Is it prudent to ask someone how much they paid for a car?

It's an astra though - they probably got it delivered, drove it round the block and thought the steering wheel had absolutely no connection to what the wheels were actually doing then refused to drive it unless in an emergency
 
I find it depends who I am with. I`m 26 and have a Cayman S. I've always wanted a sports car and put it infront of a mortgage and other things.

If i`m with friends that earn well, then I dont mind discussing how much I paid (i have friends looking at cars twice the value of my own), but when i`m with friends who are out of work..etc, I wouldn't want to say what I paid for it. But if they insisted or really wanted to know i`d tell them, its nothing that some google work wouldn't show anyway.
 
I find it frustrating on this forum when someone asks a member how much their new car cost and they reply with 'enough' or something equally as annoying. Just bloody tell us. :p
 
My general feeling is that if its an expensive car then I don't like telling ppl what it cost unless they are into car's and asking because they have a genuine interest.

If its a cheap car I am not fussed on way or the other.
 
At work I get asked how much my ST220 cost me, no problems telling folk, other than then I prepare for the usual lecture on how I could have bought some new Korean eggbox that costs nothing to tax, has some piddling little diesel engine that does a zillion mpg, a million mile warranty and costs zilch to insure - all for a few grand more than I paid for the ST.

Whilst I'd consider said eggbox for a second car if it ever came to really needing one for doing the everyday running about, I just wouldn't want one as a main car as there'd be no real incentive to drive it.

This is where these people fail, except for the odd few who enjoy their motoring and will engage me in sensible conversation about it.

Oh and there's the one bloke who has a 12 year old 318i, and when I have to move his car (as happens sometimes when he parks it somewhere stupid) throws me the keys and says 'nar then lad, get thisen sat in some real class instead of that Mondeo ****'.

Thing is, he's actually not joking. :(
 
Jonny69 said:
People on here are obsessed with how much everyone pays for their cars though!
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Yes and people on here are clever enough to figure out what someone has probably paid.

Genuine interest in cars shouldn't revolve around what someone has paid*. Too many threads go down this route for my liking, especially when posters are purposely vague about what they paid.

*unless ofcourse the topic is actually about the car's value.
 
yer why not ask if someone doesnt want to tell you they can tell you to go away politely

who cares what you paid its what its worth to you that matters imo
 
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