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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]This thread is full of envious people.  If you can afford it, what's the big deal?[/quote]

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.[/quote] 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. [/quote]

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.

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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!  [/quote]

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.  [/quote]

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