This is a really amazing story.

http://jalopnik.com/5559767/

His fiancee left him after he had bought a house for them, so he sold everything, bought a Lamborghini Gallardo, and went cross-country.

That guy's got balls.

 

Wonder how that works as cougar bait?

 

Damn. He put a down payment for half the purchase price, and by the time he was done with, it was worth less than his financing.

 

Got balls.

 

He should strategically default on it.

 

Awesome. If he lived in SoCal, he could've bought one for $50k, lol.

 

damn I wonder how much he spent on gas! the car doesn't even run anymore? guess the fun caught up to him.

I would love to rally all over America in a supercar...only thing I'd do different is have a group of supercars with good friends driving and actually have the money to be able to do it...ok I guess it will never happen unless you do it his way.

 

Honestly, I'm highly jealous. To be able to do this has been one of my life dreams.

 

This.



I was actually gonna create a thread about this earlier today asking if anyone else has done something similar. It seems like so much fun.

 

I wonder what the KBB value of his Lambo is.

 

the KBB value wouldn't matter since he blew the engine...wonder how much he could sell it for parts.

 

He should have leased it. StonedCL says it's only the way to go...

Actually in THIS case, I might actually agree.

 

Wish I could afford to do something like that

 

I bet it trumps some shitty Corvette any day.

 

So, what was his plan going to be when he got to where he was going? Sit around and twiddle his thumbs?

Good for him but piss poor planning.

 

Now you've done it. Be prepared for vast insults about how your car is so shitty because it's not his.

 

meh, i would have done it in a gt3. Those things are made for the abuse.

 

That is awesome.

 

I love Lamborghini's too, but I'm not sure if I would have sold everything for one.

 

Agreed. To me, a Lambo or something on that exotic level is way too unreliable, it'd sure be fun while it lasted though. If I were to ever do anything like this, I'd definitely go with something more reliable like a GT3 or maybe even the Turbo with a few more amenities.

 

if we are going to get on this subject, +3! Porsche is definitely the weapon of choice.

I'm sure you guys heard of the guy who drove his 2010 GT3RS to a 24 hour race, raced it, and then drove back home, ZERO problems.

 

I think I'll sell everything and buy a Bugatti, gold plate it and drive off to New Jersey..







Aww shit who am I kidding? I'll lease it!!

 

 

When you lose the one you love it makes you do crazy things. I hate debt too, but I'd do it, just with a CTS-V (more practical) and have my dog with me.

 

The mileage overages would've been PAINFUL

 

how did it handle?

 

I would of been just as happy to do it now with a new Nissan GTR, just as good.

 

I can imagine it being extremely fun, but i'd rather use the $80g's to travel all around the world and rent a new super-car in every new location. You can pretty much go EVERYWHERE with $80,000...

 

Bentley Continental GT.... or if I'm feeling someone exotic... Audi R8. Would love to go cross-country in either!







Like Ken... I'd probably lease it though ...

 

BTW, cool story.

 

I feel sorry for the guy. I wonder if he got laid in at the strip joint

btw, this is an awesome philosophical statement he made:

"You're never going to live up to anyone's expectations, so you might as well live up to your own and for me that's to be as free as you can. And if money doesn't buy you freedom then it's useless."

 

While not exactly the best ending to the story this would be an awesome thing to do. Too bad I don't have anywhere near the amount of money needed for a down payment on a Gallardo.

 

Like the story.

 

what a quitter. two time loser in my book

 

mileage charge would be insane




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I'm happy for him following his dreams but did he ever take a step back and look at what he's doing?

So now he has no fiancee, no house, Gallardo with blown engine. Guessing no job too?

He better have some money left over.

 

Doesn't sound like a very good ending...

 

That sounds like so much fun. Hell, I'd love to just take the TL around the U.S. once.

 

^ +1

Love the story and the guy's spirit, wish the timing chain wouldn't have stretched and ruined the engine.

 

That's an inexcusable design flaw IMO.

Unless of course you're supposed to change the timing chain every 20k miles on Gallardos