re: Cars from the Goldman Sachs garage (OT Ballers only)

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I didn't know this and saw several in my office parking lot then googled. Its a relatively affordable Maserati.

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Am I missing something here? I just googled and it's still a $100K car.

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relatively

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Orientals.

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Also, Dude, chinaman is not the preferred nomenclature. Asian-American, please.

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Shanghai officials have put in place a complicated—and expensive—process to purchase the right to add a car to the often-gridlocked roads of this city of 23 million people. To register for the license auction, prospective car buyers must put down 2,000 yuan as good faith money. In exchange, they get a disc loaded with software they can use to bid online. After a couple of rounds of offers, the government figures out the highest price it can charge to completely sell out the year’s new allotment of licenses. Lottery participants who had bid at least that much then get to pay for their plates. As local officials grapple with growing traffic congestion and air pollution and seek new sources of revenue, more cities will impose license plate quotas, UBS analysts predicted in January. Guangzhou (pop. 13 million) and Guiyang (pop. 4 million) already have them. Tianjin (pop. 13 million) may start them as early as May, China Youth Daily reported on April 11. “If the measures were followed by more Tier-2 and Tier-3 cities [China’s informal classification of medium-size metropolitan areas], the impact would be much bigger,” says Geely’s Ang.

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Zhang Xin, a 40-year-old Beijing resident who works in finance. She’s been waiting for two years to win the city’s lottery for license plates, in which would-be buyers register online for a monthly draw. Last month, the odds were 80 to 1 against getting one of the 18,457 plates offered. Although the Chinese capital’s lottery is free to enter, the long wait has convinced Zhang that it’s smarter to buy a foreign brand if she ever wins. “Two years ago, I just wanted to get some cheap local-brand car to get around,” Zhang says. “Every month that I don’t win the lottery, I tell myself I’ll get the best car I can afford. A BMW X1 or an Audi A1 is what I want now.”

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I didn't know this and saw several in my office parking lot then googled. Its a relatively affordable Maserati.


Am I missing something here? I just googled and it's still a $100K car.

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Well Maserati's were not historically the same price point as Range Rovers or BMW Sedans. Both of which are very common vehicles and not limited to just the "super rich".

Hell, a 2016 fully loaded Yukon Denali is $70k these days.

Maserati, traditionally, is like in the Ferrari/Lambo price scale, meaning $200-250k+.

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Government Bail Out Money.

Good to know whether your a shite stain in poverty or corporation government handouts are always spent the same way. On rims and rides.

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Hey, who invited Alex Jones to the party. You don't know how TARP worked.

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Take away their money and cars and not one of them could get laid getting off a plane in Hawaii

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Create any hypothetical scenario if it helps you cope.

That '67 Stingray 'vert is still the sexiest of all of those.

This guy keeps 2 cars at the office. One for the wife one for the side piece.

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Change the color and I'd love it to be My everyday.

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Sexy as hell if not yellow