Originally Posted by Minok

I plan on driving it until it falls apart, mainly because I'm not one of those that needs to have a new car every few years.

But life experience has shown that what this really means is I'll drive it until some other moron slams into me and totals it.

My previous attempts at reaching 150k miles on a car were ended when:
1) A student in his parents 80's vintage Mercedes Benz missed that I was slowing and had turn signal on to turn into parking lot on 35mph campus road and proceeded to push my car another 20 yards up the road, never braking until after impact. Crushed the rear structure of my 1st car.

2) Moron 20-something dropped his cell phone while driving and went to retrieve it while in motion, down hill, in a curve, at night... and proceeded to cross the double yellow line and come at me head on at 40mph, with me going 40mph up the hill. I managed to swerve at the last second when I realized (in the curve) that that moron was indeed on my side of the road and still drifting further across (already fully in my lane and going toward my right shoulder.. must have still had his head under the steering wheel digging for the cell phone). But not quick enough, he impacted the passengers side headlight and crushed the passengers side quarter panel, snapped the wheel axel/cv joint, bent the wheel and totally bent the frame of the car.

However, I may well just start carrying my 9mm in the car and so when the next moron totals my car due to their absolute stupidity, I'll just get out and shoot them in the face.

Originally Posted by machina

I had my 1987 911 for ten years (bought it new), but somehow i dont have the same feeling about the 997. I am a month away from my warranty ending and not sure if i should get an aftermarket warranty or trade her in on a 2010.