aja8888
Moderator Emeritus
What's that old Catholic saying? "If you're happy and you know it, it's a SIN!"
How true...
What's that old Catholic saying? "If you're happy and you know it, it's a SIN!"
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"Sin" is a Religious invention and not really relevant. Indulgence is more appropriate. If one wants it, can afford it without doing harm to others or themselves, then it is perfectly acceptable.
If wanting a luxury car is a sin then so is hoarding money and greedily raking in more while doing nothing to earn it. Spending money you can afford to spend spreads the wealth around and can help make others happy. Of course, giving money to charities might be better in that respect. Maybe you could do a little of that too for atonement.
All my life, I have been in the "financially challenged" situation. One thing I would love to have is to own an AMG SUV or a M sport SAV.
If one looks at this from pure financial prospective, it is really a bad idea. 100K sitting in a high yield account at 5% is making 5K a year. One 100K car sitting in the driveway will lose at least 10% every year, let alone needing insurance and maintenance costs. Currently, late model CPO does not offer much savings.
But if I don't get one now, I would probably never going to get one once I am retired. We only live once, is getting a nice car before retirement a really big sin?
In 2001, I took a walk to White Castle to get lunch, then walked past a Chevy dealer on the way back to work. Went in and bought a Corvette. Drove it in the summers for 20 years. I have no regrets buying it. It made for a fun commute to work.
That's the nice thing about some daily driver cars today...they have just as much or more power than muscle cars of the past.Decided to add.... way back when I was young and no family I had the option to buy a repoed 1987 Firebird Formula 350... I already had a car that was a commuter car so this would be my 2nd car...
I enjoyed the heck out of it... it cost a lot to maintain as it constantly broke down but it was fun to drive...
I eventually sold it and bought a 2004 Acura TL with 6 speed manual tranny... it was just as quick as the Firebird but a sedan also... and it did not break down.. unfortunately I totaled it or I would still have it today...
That's the nice thing about some daily driver cars today...they have just as much or more power than muscle cars of the past.
My 2015 Acura has 290 HP, more than a Firebird Formula 350. It also gets 35 mpg on the highway.
That's the nice thing about some daily driver cars today...they have just as much or more power than muscle cars of the past.
My 2015 Acura has 290 HP, more than a Firebird Formula 350. It also gets 35 mpg on the highway.
That's the nice thing about some daily driver cars today...they have just as much or more power than muscle cars of the past.
My 2015 Acura has 290 HP, more than a Firebird Formula 350. It also gets 35 mpg on the highway.
Well, have you checked the RPM for that 290 HP?
All my life, I have been in the "financially challenged" situation. One thing I would love to have is to own an AMG SUV or a M sport SAV.
If one looks at this from pure financial prospective, it is really a bad idea. 100K sitting in a high yield account at 5% is making 5K a year. One 100K car sitting in the driveway will lose at least 10% every year, let alone needing insurance and maintenance costs. Currently, late model CPO does not offer much savings.
But if I don't get one now, I would probably never going to get one once I am retired. We only live once, is getting a nice car before retirement a really big sin?
I don't need to as it has plenty of power.
They're not. They are "pony cars."... I'm too "old school" to call a Camaro, Firebird, Mustang, etc a "muscle car" ...
That's the nice thing about some daily driver cars today...they have just as much or more power than muscle cars of the past.
My 2015 Acura has 290 HP, more than a Firebird Formula 350. It also gets 35 mpg on the highway.
It’s a matter of personal goals and priorities, which is I suppose what you are trying to say.
Well, there ya go...basically, just don't speak so strictly about it! Anyway, the full statement would be "if you can afford it, and you really want it and it will bring you some form of happiness, then buy it".