I too don’t find property damage amusing, unless it is self-inflicted due to own idiocy (e.g., boss backing his brand new Jaguar out of his garage for the first time and wiping out a passenger side mirror. Whoops.).
The best car I’ve ever driven was our neighbor’s old, rusty, beat up, orange-colored Chevy truck. It is amazing how quickly fancy sports cars would scatter out of our way. Like we were driving a tank or something. The other drivers probably thought we did not have brakes, insurance, or both.
A business owner near us is nasty with a lot of his customers and he tends to get in arguments with many of his customers over business matters. One night someone vandalized his store by throwing a couple of garbage cans through the plate glass windows at front of his store. Made me chuckle when I heard about incident because he probably had wronged someone and deserved getting vandalized. Vandalism that might cause some to grimace, might cause others to grin. Same with keyed car…there’s a good chance the car owner wrongly upset someone enough to get car vandalized which makes me grin, especially with an expensive car. Grin and bear it.
My husband like the Jaguar F-type, where you can have an option of choosing a noisy exhaustion. The most sexy butt as my husband and some drivers mentioned. But it doesn’t cost $250k, maybe half.
It is interesting, from what I know high end cars tend not to get vandalized as much as more ‘plebian’ cars do, there have been articles from time to time about it. I don’t know if the vandals are in awe of the cars or because they are so high visibility they figure they will be spotted running keys over a lamborghini as opposed to let’s say a honda accord (who pays attention to an accord?).
Exotic cars, I am talking the ferrari, lamborghini, Mclaren , Bugatti (the modern one) and so forth, don’t necessarily depreciate. First of all,there are usually so few of them that they are in demand, and because of that when they resell they can get pretty much what the person paid for them new. Secondly, many of these cars become “instant classics” among collectors, so their value actually can go up. That doesn’t always happen, Ferraris from the 70’s like the 308 (IE the Magnum, PI car), the 512 and some others have not done well over the years (they may eventually), but for many cars like a Mclaren SLR they produced with Mercedes a couple of years ago, they become instant collectibles.
To me that is sad, those cars are meant to be driven, they aren’t museum pieces, but that is how many of them are treated, it is why they stay in climate controlled garages and such. Me, I would rather have something like a Corvette ZR1, has that kind of performance, doesn’t cost as much, and is drivable.
Some of the global investors never actually take possession of the vehicle. They simply ask for appropriate storage and then resell it in a few years for a tidy profit.
Buying a fast car in my neck of the woods defeats the purpose. Our local traffic is so bad it makes zero sense to drive to the city, even on weekends. It is sad to watch all those slowly crawling Teslas and Lamborghinis from the comfort of the my commuter bus’ plush seat as said bus keeps zooming past them in the “bus only” lane.
(A personal Sound Transit bus would be the ultimate luxury vehicle in my neck of the woods. )
Its curious that a poster who doesn’t think spending $ on a liberal arts education would ponder the interest in a quarter million dollar (or more) hunk of metal. Just musing…
You are twisting my words from another thread. But that is okay. I guess what I said on that other thread bothered you a lot. Keep stalking me it is fine.
I agree. I would not spend $250+ on a high performance vehicle unless it was one one hundredth of my net worth and I had money to burn. I do value an education, I was not saying one should buy a car instead of getting an education, like I said you resorted to twisting my words to make some sort of slam against me. I also don’t think education should be reserved for only the rich so I have greatly modified my thinking on the student debt issue which is why I hope alternative education providers rise up and out compete the high priced colleges in the market place.
I might test drive a $250+ car just for the fun of it.
I also said liberal arts skills can be obtained, easily, without a formal education that costs big bucks. That might have been the part that put a burr in your saddle. Now, here is where reading is important. LA skills are fine, but there is no need to over pay for them. You do not need to pay $60+ a year to learn how to think critically or debate or be tolerant or any other soft skill.
Agree completely that there are plenty of ways to get an excellent, affordable education. It is not just reserved for the rich. That said, if someone can, and is willing to be full pay at any school, just as they could be willing to throw that same amount of $ at a car without batting an eyelash, good for them. More power to them. The only disagreement with your post is the accusation that you were “slammed”. That simply isn’t so. You seemed to have purposely baited posters with confrontational/inflammatory language like “uppity” and “mumbo Jumbo” when referencing liberal arts educations and LACs, confirmed by your statement that
. Since you were baiting posters, since you clearly asked for it, and since I am a gator and you are a criminole, taking your bait was tempting. So, happy to oblige
Not sure what you mean by “liberal arts skills”, but if you mean critical thinking, effective communication and problem-solving skills while studying philosophy, literature, humanities, etc, as well as languages, math, the sciences, etc, IMO, it can be better learned at a small school than a large one, and one where focus is on the undergraduates.
I’m not sure what I meant by liberal arts skills either since it can be defined in a dazzling amount of ways but you pretty much said it. The FSU-UF thing is limited to football, as far as I am concerned. God, I loved Muschamp why they ran him off I could not tell you. Without going into a long reply, we probably agree that small schools do a better job on focusing on UG education. Two weeks of ago I would have left it there.
But here is the thing, isn’t it kind of a shame that to find a school that has an appropriate emphasis on UG education you have to go to a small school that is usually seriously expensive? Shouldn’t that bother a lot of people? Like I said, two weeks ago it didn’t mean much to me so when people would mention the student debt issue I’d just shrug and mumble something about working hard, saving and 529 plans and leave it at that.
But now I get what they are complaining about it and by God it does need to be fixed and by fixed I sure as hell do not mean forgiving anyone’s debt.
I was being honest and opining, just like anyone else, not sure I baited anyone, but no problem. LA skills are fine, and essential, but I don’t think anyone should go into dent head over ass to get them. I think most reasonable people see eye to eye on that.
Like we were driving a tank or something. The other drivers probably thought we did not have brakes, insurance, or both.
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