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My coworker's brothers, neighbors $500k car
danny_galaga:
--- Quote from: duffjr on February 27, 2005, 04:11:35 am ---i want the delorean from back to the future.
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well you can!
http://cgi.ebay.com/ebaymotors/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&rd=1&item=4522746742&category=31830
but i think it'd be nicer if it was left original, and probably 50km/h faster too...
missioncontrol:
--- Quote from: Daniel270 on February 26, 2005, 08:32:34 pm ---
--- Quote from: danny_galaga on February 26, 2005, 08:12:35 pm ---i think ALL of us here would build our own arcade replete with a whole bunch of classics before we did anything else...
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That's exactly what I had in mind....
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Sephroth57:
--- Quote from: SirPoonga on February 26, 2005, 03:54:44 pm ---Exactly.
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DrewKaree:
--- Quote from: RayB on February 26, 2005, 03:10:02 pm ---
DK just reminded me of a thought I've had recently. I resent the whole nice car = "mid-life crisis" stereotype. My take is if you have the cash to spend on a car, why not one that is fun to drive? And when else can you afford a nice sports car? Is it when you are young and being paid $15/hr? Or is it when you're older and you've climbed up the salary ladder? But then, once you can afford the sports car, society says you're having a mid-life crisis. No, you're supposed to drive either a mini-van or "sensible" sedan. --Why??
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You forgot the other half - the "small weenie" syndrome.
FWIW, I completely understand the ability to purchase an automobile such as these. You simply CAN'T afford to when you're younger. If the monthly payments (or final cost, if you're buying outright) don't push you out of the market, the insurance premiums WILL. I understand why all those old guys have Corvettes - they couldn't AFFORD them when they were younger....and the ones who don't like to tinker around under the hood drive the newer ones and pay someone to tinker.
I couldn't care less what type of car someone drives, as long as it isn't my wife. If it were my wife, she's not getting behind the wheel of that car, as her propensity for damaging a car goes up in direct proportion to the cost of the car. Because I have 3 kids that tend to destroy any car simply due to their inability to reason (no, you CAN'T have markers in the nice car with leather seats) and fathom the worth of a car, I drive around in $1000-$2500 vehicles, because I can generally fix what's wrong with them, and if I can't, it's cheap enough to just buy another one.
When I no longer have to worry about kids, I STILL would never buy that Mercedes, because, while I don't mind having a car that I will see numerous copies of on the road, I certainly wouldn't drop that much cash on a Chrysler Crossfire with a Mercedes emblem on it.
Sure, there's all kinds of stuff underneath the skin of that thing to demonstrate it's WAY more than a Crossfire, but why spend that much money on something you've got to "experience"? Just buy the Crossfire and be done with it. Before that guy could afford that Mercedes, I bet he's the guy who bought the SHO Taurus and bragged all day to his friends about how his was so much better....not knowing his buddies went home and said to themselves "Dude, get OVER yourself, it's just a friggen TAURUS, for Rudy's sake!"
Oh, and if you were the guy who bought that SHO Taurus, don't mean to pick on you....but now you know what we were thinking to ourselves.
DrewKaree:
Here...snagged these from hither and yon. You tell ME this isn't a striking similarity! Enough of one that I'd complain that I'm paying $450,000 over sticker ;D