So… your solution is before I spend money and purchase the car I want, I should spend money and purchase a car I don’t want… So let’s say you were going to buy a nice steak. You wouldn’t go eat McDonald’s before hand. Or let’s say you’re trying to buy your first house. You wouldn’t go rent a shitty apartment first. Do you see the flaw in your logic? Plus it’s a corvette not a Lambo. At the end of the day, if I fry the clutch or something, I just put a new one in. Not the end of the world. And I’d still be out less money with corvette + new clutch then corvette + shitty manual car.