Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:On DCUM it's a badge of honor to have a high HHI and drive crappy cars. Never mind that newer and nicer cars drive better and have more safety features. How's the blind spot and cross-traffic monitoring on your 15 year old Saturn?

You can drive a nice car that's not flashy. For example the Mercedes E-Class wagon looks like a pretty understated station wagon, but it's great inside and drives well (even beter is the E55 AMG Wagon, now discontinued). Or for SUVs, look at the Audi SQ5.

Our HHI is $1mln+ and our family car is $120k, plus we have 3 others, including sports cars. No loans on any of them.

Newer technologies are great, but they’re also designed for younger generations with different capabilities and established norms. For example, DH and I possess the upper body strength and endurance needed to manually roll down windows and drive a stick shift. Millennials are obese and indolent and need machines to perform these functions. DH and I possess the ability to turn our heads and use our side- and rear-view mirrors to look for traffic hazards. Millennials require computers to perform the necessary sensing and analysis and to simply be told what to do.

And don’t get me started on millennials’ obsession with self-driving features so they can text in one hand while holding a McGriddle sandwich in the other. Different worlds.

Lol! Thanks for the laugh this morning.

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:7 year old Honda CRV

I'm another poster - this exactly - LOL!

My old boss, who I'm sure has a HHI near $2M, drives an 8 year old Honda CRV. I'm about half the HHI and have a nicer car than her. She loves her Honda though!

Anonymous wrote:I drive a minivan, HHI a little over a million. OP, don't pay attention to that rude comment. I have no idea what anyone drives, either. Some people care about cars and some people don't. I notice many men in my office always know who is in and who isn't simply by looking at the parking lot. That's not me. I've been at my firm for 15 years and I don't think I could name one person's car. I couldn't care less about the image of the car I drive; I just want something functional - with sliding doors, baby, and the ability to walk back to the third row - so that I can easily haul my three kids and their friends. I also don't judge a person by their car. If someone has a fancy car (even I can recognize a Lambo) I don't figure they're a douchebag. I just figure they probably always dreamed about a car like that and finally got one, and good for them.

Ha! I look for the grey hairs. It's usually the guys (always guys) who worked hard their whole lives and treat themselves. Good for them!

Anonymous wrote:HHI 1.5m

My DH drives a 6 y.o. Porsche Macan.

Recently a silly reel came up on my Instagram. A guy was explaining why it is normal that women are "gold diggers ". Speaking to the males, he says, among others, that wives of wealthy men are expected to live according to their husbands' high standards, as a way of furthering the latter's prestige: " So you drive a cool Porsche? You wouldn't want your wife to drive a Toyota Corolla!"

To which I would reply: "Of course I wouldn't drive a Toyota Corolla. I drive a Toyota Camry!"

13 year-old Toyota Camry XLE. I don't want to worry about any small scratch on a luxury car. No stress is way more important to me than a high-end car. As long as it has leather seats, a Toyota will work just fine.

This is awesome! I love practical people!

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:We have a Tesla S and Tesla Y, paid cash for both with year end bonus $

What difference does it make if you count it as bonus money? Once it goes in your account it’s all just money, right?

DP
That's the way I see it.

OP, I drive a subaru amd DH drives a Toyota. We ski often and spend the summers at our second home in Breck hiking and mountaineering. I blend in there. Fancy has never suited me, but I do like other people's fancy cars (for them). You clearly have the money to get what you want.

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Have people test driven or been in nicer, newer cars recently? There is a huge difference feature and comfort wise in what some people have. I understand not spending $75k on a new car but the number of people mentioning not so great or outdated cars is surprising. Car safety has also evolved in the last decade plus.

+1. The amount of advancement in safety features alone makes owning a newer car a no brainer. I can’t imagine making this much money and not driving newer cars. Safety > frugality

Agreed. Many posters on DCUM love to humblebrag about making $2M per year while saving $1M of it, living in a townhouse, and driving 17 year old automobiles and then flaunt these false sacrifices as veritable badges of honor. It’s all just pointless virtue signaling, though, that either reveals sheer stupidity or demonstrates an ignorant inability to optimize forward progression relative to available resources.

Seriously, what kind of moron makes $2M per year and plans to die with $100s of millions left over instead of overseeing distribution to charitable causes during their lifetime?!? What kind of loser makes $1M per year and drives a 10-year old car instead of gifting that car to a truly LMC family and buying themselves a new one? And that lower cost townhouse? Yeah, thanks for stealing away a low cost property in McLean and forcing someone who can’t afford anything more to live in the next available property out in Manassas!!

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:At that income you'd be a moron not to drive a lambo

My 13 year old self wanted a lambo, but my 48 year old self likes to be up high.

You can get the Lambo SUV

Anonymous wrote:Have people test driven or been in nicer, newer cars recently? There is a huge difference feature and comfort wise in what some people have. I understand not spending $75k on a new car but the number of people mentioning not so great or outdated cars is surprising. Car safety has also evolved in the last decade plus.

+1. The amount of advancement in safety features alone makes owning a newer car a no brainer. I can’t imagine making this much money and not driving newer cars. Safety > frugality

Have people test driven or been in nicer, newer cars recently? There is a huge difference feature and comfort wise in what some people have. I understand not spending $75k on a new car but the number of people mentioning not so great or outdated cars is surprising. Car safety has also evolved in the last decade plus.

2 year old RAV4
10 year old Camry
16 year old Prius that nanny uses

Anonymous wrote:At that income you'd be a moron not to drive a lambo

My 13 year old self wanted a lambo, but my 48 year old self likes to be up high.

I drive my deceased grandmother’s Oldsmobile Custom Cruiser. We are very practical and careful with our money and cars are just so frivolous and unnecessary. The Cruiser does just fine getting my two kids to Sidwell and if I’m at the club playing tennis and the nanny needs to borrow it, she simply drives me up there and I have a quick drink at the bar after my private lesson until she brings my children for swim practice.

We were forced to rent a car when we traveled to California to visit Napa Valley. It was nearly brand new! What would people thinking flashing this sort of luxury around!? We didn’t want to seem like spend thrifts, so we parked around the corner and walked to our reservation at French Laundry. Fortunately, our ski trip to Zermatt, they don’t allow cars in the village at all, so we were not confronted with this discomfort.

We make nearly 1M a year, but in DC this is basically middle class. I just don’t understand how people afford extravagances such as cars - we barely have any money left over!

Highlander

Family member makes 3 times that. They have a Subaru and a Prius. Both are 8-10 years old.

Chrysler minivan and Chevy Bolt. Love both.