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12-06-2010, 07:07 AM
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JK Jedi
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Location: Kenai Peninsula, Alaska
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This is my 3rd Jeep, and absolutely by far my favorite. I bought my first car, a Bronco II, when I was 18, got my TJ when I was 22, WK when I was 24, and the JK when I was 28. Some of it could be maturity (still pretty young though) but I don't have "car envy" anymore at all. Every other vehicle I owned, I liked it but I wanted, or at the very least would have accepted, another vehicle. I don't feel like that at ALL with the JK. Even the WK as my first new car I could have traded in after a few months had the price consequence not been so high. As far as feeling like a "badass", I can not say that I do. Ultimately it is just a vehicle, but it fits everything I want and at this point anything I could ever see that I would want. I don't want to trade it in, I don't want to sell it, I don't want it to die.
So, although I can't say it makes me feel like a badass, I can give it the best compliment I feel I could ever give a vehicle - I feel 100% content with it. I could be driving this same Jeep in 10 years and it wouldn't feel like sacrifice or a punishment. I almost feel embarrassed for saying it, but unlike my previous vehicles I am worried that at some point this vehicle will simply wear out and die and I don't want that. Every other vehicle I have owned was happily traded in or sold, without remorse and I knew that a month after I had been driving it. Close to two years and 40,000 miles driving this one and it still makes me smile every time I drive it. I still look at it after I park and smile. I have the "new car" feeling I had on the first week I bought every other car, two years after the fact. I have never purchased anything I have been so content with. Every other vehicle I have driven, from a Mercedes to a Chevy sedan, even another JK rental, is unlike before when I would think about what was nicer about or worse about it than my car, now I just think "I wish I could just be driving MY JK right now".
So again, no "badass" feeling here - but I think that total contentment and some sort of feeling of faithfulness is the ultimate compliment that I could ever pay a vehicle, and I think the JK deserves it.
So, although I can't say it makes me feel like a badass, I can give it the best compliment I feel I could ever give a vehicle - I feel 100% content with it. I could be driving this same Jeep in 10 years and it wouldn't feel like sacrifice or a punishment. I almost feel embarrassed for saying it, but unlike my previous vehicles I am worried that at some point this vehicle will simply wear out and die and I don't want that. Every other vehicle I have owned was happily traded in or sold, without remorse and I knew that a month after I had been driving it. Close to two years and 40,000 miles driving this one and it still makes me smile every time I drive it. I still look at it after I park and smile. I have the "new car" feeling I had on the first week I bought every other car, two years after the fact. I have never purchased anything I have been so content with. Every other vehicle I have driven, from a Mercedes to a Chevy sedan, even another JK rental, is unlike before when I would think about what was nicer about or worse about it than my car, now I just think "I wish I could just be driving MY JK right now".
So again, no "badass" feeling here - but I think that total contentment and some sort of feeling of faithfulness is the ultimate compliment that I could ever pay a vehicle, and I think the JK deserves it.
