Car Prices... what the...

Ibrahim5

motorguy said:

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.

There are other industries. Not everyone does the same as you. He could do whatever he wanted with the money. Maybe it was a bit newer.

Herzlos

Ibrahim5 said:

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.

My bad, I thought there was a 50% rate that kicked in at £100k which he'd have hit, but it's 40% at £150k so it's entirely possibly he's missing that.

Still, you're saying he paid 80 x 1000 x .6 just to upgrade his engine, like for like? So the upgrade from small engine to large engine was £48k on it's own? As motoguy mentioned, we're only talking about £60k-ish cars here. Maybe he paid over the retail price to skip the queue, but that's got nothing to do with the car here.

boobyd

motorguy said:

Ibrahim5 said:

Once you've had a day lying on your back being jolted to death in cramped conditions you would realise that it's not the best way to travel.

Yes at your age and being just on a pension now, i'd definitely avoid.

 Bu..er the age and pension,it's getting out of the thing,you can fall in to it !

DiseasedBunny

Solved my car price problem - just bought a new one, got to wait until September for delivery though 

photome

Ibrahim5 said:

I had never even heard of an R8 which is why I googled it. The discussions we had were quite funny because they obviously thought that everybody knew what they drove but nobody really knew what cars people drove. Nobody was jealous. I guess we could all afford them but just had more interesting things to spend money on.

If you had never heard of an R8 ,  I am not sure a motoring forum is for you, even an MSE one

Ibrahim5

I would have said that discussing the R8 isn't suitable for a money saving forum.

dipsomaniac

I agree....🙂

motorguy

Ibrahim5 said:

motorguy said:

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.

There are other industries. Not everyone does the same as you. He could do whatever he wanted with the money. Maybe it was a bit newer.

"Other Industries"?  Really?  Because you worked in the Public Sector didnt you?

I dont believe they would be paying overtime on a £100K a year job, to the tune of double time.

Its almost like you've made it all up.

motorguy

DiseasedBunny said:

Solved my car price problem - just bought a new one, got to wait until September for delivery though 

Good for you!  Not tooooo bad a lead time given the current market.

What were they like to deal with on a new car?

motorguy

Herzlos said:

Ibrahim5 said:

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.

My bad, I thought there was a 50% rate that kicked in at £100k which he'd have hit, but it's 40% at £150k so it's entirely possibly he's missing that.

Still, you're saying he paid 80 x 1000 x .6 just to upgrade his engine, like for like? So the upgrade from small engine to large engine was £48k on it's own? As motoguy mentioned, we're only talking about £60k-ish cars here. Maybe he paid over the retail price to skip the queue, but that's got nothing to do with the car here.

Exactly, its almost like its all made up and is now unravelling.