Many New Luxury Cars on the Road - How?

[berlintaxi]

LimaDelta said:

Average salaries across France are 10% higher than the UK.
Source: OECD Figures

Who taught you maths?

https://data.oecd.org/earnwage/average-wages.htm

[CABC]

berlintaxi said:

LimaDelta said:

Average salaries across France are 10% higher than the UK.
Source: OECD Figures

Who taught you maths?

https://data.oecd.org/earnwage/average-wages.htm

to be fair there are stats that do show this. same stats that show Ireland even higher at over 20% more, even on PPP level.
All need a large pinch of salt when evaluating living standards. It is hard to believe considering how expensive France is and how little money you see over here (oh yes, i'm 'here')

[LimaDelta]

CABC said:

berlintaxi said:

LimaDelta said:

Average salaries across France are 10% higher than the UK.
Source: OECD Figures

Who taught you maths?

https://data.oecd.org/earnwage/average-wages.htm

to be fair there are stats that do show this. same stats that show Ireland even higher at over 20% more, even on PPP level.
All need a large pinch of salt when evaluating living standards. It is hard to believe considering how expensive France is and how little money you see over here (oh yes, i'm 'here')

Nothing wrong with my maths:

Adjusted for living costs in Purchasing Parity Power: UK 2,518 USD. France 2,788 USD per month. 10.7% higher.

But I am guilty of using secondary sources, so no guarantee these figures are the accurate or latest data.

[Justin Case]

Good luck to anyone who can get themselves into what they see as a desirable car for not a great deal of money. but there is a certain irony in that people who judge others on their cars probably all have similar PCPed vehicles (probably German and with the smallest engine) and thus know that none of them really have any money, but are merely taking advantage of cheap finance.

[DoubleD]

Justin Case said:

Good luck to anyone who can get themselves into what they see as a desirable car for not a great deal of money. but there is a certain irony in that people who judge others on their cars probably all have similar PCPed vehicles (probably German and with the smallest engine) and thus know that none of them really have any money, but are merely taking advantage of cheap finance.

I think there is a lot of judging going on here by all.

Buy/lease/pcp whatever car you like and dont worry what others think.

[Deep Thought]

Justin Case said:

Good luck to anyone who can get themselves into what they see as a desirable car for not a great deal of money. but there is a certain irony in that people who judge others on their cars probably all have similar PCPed vehicles (probably German and with the smallest engine) and thus know that none of them really have any money, but are merely taking advantage of cheap finance.

From this thread and most others, it tends to be people who drive something old who seem to want to judge what other people drive and how they can afford to drive it.

Most people who use PCP / lease deals tend not to give a fk what other people drive.

I think the term is "reverse snobbery" and its quite prevalent on PH these days.

Lets be honest, the vast majority of new cars are bought on PCP or a lease deal so you're hardly making much of a statement to impress your neighbours if you rock up in a new 520d as statistically they know its a lease car and you havent actually went out and splurged £40K of your own hard earned buying it with cash.

Edited by Deep Thought on Tuesday 24th July 19:05