I just purchased a new Honda Ridgeline RTL-T for ~40. Food festivals and such. Have not used the bed more than 2 days out of the month that I've owned the thing. Plan to drive it until 2030.
Odyssey is 10 years old, wife plans to drive it until 2030 or 250k miles, whichever comes first.
Plan to treat myself at FI with Mazda miata RF club 6-speed. 33k flat price, new. Hope to find a used one.
Drove a coworker's aventador lp700-4, nice ride I suppose. Pretty impractical and glitchy. Nice to look at. I prefer the r8. Friend's bentley cont. gt had a lot of issues, frame cracked at 20k. Bentley forums and 6speedonline show frame cracks are plaguing the continentals. Haven't drove the new ghost but same electronics as bmw now?
The hundred millionaire that I know drives a land cruiser only, wife has the g65 (shocking, I know.) Very misogynistic but loves to say, "If it flies, floats, or fucks, rent it."
Those are pairs of keys, right? He doesn't actually own two Lamborghinis and two Rolls Royces, right?
Correct! Just one of each :)
Does he drive his Rolls him/herself? From what I hear, might as well employ a driver. The people I know with RRs employ drivers so they can drink at dinner.
The next step for the ultra-consumer is planes, helicopters, yachts. A coworker bought an R22 heli to get to his hunting lodge and racetrack up in Monticello faster. Bought it used for 250k, but a 2 hour drive from NYC to monticello becomes 30 min, 5 hour drive to PA vineyard/hunting becomes 1.5hrs. You see some crazy things up in Monticello! I'm pretty sure I saw a 959 up there! I know bill gates and jerry seinfeld both have one, must have been Seinfeld's.
Still waiting for any acquaintance/friend to buy a Huayra, definitely more up my alley than the Zonda. Art deco fiend + billet + 730hp merc v12 + morphing body: hits all of my engineering pleasure points.
Wow. I'm cured.
Reading these posts made me realize that when I first encountered the MMM world, I would have reeled off a litany of sports cars. Long before as a 20 year old, owning a Porsche was my primary ambition in life.
Now, I can't even conjure up a dream car. I'm more excited by the idea of living in a place where I don't need a car at all. Huh.
I'm not judging any of you at all, and I get it, or I used to. I just had this revelation and it made me realize that I'm turning more Mustachian than I realized. So... thank you for this thread, I guess.
I feel you Tetsuya. I have no dream car. I'd like the miata, but am ok without it. I like to drive my friends' sports cars but would prefer a life without a need for a car.