Cars – Owen Reynolds Personal blog

Let’s buy an SUV

I spent a TON of time researching the purchase of my past 2 cars. Completing 29 test drives in 2021, I then hit ⏸️and resumed again in May 2022 when I bought my house, eventually ending on a Subaru WRX 2011. The WRX was a lemon 🍋, and manual transmission was no longer the right…
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My method for better decision making life (™️)

Intro First of all, today’s topic is based on accepting that there is such thing as “free will” Sorry Robert Sapolsky, I’m not seduced by your proposition that “free will doesn’t exist” , yet 😉 If you’re not familiar with Robert’s work, his take on “free will” is that we are “running on rails” ;…
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Un-doing the muffler delete on my Lexus IS 350 F Sport

In January of 2023 , I bought my first seriously nice car, a 2017 Silver Lexus IS 350 F Sport with lovely red interior. I chose this car after a very extensive car search, read about it here and here The car’s nickname is SILVER BIRD. It’s silver, and FLYYYYYS The car came with ONE…
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Using AI to pick a new car wrap color for silver bird

If you followed my post from January of 2023, you’ll know I traded in my 2011 Subaru WRX for a 2017 Lexus IS 350 F Sport in Atomic silver. This is actually the second silver car I’ve owned, the first was an Acura 1.7 EL which I nick-named “silver bird”. The Lexus IS now bears…
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The car search continues & concludes

From July 2021 to August 2022, I went on an epic # of test drives , 30 in total. I ended up purchasing a lovely Subaru WRX 2011 with a manual transmission. You can read more about my criteria / experience in my original blog post HERE Some pix of the Subaru WRX . I…
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Buying a used car after 10 years out of the game

Intro Update for Aug 2022 My search has ended!I found a car! I purchased a Subaru WRX 2011 dark gray, here are some pix: however, this entire blog post might be useful if you’re considering buying a used car. My OWeN car search has ended after 33 test drives over the past 11 months I…
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Category: Cars

Let’s buy an SUV

My method for better decision making life (™️)

Un-doing the muffler delete on my Lexus IS 350 F Sport

Using AI to pick a new car wrap color for silver bird

The car search continues & concludes

Buying a used car after 10 years out of the game