Is a car worth 80k?

goodgirl80

Jeff_Bridges_hair wrote: »

Im not a wannabee rich at all. I work hard for my money and ill spend it on what i like thankyou. Dont judge everyone with you stereotype thankyou - It smacks of bitterness.

Absolutely :T although I think Strider was trying to speak from their own experience really. If someone wants to buy a massive gold egg, a Range Rover, a chocolate palace or a fiat punto.. good luck to them! It just baffled me when I imagined going to a car showroom, handing over 77-84 grand and saying 'thank you very much!' and driving off in my car..! I'm a cheapskate and I love it:j

suicidebob

Jeff_Bridges_hair wrote: »

Im not a wannabee rich at all. I work hard for my money and ill spend it on what i like thankyou. Dont judge everyone with you stereotype thankyou - It smacks of bitterness.

The truly rich have no issue flying about in helicopters, or retreating to the Maldives every 3 months, it's a bit of a stretch to consider they're all driving about in 6 year old Vauxhalls!

Anyway, to an extent, aren't we all juggling our finances to keep up a certain lifestyle?

leosayer

If you can comfortably afford it and love Range Rovers then why wouldn't you buy one?

Some people spend £20,000 on a set of speakers for their hifi. Some people spend £80,000 on an engagement ring. Some people spend £80,000 on a new kitchen. Some people spend £25,000 on a watch. Some people spend £5,000 on a handbag. Some people spend £5m on a house.

Each to their own.

goodgirl80

Hammyman wrote: »

I'm into amatuer radio. I could by a transceiver for £500 but I spent 3 times that. Why? Build quality and performance is far better for a start.

And take something like a Bentley. There's a program on the Discovery Network called Megafactories. One thing they do is follow the manufacture of a Monaro. When you've watched that programme and then watched the other they do on a mass produced car you can see why the Monaro is the price it is. You don't get someone spending 40hrs cutting and stitching up the leather on a Ford Mondeo steering wheel.

That's another thing - I don't think I care about the quality, or hand stitched leather...I'm a scumbag AND a cheapskate lol.:eek: I'd probably buy a car for £50, drive it until it falls apart, then get another one... I need help

Strider590

goodgirl80 wrote: »

Don't get me wrong - I am in no way jealous or thinking 'why can they afford that and I can't'... I just don't get why you would

Because they wannabe something they're not. It's the British class system and it's the true motivation (although many don't realise it) behind the majority of peoples spending.

Jeff_Bridges_hair

Strider590 wrote: »

Because they wannabe something they're not. It's the British class system and it's the true motivation (although many don't realise it) behind the majority of peoples spending.

I dont want to be anything. I wanted a car. I bought one i wanted. Trying to read into peoples motivations for doing just that is completely wrong - especially when you know nothing what so ever about these people nor what they earn nor whether they have massive credit card debts.

The problem with you is the problem with the British class system - jealousy of others and thus leading you to slag them off and stereotype everyone under the same umbrella.

suicidebob

Michael Palin: Ahh.. Very passable, this, very passable.

Graham Chapman: Nothing like a good glass of Chateau de Chassilier wine, ay Gessiah?

Terry Gilliam: You're right there Obediah.

Eric Idle: Who'd a thought thirty years ago we'd all be sittin' here drinking Chateau de Chassilier wine?

MP: Aye. In them days, we'd a' been glad to have the price of a cup o' tea.

GC: A cup ' COLD tea.

EI: Without milk or sugar.

TG: OR tea!

MP: In a filthy, cracked cup.

EI: We never used to have a cup. We used to have to drink out of a rolled up newspaper.

GC: The best WE could manage was to suck on a piece of damp cloth.

TG: But you know, we were happy in those days, though we were poor.

MP: Aye. BECAUSE we were poor. My old Dad used to say to me, "Money doesn't buy you happiness."

EI: 'E was right. I was happier then and I had NOTHIN'. We used to live in this tiiiny old house, with greaaaaat big holes in the roof.

GC: House? You were lucky to have a HOUSE! We used to live in one room, all hundred and twenty-six of us, no furniture. Half the floor was missing; we were all huddled together in one corner for fear of FALLING!

TG: You were lucky to have a ROOM! *We* used to have to live in a corridor!

MP: Ohhhh we used to DREAM of livin' in a corridor! Woulda' been a palace to us. We used to live in an old water tank on a rubbish tip. We got woken up every morning by having a load of rotting fish dumped all over us! House!? Hmph.

EI: Well when I say "house" it was only a hole in the ground covered by a piece of tarpolin, but it was a house to US.

GC: We were evicted from *our* hole in the ground; we had to go and live in a lake!

TG: You were lucky to have a LAKE! There were a hundred and sixty of us living in a small shoebox in the middle of the road.

MP: Cardboard box?

TG: Aye.

MP: You were lucky. We lived for three months in a brown paper bag in a septic tank. We used to have to get up at six o'clock in the morning, clean the bag, eat a crust of stale bread, go to work down mill for fourteen hours a day week in-week out. When we got home, out Dad would thrash us to sleep with his belt!

GC: Luxury. We used to have to get out of the lake at three o'clock in the morning, clean the lake, eat a handful of hot gravel, go to work at the mill every day for tuppence a month, come home, and Dad would beat us around the head and neck with a broken bottle, if we were LUCKY!

TG: Well we had it tough. We used to have to get up out of the shoebox at twelve o'clock at night, and LICK the road clean with our tongues. We had half a handful of freezing cold gravel, worked twenty-four hours a day at the mill for fourpence every six years, and when we got home, our Dad would slice us in two with a bread knife.

EI: Right. I had to get up in the morning at ten o'clock at night, half an hour before I went to bed, (pause for laughter), eat a lump of cold poison, work twenty-nine hours a day down mill, and pay mill owner for permission to come to work, and when we got home, our Dad would kill us, and dance about on our graves singing "Hallelujah."

MP: But you try and tell the young people today that... and they won't believe ya'.

ALL: Nope, nope..

vax2002

Mainly bought by people who work for the government at management level, guy down the street buys a new one every year he is some kind of facilities procurement management coordinator at the Hospital, (He buys paper towels and things) and nets around £80k a year in doing so.

Strider590

Jeff_Bridges_hair wrote: »

I dont want to be anything. I wanted a car. I bought one i wanted. Trying to read into peoples motivations for doing just that is completely wrong - especially when you know nothing what so ever about these people nor what they earn nor whether they have massive credit card debts.

The problem with you is the problem with the British class system - jealousy of others and thus leading you to slag them off and stereotype everyone under the same umbrella.

Your wrong.....

We like what other people like and we want what other people have.

People support the same football teams as their friends, is that a mere coincidence?

Two of my friends house share and have exactly the same car (Clio 182's), is that a coincidence?

"Most people are other people. Their thoughts are someone else’s opinions, their lives a mimicry, their passions a quotation." - Oscar Wilde

How many women now want to have weddings like that of Kate Middleton?

People in small tribes in the Amazonian rain forest, do they want £50k sports-cars? if I offered the choice between a super sharp knife or the keys to a brand new Porsche 911, which do you think they'd grab?

Woody._2

vax2002 wrote: »

Mainly bought by people who work for the government at management level, guy down the street buys a new one every year he is some kind of facilities procurement management coordinator at the Hospital, (He buys paper towels and things) and nets around £80k a year in doing so.

May as well spend it while he's got it, those type of jobs [STRIKE]will be[/STRIKE] should be cut soon.