Rich people = same car

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To wonder why all the loaded people at my kids’ school drive the same car - Range Rover/ Land Rover? Surely there are more choices to spend money on?? They are like sheep!

I luffed my old Range Rover - I could get 11 bales of hay in the back and still squeeze a couple of dogs in.

Why do people get so annoyed over what people drive?

as long as their drivers learn to turn off their full beam, reverse, learn to park properly - and safely- especially around schools, I don't think anyone is really annoyed.

It's just very amusing.

Ah the second richest person I know drives an old Porsche and has holes in his golf jumpers and is incredibly wealthy and a lovely lovely man to boot. The most richest person I know is my odious ex husband who is the very definition of a fat cat and he drives a range Rover as big and offensive and intrusive as his big fat stupid head. So yeh 🤣 when we were married I was so sick of parking outside the private school in a mile long retinue of black seven seater X5's all carrying only children that I went on a whim and swapped ours for a Prius 😁

I have a white range rover. Not because any of my friends do and I want to "keep up" as someone suggested, but because I love it. Its beautiful and big enough to hold all my shopping and trips. We drive to Europe at least 4 times a year as DD cant often fly (medical issue) so having a big car with luxury mod cons in it is a huge help to me and something i am happy to spend my money on. also, its not on finance.

most of my friends drive smaller, less expensive cars and i cant say i ever even think twice about it. Couldnt even tell you the make/model of most of them now and ive been driven places in them for years.

You can always tell the "old money" types, they're the ones in the 18 year old Volvo, Merc or Landy

That’s not always true at all! I know quite a few “old money” people that have brand new RR! They aren’t all driving around in battered old volvos!

I do wonder if some people do buy things they actually don't really like because it is popular?

of course they do!
There's a kind of people who genuinely don't know what they like, and only want to buy the "right" thing whatever it is. You see enough threads about fashion, house decor to see it. It's quite sad. Creating a house that is the "right" look, not something that is your home.

(Not talking about tips for selling a property obviously)

Ours pulls our caravan well. It also fits two large dogs in the back. It’s roomier inside than our last family car, which was a Volvo estate, although the boot isn’t quite as long. The extra leg room is handy when we’re driving through Europe with two tall teenagers in the back.

If I was the kind of person who cared whether other people liked our choice of vehicle, I wouldn’t have a caravan .

Our other car is a VW UP!, which we use for running around in locally, when we aren’t all in the car; hardly the choice of someone who is intent on ‘keeping up with the Joneses!

because they're safer apparently

Is there something against people who buy their car on finance or is it just range rovers? Most people I know buy their car on finance (none of whom have a range rover) because no one j know has a spare 5 - 15k to buy a car outright.

We can afford one because my husband gets 25% off.

I finished binge-watching Riviera series 2 on Sky last night. Watch that if you want to watch what really rich people drive. (Well in fiction anyway.) The most down-market car is an open-top Mercedes sports car. The rest are Ferrari-shape sports cars. A Porsche would be too ordinary. The main character drives a metallic orange coloured BMW i8, a Ferrari-shaped electric sports car with gull-wing doors.

“You can always tell the "old money" types, they're the ones in the 18 year old Volvo, Merc or

This is such bullshit 🤣 how you do tell the landed gentry driving a 18 year old Volvo from the poor person driving an 18 year old Volvo?

This is the BMW

Land Rover ad has just popped up

They can drive what they want. What does make me laugh is when they cannot reverse, turn in them. There are three white ones at our school, I hold my breath when they are trying to turn around, we have had a few prangs. Some of them just give up and park in the middle of the forecourt and we all have to somehow squeeze past them. I go up in my little mini so have no problems.

Oh and the richest parent at our school either comes in an old volvo or a helicopter

Watch that if you want to watch what really rich people drive

around here it's more Aston Martins, Bugattis, McLarens.

Of course rich people do buy expensive cars, otherwise who would? But it's just not the same league, and not the same attitude of the Chavvy RR owner. RR and LR existed and will still exist long after the fashion, and the normal owners won't get confused with the aspirational ones.

I think posters saying "The really wealthy only drive old bangers" are fooling themselves, in the same way that "nits prefer clean hair" to convince themselves that nits almost prove how clean you are. (Nits do not give a shit about hair clean or dirty, they are parasites).

Some really wealthy people will drive old bangers and some really wealthy people will have two or three (or more) expensive cars within the family and not an old banger in sight. Some people will buy their expensive cars outright (as opposed to only affording them on a finance plan, as assumed by some posters).

@EarlGreyOfTwinings you really do need to relax with a cup of Early grey, you're getting really worked up

My guess is they have all chosen the luxury car make that has the best short term lease deal on at any given time. So maybe they are not as loaded as they'd like you to think.

We've got too many dogs and too much sense to buy a brand new RR on finance, the evoque in particular has a smaller boot than you would expect.
Mine is an old Mercedes shooting brake, but it gets the dogs in and hasn't broken down yet.

The very wealthy people I know tend to have lots of cars and usually at least one car that lives at a particular house. Their social status or bank balance doesn’t change because they’re driving the ancient LR Defender that usually lives at the vineyard in the south of France versus the Aston Martin or the Range Rover that live at the London house or the Skoda that’s usually used by the housekeeper in the country... You can’t tell anything about someone from their choice of car. A RR owner might be incredibly wealthy old money or they could be aspirational and have it on finance. Really who cares.

Where I live, the only people who drive Range Rovers are drug dealers.

A friend bought himself a Maserati but he does live a very TOWIE lifestyle. He also has a French bulldog and a wife who looks (and sounds) like she's stepped off the TOWIE set. They live near Chigwell. I rest my case.

If you can't walk into a showroom and pay out right for a car you can't afford it

Not quite true. Some people can afford to do this but choose not to and still use leases on cars. Some people can afford the monthly repayments, but not necessarily the upfront cost - they can still afford two have that car.

Do you apply the same logic to houses? Can't afford to pay upfront then you can't afford to have it full stop?!?

Your life could be flipped upside down tomorrow and the lot would be taken from you.

Many people pay insurance costs to avoid things crashing down on them completely.

All the poor people round here drive the same car, though. Can’t move in the car park for the silver Ford Focus. Such a crappy car.

I’m rather glad we’ve got a ‘crappy’ Ford Focus now. I presume it’s a very good burglar deterrent.

The richest person i know (best friend) drives a 9 year old kia picanto.

Multi millionaire x multi. But she does not care. Buys her shoes at Sainsburys. You would seriously never know.