Why is it R9 gets bashed?

[kjtrains]

All of this and wandering into a salt estuary with one of these on the Gulf Freeway frontage road?

Yep!  We can't all like the same things.

[kjtrains]

I just called my local CarMax but they don't have one.  

John

John.  I can put you in touch with a dealer who has two used ones at the dealship right now, 2006 and 2007.  I can even get you a new one for the right price.      Hey, they're coming out now with a convertible.                

[tracker]

If your insurance agent is your friend, call him first.

[kjtrains]

Words of the gentleman from Texas!        

[tracker]

KJ, you're OK; I have sensed that you like to have the last word.

[kjtrains]

The gentleman from Texas.  That really depends.  

[tracker]

Thank you for the compliment.

[yankee2500]

I see yes and no for Leno owning a Veyro, I thought this was intresting.

Now one reviewer says the cost of owning a Veyron may approach $300,000 a year–a sum one blogger said may be akin to running a private jet.

The costs include:

-$10,000 tires, which the manufacturer recommends changing every 2,500 miles

-$60,000 for changing the wheels with every three tire changes.

-Scheduled maintenance, insurance for a 40-year-old male with a clean driving record, fuel (around 8 MPG in the city, 14 MPG on the highway).

Add in other assorted costs and the total approaches $300,000.

And people complain about changing a recoil spring after 200rds    

John

[kjtrains]

Thank you for the compliment.

You're welcome, I think!    

[kjtrains]

in other assorted costs and the total approaches $300,000.


John

There ya go, common sense.  Some times money just doesn't matter.  And really, our toys, are just material things.  I put the Good Lord first, and then get the toys after.  I definitely have too many.

[tracker]

All of this fun talk about the Veyron reminds me of when I lived in Cascais, Portugal in the late '80s. A small elderly gentlemen who was the father of the lady who owned our nightly restaurant bought a new Corvette. He stood about 5' 2" and thought he was a ladies' man.

One sunny day he was driving between Cascais and Estoril and was flirting with some younger women in the next lane. He lost control of that monster and ran up on a 10" curb on the Marginal. The Marginal is one of the deadliest roadways in europe. He destroyed two tires and discovered that he had to import those tires from San Francisco. A few weeks and $6000 later he had his four new tires.

Be careful of what you wish for.

[kjtrains]

Nice story.  I think I'll just look at mine a lot.      

[tracker]

At your young age, a wise decision.  

[kjtrains]

I think I'll just look at mine a lot.      

I do that alot with the R9s.

[kjtrains]

At your young age, a wise decision.  

And quite an appropriate one, too.