Everyday Driver (Electric): Lucid Air Grand Touring - $200,000
Everyday Driver (Gas): Audi RS7 - $200,000.
Road Trips: Mercedes Maybach S680 - $300,000
SUV: Land Rover Range Rover Extended Wheelbase - $350,000
Sports Car for Driving: Porsche 911 Turbo S - $450,000
Sports Car that I just want: Ferrari 812 Superfast - $650,000
Sports Car # 2 that I just want: Kirkham 427 Cobra with Roush 5.0L RSC Engine - $200,000
Truck: Ram 3500 Limited - $125,000
4x4: Customized Jeep Wrangler with a 3BT conversion: $200,000
Quote from: PopeyesPappy on December 07, 2022, 03:20:15 PMEveryday Driver (Electric): Lucid Air Grand Touring - $200,000
Everyday Driver (Gas): Audi RS7 - $200,000.
Road Trips: Mercedes Maybach S680 - $300,000
SUV: Land Rover Range Rover Extended Wheelbase - $350,000
Sports Car for Driving: Porsche 911 Turbo S - $450,000
Sports Car that I just want: Ferrari 812 Superfast - $650,000
Sports Car # 2 that I just want: Kirkham 427 Cobra with Roush 5.0L RSC Engine - $200,000
Truck: Ram 3500 Limited - $125,000
4x4: Customized Jeep Wrangler with a 3BT conversion: $200,000
Great Christmas list! Did you give it to your significant other????
Quote from: Mike Cl on December 07, 2022, 03:26:06 PMGreat Christmas list! Did you give it to your significant other????
High end car shopping for the little lady is more difficult than you would think. She really doesn't like to drive anything bigger than a Corolla. About the best I've been able to come up with for her is a Mercedes C300 for about $85,000 or an Audi RS3 for about $95,000. Her electric would probably be an Audi Q4 e-tron in at around $85,000.
All of this is completely dependent on winning a large lottery. Speaking of which I should go buy a $2 ticket. Megamillions is up to over $200 million cash value right now.
For me anything on that list would require a lottery win, as well. So, for now, we will just limp along with our '17 Passat.
I'd just keep my old '70 Chevy truck and sell my econobox, now that fuel isn't an issue.
Quote from: Dark Lightning on December 07, 2022, 08:23:51 PMI'd just keep my old '70 Chevy truck and sell my econobox, now that fuel isn't an issue.
I really like the advanced safety features available these days. I'll probably never buy another car without blind spot monitoring and adaptive cruise control. Some of the high end Audi's even have thermal night vision. I'm not sure about that one yet as it is displayed on the dash, but if it was part of a HUD system it could be very useful.
The Lucid Air is very nice. I would like to go electric and I've been lusting after a Hyundai Ionic 5 but I can't justify the expense. I love the retro-futuristic look and the relative practicality.
Quote from: PopeyesPappy on December 08, 2022, 07:47:00 AMI really like the advanced safety features available these days. I'll probably never buy another car without blind spot monitoring and adaptive cruise control. Some of the high end Audi's even have thermal night vision. I'm not sure about that one yet as it is displayed on the dash, but if it was part of a HUD system it could be very useful.
A couple of years ago, I bought a new Honda Accord. Even though mine is the base trim level (LX), it has adaptive cruise control and lane keeping assist. I love the adaptive cruise control. I'm not really into cars so much, so even if I was crazy rich, I doubt that I would own anything exotic or terribly expensive. My boy-racer days are long past, and now I care more about safety and reliability than I care about any of the luxury or performance features, so my plain old Honda would continue to serve me quite well.
However, if I did decide to splurge some cash on a hobby ride, I would probably buy a 1958 Chevy Apache pickup, and have someone do a complete restomod equipping it with updated features including power windows, a modern suspension, power disc brakes with ABS, and power rack and pinion steering.
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I had a 98 jag sedan "back in the day" that I absolutely loved driving the lesser highways of Texas..just flat out flying....what an absolute joy. But today...I love sitting high in my F-150...driving like a maniac down the freeways of Florida....get the fuck outa my way....yep...that ass hole was me!
FYI, according to Kelley Blue Book and the Bureau Of Labor Statistics, the average new car price in the US as of September 2022 was $48,094! That just strikes me as crazy.
If I were a bazillionaire, my top 9 purchases:
1) 2014 Honda Accord
2) eradication of malaria-carrying mosquitoes worldwide
3) rehome American homeless
4) subsidize school lunches for every American child
5) offer .05% interest loans for state college tuition for every American citizen
6) buy up as much American medical debt as possible
7) anti-cancer research
8) permanent moon colony
9) buy Comcast and literally set it on fire
Quote from: Hydra009 on December 10, 2022, 09:58:06 AMIf I were a bazillionaire, my top 9 purchases:
1) 2014 Honda Accord
2) eradication of malaria-carrying mosquitoes worldwide
3) rehome American homeless
4) subsidize school lunches for every American child
5) offer .05% interest loans for state college tuition for every American citizen
6) buy up as much American medical debt as possible
7) anti-cancer research
8) permanent moon colony
9) buy Comcast and literally set it on fire
Lofty set of goals. Too bad you are going to run out of money before you can achieve most of them.
Let's take number 4 as an example. The government already subsidized lunch and breakfast for low income children. Free for families under 130% of the poverty line reduced to 40% for families between 130-180% of the poverty line. If you wanted to provide free meals to every child in K-12 It is going to cost a lot. 50 million kids x 185 days per year x $2 a meal is $18.5 billion a year. If you were someone like Bezos you could run your free lunch program for less than 10 years if you didn't do anything else.
If you were Bezos, bought Comcast ($150 billion) and burned it down, you couldn't run your lunch program for 2 years. Not to mention you would put 189,000 people out of work.
Comcast employees aren't people per se, but point taken.
Edit - dare ya to read the wiki page for more than two minutes before feeling the overwhelming urge to take a shower
Anything that will start up in cold weather will do for me.