Are you honest enough with yourself to own a Lambo?

I am not sure I would ever buy a Lambo honestly. In that $200k+ price I would want the McLaren MP4-12C. That is just an amazing car and a supercar/hypercar you could use every day. A guy in the UK right now has a demo unit for 6 months as his daily driver. From those who have driven it for longer distances and even the few daily driver tests it sounds like it may be one of if not the best supercars ever made. All the power and fun you expect but the ride quality of a normal luxury car.

Jags are not really my style. For that kind of Grand Tourer I would choose an Aston. But even then for usability it might just be best to get a Godzilla (Nissan GTR).

I love to have a nice garage full of a handful of cars that were not only collectable but I could drive and enjoy. Stuff like a Corvette C4 ZR-1 (you can get these in great shape for around $20k), maybe a 90s Lotus Esprit (also around $20k), Ferrari F355 (or 328/308) and others like that where the price of entry isn't high and the chance of them going up in value is high.

Newer Ferrari models don't interest me at all. Compared to McLaren they just are not worth it. But with enough money I would consider a Lamborghini Murcielago. They are not practical. They can't be driven all the time but there is just something about the pure insanity of driving a Lambo that even a guy like me who isn't a big fan can't help but want to experience. But I would need to have a lot of cash just sitting around before I think I would.

There are just too many other great cars that need a home. And I want to drive them so a collection that is too big like Leno's starts to become pointless. Though as a car guy I love the fact that Leno puts his money where his heart and motor are.

Aaron

that is an interesting viewpoint

I believe we as Americans are way to much into having stuff instead of understanding the real value of money


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not only that it's funny when they buy these products and get pissy about up sells and being put on mailing lists ..they just cry about getting sold stuff..

i chalk them up to the people who whine when some rich person buys a million dollar car instead of giving it to charity ..and usually get a glossy eyed look from them when i try to explain that the people who work for the company that built the car and the companies that made the parts got paid ..and it really doesn't sink in .

i am broke i am not poor ..even if i make no money i alway have had a roof over my head food to eat and access to a car to drive .. my computer blew up a month ago..and i got access to another one ..

when i see someone complaining about some spending huge amounts of money for something ..my mindset as long as i remember it has been..f*** if i had the ability too make stuff i would want to make stuff that sells for a lot of money ..

the first 35 years of my life has been a continuing process of figuring out how i wasn't meant to live by doing things opposite of the best way i should be doing them ..but with all the thing coming down the line i am putting together how i should live now to live very well for the next 100 plus years ..barring traumatic injury..

that just to long to put off enjoying life ..plan like you will live very long live like you can get hit by a car tomorrow .

the main reason i don't have the life i really desire to have right now.. is because until the last few months ..i never had a clear image of the life i wanted ..and why i really wanted it ..up to this point it was always just a collage of things we should want to prove to people we have made it ..

i use to be a heavy online gamer ..it was great for coping with the shat things going on in my life then about a year and i half ago i realized something interesting ..i can start playing nearly any game with an economy ..and within the first day lock down how to make plenty of money in game to always get the stuff i needed to get to play how i wanted to play ..

so it kind of pissed me off enough to start fixing my life ...so i could be like that out here in the real world ..(without being able to kill everything that moves )..

right now it is easier for me to test out different things to improve my life than it is to stay the same ..even without money there are many thing i can do..

now i am primary caretaker for my parents and my moms health is failing . now i know the life i want.. the dollar figure isn't that high ..at the start . and i have a window of a few months .. hopefully longer .. to get that worked out ..

then i will work on getting really nice beach houses in tropical countries where i can afford to support a gardener so i can travel from place to place and eat really good food all the time ..

What do you want? What motivates you?