Most people reading this are probably very familiar with buying things between $0-1000 USD (such as everyday food and everyday clothing, perhaps weekly rent). Some of us will have experience buying more expensive items, like a car ($10,000s), or maybe even a house ($100,000s or even $1,000,000s). Some of you might want to object to those numbers I listed, they obviously will vary wildly in different markets, but I want to now ask about much more expensive things.
What is the cost of some items that few-if-any Lemmy users can afford? What can the absurdly rich buy that we can’t? How much does it cost them?
You must give a money value with some evidence, no just knee-jerking and saying something vague like “elections” - instead find articles disclosing how much manipulation campaigns cost a political party.
DIY race car, street legal. ~$55k for the base car, $30k for engine and transmission. Then add all the rest for things like tires ($2k) and whatever further refinements you’d want as an owner. All told, probably $110k DIY minimum. Play with your choices here. Cheaper than any modern supercar, even the used ones.
1995 civic shell, ~3k if mint
2000 CRV AWD manual transmission, 1k Upgrade the diffs and gearset for 5k for 6k total
Fully built, sleeved, and bored to 2L b18c motor ~5k easy all day long
If DIY, misc chassis parts (motor mounts, brakes, tires, traction bar, etc.) 3-4k
Turbo setup with a good quality turbo ~4k
Misc supporting mods like injectors, ecu, upgraded rad, etc. ~3-4k
All in you can pull off a 1,000hp b series AWD build (AWD being a luxury in the Honda tuning world) 26k that’ll throw down 8 second miles all day long
The point of this was what people might not know about that you can buy if you’ve got 6 figure $ burning a hole in your pocket.
Not how to build a budget fun AF Honda that will blow up after the Nth overboost.