Where does this notion come from that wealthy people don't drive nice cars?

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Anonymous wrote:Did you even read the millionaire next door? Most drive honda's. The poorest people I know drive "nicer" cars, the multimillionaires myself included drive honda's, toyota's, nissan's. Poorer people tend to fake the funk and think that they're fooling people.

Oy vey. Nothing screams midwit prole Dave Ramsay listener like citing a conman’s book.

Midwit prole. Loving the parochial snobbishness. Dcurbanmom, where the moms and dads cosplay David Brooks in his desperate Bobos in Paradise years. FYI, statistically speaking most of the millionaires in this country over 50 drive F150s, new money tech millionaires drive hondas, new money tech billionaires have someone else drive them.

People who know anything about cars know that an F150 with all the trappings will run you $75k-$100k. The folks where these trucks are prevalent know this.

This is why the thread is strange. New money tech millionaires also aren’t driving Hondas…they are driving Rivians (Tesla has definitely fallen out of favor) or similar $75k+ electric cars…or if living and working in SF proper may not own a car at all.

I honestly don’t know anyone who thinks BMW or Audi or Mercedes is an overall luxury brand since they sell many models cheaper than the cars above…though they do have certain models well over $100k.

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Anonymous wrote:Did you even read the millionaire next door? Most drive honda's. The poorest people I know drive "nicer" cars, the multimillionaires myself included drive honda's, toyota's, nissan's. Poorer people tend to fake the funk and think that they're fooling people.

Oy vey. Nothing screams midwit prole Dave Ramsay listener like citing a conman’s book.

Midwit prole. Loving the parochial snobbishness. Dcurbanmom, where the moms and dads cosplay David Brooks in his desperate Bobos in Paradise years. FYI, statistically speaking most of the millionaires in this country over 50 drive F150s, new money tech millionaires drive hondas, new money tech billionaires have someone else drive them.

People who know anything about cars know that an F150 with all the trappings will run you $75k-$100k. The folks where these trucks are prevalent know this.

This is why the thread is strange. New money tech millionaires also aren’t driving Hondas…they are driving Rivians (Tesla has definitely fallen out of favor) or similar $75k+ electric cars…or if living and working in SF proper may not own a car at all.

I honestly don’t know anyone who thinks BMW or Audi or Mercedes is an overall luxury brand since they sell many models cheaper than the cars above…though they do have certain models well over $100k.

And there are people driving those loaded F150s who don’t even make that much in a year. It tells you nothing.

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Anonymous wrote:Not everyone is interested in cars, for many people cars are a way to get from point a to point b.

Even multi-millionaires who don’t care about cars still drive nice new ones. A boring but nice crossover like a 2026 Lexus RX or Mercedes GLE - or maybe an E-Class wagon. Nobody rich is driving some decade old Honda or Chevy Malibu. Rich teenagers don’t even drive decade old economy cars.

We were worth $40M+ and I was driving a 6yo Honda for another 2 years.

My kids drives a 2015 Subaru and a 2018 Kia. They have trust funds from their grandparents and we are worth north of 10M

No matter what we say, the flashy money people will never understand. We have nothing to prove. They are also making it out like it’s a 15 year old civic, a new Mercedes or nothing. I drive a newer Honda Odyssey with all the available features. It’s quite comfortable and does everything I need it to while flying under the radar. It replaced another older minivan.

Just different personality types. Neither is bad or good, worse or better.
Maybe in the Meyer's Briggs world, the S types will like flashier material goods and the N types don't even notice the material goods.

Bottom line is that the car someone drives is not directly proportional to their income or their wealth, but simply more of an indication of their personality type.

And if you're into flashy cars, do know there is a significant portion of the population who won't even notice let alone care.

I've lived in Miami and also know a lot of those super cars are rented or people are in debt up to their eyeballs on them.

At a previous house, neighbors had 3 new very fancy vehicles they drove. Then there was a divorce. Tow trucks came at night for all the vehicles. Turns out they were all leased and when the payments stopped they were repossessed.

A fancy car speaks volumes about the person's spend rate, but says almost nothing about actual wealth.

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Anonymous wrote:Did you even read the millionaire next door? Most drive honda's. The poorest people I know drive "nicer" cars, the multimillionaires myself included drive honda's, toyota's, nissan's. Poorer people tend to fake the funk and think that they're fooling people.

Oy vey. Nothing screams midwit prole Dave Ramsay listener like citing a conman’s book.

Midwit prole. Loving the parochial snobbishness. Dcurbanmom, where the moms and dads cosplay David Brooks in his desperate Bobos in Paradise years. FYI, statistically speaking most of the millionaires in this country over 50 drive F150s, new money tech millionaires drive hondas, new money tech billionaires have someone else drive them.

People who know anything about cars know that an F150 with all the trappings will run you $75k-$100k. The folks where these trucks are prevalent know this.

This is why the thread is strange. New money tech millionaires also aren’t driving Hondas…they are driving Rivians (Tesla has definitely fallen out of favor) or similar $75k+ electric cars…or if living and working in SF proper may not own a car at all.

I honestly don’t know anyone who thinks BMW or Audi or Mercedes is an overall luxury brand since they sell many models cheaper than the cars above…though they do have certain models well over $100k.

And there are people driving those loaded F150s who don’t even make that much in a year. It tells you nothing.

Correct, but my point is that my kid at an academic southern private college has a bunch of wealthy friends who drive souped-up pickups (F150s et al). It’s what the kids wanted and they still probably cost nearly $100k…but their parents would have bought them any car /truck they wanted at the same price.

Nobody was making any statement with the purchase.

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Anonymous wrote:Not everyone is interested in cars, for many people cars are a way to get from point a to point b.

Even multi-millionaires who don’t care about cars still drive nice new ones. A boring but nice crossover like a 2026 Lexus RX or Mercedes GLE - or maybe an E-Class wagon. Nobody rich is driving some decade old Honda or Chevy Malibu. Rich teenagers don’t even drive decade old economy cars.

We were worth $40M+ and I was driving a 6yo Honda for another 2 years.

My kids drives a 2015 Subaru and a 2018 Kia. They have trust funds from their grandparents and we are worth north of 10M

No matter what we say, the flashy money people will never understand. We have nothing to prove. They are also making it out like it’s a 15 year old civic, a new Mercedes or nothing. I drive a newer Honda Odyssey with all the available features. It’s quite comfortable and does everything I need it to while flying under the radar. It replaced another older minivan.

Just different personality types. Neither is bad or good, worse or better.
Maybe in the Meyer's Briggs world, the S types will like flashier material goods and the N types don't even notice the material goods.

Bottom line is that the car someone drives is not directly proportional to their income or their wealth, but simply more of an indication of their personality type.

And if you're into flashy cars, do know there is a significant portion of the population who won't even notice let alone care.

I've lived in Miami and also know a lot of those super cars are rented or people are in debt up to their eyeballs on them.

At a previous house, neighbors had 3 new very fancy vehicles they drove. Then there was a divorce. Tow trucks came at night for all the vehicles. Turns out they were all leased and when the payments stopped they were repossessed.

A fancy car speaks volumes about the person's spend rate, but says almost nothing about actual wealth.

Look around your local military base and you'll see tons of dealers selling Chargers and giant trucks at crazy rates to the newly enlisted.

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Anonymous wrote:Not everyone is interested in cars, for many people cars are a way to get from point a to point b.

Even multi-millionaires who don’t care about cars still drive nice new ones. A boring but nice crossover like a 2026 Lexus RX or Mercedes GLE - or maybe an E-Class wagon. Nobody rich is driving some decade old Honda or Chevy Malibu. Rich teenagers don’t even drive decade old economy cars.

We were worth $40M+ and I was driving a 6yo Honda for another 2 years.

My kids drives a 2015 Subaru and a 2018 Kia. They have trust funds from their grandparents and we are worth north of 10M

Yes!! Because that is what smart people do.

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Anonymous wrote:The generalizations on this thread are hilarious.

New money.
2 Toyotas — one is 18 years old, the other 25 - both run like new, little to no maintenance. Not dinged up
Love these cars and all new cars are less comfortable comparatively.

Don’t feel any need to impress anyone. And if a flashy car is what impresses you, you’re not my type anyway. Btw, there are many others like me. Iykyk.

The older cars are so much more comfortable! To save money over the years they removed weight from the vehicles which removed comfort and the feel of the ride like the suspension is like driving around in a sofa, that's how my old car feels now. Now the cars are minimal, seats thinner less padding, narrow and not at all comfortable. Suspension bumpy even with touring tires not even sports tires. The older cars were built so much better. They are also easier to work on yourself.

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The Dow is at 50,000. High net worth families have more money than multi generations could ever spend. My clients wouldn't be caught dead daily driving some dated eco sedan.

Special exceptions would be an old convertible or Jeep they bought new twenty years ago at their beach house or Florida second home. Or older pickup trucks at their ranch.

-CPA

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Anonymous wrote:I live in a rich enclave in the south (~$3M average home value) and expensive cars are the norm. Cars in the range of $200k+ for the adults and $100k+ for the kids aren’t the average but they are common. No one is driving around in a beater Honda. My husband is in finance and all the guys he works with (old and new money alike) constantly talk about cars and buy new cars.

You are not rich is your husband is working “in finance”. He and you will surely find yourself in a Corolla once he loses his finance job.

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Anonymous wrote:The humble millionaire next door seems like nonsense to me; rich people are not driving 25 year old Volvo station wagons. And everyone with a nice new luxury car obviously isn't broke and overextended. I'm currently in a swank town and every car is a new Range Rover, Porsche crossover, Tesla, or Audi-BMW-Mercedes (they all look alike). The worst car I see are new Chevrolet Tahoes, which are like 80 grand. If that humble old money thing ever existed, it certainly doesn't anymore.

It’s quite simple really, and all whether your wealth is born from new money or old money.

New Money = overly luxurious and flashy
Old Money = reserved and practical

After all, if you spent much of your life in poverty and suddenly acquired wealth through new money (think recent Stanford CS grad working in AI that emigrated from India), wouldn’t you want to spoil yourself with a Tesla? You worked hard for it after all and probably don’t mind if know.

Similarly, if you grew up with extreme wealth and drove around in Mercedes and Range Rovers your entire life (think trust fund babies living in NW DC), wouldn’t you try to downplay some of your inherited wealth by driving a more modest car? It’s embarrassing after all to be a person whose wealth was all given to them and not earned.

This is such a reddit-tier take on wealth. No. Silver spoons who grew up steeped in wealth and privilege are never downgrading their lifestyle to a crummy car nor are they eating rice and canned beans to fit in with the peasants. They are used to luxury. They get a new Audi, Tesla or Bronco for their 16th birthday. And they rack up eye-popping sums ubering everywhere.

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Anonymous wrote:Did you even read the millionaire next door? Most drive honda's. The poorest people I know drive "nicer" cars, the multimillionaires myself included drive honda's, toyota's, nissan's. Poorer people tend to fake the funk and think that they're fooling people.

Oy vey. Nothing screams midwit prole Dave Ramsey listener like citing a conman’s book.

Midwit prole. Loving the parochial snobbishness. Dcurbanmom, where the moms and dads cosplay David Brooks in his desperate Bobos in Paradise years. FYI, statistically speaking most of the millionaires in this country over 50 drive F150s, new money tech millionaires drive hondas, new money tech billionaires have someone else drive them.

Statistically speaking more millionaires drive... the most popular vehicle in the U.S.! Wow, genius insights.

Dave Ramsey lives in a 20 million dollar mansion on over 200 acres while telling his prole listeners to work like dogs paying off every cent they owe bankers (who created the money they loan out from thin air). He is a subversive conman. Tells his listeners to pick up second and third slave labor jobs, while he gives his extended family and cronies highly-paid fake sinecure jobs. If you think any of his kids and in-laws are driving shitboxes, you're a gullible fool.

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Anonymous wrote:It’s an old money, New England, Yankee thing, to this day.

Partly it’s the old money attitude that it’s gauche to show off wealth - but it’s also just practicality. You need 4 wheel or AWD. No use getting a sporty little car, you’ll never get out of your driveway in the winter.

My husband is from old money Connecticut. Every other car is a new Range Rover.

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Anonymous wrote:It’s an old money, New England, Yankee thing, to this day.

Partly it’s the old money attitude that it’s gauche to show off wealth - but it’s also just practicality. You need 4 wheel or AWD. No use getting a sporty little car, you’ll never get out of your driveway in the winter.

My husband is from old money Connecticut. Every other car is a new Range Rover.

Shhh just let them continue to believe the true .01% drive 2018 Kias. It will help push off the revolution.

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Anonymous wrote:I live in a rich enclave in the south (~$3M average home value) and expensive cars are the norm. Cars in the range of $200k+ for the adults and $100k+ for the kids aren’t the average but they are common. No one is driving around in a beater Honda. My husband is in finance and all the guys he works with (old and new money alike) constantly talk about cars and buy new cars.

I don’t even know what a $200k car is.

New 2026 Mercedes G-Wagon is a somewhat common SUV and 2026 Porsche 911 is a somewhat common sports car hovering around 200 grand.

(note decent looking used 20 year old G-Wagons can be had for as low as 30 or 40 grand.)

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Anonymous wrote:The Dow is at 50,000. High net worth families have more money than multi generations could ever spend. My clients wouldn't be caught dead daily driving some dated eco sedan.

Special exceptions would be an old convertible or Jeep they bought new twenty years ago at their beach house or Florida second home. Or older pickup trucks at their ranch.

-CPA

Yikes! This sounds so stifling and like an awful life to be so restricted in these meaningless ways. The more I read on this forum, the more I’m grateful that I have enough money to buy anything my family needs without worry or stress but not so much that I lose my freedom to life my life the way I wish to and instead have to co form to someone else’s rules and norms.