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I wish I had friends, but I also wish I had a Ferrari, the latter one might be reachable within my lifetime if I work hard for it.

Wait, with a budget of €100 000 I could actually get some second-hand old shitty Ferrari. That's... surprisingly affordable. I mean buying this shit right now would be highly irresponsible, but I can see myself potentially buying one in far future.

I just checked Lamborghini Murciélago, the dream sportscar of my childhood, and it goes for like €300 000. Hmmm... that's like, a lot of money for what is basically a toy, but if I really really really wanted that, it would be achievable within my lifetime without completely ruining me financially.

https://suchen.mobile.de/fahrzeuge/details.html?id=432670758...

Look at this shit, it's beautiful. €260 000. Not now and not tomorrow, but totally achievable as a lifetime goal.

What a day to be alive. Having a luxury sportscar is more realistic than having friends. Send immaterial help.

I get a good chuckle out of these articles. “Here’s another thing I lack that was supposed to make me live longer!”

Speaking of living longer: I’ve had my fill of fast cars already, but how about an airplane? I watched some guys fly Piper Cubs in Alaska. That looked fun as hell. https://youtu.be/XXuIA_b35fs

Perhaps I’ll buy one of those. They aren’t so expensive.

I wanted to be a fighter pilot when I was a kid. I also wanted to be a racecar driver.

Today, I love sports cars. I’ve had a few fast cars, and owning a 911 is on my bucket list.

Funny enough, I have no interest in learning to fly. Though I’m still very into military aviation as a topic.

Maybe it’s because the delta between say, a 911 and a racecar is smaller than that between a civilian prop plane and a fighter jet?

> Maybe it’s because the delta between say, a 911 and a racecar is smaller than that between a civilian prop plane and a fighter jet?

For me it'd be more because the first three are pastimes, the fourth one is a job.

You don't get to own a fighter jet and fly it around the world doing stunts or taking in sights just because you can; you can't take your friends or loved ones with you either. You are granted the right to fly an expensive piece of government property, whose operating costs can be counted in average taxpayer's annual income tax per hour. You fly where you're told, when you're told, how you're told. The point it gets most exciting, the point where you are granted most authority over your mission, is the point where you're shooting at someone or being shot at.

The movies make it look like all four things you mentioned are fundamentally the same in terms of feelings of freedom. It's not the only case. Adult me got disillusioned about a lot of career paths I dreamed of as a kid :(.

Too much math/paperwork for flying, I'll take the [fast? unique?] car.

How old are you? I found I grew out of an interest in cars after my early 20's.

I've definitely become a fuck-cars car enthusiast in my late 20s, if that makes sense lol

In that I still love (classic) cars, I still love (sim) racing, at the same time that I absolutely despise car-centric infrastructure and urbanism as one of the great catastrophes of the 20th century.

I'm getting more and more interested in cars actually. But I don't care about specs, it's more about appreciation of the looks. Some designs can be beautiful.

Maybe you can make some friends in the quest for the Lamborghini. Or maybe you could form a group who collectively buy it?

It used to be fashionable to collectively buy boats and vacation homes and other shit. Turns out, having a shared expensive thing quickly leads to disagreements.

> Turns out, having a shared expensive thing quickly leads to disagreements.

In this case, I'm guessing the first minor bit of body damage [gravel, whatever] or consumable replacements [tires, brakes, etc]. Ignoring the financial pressure/means aspect, preferences are what they are. Tire pressure, cleanliness, or what-have-you.

Personally, I wouldn't buy a Lamborghini without breaking it/rebuilding several times over. Fancy car, want to see what it really has. Other people? Baby it to no end because it's so precious. They got a date tonight.

All this to say: an old rustbox [or several] is probably the better group project. What little I knew of my Dad: demo derby, sounded great.

Buying a share is still very common in the personal aircraft world

If you buy the Murci you’ll be invited to every cars and coffee so lots of potential friends there!

Shit I'll do when I'm 70 and the stock market works in my favor.

Both my father and father in law retired recently. They’ve done financially pretty well in life - not super rich, but they can live loose a bit.

Both were recently in the market for new cars. As a car enthusiast, I told them to YOLO and buy something like a 911.

But no, they got a staid huge BMW sedan and a staid huge Benz SUV respectively, despite neither of them ever likely to use the back seats at all.

O they’ll be using those back seats alright ;)

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