Thread: Taking The Wife's Car for a Spin

I just got back from taking the wife's car for a spin around the rural backroads. It's not a great car by all means; a tiny little '95 Holden Barina hatchback with a 1.3L engine. But it's small, and low and light, with 'non power' steering and really small wheels. An automatic (it'd be more fun as a manual) it reminds me of a rally car, so of course most of the circuit was spent with my foot flat to the floor.

It went really well on the dirt.

When I got home the wife asked where I went, how fast did I go and said 'you thrashed it, didn't you?' (she knows me). Like I said, a cheap little car but it was a fun drive...

How many of you have taken the wife's car for a spin and 'thrashed it' just a little? How many of you owned up to it?

Thanks Carl you made me LOL... I routinely drive my wife's vehicle funny thing is she drives a truck and I drive a car. The misses drives and loves her 2005 Toyota Tacoma and I drive a 2011 Toyota Prius that she begrudgingly drives on occasion. There has been more than one instance of me burning out in her truck, without her in it of course. She knows me to good as well when I get home she asks if I laid rubber with her truck, and yes I own up I am a terrible liar. Then she proceeds to tell me how she prefers her truck to my small car.

My wife owns both the cars in the family. I prefer my bike. And yes, I like to thrash her cars. One is a little Dae Woo similar to your wifes Barina Carl. And I love to thrash the hell out of that. Her other car is the Land Cruiser Prado with a V6 Turbo diesel that just begs to be flogged. On a side note, we found that after a couple of months of me bitching about a mouldy smell in the Prado and being told it was all in my head, that there was indeed a mouldy smell in the Prado, and that it was coming from the back where the carpet underlay was saturated. The how and why is yet to be worked out, but the carpeting is currently hanging on the line for the next few days before I have to re-install it. Now why is it my job? And why is it also my job to buff off the few small spots of surface rust and re-paint the metal before I do? If she had have listened to me when I first told her...Oh well. I feel like taking her car out and thrashing it some more now .


Mick

Wife had a Prius when we got married. What a f@#$ing POOCH of a car. Hated it. Badmouthed it for a year; finally she gets sick of it while we're visiting her parents, and she says we can sell it if I restore her '65 Mustang which has been sitting outside on a dirt mound under an oak tree for 14 years. I said, "DEAL!!!"

So, anyway, since I'm the one rebuilding this cantankerous old Ford (MOPAR man here!), I'll drive her just how the hell I want, thank you very much! (Especially after I get done with the Shelby drop, racing adjustable strut rods and custom alignment I'm engineering for it...) Here's some before&current. I won't say "after" just yet, because it's not done!

WIFE'S CAR









BTW, I don't just fix them... I really CAN drive, and I know what's WORTH driving, too!

If I "thrash" it, I have to fix it. I don't drive her car unless required. Makes life easy.

My wife drives a four-door automatic four banger and I drive a manual transmission sports car. It's bad enough that all of our weekend errands are done in her car even though I put a child's safety seat in my car. Hearing my little boy say, "Vroom vroom!" in mom's car just isn't as fun as when he says it while riding in my car.

Originally Posted by Furcifer

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Wow, nice Mustang!

Mick, it's ALWAYS our job. I'm trying to explain to the wife that just because I'm a man it doesn't mean I'm also a plumber. She doesn't get it...

All the time. My wife drives a 2010 Subaru Impreza AWD. It's so much fun to turn it into corners at crazy speeds and hang on as the AWD scrambles for grip.

My wife thrashes her car much more than I do. Technically it is mine as I bought it for her and my name is on the title.

After she rolled her last Jeep she wanted a new one and I wanted a diesel so I compromised and got a 2005 Liberty diesel for her.

To short of a wheel base for me.

The best one that I have heard is that she was up north on a girls weekend and they went out to travel the back roads. After going through much they got to a bad part that they thought it would be best to turn around. When they got out they realized that they had driven down a snowmobile path.

And this is what she has admitted to me!

Did this to the wife's Juke on Christmas Day.