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Originally Posted by mineistaken
My point is that owning 10 new "regular" cars does not make much sense.
To take more extreme example, its like owning 10 new laptop computers - no additional value, you can't fully use them all and no collection value. And hassle to manage.
You can not fully enjoy all of those cars, 30 days/month, 3 day/each car. Thats if you need to drive every day. Now imagine you have one or two favorite cars, you drive them more often. Even less days for the rest. It gets to the point where there may be 1 or 0 days that you drive certain cars. And it takes time to manage them in various forms (could be as simple as battery going low because of not driving a car for some time etc).
And on top of that they just depreciate in value as they are regular cars.
On top of that - its still just regular cars, so its less of a collection and more of waste of space in your garage.
Now if they were oldtimers, that would be totally different story.
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This is very true, but with that said variety is the spice of life.
You mentioned having multiple laptops.... I have multiple laptops, same brand, different sizes. Depends on what I plan on using them for. For long trips where I'll be in one location for a long time, I'll take my big laptop. If I am moving around every other day, I'll take a smaller one.
It's similar with cars. I have two four wheel drives, but they serve difference purposes - one is for hauling my kid, the other for hauling stuff that doesn't fit into my Jeep. I guess I could haul my kid in the truck, but it's not good for long distances - it's jacked up a bit and not the best drive. At the same time, I wish I had a sports car too from time to time.
It's all about taste, and if you can afford it.... Go for it.