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It's funny that they thought a $10,000 a week rental made it any more affordable than the $800,000 price tag. The Venn diagram of people who can afford those is a circle.

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$10k to rent for one week in a novelty once-in-a-lifetime Heli-Home? I've seen people spend more on their bachelor party weekends in vegas and they can't even remember what they did.

Those same people don't even spend $800k on their house.

Those are 1975 dollars they are talking about so roughly $50,000/week or $4M purchase price today.

In league with the price to rent/hire a private jet, and the price to own a private jet.

There is a big market of people hiring private jets.

> Even a base model would run you around $880,000 in today's money, and a top of the line version was $1.4 million when adjusted for inflation.

>The Venn diagram of people who can afford those is a circle.

The Venn diagram of people who can justify each option to their spouse is not a circle though. They're probably almost doubling the number of potential customers by offering it both ways.

That reminds me of the time my colleague came to work with a nice shiny new Apple laptop (it was a Titanium PowerBook, long time ago), and said "12,000 bucks". We couldn't believe it, until he added "well, I had to buy my wife a new kitchen to get permission to buy it..."

It says it can sleep 6 people. $1,666 per person per week sounds pretty reasonable compared to other popular vacation options like cruises etc...

I have spent £10,000 on a one week holiday, and I neither can nor would spend £800,000 on this.

Plenty of people will charter a yacht for anywhere from $10000 to a million a week.

Compared to HyperCar from Aston Martin, Ferrari, Pagani, Koennigsegg and others the HeliHome is a bargain.

Hypercars didn't exist in 1977 and wealth inequality wasn't what it is today. Maybe Winnebago were just ahead of their time with this product?

I don't know. A helicopter of that size today, operating costs are going to be in excess of $10000 an hour. A hypercar is a heck of a lot cheaper than that.

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