Most ridiculous spending???

i went to high school in australia..for a guy's 16th birthday, his dad bought him a sl55 which costs about 350000 aust..ok..fair enough.. for his car plate however, he wanted a special plate and it happens there was a plate on auction which has just the number 2 on it. im not 100% positive but i think number 1 is owned by the governor general or the prime minister but yeah basically someone really important.. anyways... in the end.. that guy s dad forked out another 600000+ Aust for the number plate in the auction.... ok fair enough.. but get this..the guy didnt even have a drivers license yet.. he was still learning how to drive.... god if you had a million to chuck why wouldnt you get a enzo or something??

Well If you have a million to blow why not get exactly what you want whether it be a Pontiac GTO to a McLaren F1?

Or maybe the guy not too much of a Ferrari fan.

Or maybe he felt that a SL55 is a good beginner's car and the Enzo will be the graduation present.

Or maybe the guy already has an Enzo for himself.


(me personally wouldn't buy an Enzo just because I don't care for how they look and was never into the whole Ferrari thing or other loud rough riding race car felling sports cars. But that's just me.)

You have to be 5' 6" and 135 lbs. to fit into most Italian cars. The kid is probably 6' 3" and 135 lbs.

hah..nah the guy was like 5" asian and 16.. i dont think its about the size.. i just think there much better things to do with that extra cash then to chuck on some stupid number plate..or a car that you cant drive.. donate it to africa or something..

btw not racist about asians here..im also asian..but just saying his a realli small guy

Yeah, 5 inches. That's shorter than my... ugh, never mind.

That $600,000 probably was change under the sofa

where are asians getting their money? unlike the columbians, they are not reputed to cook cocaine or meth. they don't seem to be experts in printing money either.

i know for the fact that -- in sacramento area....the chinese come with boat load of money and buy expensive homes and luxury cars. that's the reason sacramento area housing market skyrocketed (though it a kinda stablized now.)

cooking kung pao chicken and selling us cashew chicken meals make them rich, or something?

my brain does not compute here no more on this.

Lug: My feet are longer then that too.


FMF: AS for giving away the money to feed the poor in Africa. After they eat the food, they will show up looking for more. $ does not correct the problem.

Is all of Africa starving? Can't they share? Why does another country have to feed them? Maybe they insist on having Big Macs, fries and a Coke?

You know what they say about boys and their big feet...

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Is all of Africa starving? Can't they share? Why does another country have to feed them? Maybe they insist on having Big Macs, fries and a Coke?

I think they just have their hands extended in a begging manor from an early age. The UN teaches all poor countries to beg the USA for "assistance". It works after all. We tax ourselves and give it to those who won't ever be able to care for themselves. It is the American dream at work...to FIX everything wrong with everyone else.

The UN, our real enemy.

Buying a typical 16 yo an SL55 is just plain stupid -- unless you want to kill your kid, of course...

...and should be booted out of my country!

Why did the Rockefeller family give them all that land to build a shinny building? I think the simple explanation is money funneling to the rich through the UN. The rich are taxed to death and business is handed to them by the UN which is supported by their money.

More commonly they kill a friend or two, or a totally innocent stranger. He'll be drinking some night and take a friend for a thrill ride and kill the friend and total the car. He'll walk away with just a bruise and if he's on the football team everyone will feel sorry for the little shit and some weak-willed judge will give him 40 hours of community service for commiting murder.

His daddy's insurance will replace the car too.

I think they should be booted as well, but into oblivion. It won't do any good if they just operate from another country--same crap, different place. They need to be disintegrated into their elementary parts and spread across space where no one can hear them whine.

On the other hand if he is never exposed to the car and never learn how to properly drive it, it can be disasterous at any age. www.wreckedexoctics.com shows pretty good examples of when rich people get these high powered cars and don't know how to drive them. And on this site the average driver isn't some high schooler. These are well off middle aged people that think they know everything and think that the young people are the problem to everything. This shows that even the adults, or so called responsible adults do some stupid things and or just plain wreck thier car. Of course you have a few teen-age stupid act results on that site but majority of it is from middle aged adults.

so whether the kid learns to drive the car now or later it doesn't matter, just hope he have a good teacher and have a good head on his shoulder. Not all teens that get get some fancy car wanna go out there and rink and then drive. Not even most of them. Too bad that them that do seem to get more attention then the responsible ones.

But that is the American way.

There's a difference. What's more dangerous? A 16-year-old with an SL55 and no driving experience or a 40-year-old with an SL55 and 24 years driving experience? Surely you can see the difference? I'm not saying driving a Honda Civic for 24 years teaches one how to drive a supercar with confidence and finesse, or that 40-year-olds never get in an accident, but it teaches you a lot. The 16-year-old knows nothing, yet. Ask any insurance company or the Institute for Traffic Safety. Everyone knows that 16-year-olds with no driving experience at all don't know how to drive and shouldn't be trusted in a high-performance car and is more likely to crash it than a 40-year-old. The insurance rate for the 16-year-old with no driving experience will be much higher than for the 40-year-old with 24 years experience. That's based on statistics that show that 16-year-olds are more unable to handle high-performance cars than 40-year-olds. Plain and simple.

16 year-olds do stupid things. I was 16 and I remember. It's a part of learning and a part of growing up. That beast is best off in the hands of someone without a lot to prove, and who has already sowed a few oats, so to speak...

True. But why not teach the kid how to properly drive the thing?
Like for example, I learned how to drive on pretty large vehicles, including manuvering a full sized extended cab F-150 on some pretty small back roads that made driving a Cadillac Fleetwood in downtown Atlanta a simple task. Yet, people who is used to driving small cars can't and or just plain couldn't drive my car without running into things or improperly driving and or parking it.
Yeah, you got me on the 40 year old has more experience over all, but how do you get that experience? By doing it. By practice. By a little time. If that kid was taught how to drive that SL and that's what he know how to drive then I'm sure he can drive it better than me and most people who never drove the thing. And like wise if he try to drive cars I'm used to it may be a little alien to him. He might get "overwhelmed" as some described it when they tried to drive my Cadillac. But to me it was normality. And little small Hondas felt twitchy, cramped, rough riding like go cart, but that was normal to them.

Overall, I think people just need a little more time to learn on what ever car they gonna drive whether it be a pinto or a Ferrari F50. Too many people do rush the process. And that go for all ages. They get the car drive up and down a neighborhood block once or twice and think they are Jeff Gordan all of a sudden.

And to be technical the highest car insurance rates are for Black males that are under twenty five that drive a red high performance vehicle. I'ma let that marinate a little.

And if the father puts the insurance in his name, the rate probably will be dirt cheap. But then again, he probably have money to burn even if the kid loses his mind and blows up the car for fun and asks for a new one.

Also bad credit people have higher rates now and days too including to what I already said.

Suffice it to say that an SL55 is not the proper car to use for learning how to drive, no matter how old you are.

I've never seen an SL55 with a "STUDENT DRIVER" sign stuck on it.

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And to be technical the highest car insurance rates are for Black males that are under twenty five that drive a red high performance vehicle. I'ma let that marinate a little.

And if the father puts the insurance in his name, the rate probably will be dirt cheap. But then again, he probably have money to burn even if the kid loses his mind and blows up the car for fun and asks for a new one.

Rates for young black males under 25 are higher than for older black males. Same for white males and purple and green males. That means rates for 16-year-olds are higher than for a 40-year-olds, as I said. Maybe I'm missing your point?

A father must pay a higher rate for his son than his daughter. The rate will be affected by the driving habits of the insured, so it may not be "dirt cheap."