Around the world millions of people have started 2023 with plans to ditch their jobs, their belly rolls and their spouses, and possibly all three. But we’re more interested in your automotive resolutions for the year ahead.
Maybe you’re determined to make it to a big car show or event you’ve read about for years, but never managed to attend in person. Getting to the south coast of England for the Goodwood Festival of Speed isn’t the work of a moment of you’re in the U.S. or Australia, but there are interesting auto meets all over the globe, meaning we all have plenty of opportunities to see interesting cars without getting on a plane.
Or perhaps you’re thinking of swapping your car for something cooler or electric, or simply more useful. One of us here at CarScoops has his sights on a bigger car to suit a growing family, while at least one other writer’s response to the same predicament is to pretend it isn’t happening and buy something with a V8. Apparently the harmonic frequencies produced by eight cylinders helps babies drift off to sleep, or at least that’s the story he’s been selling his wife.
Some of you might be planning to get behind the wheel of your dream supercar and are still working out how you’re going to do it. Others might want to throw a bunch of mods at a car they already own, or get it to a track more often, or even for the first time. And we’ve probably all got a really great road trip mapped out in our head that we never seem to make happen. This year seems as good as any to give it the green light.
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Me? I’m clearing space in the garage for a classic motorbike to finally justify the license I gained over a decade ago, and I’m going to treat my ancient Honda CR-V workhorse to some overdue love to thank it for its years of service. I’ve also never made a proper run down a real drag strip, despite having logged hundreds of hours of track time and carried out a stack of performance tests, so maybe I should tick that one off too.
So let’s hear those resolutions, no matter how ordinary or outlandish. Drop a comment below and let us know what you’ve got planned for 2023.
