Talk me out of (or into?) getting a supercar in my situation
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I think it's a really honest post from the op. Yes it helps to have the facts and finance.
However buying a super car ( well it's not really) probably won't help you get laid.
Arguably it might, move in the right circles there is bound to be some girl who thinks, hooray, life of luxury for me, but not when you have to take s girl back to yr parents at 30.
However buying a super car ( well it's not really) probably won't help you get laid.
Arguably it might, move in the right circles there is bound to be some girl who thinks, hooray, life of luxury for me, but not when you have to take s girl back to yr parents at 30.
Get a nice car by all means, but you could half the budget and get something that will bring just as much joy and likely appreciate in value (XKR-S, V8 Vantage, 997...) and divert the saving to the rest of your life. I couldn't spend so much on a car whilst living at home.
To some extent I do care what other people think, professionally at least. There was a young lad at work until recently who was spending all of his salary bar £100~ each month on a new Audi S3 plus £5k/year insurance in installments whilst living with his parents. He then upgraded to a V8 R8. Far from anyone being impressed, he was a bit of a laughing stock even among his peers and especially amongst the females. It's not the sort of asset portfolio than inspires a lot of confidence within the management. People do judge and rightly or wrongly it's too easy to dismiss it as immaturity & bad judgement to be frank.
To some extent I do care what other people think, professionally at least. There was a young lad at work until recently who was spending all of his salary bar £100~ each month on a new Audi S3 plus £5k/year insurance in installments whilst living with his parents. He then upgraded to a V8 R8. Far from anyone being impressed, he was a bit of a laughing stock even among his peers and especially amongst the females. It's not the sort of asset portfolio than inspires a lot of confidence within the management. People do judge and rightly or wrongly it's too easy to dismiss it as immaturity & bad judgement to be frank.
jamieduff1981 said:
Get a nice car by all means, but you could half the budget and get something that will bring just as much joy and likely appreciate in value (XKR-S, V8 Vantage, 997...) and divert the saving to the rest of your life. I couldn't spend so much on a car whilst living at home.
To some extent I do care what other people think, professionally at least. There was a young lad at work until recently who was spending all of his salary bar £100~ each month on a new Audi S3 plus £5k/year insurance in installments whilst living with his parents. He then upgraded to a V8 R8. Far from anyone being impressed, he was a bit of a laughing stock even among his peers and especially amongst the females. It's not the sort of asset portfolio than inspires a lot of confidence within the management. People do judge and rightly or wrongly it's too easy to dismiss it as immaturity & bad judgement to be frank.
Solid post. Other people can make strong judgements about you based on your choice of car, not always what you'd hoped or planned for. A true petrolhead chooses for his own reasons ans expects few others to understand, why should they.To some extent I do care what other people think, professionally at least. There was a young lad at work until recently who was spending all of his salary bar £100~ each month on a new Audi S3 plus £5k/year insurance in installments whilst living with his parents. He then upgraded to a V8 R8. Far from anyone being impressed, he was a bit of a laughing stock even among his peers and especially amongst the females. It's not the sort of asset portfolio than inspires a lot of confidence within the management. People do judge and rightly or wrongly it's too easy to dismiss it as immaturity & bad judgement to be frank.
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Digby said:
We are a long time dead.
We're also a long time aliveGet the car, OP.Even those being sensible end up in a box, so why bother?
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