At what income is it appropriate to buy a 200k car?

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Yes, you can say the same thing about any non-essential purchase, but the comparisons only go so far. OP's DH can buy a different luxury car for $100k, which is still way, way more expensive than any car most people could ever afford to buy AND still feed a hundred people for an entire year with the leftovers. I am upper middle-class in one of the richest countries in the world and the biggest splurges in my entire life are still many orders of magnitude smaller than $200k.

Typical rich liberal nitwit. It's okay if she does it. But anyone else richer than her or more extravagant than her - oh go feeeeed poorrr people!

I am as liberal as they come, definitely not a car person (drive a mid-range Civic, and see no reason to change) and won't get anywhere that income level in this lifetime - and this post is spot on. The sanctimony and hypocrisy in this thread is amazing, but not at all surprising.

Yep. PP who said her "splurges" in life are magnititudes smaller than $200K... how much does your house cost? Choosing to live in the DMV is a splurge in itself. You could easily move to a more affordable area of the country and free up hundreds of thousands of dollars over your lifetime, even if your income went down, to put your money where your mouth is.

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Yes, you can say the same thing about any non-essential purchase, but the comparisons only go so far. OP's DH can buy a different luxury car for $100k, which is still way, way more expensive than any car most people could ever afford to buy AND still feed a hundred people for an entire year with the leftovers. I am upper middle-class in one of the richest countries in the world and the biggest splurges in my entire life are still many orders of magnitude smaller than $200k.

Typical rich liberal nitwit. It's okay if she does it. But anyone else richer than her or more extravagant than her - oh go feeeeed poorrr people!

I am as liberal as they come, definitely not a car person (drive a mid-range Civic, and see no reason to change) and won't get anywhere that income level in this lifetime - and this post is spot on. The sanctimony and hypocrisy in this thread is amazing, but not at all surprising.

Yep. PP who said her "splurges" in life are magnititudes smaller than $200K... how much does your house cost? Choosing to live in the DMV is a splurge in itself. You could easily move to a more affordable area of the country and free up hundreds of thousands of dollars over your lifetime, even if your income went down, to put your money where your mouth is.

Exactly...or rent an apartment in a super cheap area (we used to live in one such apartment near Section 8 housing, so yes, they do exist) so she can feed several poor families every year. I'm sure their splurges are magnitudes smaller than this poster's so she should practice what she preaches, and cut back and redistribute.

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Anonymous wrote:This thread is full of envious people. If you can afford it, what's the big deal?

I don't know how to drive around in a $200k car knowing all the lives I could change with the, I dunno, $175k I could have saved if I just bought a normal car?
Start a scholarship fund, fund a dog shelter, I dunno. But spending $200k on a car is a perfect example of what's wrong with people.

You can say the same thing about any non-essential purchase. Did you buy any new clothes? New shoes? You bought a car other than a retired Crown Vic police car? Shame on you for wasting money instead of using that money to change other people's lives.

You may find it incomprehensible to drive around in a $200k car, but other people can. Your value system isn't superior on an objective basis.

Yes, you can say the same thing about any non-essential purchase, but the comparisons only go so far. OP's DH can buy a different luxury car for $100k, which is still way, way more expensive than any car most people could ever afford to buy AND still feed a hundred people for an entire year with the leftovers. I am upper middle-class in one of the richest countries in the world and the biggest splurges in my entire life are still many orders of magnitude smaller than $200k.

Typical rich liberal nitwit. It's okay if she does it. But anyone else richer than her or more extravagant than her - oh go feeeeed poorrr people!

This is why I can't stand most liberals. They have their own set of rules, and are not at all tolerant of anyone else. And yet they'll never see it.

OP - I say go for it. I am a car person myself. Just make sure your husband drives it and enjoys it!

Super weird that you are assuming that the people who think it's more important to donate to charity than to buy luxury items are liberals.

I'm a liberal who thinks depending on finances it's fine to buy the car. But IME philanthropy is pretty uncorrelated with political party. Though if you believe what many of the liberal-bashers say, it's conservatives who donate more to charities than liberals.

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Anonymous wrote:This thread is full of envious people. If you can afford it, what's the big deal?

I don't know how to drive around in a $200k car knowing all the lives I could change with the, I dunno, $175k I could have saved if I just bought a normal car?
Start a scholarship fund, fund a dog shelter, I dunno. But spending $200k on a car is a perfect example of what's wrong with people.

You can say the same thing about any non-essential purchase. Did you buy any new clothes? New shoes? You bought a car other than a retired Crown Vic police car? Shame on you for wasting money instead of using that money to change other people's lives.

You may find it incomprehensible to drive around in a $200k car, but other people can. Your value system isn't superior on an objective basis.

Yes, you can say the same thing about any non-essential purchase, but the comparisons only go so far. OP's DH can buy a different luxury car for $100k, which is still way, way more expensive than any car most people could ever afford to buy AND still feed a hundred people for an entire year with the leftovers. I am upper middle-class in one of the richest countries in the world and the biggest splurges in my entire life are still many orders of magnitude smaller than $200k.

Typical rich liberal nitwit. It's okay if she does it. But anyone else richer than her or more extravagant than her - oh go feeeeed poorrr people!

This is why I can't stand most liberals. They have their own set of rules, and are not at all tolerant of anyone else. And yet they'll never see it.

OP - I say go for it. I am a car person myself. Just make sure your husband drives it and enjoys it!

Super weird that you are assuming that the people who think it's more important to donate to charity than to buy luxury items are liberals.

I'm a liberal who thinks depending on finances it's fine to buy the car. But IME philanthropy is pretty uncorrelated with political party. Though if you believe what many of the liberal-bashers say, it's conservatives who donate more to charities than liberals.

It's desire to spread other people wealth, suggestions to save the poor, the needy with other people money, not donating your own to charity, that gets this name.

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Never appropriate.

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Anonymous wrote:Never appropriate.

Why not?

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Yes, you can say the same thing about any non-essential purchase, but the comparisons only go so far. OP's DH can buy a different luxury car for $100k, which is still way, way more expensive than any car most people could ever afford to buy AND still feed a hundred people for an entire year with the leftovers. I am upper middle-class in one of the richest countries in the world and the biggest splurges in my entire life are still many orders of magnitude smaller than $200k.

Typical rich liberal nitwit. It's okay if she does it. But anyone else richer than her or more extravagant than her - oh go feeeeed poorrr people!

I am as liberal as they come, definitely not a car person (drive a mid-range Civic, and see no reason to change) and won't get anywhere that income level in this lifetime - and this post is spot on. The sanctimony and hypocrisy in this thread is amazing, but not at all surprising.

Yep. PP who said her "splurges" in life are magnititudes smaller than $200K... how much does your house cost? Choosing to live in the DMV is a splurge in itself. You could easily move to a more affordable area of the country and free up hundreds of thousands of dollars over your lifetime, even if your income went down, to put your money where your mouth is.

Why stop there? PP should go live for free under a highway overpass and save even more money! That would really put her money where her mouth is and show you!

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I think its ridiculous to spend that much on a car -- but it's your money. Throw it away however you want.

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Anonymous wrote:This thread is full of envious people. If you can afford it, what's the big deal?

I don't know how to drive around in a $200k car knowing all the lives I could change with the, I dunno, $175k I could have saved if I just bought a normal car?
Start a scholarship fund, fund a dog shelter, I dunno. But spending $200k on a car is a perfect example of what's wrong with people.

Ah, another sanctimonious jerk. People like you make me never want to donate again.

If arguments on the Internet make you not want to donate to people in need, you're not the kind of person charities are looking for.

LOL. Someone made me mad so suck it, starving children!

Liberal nutjobs like you should really can it. You love to use philanthropy and altruism as a way to put other people down and feel good about yourself. People like you suck. You're making the entire party look bad. Go walk into traffic or something.

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Yes, you can say the same thing about any non-essential purchase, but the comparisons only go so far. OP's DH can buy a different luxury car for $100k, which is still way, way more expensive than any car most people could ever afford to buy AND still feed a hundred people for an entire year with the leftovers. I am upper middle-class in one of the richest countries in the world and the biggest splurges in my entire life are still many orders of magnitude smaller than $200k.

Typical rich liberal nitwit. It's okay if she does it. But anyone else richer than her or more extravagant than her - oh go feeeeed poorrr people!

I am as liberal as they come, definitely not a car person (drive a mid-range Civic, and see no reason to change) and won't get anywhere that income level in this lifetime - and this post is spot on. The sanctimony and hypocrisy in this thread is amazing, but not at all surprising.

Yep. PP who said her "splurges" in life are magnititudes smaller than $200K... how much does your house cost? Choosing to live in the DMV is a splurge in itself. You could easily move to a more affordable area of the country and free up hundreds of thousands of dollars over your lifetime, even if your income went down, to put your money where your mouth is.

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Anonymous wrote:This thread is full of envious people. If you can afford it, what's the big deal?

I don't know how to drive around in a $200k car knowing all the lives I could change with the, I dunno, $175k I could have saved if I just bought a normal car?
Start a scholarship fund, fund a dog shelter, I dunno. But spending $200k on a car is a perfect example of what's wrong with people.

You can say the same thing about any non-essential purchase. Did you buy any new clothes? New shoes? You bought a car other than a retired Crown Vic police car? Shame on you for wasting money instead of using that money to change other people's lives.

You may find it incomprehensible to drive around in a $200k car, but other people can. Your value system isn't superior on an objective basis.

Yes, you can say the same thing about any non-essential purchase, but the comparisons only go so far. OP's DH can buy a different luxury car for $100k, which is still way, way more expensive than any car most people could ever afford to buy AND still feed a hundred people for an entire year with the leftovers. I am upper middle-class in one of the richest countries in the world and the biggest splurges in my entire life are still many orders of magnitude smaller than $200k.

Typical rich liberal nitwit. It's okay if she does it. But anyone else richer than her or more extravagant than her - oh go feeeeed poorrr people!

I am as liberal as they come, definitely not a car person (drive a mid-range Civic, and see no reason to change) and won't get anywhere that income level in this lifetime - and this post is spot on. The sanctimony and hypocrisy in this thread is amazing, but not at all surprising.

OP, you can afford the car (though, like a couple of other PPs, I'd probably wait until my net worth was a little higher before I pulled the trigger, and I am assuming you don't have any debt other than mortgage.) Whether it's appropriate or not is obviously a hotly debated question, and as you can see many people will look down on your DH if he buys the car. I personally wouldn't care, but it's something only you and he can decide. If he wants it, he can buy it and, after expenses, you still have about $350,000 to invest this year.

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Anonymous wrote:Never. Travel with that money. Donate it. Cars are not worth that much, plain and simple.

Travel is not worth it. Plain and simple. Cars are so much more fun. I am a girl. I will take cars over any travel.

Working class or lower middle class.

You would hate it too if your parents dragged you around the world all the time, when I all I wanted is to hang out with friends by the beach. Noooo, I had to see museums and ruins.

I grew up traveling and loved it. My mother is French and we spent the entire summer in France, but it was a jump spot for our adventures. I was soo lucky safari in Tanzania/Kenya, beaches in Thailand, crazy ass trip to Madagascar, traveled all over Turkey, amazing trip to Syria to see ancient biblical cities which in hindsight is heartbreaking. We also did a summer trip for 2 weeks in Alaska and got to hike to the base of Denali with heavily armed trail guides because of the grizzlies, i could go on and on. My childhood was charmed and I'm so grateful my parents loved travel and exposed us to so many parts of this beautiful planet. I mever once missed my friends and as I got older was sometimes able to bring one along.

I for one would be very concerned about this amount of international travel. Sure it's educational but each flight is 2-5 tons of carbon per passenger. TBH her kids and grandkids would probably be better off if she purchased an SUV if the alternative is all that air travel

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Yes, you can say the same thing about any non-essential purchase, but the comparisons only go so far. OP's DH can buy a different luxury car for $100k, which is still way, way more expensive than any car most people could ever afford to buy AND still feed a hundred people for an entire year with the leftovers. I am upper middle-class in one of the richest countries in the world and the biggest splurges in my entire life are still many orders of magnitude smaller than $200k.

Typical rich liberal nitwit. It's okay if she does it. But anyone else richer than her or more extravagant than her - oh go feeeeed poorrr people!

I am as liberal as they come, definitely not a car person (drive a mid-range Civic, and see no reason to change) and won't get anywhere that income level in this lifetime - and this post is spot on. The sanctimony and hypocrisy in this thread is amazing, but not at all surprising.

Yep. PP who said her "splurges" in life are magnititudes smaller than $200K... how much does your house cost? Choosing to live in the DMV is a splurge in itself. You could easily move to a more affordable area of the country and free up hundreds of thousands of dollars over your lifetime, even if your income went down, to put your money where your mouth is.

Why stop there? PP should go live for free under a highway overpass and save even more money! That would really put her money where her mouth is and show you!

She should! I'm sure her splurges now are magnitudes larger than what the homeless can spend, so why not live with them and free up money to help them? Or, alternatively, she could spend the way she wants and STFU about how others choose to spend.

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Anonymous wrote:Never appropriate.

Why not?

Just seems like a waste of money to me. but to each his own I guess.

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Man here who owns an exotic sports car (paid for in cash). I was at the salon last week and the woman next to me was arranging to get some styling done. I didn't listen closely enough to what she wanted done, but the price was $250. To me, that seems extravagant.

In other words, to each their own.