’t know about Morgans, look them up. You may need to get on the waiting list now.  There’s another six years to wait meanwhile, but that’s plenty of time to get your Facebook rankings up.)
Sensible mid-life crisis is in fact one of the categories of car, as you make your way up. I’ve moved on from sensible, but am not in the flagrant ‘couldn’t care less’ category of the Millionaires Club, which Dan has reached.
Meanwhile Eric is racing happily too – in as yellow a vehicle as he can find each time. Happy days.