Is a porsche a car for a "younger" kid?
#31
12-14-2006, 12:11 PM
Originally Posted by MexicoBlue
Maybe it would motivate me to get off of 6Speed and actually go do some more of whatever it is I do . . .
Your words BTW
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12-14-2006, 12:11 PM
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Originally Posted by MexicoBlue
Along these lines, I'm still a kid at heart, and I wish one of you Ballers would give me one of those Richard Mille FM005 ti watches I been wanting, so I can see what that **** feels like! Maybe it would motivate me to get off of 6Speed and actually go do some more of whatever it is I do . . .
I hope you realize what I meant. In NO way was it supposed to an obnoxious post-- just another way look at a common view.
#33
12-14-2006, 12:18 PM
Honestly Vicious I am able to speak a little for you on this subject.
HOW THE HELL DID YOU GET ACCEPTED TO CORNELL. I thought you had to have a common sense about things to at least go there. I am 24 and bought my Turbo on an impulse buy as my mother had died a month earlier. BUT MY GOD.. You are getting a little pocket change and want to spend it ASAP.. SAVE MY FELLOW YOUNGSTER... Dont be foolish and let your child like ideas take you to the poor house. .
HOW THE HELL DID YOU GET ACCEPTED TO CORNELL. I thought you had to have a common sense about things to at least go there. I am 24 and bought my Turbo on an impulse buy as my mother had died a month earlier. BUT MY GOD.. You are getting a little pocket change and want to spend it ASAP.. SAVE MY FELLOW YOUNGSTER... Dont be foolish and let your child like ideas take you to the poor house. .
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12-14-2006, 12:31 PM
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Originally Posted by Dr_jitsu
Joey,
You are unusually mature for your age and are unfortuntely the exception. Most are like the OP....if you want to see his true colors, see his other post.
You are unusually mature for your age and are unfortuntely the exception. Most are like the OP....if you want to see his true colors, see his other post.
#36
12-14-2006, 12:45 PM
Originally Posted by Vicious
Yes, by all means buy it, promptly drive it off a cliff and die in the subsequent resulting fire. You're 19, at Cornell, and asking a bunch of random people how to spend a huge chunk of cash you supposedly earned.
Yes it's ****ing brilliant to be 20 and dump near $100grr into a depreciating asset when you still live at home. How exactly did you get into cornell? I'd love to forward this to admin there and get you booted for having the common sense of a do do bird.
My money says this ingrown hair on the ******* of society is really in junior college, drives a busted *** jap import, and will still be living at home when he's 30.
He should thank my g/f for me being in a particularly calm mood this morning.
Yes it's ****ing brilliant to be 20 and dump near $100grr into a depreciating asset when you still live at home. How exactly did you get into cornell? I'd love to forward this to admin there and get you booted for having the common sense of a do do bird.
My money says this ingrown hair on the ******* of society is really in junior college, drives a busted *** jap import, and will still be living at home when he's 30.
He should thank my g/f for me being in a particularly calm mood this morning.
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12-14-2006, 12:55 PM
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This depends on how much money you want to spend too........I'm 23 turning 24....I got a good stable paying job....and I am coming off a 2003 SC 350z making good power running 12.3's in the 1/4, which i think is enough to hang right next too a stock 996TT (never got to race a stock one). My next car that im getting in the spring has to be able to hang with it or I'm not going to enjoy it. My choices are a 05' M3 wait and get an 08' M3 or a 996TT..... Which are all within $10k of each other either above or below $60k. For the money I see myself in a 996TT no questions asked.
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12-14-2006, 01:04 PM
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Originally Posted by JoeyG
Alot of sense.
Ultimately it does depend on the person, I believe having options like this as a youngster gives you the oppurtunity to do the right thing...but also the opportunity to **** it all up.
Ashok, I think the jump from an X3 to a turbo is large, but not silly....before i started driving some serious cars i enrolled in many driving/racing schools. I think that would be a good bet.
all the best
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12-14-2006, 01:19 PM
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I doubt driving schools are as good at his age as self control and common sense. I mean think of your friends how they drove at 19. It has nothing to do with what to do when you run over a pedestrian or pass 5 cars on a hill.
When I was a young man my friends were going 110mph through town in a little CRX. I did not participate, I did see them though. I think to own any powerful car you should already be a mature civic driver.
When I was a young man my friends were going 110mph through town in a little CRX. I did not participate, I did see them though. I think to own any powerful car you should already be a mature civic driver.
#40
12-14-2006, 01:22 PM
Ashok,
If you can afford it without getting your father to pay for the Turbo, then I say do it. But if I were you, I would take your money that you will be making from your deal and invest it in your company. Then you can buy two or three turbo's and your friends will respect you more and not think of you as a spoiled rich kid.
If you can afford it without getting your father to pay for the Turbo, then I say do it. But if I were you, I would take your money that you will be making from your deal and invest it in your company. Then you can buy two or three turbo's and your friends will respect you more and not think of you as a spoiled rich kid.
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12-14-2006, 02:16 PM
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Originally Posted by cpu77
I doubt driving schools are as good at his age as self control and common sense. I mean think of your friends how they drove at 19. It has nothing to do with what to do when you run over a pedestrian or pass 5 cars on a hill.
When I was a young man my friends were going 110mph through town in a little CRX. I did not participate, I did see them though. I think to own any powerful car you should already be a mature civic driver.
When I was a young man my friends were going 110mph through town in a little CRX. I did not participate, I did see them though. I think to own any powerful car you should already be a mature civic driver.
I think the best solution is common sense and a knowledge of the car and driving dynamics.
You dont have to be driving a 996 turbo to do serious damage
all the best
adam
#42
12-14-2006, 02:25 PM
A 911 turbo in all honesty is probably a bit far fetched for what I assume is a soph in college. If you want to be smart and enjoy a nice car, a nice E46 M3 or maybe something like a 1999-01 Carrera would probably already be on the high end of things...I wouldn't go with a turbo until a few years later. Use the difference for investments and you're young so maybe try some things with a tad bit higher volitility. Maybe something with 15% return +/-
Just my 2cents
Just my 2cents
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