Note this is a gift for his girlfriend, not wife. A gift to a girlfriend comes from your bank account and becomes hers.* A gift to your wife comes from a joint bank account and becomes both of yours, kinda. So when you buy something for a girlfriend, you don’t get the same “Why did you spend our money on this?!?”…

My wife was like that. I once gave her 1000 and told her to go shopping. For herself! She never spent money on herself. When she came home from shopping that day, she had bought two things for herself (maybe 30 bucks worth) and spent the rest on the kids. I knew that was going to happen because it was getting close to…

Was driving a 2005 Mini Cooper S JCW and wife had a (really nicely tuned) Integra GSR, she got pregnant and began fretting about cars. I secretly took the day off work without telling her and traded the Mini in on a 2012 STI for her (she was going to stay home with the baby so figured that I could drive the Integra…

Hell, with a story like that I’d propose to you.

A friend of mine pointed out that by paying cash it also means tying up money which won’t be earning more money elsewhere. But then again he’s a very successful investment banker who’s made several millionaires (and is one himself) and I’m not.

I framed it as, “you’re paying $xxxx per year to alleviate your discomfort.”

I’d be lucky to just get a kick in the nuts.

Why sleep on the couch when sleeping in the AMG GT would be far more comfortable?

Buys cars sight unseen.

There are certainly some cars that were just not fully baked from the factory. This car’s transmission, early BMW twin-turbo Direct Injection motors, Honda V6 transmissions... The good makers figure out thier issues, the bad/tiny Italian ones don’t. Maintenance doesn’t help much with these, you need good karma and…

Prius drivetrain swap.

Don’t hit me. You know you are now fascinated to see how that will work out!

Yes, you are.

Yes, you are!

Liar.

No I feel like this guy used some very good literary devices to make it enticing

I laughed out loud

“Italian money toilet”

Maserati loves company.

Why do I want it? Is there something wrong with me?

I’ll help you with a first draft:

This is true.

I’m 24 years in car sales, 22 years in management, F&I and SM. No it’s not Factsaboutrats Motors, I started with an ad in the paper, and actually paid to work there, as was usual at the time. My boss, the GSM, and my padna, the other new car sales manager, are 25 and 24 years in, respectively. Not in the industry, at…

25 plus years as a dealer tech, worked at some good dealerships and some bad. There are great ones, but those are rarely hiring, they have very little turnover. I only worked for one that i thought was a complete scumbag. I remember the owner sending his son down to shut off the television in the customer waiting…