I've been in California for a month now and there is one thing that stands out in stark contrast to Washington. The amount of "Member compensating" cars here is amazing. In Washington I grew up in a town where a majority of the men spent their money and time restoring old cars. This to me is a good habit, you put your hard work into a car and come out with a project/product that really means something to you.
However, here in Silicon Valley people spend ridiculous amounts of money on very expensive brand new luxury and sports cars. In the last month I've seen more BMW's, Mercedes, Jaguars, and many other more rare cars in the bay area than I've seen in my entire life. We went to a steak house a few weeks ago with my wife's folks and saw four Jaguars parked in the parking lot, and I'd only seen them in magazines up till that point.
I don't think I could ever bring myself to buy something that much, especially when there are much cheaper alternatives but I am definitely the minority in that view point in Norther Cal.
The pic above is some fancy sports car that I happened to be following on I880 the other day...just to prove my point, I don't know what it is but its got to be over 200,000 dollars. My God!
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It's an Audi R8, the base model can be yours for only $114,200 ($145,550 if you want all the goodies). I have to confess, if I had the spare coin... well I'd probably find something better to do with it, but it's still a nice looking car.
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