Agent 00J's $100,000 Challenge: Whose Car Collection Will Reign Supreme?
Agent00J submitted on 9/6/2008 Official AutoSpies Timestamp: 12:10:44 AM
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What an interesting week this has been.
It seems as though some pretty amazing things happened that will be remembered in history.
A spunky woman from Alaska kicked some serious ass with a speech that almost single handedly revitalized the Republican party, Lexus updates the venerable IS series with some very sedate changes, oil continues to fall in price as the dollar strengthens, and MichaelTaylor went too far and got himself banned.
My head still is spinning from the fact that a political article regarding Sarah Palin generated such a tremendous response on a site dedicated to the love of cars, but I guess that only proves how well educated and informed AutoSpies.com readers are.
I thought it would be fun to give you all a little break and have some fun this weekend. It is not uncommon for one of the Agents to throw out a comparison and ask you which car you would choose and why. It is not unusual to have a few terse words exchanged in defending a particular choice, and yes sometimes those words are directed at the Agents. So I figured it would be fun to allow you to set up the choices, and then defend your decisions.
This isn’t a BMW verse anything comparison, what this is is a Your choice Versus Their Choice discussion.
So here’s the dilemma, you are awarded $100,000 to be spent on automobiles. The only rules are as follows, they have to be new cars or trucks on sale today, and you have to spend every dime of the $100,000. Any money you don’t spend you don’t get to keep.
Hmmmm…
This could be interesting, do you go bold and buy the Nissan GT-R ($70k) and a 4-Door VW GTI ($25k), how about going green and buying a garage full of hybrids like the new Cadillac Escalade Hybrid ($70k) and Toyota Prius ($30k). A BMW 135i and X5 3.0 would do nicely as would a Dodge Challenger ($40k), Ford Mustang GT ($25k) along with a Cadillac CTS ($35k).
But hey, those are just my suggestions, lets see how creative and close to $100k you can get, remember the change from that $100k bill is not yours, so don’t leave any money on the table. And for arguments sake, we will just use base prices in tabulating our totals.
Sadly in doing this, our friend MichaelTaylor won’t be able to share with us his imaginary Lexus lineup, so I will try to do it for you… IS-F for weekends and a ES350 for a daily driver!!!
You all worked hard this week, go ahead and relax, have some fun spending $100,000.00.