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motorguy

Herzlos said:

You understand that there's more to cars than a 0 to 60 time, right?

If he was making £1k a day for a Sunday shift, he could be driving a BMW M for 1 days work a month which isn't bad.

+1

Whats the point in earning £1K a day if you cant spend some of it and enjoy it?

Ibrahim5

The point is that you can spend your Sundays enjoying yourself instead of working to knock one second off your car's 0 to 60 time.

Herzlos

Ibrahim5 said:

The point is that you can spend your Sundays enjoying yourself instead of working to knock one second off your car's 0 to 60 time.

Again completely demonstrating that you understand neither cars or money.

If he's happy to earn the money, why are you so upset that he's spending it?
I wouldn't have an M car, but my retired neighbour with the M3 clearly loves his, and I'm happy for him. Not that he cares, because he's driving a nice car.

Ibrahim5

motorguy said:

Grumpy_chap said:

Ibrahim5 said:

It was embarrassing because he obviously thought that the whole workplace was talking about his car. I didn't know whether to pretend to know which would keep him happy or be honest and say I had no idea which is what I did. I am just saying buy what you want but don't expect other people to be impressed. I really don't think that many normal people are bothered how many BHP your car produces.

BUT the value for him is now - you are talking about his car many times after the event and creating a whole forum thread about him - famous or what?

Indeed.

Tells us that nobody cared or noticed the cars, yet he cares enough to recall the event years after.  

Seems like that guy being richer and younger than him got to him too.

They were much older than me. No idea about richer. They worked more, earned more but spent more.

motorguy

Ibrahim5 said:

motorguy said:

Grumpy_chap said:

Ibrahim5 said:

It was embarrassing because he obviously thought that the whole workplace was talking about his car. I didn't know whether to pretend to know which would keep him happy or be honest and say I had no idea which is what I did. I am just saying buy what you want but don't expect other people to be impressed. I really don't think that many normal people are bothered how many BHP your car produces.

BUT the value for him is now - you are talking about his car many times after the event and creating a whole forum thread about him - famous or what?

Indeed.

Tells us that nobody cared or noticed the cars, yet he cares enough to recall the event years after.  

Seems like that guy being richer and younger than him got to him too.

They were much older than me. No idea about richer. They worked more, earned more but spent more.

Well there you go - they were / are enjoying life as they saw fit.

Why do you clearly have such issue with it?

I'm sure you sounded particularly petty when you made quips about working to knock a second off his cars 0-60 time.  

motorguy

Ibrahim5 said:

The point is that you can spend your Sundays enjoying yourself instead of working to knock one second off your car's 0 to 60 time.

If truth were told i'd bet the Sunday working was occasional well paid overtime that he had to do as part of his job role.

Sounds like a double time, out of hours requirement for someone on likely £100K ish.  Usually systems support or an upgrade requirement.

Ibrahim5

No it was every Sunday. Totally voluntary. He had just changed his car and spent a load on jumping the queue he reckoned. His car was the same model with a more powerful engine so we worked out he had worked every Sunday for two years to do that. I really was trying to stop myself laughing. It's up to him though if he wants to do that. It's his life. I just value my time more.

Herzlos

Ibrahim5 said:

No it was every Sunday. Totally voluntary. He had just changed his car and spent a load on jumping the queue he reckoned. His car was the same model with a more powerful engine so we worked out he had worked every Sunday for two years to do that. I really was trying to stop myself laughing. It's up to him though if he wants to do that. It's his life. I just value my time more.

He paid £100k more for a more powerful engine? Or do you mean £50k more after tax? What cars are you comparing here?

It's not that I don't believe you, but I don't believe you.

Ibrahim5

Well you pay 40% tax. He said there was a waiting list so he jumped the queue. In a year you would probably do maybe 40 Sundays with holidays.

motorguy

Ibrahim5 said:

No it was every Sunday. Totally voluntary. He had just changed his car and spent a load on jumping the queue he reckoned. His car was the same model with a more powerful engine so we worked out he had worked every Sunday for two years to do that. I really was trying to stop myself laughing. It's up to him though if he wants to do that. It's his life. I just value my time more.

Yeah sure.

Very plausible a company would do that - give someone £1,000 a day overtime, every Sunday for two years, voluntary, not mandated.  Guaranteed so he could go by a car on the back of it.  

Must have been some upgrade from his current car to cost £1,000 x 52 x 2 = £104,000 just to do the upgrade alone, bearing in mind an M3 was around £60K brand new up until the latest iteration

If you want to try to reconcile how other people can afford stuff you cant, at least try to make it plausible.