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My coworker's brothers, neighbors $500k car
Crazy Cooter:
http://www.mbusa.com/brand/models/SLR.jsp
A coworker of mine was down at his brothers house when the neighbor stopped over in his new Mercedes. It's a Mercedes-Benz SLR McLaren. He had a bunch of pics of it so I had to check it out:
After tax/gas guzzler fees/etc etc, it's about half a million to drive away with one.
fredster:
What's does that guy do for a living?
ChadTower:
Such abhorrent waste of resources.
DrewKaree:
--- Quote from: Crazy Cooter on February 26, 2005, 11:17:59 am ---
After tax/gas guzzler fees/etc etc, it's about half a million to drive away with one.
--- End quote ---
Where does he live? I've never heard of a "gas guzzler fee". I HAVE heard of "etc etc", which usually equate to "this will look AWESOME with a lame pinstripe, we added undercoating, and anything we could rephrase to make you think it's part of the car".
If I spent that much on a friggen car, I'd want it to look a LOT less like a Chrysler Crossfire than that! FWIW, a McLaren (NOT the Merceded, the super sweet/phat one you'd actually drool over because it wasn't a Crossfire) was reviewed in Road&Track or some such publication and was said to be around the same price. Why the HELL would you buy that Merc instead of an actual McLaren is beyond me.
Guy's got his "lookit my small-weenie/midlife crisis car" mindset all outta whack.
*edit*
I believe this was the car they reviewed in the article - the F1
Daniel270:
This doesn't help do anything to bring down gas prices NOR the cost of insurance.....