What a **** !!!!

scott212 said:
Trouble is a lot of Americans live the lavish lifestyle, capitalist and morally questionable - hated by the Middle East. The rest live in the gutter.

It's a horrible country.

If you want wealth and success, WORK for it and don't expect to inherit it. Otherwise you contribute nothing to society and, quite frankly, don't deserve to breathe the same air as the rest of us.
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Sorry but thats absolute twaddle!

Although it certainly has its many flaws, I dont support the idea of buying a 16 year old an M3 as being wise- but its a free country.

If anything America is very much a Meritocracy. If you are prepared to work hard and have ability you can achieve and earn your own money in the US. Certainly to a far easier degree than in this country where the glass ceilings of the class system still have far greater effect.
 
vila said:
If anything America is very much a Meritocracy. If you are prepared to work hard and have ability you can achieve and earn your own money in the US. Certainly to a far easier degree than in this country where the glass ceilings of the class system still have far greater effect.
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Is that not what I said in my post?
 
Can't help thinking of "American M5" the kid from the M5 Board who found that his M5 would not take off.....

He assured us all that he was a safe driver also....

Lucky **** regardless!
 
I'd have no trouble buying my 16 year old an expensive car if I could but I wouldn't buy them a particularly fast one. Probably get them a Ranger Rover or some other sort of 4 x 4, very nice but not that fast so less chance of them killing themselves!
 
It wouldn't matter if I was a millionaire, I'd never buy my children an expensive car as a first car. Maybe a nice new car from a showroom, but never anything like £8k +
 
G-MAN2004 said:
He'll grow up not knowing the value of money. I mean, he even had the cheek to ask for one! :p

Good luck to him anyway.
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Exactly

if you look at some of the people with real wealth, like bill gates, he's explicitly said he's giving away most of the microsoft fortune to the gates foundation and charity. He's got a nice house and a nice car, and his kids went to private school and all, but just about all of the multi billion dollar fortune is going. And thats because he believes that ammount of money will ruin his kids and that that no one person should have that ammount of money

he said in his retirement interview that his kids complained bittery at only getting like $20 a week pocket money just like the other kids. He's tried really hard to teach his kids the value of money, and for them to be brought up as decent people, not spoilt brats

Unfortunately for the yank kid mentioned in the OP, his parents fail at parenting class and will almost certinaly bring up a brat.
 
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a stupidly rich russian acquaintance of mine was going to get an E60 M5 for his 18th birthday. his dad ordered it and there was only a few months to go until delivery, but then they got an insurance quote.. £10,000
he stuck with his 330i :rolleyes:
 
Janesy B said:
Yes it seems a lot for a 16 yr old but he seems slightly more sensible then the drivelling idiots on my supersweet 16 so it's hardly far to chuck him into that category straight away. Hopefully he won't be a tit and stack it into a tree but time will tell.
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yea if he was on that show he would have to cry and run off shouting "6000miles" over and over again or "its used! its used!"
 
He doesnt make himself out to sound like a complete tard, so I think he'll be ok in it. But next cars gonna be his 21st and Daddy will get him a 911 or something insane!

Oh to be better off!
 
I know a few people who have been bought powerful cars at a young age (mostly 18). Always the fastest, most powerful spec as well. I'm thinking, why do they need the extra power? :/
 
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