Supercars outside ordinary houses
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A warped PH sense of priorities perhaps. Fascinates me and intrigues me seeing these pics I must say. I kind of have a respect for the owners perhaps because I could never myself apportion funds that heavily weighted to a car versus where I lived, no matter how much petrol flows in my veins. Hell, I have even sometimes questioned how much ££s I have spent on a car as against other frivolous expenditure, let alone the bricks and mortar.
I think for 99.999999% of people, even with an expensive house, they wont necesarily have actual money sitting around for an expensive car.
People are happy to buy expensive houses as they are seen to be appreciating assets.
In the South East particularly, a lot of people with houses worth £500k dont have two sticks to rub together. One near me was bought in 2000 for £98k and recently sold for £480k. The people living there are (from looking at the state of the house from the outside) clearly not rolling in it.
People are happy to buy expensive houses as they are seen to be appreciating assets.
In the South East particularly, a lot of people with houses worth £500k dont have two sticks to rub together. One near me was bought in 2000 for £98k and recently sold for £480k. The people living there are (from looking at the state of the house from the outside) clearly not rolling in it.
Edited by p1stonhead on Tuesday 6th September 10:51
I live in the Lewisham area and see this Lambo driving around quite regularly (Last Friday as an example).
Just to echo the car vs house price thing - a 3.5 (?!) bed terraced house in my road would be in the £1.3m range these days as Lewisham encompasses a wide demographic spectrum of people and property. Some bits I would be wary about going out in, but other bits are nice/ expensive. Some houses in Blackheath are well in excess of £2m eg more than double that. It helps that Canary Wharf with its clutch of bankers is just across the river and from their towers they have spotted that you can buy very big houses with big gardens for a fraction of the price of W London and only be 15 mins from work. So there's quite a lot of young up and coming rich types mixed in with the historically more challenging types. Whether that's good or bad is another question...
There a few Astons / porkers /Teslas and so on in my road - for a brief glorious period there was even a ( garaged) F40 although he clearly had the house car value ratio back to front and moved to somewhere more appropriate pretty sharpish.
Our 3 cars with an average age of 14 years are obviously letting the side down.
Just to echo the car vs house price thing - a 3.5 (?!) bed terraced house in my road would be in the £1.3m range these days as Lewisham encompasses a wide demographic spectrum of people and property. Some bits I would be wary about going out in, but other bits are nice/ expensive. Some houses in Blackheath are well in excess of £2m eg more than double that. It helps that Canary Wharf with its clutch of bankers is just across the river and from their towers they have spotted that you can buy very big houses with big gardens for a fraction of the price of W London and only be 15 mins from work. So there's quite a lot of young up and coming rich types mixed in with the historically more challenging types. Whether that's good or bad is another question...
There a few Astons / porkers /Teslas and so on in my road - for a brief glorious period there was even a ( garaged) F40 although he clearly had the house car value ratio back to front and moved to somewhere more appropriate pretty sharpish.
Our 3 cars with an average age of 14 years are obviously letting the side down.
I really don't see the problem. Let's not start a debate on house prices at current but we all know that London is very expensive property-wise.
Regardless, to many people, a house is a house. This is definitely a statement that i share. If i won the lottery/came into a substantial amount of money, buying a daft expensive house certainly wouldn't be my priority.
If these were individuals renting a house/flat and then buying expensive cars then that's fine, flame away. I'm making a decent enough assumption that these are home owners. If so, hats off to them.
Regardless, to many people, a house is a house. This is definitely a statement that i share. If i won the lottery/came into a substantial amount of money, buying a daft expensive house certainly wouldn't be my priority.
If these were individuals renting a house/flat and then buying expensive cars then that's fine, flame away. I'm making a decent enough assumption that these are home owners. If so, hats off to them.
Thankyou4calling said:
Vocht said:
I've seen this Speciale around a few times parked outside these flats. Must be worth 3x the flat itself!
Where was that taken? Must be a very cheap area if the flat is a third the price of the car.Edited by Thankyou4calling on Tuesday 6th September 11:13
Not so much ordinary houses with super cars but fairly expensive cars that have to be parked out on the road due to not having parking off street.
There's a lovely Aston Martin DBS that's just parked out on the road locally. Although admittedly the house it's parked outside is probably £600k-odd so not exactly a cheap place. I guess I'm of the mentality that if I would spend a fair chunk of cash on a car like that, I'd buy my house according to being able to park off-road but each to their own.
If someone wants a fast/expensive/luxury/super car and lives in an ordinary type of house what's the harm? I had someone reference my house on a thread I put up on here that it was odd I had a bungalow and yet had a CLS63 and SL parked on the driveway. It's not actually a bungalow (was once) but also those two cars are both 8 years old or more so buying them was similar to buying a brand new hot hatch which people do day in day out. Not sure I saw the problem with that situation myself.
There's a lovely Aston Martin DBS that's just parked out on the road locally. Although admittedly the house it's parked outside is probably £600k-odd so not exactly a cheap place. I guess I'm of the mentality that if I would spend a fair chunk of cash on a car like that, I'd buy my house according to being able to park off-road but each to their own.
If someone wants a fast/expensive/luxury/super car and lives in an ordinary type of house what's the harm? I had someone reference my house on a thread I put up on here that it was odd I had a bungalow and yet had a CLS63 and SL parked on the driveway. It's not actually a bungalow (was once) but also those two cars are both 8 years old or more so buying them was similar to buying a brand new hot hatch which people do day in day out. Not sure I saw the problem with that situation myself.
Ste1987 said:
I'm waiting for a thread now that discusses expensive houses with sheds/snotters/barges parked on the driveway, or should I just refer to the Reader's Cars section?
Some friends recently bought a house for £11.5m and park their 20 year old Rover on the driveway. They do have a few flash motors tucked away in the coach house though...I think I am well qualified to post on this thread. I live in a 3 storey terraced town house on the Surrey Sussex border. I bought the house when I got married in 1993 and we have raised both of our girls there. The house suits us, as my wife can no longer drive (medical reasons) it is perfectly located for her with all amenities close by. The girls are all but gone now so it is plenty big enough for us and we also have great neighbours all round. We simply have no desire to move away from a house we are very happy in.
I am fortunate to have had some lucky breaks (after taking some big risks) and have built up a bit of cash which is why last year I went out and bought a McLaren 12C Spider to go with my other cars. Does it look out of place on my drive? Yes, a little. Do I enjoy driving it? Damn right I do.
A friend of mine with similar earnings lives in a beautiful £1m+ house in the country and asks me why I haven't "upgraded" my house. He drives a leased BMW and hasn't had a decent holiday for a while due to high mortgage payments. No-one is right and no-one is wrong its just horses for courses and each to their own.
I am fortunate to have had some lucky breaks (after taking some big risks) and have built up a bit of cash which is why last year I went out and bought a McLaren 12C Spider to go with my other cars. Does it look out of place on my drive? Yes, a little. Do I enjoy driving it? Damn right I do.
A friend of mine with similar earnings lives in a beautiful £1m+ house in the country and asks me why I haven't "upgraded" my house. He drives a leased BMW and hasn't had a decent holiday for a while due to high mortgage payments. No-one is right and no-one is wrong its just horses for courses and each to their own.
Edited by DaveOrange on Tuesday 6th September 11:56
Thankyou4calling said:
Where was that taken? Must be a very cheap area if the flat is a third the price of the car.
It's only a basic flat in Radcliffe (North Manchester) so is probably only worth around £100,000. RHD Speciales can't be had for anything less than £300k at the moment. This near identical spec RHD Speciale is up for £335k for example. Edited by Thankyou4calling on Tuesday 6th September 11:13
bradford, dump of a city, full of nice cars.
That said, a guy i used to work with has a dingy one bedroom flat above a shop in a less salubrious part of town. He's lived there since the 90s, owns it outright now and has a string of nice cars parked outside (currently GT3 i think). he's quite a minimalist guy, see's his house as somewhere to eat, sleep and shower and enjoys spending his money on cars and holidays instead.
That said, a guy i used to work with has a dingy one bedroom flat above a shop in a less salubrious part of town. He's lived there since the 90s, owns it outright now and has a string of nice cars parked outside (currently GT3 i think). he's quite a minimalist guy, see's his house as somewhere to eat, sleep and shower and enjoys spending his money on cars and holidays instead.
These are a few spots from round my way, I believe from the plate the Ferrari is a press car but still cool to see! The GT500 has since been replaced with a yellow Stingray. (Apologies for the images being sideways there okay on my pc!)
Edited by JackReynolds13 on Tuesday 6th September 13:13
meehaja said:
bradford, dump of a city, full of nice cars.
That said, a guy i used to work with has a dingy one bedroom flat above a shop in a less salubrious part of town. He's lived there since the 90s, owns it outright now and has a string of nice cars parked outside (currently GT3 i think). he's quite a minimalist guy, see's his house as somewhere to eat, sleep and shower and enjoys spending his money on cars and holidays instead.
Seems a sensible chap. Actually enjoying his life rather than just scrabbling on the hamster wheel.That said, a guy i used to work with has a dingy one bedroom flat above a shop in a less salubrious part of town. He's lived there since the 90s, owns it outright now and has a string of nice cars parked outside (currently GT3 i think). he's quite a minimalist guy, see's his house as somewhere to eat, sleep and shower and enjoys spending his money on cars and holidays instead.
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