"luxury" cars - why?

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Anonymous wrote:Small...trouser snakes. End scene.

OMG lol

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Since when is a car "an experience". Machu Picchu is an experience. A car is just a thing you bought.

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I don’t think our cars qualify as luxury in your book, but you did mention Mercedes (even though they can cost under your stated range), so:

We have a fully loaded Mercedes SUV because we like the features (auto park, adaptive cruise control, heated/cooled seats and wheel, etc.). We do long road trips sometimes and it’s just nice to do that in a comfortable car. Mercedes service is also a cut above what we’ve experienced with other car companies.

I have a fully loaded Ford Fusion (not luxury) and like some things about it, but I’ve noticed a lot more will break in my car than in the Mercedes. When it comes time to replace my car, I’m going to look at Mercedes, BMW, and Audi.

We have the disposable income to afford these cars and like them, so why not?

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I had a luxury car when I was single in Miami because the valets would park it in front of the club to be seen. Now I'm married in DC with a hybrid minivan.

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Anonymous wrote:Since when is a car "an experience". Machu Picchu is an experience. A car is just a thing you bought.

Disagree completely with this.

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Anonymous wrote:Since when is a car "an experience". Machu Picchu is an experience. A car is just a thing you bought.

Whatever floats your boat. Owning an average "lease special" and having an $100K EV is not something to brag about, but tracking your own sport car on the Nurburgring, or offroading a Jeep at MOAB is something to live for.

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Anonymous wrote:Why would someone buy a 70-150k car when a 35k car gets you around just fine? Seems like a waste to me. I have a friend who just bought a Mercedes and I don't think k I could bring myself to do it. I know everyone's values are different but if I got a raise, I would go on vacation and save some.

Lol, 35k car. Try a 15k Hyundai Elantra.

The job of a car is to get you from point A -> B. I would think the main reason you'd buy something like a Bentley, Rolls Royce, BMW, etc. is as a status symbol; a way of saying "Hey everyone, look at how much money I make".

But to each their own.

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Anonymous wrote:Why would someone buy a 70-150k car when a 35k car gets you around just fine? Seems like a waste to me. I have a friend who just bought a Mercedes and I don't think k I could bring myself to do it. I know everyone's values are different but if I got a raise, I would go on vacation and save some.

Lol, 35k car. Try a 15k Hyundai Elantra.

The job of a car is to get you from point A -> B. I would think the main reason you'd buy something like a Bentley, Rolls Royce, BMW, etc. is as a status symbol; a way of saying "Hey everyone, look at how much money I make".

But to each their own.

And in some cases you might be right, however in many you would be wrong. Lots of people like cars, they like the way they look, smell, feel, handle on the road, they just LIKE driving cars -- a car is not a utilitarian device for those people. Some people will go with a basic stove and others must have a Bertazzoni Dual Fuel Range or a Wolf. This constant conversation over how X person wouldn't spend Y for Z thing and then denigrating those who do, is tiresome.

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Anonymous wrote:Since when is a car "an experience". Machu Picchu is an experience. A car is just a thing you bought.

Whatever floats your boat. Owning an average "lease special" and having an $100K EV is not something to brag about, but tracking your own sport car on the Nurburgring, or offroading a Jeep at MOAB is something to live for.

Okay........

That's unlikely to be anyone who knows a fancy car. Once you've bought it, you've driven it..and there it is.

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My 77yo and 80yo parents drive a Mercedes and Lexus that were >$80K each. They seriously could not care less about status symbol or appearances.

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I eat a can of dog food every day. It sustains me perfectly. I don't know why anyone would pay so much for "luxury" food.

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Since when is a car "an experience". Machu Picchu is an experience. A car is just a thing you bought.

Whatever floats your boat. Owning an average "lease special" and having an $100K EV is not something to brag about, but tracking your own sport car on the Nurburgring, or offroading a Jeep at MOAB is something to live for.

Okay........

That's unlikely to be anyone who knows a fancy car. Once you've bought it, you've driven it..and there it is.

So you only eat a food once, wear a style of clothing once, go to vacation at a spot once, see a play once, listen to a musician, because after that initial experience, "there it is".

Really?

Every morning I get in my car and from that point on until I get out of the car, that time I spend in the car is an experience that I enjoy. I understand that you may not have the same appreciation for this experience, but for you to discount that others may appreciate this experience is irrational.

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Why would someone buy a 70-150k car when a 35k car gets you around just fine? Seems like a waste to me. I have a friend who just bought a Mercedes and I don't think k I could bring myself to do it. I know everyone's values are different but if I got a raise, I would go on vacation and save some.

Lol, 35k car. Try a 15k Hyundai Elantra.

The job of a car is to get you from point A -> B. I would think the main reason you'd buy something like a Bentley, Rolls Royce, BMW, etc. is as a status symbol; a way of saying "Hey everyone, look at how much money I make".

But to each their own.

And in some cases you might be right, however in many you would be wrong. Lots of people like cars, they like the way they look, smell, feel, handle on the road, they just LIKE driving cars -- a car is not a utilitarian device for those people. Some people will go with a basic stove and others must have a Bertazzoni Dual Fuel Range or a Wolf. This constant conversation over how X person wouldn't spend Y for Z thing and then denigrating those who do, is tiresome.

It's not just the denigration, but this additional air of condescension at those having different preferences, as if it is objectively superior to not spend Y for Z thing, to such a degree that they attack the moral character of those who choose to spend their money in this way.

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Anonymous wrote:Small...trouser snakes. End scene.

The Toyota Corolla is disgustingly utilitarian. Open the hollow, empty doors, into your hollow empty shitbox. Sit on to your disgustingly grey cloth seats. Look at the abhorrent, grey, plastic dashboard. You love the grey. Grey reminds you of sad times, and all the red in your brokerage account. Grey is your happy place.

You see in the distance, gentlesir in his Range Rover. You pull up next to him at the lights. You wonder, between you and him, in his leather cocoon, who is the actual winner here. You cast a smug glance his way. He could never be as happy or as rich as you in your 2001 Toyota Corolla.

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Why live in a nice house?
Why wear nice clothes?
Why eat good food?
Why send your kids to good schools?
Why go on nice vacations?