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Topic: Sporty Cars (and trucks too now)

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Re: Sporty Cars (and trucks too now)
« Reply #3542 on: August 23, 2025, 10:09:19 AM »
I doubt I would spend above $200K on a car if I won the lottery

it's foolishness

$75K is foolish enuff
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Re: Sporty Cars (and trucks too now)
« Reply #3543 on: August 23, 2025, 10:16:25 AM »
If I had tons of money, I could see buying a Porsche 911, or maybe a Macan S, which my wife would prefer, or both.  I'd also spend most of my time giving it away trying to locate really good causes, like a new luxo booth at Sanford Stadium ....:57:

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Re: Sporty Cars (and trucks too now)
« Reply #3544 on: August 23, 2025, 10:18:25 AM »
I'm pretty sure my aspirations when I was 25 or so would include having fancy cars even with my modest level of wealth today.  I still like cars, but view them today more as a functional item that should be fairly comfortable and safe and economic rather than fancy looking.  We only have the one now which saves quite a bit of money.

My main expense now is travel, and it does get expensive.

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Re: Sporty Cars (and trucks too now)
« Reply #3545 on: August 23, 2025, 10:25:00 AM »
I didn't say I'd buy it. 

$200K+?

No thanks.

I'll take this for $180K.



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Re: Sporty Cars (and trucks too now)
« Reply #3546 on: August 23, 2025, 10:27:01 AM »
Or more likely this, for $200K.

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« Reply #3547 on: August 24, 2025, 08:44:10 AM »
"Courage; Generosity; Fairness; Honor; In these are the true awards of manly sport."

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« Reply #3548 on: August 24, 2025, 11:45:40 AM »
"Courage; Generosity; Fairness; Honor; In these are the true awards of manly sport."

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« Reply #3549 on: August 25, 2025, 09:45:54 AM »
Ain't no car on the planet worth $150K or more, to me.  I don't mind looking at them though.

Was out with the boy on Saturday, we went to the Austin Mustang Owner's Club annual car show and meet-up.  There were at least 100 Mustangs and other cars like Shelby Cobras and whatnot.  All vintages, all styles.  It was a lot of fun.  

Saw a Dark Horse, saw several GT350s, both old and new.  

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Re: Sporty Cars (and trucks too now)
« Reply #3550 on: August 25, 2025, 10:13:23 AM »
My business partner’s car. It’s helped me realize my comfort driving sedan is all I ever need. This is uncomfortably and scary fast. Looks amazing, but it is not a comfortable car and the only appeal is driving very fast. After 6 months of having it, he calls it a terrible car to drive on the open road and gets about 7 miles per gallon.


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« Reply #3551 on: August 25, 2025, 10:14:55 AM »
Then on Sunday morning I took the boy over to the DMV driver's testing facility, so we could practice parallel parking and do a couple of rounds on the actual route that he'll be tested on in 2 weeks.

He did really well, and on the way home we came back the "scenic route" which is a fairly twisty windy road that meanders through the hills around the lake.  It's a popular drive for motorbikes and sports cars because while being twisty and windy, it's also a pretty wide divided 4 lane road with a speed limit of 55, and cops that are willing to look the other way unless things get really out of hand.  It has some traffic lights but they're spaced out, few and far between.

So as we're driving along in the right lane observing the speed limit, I hear a pretty loud motor coming up quickly behind us.  As a car starts to pass us, I look over just in time to see a Lamborghini Huracan sailing past us.  I tell my son, "Oh that's cool," and then all of a sudden another low-slung sportscar comes flying past.  It's a McLaren, of course.  720s I think though I don't know those models all that well.  So I'm thinking, cool, they're out here racing a little bit or just cruising.

And then all of a sudden about 20 other supercars and high end sportscars are all around us, but we get stopped at a light so now we're in the middle of all these supercars, in my son's little Mustang ecoboost.  I wish I could have gotten out and taken some pictures!  Anyway, these are some of what we saw:




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Re: Sporty Cars (and trucks too now)
« Reply #3552 on: August 25, 2025, 10:21:23 AM »
My business partner’s car. It’s helped me realize my comfort driving sedan is all I ever need. This is uncomfortably and scary fast. Looks amazing, but it is not a comfortable car and the only appeal is driving very fast. After 6 months of having it, he calls it a terrible car to drive on the open road and gets about 7 miles per gallon.


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Re: Sporty Cars (and trucks too now)
« Reply #3553 on: August 25, 2025, 10:25:23 AM »
Looks like a Lambo but the image is sort of stretched...?

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Re: Sporty Cars (and trucks too now)
« Reply #3554 on: August 25, 2025, 10:26:36 AM »
Yeah, I can't tell.
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Re: Sporty Cars (and trucks too now)
« Reply #3555 on: August 25, 2025, 10:39:31 AM »
It’s a Lamborghini Aventador. Here’s a few pictures in our lot next to my 11 year old sedan that I much more enjoy not spending money on cars. He’s a Buckeye. They make bad decisions.




 

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