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I totally question why someone would purchase a high performance sport car. 10 to 100 times the price of an already very expensive thing for performance you c
by elai 18y ago
I totally question why someone would purchase a high performance sport car. 10 to 100 times the price of an already very expensive thing for performance you can't legally use and a nicer looking design. They're nice, but they're not $200'000 nice for a marginal increase in power, ability, & a nice body panel design.
Plus you can get motorbikes that would beat any ferrari for the same price as a prius.
- eugenejen 18y agoYou forget that exotic cars arouse female interests in owners of the cars. That's what the owner pays for the price difference. At the other hand, an exotic laptop doesn't arouse female interest in their owner. Probably they know it is just $700 difference.
- jodrellblank 18y agoIf you can and would pay 10 to 100 times the price, then you wouldn't describe the original thing as "very expensive". (A prius doesn't cost an arm and a leg. boom boom.)
- axod 18y agoIf you have the money, of course you're going to spend 100x the price to get the best. Getting a performance car isn't about the top speed, or performance in itself, it's a status symbol, a big toy, something to marvel over, something to show people, etc etc etc (I don't have one BTW.... yet).
- ericwaller 18y agoTo me, sports cars are about appreciating the bleeding edge in engineering/design (I don't have one either.. haha). And I think anytime a product is priced at 100x it's functional equivalents it's about connoisseurship. Now I'm not saying that macs are a work of art (though OSX is in many ways the cutting edge of UI design), but they also aren't 100x the cost, maybe just +50%.