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Originally Posted by wbradley
Its nice to see the car being driven and enjoyed. So many people buy exotics and just look at them for fear of devaluating their precious investment. I remember reading about Rowan Atkinson (Mr Bean), and how he drives the piss out of a purple McLaren daily driver he has owned for years and eventually cracked up. He paid a ton and got it fixed and continued driving it. That was several years ago in the UK.
Just today saw an ad online for a 2008 BugattI Veyron F/S in Quebec with under 5000 km on the odometer. What a shame the owner couldn't bring it upon himself to actually enjoy driving it for all these years. Like people that collect toys still in the bubble pack for decades.
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You gotta stop assuming the world looks at cars the way you do. He bought it for $800,000, crashed it twice with insurance paying out some $1,000,000+ the second time to fix it. A quote from Rowan: "I bought it for the quality of thinking that went into its design, and now it has become a thing of value, it is time for it to be enjoyed by someone else" selling it for near $10,000,000 in profit.
The bubble wrapped toys are a perfect example: some people don't need to interact with a thing to appreciate and gain satisfaction from collecting it. No shame in that.