Car thread

[$trinick]

Holy stuff what do you do that you can pay $500 a month on car insurance?

Wait, didn't we establish you're just from a wealthy family?

I do come from a wealthy family but I make my own money too. I could afford my $500 a month car insurance, but my parents are kind enough to pay it until I graduate college. I'm a part time foreign currency trader, so on a good day I could make that whole payment (though, on a bad day I could lose that payment four times over).

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[Caution]

I do come from a wealthy family but I make my own money too. I could afford my $500 a month car insurance, but my parents are kind enough to pay it until I graduate college. I'm a part time foreign currency trader, so on a good day I could make that whole payment (though, on a bad day I could lose that payment four times over).

I wish I could do that. I could afford having the Dart and insuring it but I just don't want to budget that much, I like being able to go do random stuff without having to look at my bank account first.

[Cynic]

I do come from a wealthy family but I make my own money too. I could afford my $500 a month car insurance, but my parents are kind enough to pay it until I graduate college. I'm a part time foreign currency trader, so on a good day I could make that whole payment (though, on a bad day I could lose that payment four times over).

however I highly doubt you started your way into the business on your on.  Supposing you're a freelance trader, your parents obviously gave you your initial investments and bailed you out the first few flops you made.

Supposing you're partnered or with a business, your parents most likely put in a good word for you.

[XR-7]

All the talk about getting a car with help from my dad kind of fell through the roof. He's now focused on selling his Versa. Once he has it gone, he'll drive the Focus as his commuter car again. Back to square one for me now. Literally impossible to pick up a job where I live and have no income.

[e-maxx]

so i took my cars to a car show today


i didn't realize just how popular a 37 year old Italian rust bucket is

i got some stories if you guys wanna hear them

[Georges]

All the talk about getting a car with help from my dad kind of fell through the roof. He's now focused on selling his Versa. Once he has it gone, he'll drive the Focus as his commuter car again. Back to square one for me now. Literally impossible to pick up a job where I live and have no income.

Aw, that sucks. :/

so i took my cars to a car show today


i didn't realize just how popular a 37 year old Italian rust bucket is

i got some stories if you guys wanna hear them

Yes

[e-maxx]

Aw, that sucks. :/
Yes

well lets see
there was the elementary gym teacher who used to own one

then there was a guy who used to own a triumph and he would always take it a local mechanic shop which happened to be a alfa shop and one day when he came to the shop he said to the shop manager

one day when i get some money i'm going to buy a real car [points to spider]

oh yeah and this one guy said

Italian cars new exciting ways to rust!

then he came back with some of brit friends and said

i don't think this would pass a MOT in great britain

the corvette that was parked next to me was owned by some young guy and his mom owned a 72' triumph of some sort

so many people who looked at my car had so many nostalgia trips lol

[$trinick]

however I highly doubt you started your way into the business on your on.  Supposing you're a freelance trader, your parents obviously gave you your initial investments and bailed you out the first few flops you made.

Supposing you're partnered or with a business, your parents most likely put in a good word for you.

Sure, they helped with my initial investments. I never claimed that I materialized money out of nothing and started my life from the ground up. And yes, it probably didn't hurt that my dad is an executive of a public company in the field the venture capitalism firm I'm part of invests in. What I was saying is that I make my own money now, not that I always have.

[Caution]

Ive seen two older Z06s and one new Stingray today. Must be corvette season.

That stingray was loving ridiculous though. Like literally jaw dropping. Thing looks like a legit supercar.

[XR-7]

Ive seen two older Z06s and one new Stingray today. Must be corvette season.

That stingray was loving ridiculous though. Like literally jaw dropping. Thing looks like a legit supercar.

The 2015 Z06 will make >625hp with a 6.2L V8, compared to a 13-year-old Z06 with a 5.7L V8 and 385hp.


I think the new Chevrolet Corvette C7.R will be the only American car in the 24-Hours of Le Mans (could be wrong) and it is essentially a 2015 Z06 with a wider track and racing modifications.

[Cynic]

Sure, they helped with my initial investments. I never claimed that I materialized money out of nothing and started my life from the ground up. And yes, it probably didn't hurt that my dad is an executive of a public company in the field the venture capitalism firm I'm part of invests in. What I was saying is that I make my own money now, not that I always have.

You missed the point of my statement.  I was simply saying that by you saying that you could afford the car yourself, you still at a base level rely and relied on your parents to get anything that you have.  If everyone had 'investors' behind them, 90% of the population would be the current 1%.  You're lucky, not skilled.  I guess that's what I'm trying to say.

ninja;  in essence you're closer to a monarch than your are to dictator, if you understand the point im trying to convey.  also no grudges or anything meant, im just trying to get my point across

[Night Fox]

You missed the point of my statement.  I was simply saying that by you saying that you could afford the car yourself, you still at a base level rely and relied on your parents to get anything that you have.

so if that's how you think, I'm guessing you didn't do anything in your life yourself, since your parents were the ones who conceived you?

[$trinick]

Saying I'm lucky, not skilled is an absurd point. If I put five hundred dollars in your hands and asked you to turn it into fourty thousand inside of six months would you be able to? If I put in a good word for you at a venture capitalism fund, would you be able to convince the team there that despite being a highschooler with no actual work experience that you are a valuable enough asset to be a full partner in a multi-million dollar company? I am not and never have denied being lucky, but that luck is not the entire picture. I'm only able to do what I can do because I'm good at it.

If everyone had 'investors' behind them, 90% of the population would be the current 1%.  You're lucky, not skilled.

I missed this gem. Do you seriously think that? I can't even begin to understand how you think that could POSSIBLY be true. Firstly, it's mathematically impossible for 90% of people to fit into 1% of people. If all the money contained in the top 1% was distributed to the top 90%, nobody would be as well off as the current 1%. That aside, believe it or not investing is an incredibly difficult and stressful job. Once my phone dying resulted in me losing twelve thousand dollars over the course of two hours during school. If predicting markets was as easy as you think it seems to be, nobody would ever lose money in the market. While other kids are studying for math tests I'm reading foreign news articles and discussing the possible effects on that country and it's trade partners' economies. While you're playing video games I'm participating in long term and short term trend brown townysis of the worldwide economy. I'm incredibly irritated you think that what I do is easy.

[Headshot]

My sister just got a 2014 Ford Focus, super nice car. Pretty fast too.

[HellHound]

Quick question: Do modern cars rust out like older ones?