What is your yearly gross salary and what was the purchase price of your daily driving vehicle?

170k / 73k car - 2016 BMW M3

I really like cars but I'm shocked so many of you make such high incomes and drive around beaters.

jdm/subaru 4 life wrote:

I'll start.

$100k salary, $3500 Subaru.

$250K +, drive a 2010 Toyota FJ Cruiser, 175K miles. Paid 28K for it in 2010.

68,000 the car was given to me when my father passed away- no payments.

Gets me to wrote:

I gross 84k a year from my "career" and another 20k from a side gig. I bought my vehicle, a 2004 truck, used in 2006 for $11,000.00. It still runs great and just hit 175k miles. I thoroughly enjoy not making car payments and laugh at friends that go through a new ride every 2-3 years and believe that always having a $500/month payment is a fact of life.

whats your side gig? Ive been looking for a side hustle, just to get another hobby?

45k and I walk to work, no car needed :)

Right? $1000 Lexus ES300 off random landscaping jobs. Driving it till it leaves me stranded. Could be tomorrow, could be 15 years.

People who can't afford them living pay check to paycheck.

Derp wrote:

It does make one wonder who the heck is buying all these NEW cars!

$500,000-$600,000 HHI

2003 Acura MDX with 240,000 miles; purhased new

2008 Lexus GX with 130,000 miles; purchased new

220k, 2015 Ford F-150 Super Crew XLT bought new with cash for 32,600

$750,000 combined income

$44,000 for a new car last year after driving older, cheaper car for 5 years and over 100k miles.

Wife still driving 13 year old car with 135k miles that cost about $35,000 new.

maybe not but wrote:

No even close wrote:

Being frugal doesn't affect salary

Not directly, but there's correlation between smart people who make a lot and smart people who don't throw their money away.

Plus only poor people can afford to throw their money away.

Gross salary for last year: $29k, which is a few thousand more than a couple years ago when I bought my car

$12k for a 3 year old 2012 Subaru Impreza with 34,000 miles, paid all up front with a check

$140k - $29k on slightly used Audi. Paid half in cash. Probably too nice of a car for me. I'll most likely downgrade to a Subaru on the next car.

At least half the posters here are lying about their salaries.

Income: $85K

Car: $58K (sold it)

Love cars, but am hopeful not to spend than much on a car again.

Me: $230k, 50 years old, quarter-mile in 63 secs

Car: $30k, 1 year old, quarter-mile in 5.6 secs

Why would anyone lie when it's anonymous? And why are people surprised that wealthy people drive normal cars? Some of the richest people I know don't flaunt their wealth materially. It's the middle class that buys fancy shit they can't afford to impress people.

I just bought a $1.X million second home with cash (non-depreciating asset) and my wife dives an 8-year-old mid range SUV (depreciating asset). If you don't believe me, I couldn't care less. But you just don't understand how most rich people think.

FakeHandleForThisPost wrote:

Why would anyone lie when it's anonymous? And why are people surprised that wealthy people drive normal cars? Some of the richest people I know don't flaunt their wealth materially. It's the middle class that buys fancy shit they can't afford to impress people.

I just bought a $1.X million second home with cash (non-depreciating asset) and my wife dives an 8-year-old mid range SUV (depreciating asset). If you don't believe me, I couldn't care less. But you just don't understand how most rich people think.

From an accounting perspective, houses and buildings DO depreciate. Land on the other hand does not. However, the accounting is irrelevant. What matters is the market value. Just because you bought a "non-depreciating" asset doesn't mean the housing market won't tank. In fact, there is a market for every single thing you own including money.

Also, life isn't about simply accumulating as much wealth as possible. Did it ever occur to you that people spend money to enjoy life? Maybe someone in the middle class really values cars and buys a $60k car because they enjoy it.

Perspective helps. Congrats on the second home.

I can't take it anymore. Reading these salaries is driving me crazy. I've never met anyone who makes over 80k.

Forget the cars. If you make 100k or more, list your profession and state where you live (if in the USA; list country where you live if outside the USA).

Last year aprox 1.25mil

2015 Chevy Cruze. Maybe 20k?