Age of R Drivers

**ganis5** · 04-10-2010, 07:43 PM

22 here, not a case of silver spoon here either.

**Danny** · 04-10-2010, 08:30 PM

25 here. I'm a builder and project manager whose worked pretty hard to get the things I want since I was 16. I'm always sore, always tired, always pushing to get the next frame or fix or lockup done before the next progress payment. I don't drink, don't smoke, and don't do drugs and rarely go out partying, and I damn well think I deserve to spend $59k on myself if I can't have any other vices, without like minded enthusiasts assuming I was born with my hand in the money pot.

Here I was thinking a Golf was an unpretentious euro.

- Dan

**SilvrFoxX** · 04-10-2010, 08:48 PM

Originally Posted by Danny

25 here. I'm a builder and project manager whose worked pretty hard to get the things I want since I was 16. I'm always sore, always tired, always pushing to get the next frame or fix or lockup done before the next progress payment. I don't drink, don't smoke, and don't do drugs and rarely go out partying, and I damn well think I deserve to spend $59k on myself if I can't have any other vices, without like minded enthusiasts assuming I was born with my hand in the money pot.

Here I was thinking a Golf was an unpretentious euro.

- Dan

Danny,

No need to justify, some folk are surprised that some so young can be successful and want to be conspicuous about it. Enjoy and celebrate

**Mr_Bob** · 04-10-2010, 09:03 PM

Originally Posted by blanch0b

I think for the majority of people if ur under 30 and can afford a golf R, you dont own/on your way to owning, your own home, or your living with your parents...

Like a couple of others, i don't really fit this either.
i'm 29, married with a mortgage, and an R on the way (many other hobbies too)
If anything i probably eat too well

It's about knowing your priorites and balancing your finances around them.

**dave_r** · 04-10-2010, 11:21 PM

Originally Posted by blanch0b

I think for the majority of people if ur under 30 and can afford a golf R, you dont own/on your way to owning, your own home, or your living with your parents... or u were born with a silver spoon.... or working for a mining company earnign a couple hundred a year..... or your really really really into cars and spend all your excess dollars on them (and are severely malnutritioned as a result

)

LOL nice fishing line....I'll bite!

I placed my order before 30 but could be 40 by the time it rocks up. But it's pretty easy, you just need a different perspective. Not everyone has kids or a wife to fund, they're happy renting or hell they're just more successful than others at the same point!

That said, there are always a few people whose parents are still feeding them. Good luck to them.

**REXman** · 05-10-2010, 12:25 AM

Iim 29, and have always worked and saved for cars. Not malnutritioned. Just dont blow $200 a weekend on piss as I dont drink. Not a druggy. And have always worked since I was able to as a kid, 14/9 mths! Only last year I stopped full time work to go to university. I have saved enough for a $60K car thats for sure. And I dont work in the mines.

Maybe in 2-3 years when I move to buy a house with my GF, I'll have to cut back on the toys.. But I know people who are teachers, grew up in the western suburbs in some tougher parts of sydney.. and they have their own big ass house etc.. You can do it If you work hard!

The only people I know who are nearly 30 and dont have a descent car, or a house their paying off, or travel all the time.. or anything which is fun.. either dont work, work part time ina coffee shop, or havent held a job or they have terrible spending habbits (like cutting their hair at Tony and Guy for a $100.. when they are a man!! (or maybe my crack head friends)