Today I got to see how the other half live

[Steve]

This morning I had to go to Lake Forest, a very wealthy North Shore suburb of Chicago, for a gig. My friend drove me around and showed me some of the ginormous houses there, some are designed so that you can see through them - through the front and back doors/windows - and see the lake. Apparently they have private beaches there too.

Anyway, at the parking lot of the venue I saw a car I'd never seen before, a Qvale Mangusta. Less than 300 ever built.

My friend said I just need to find a cute Lake Forest girl to be my sugar mama, maybe he's right.

 

[arrfep]

Lake Forest is an interesting place. I'm up there (and the rest of the North Shore) on a semi-regular basis for work. I can drive around those neighborhoods and just look at houses for hours.

 

[SlickSnake]

MG_XPower_SV

This is a much cooler car sports car built on a similar frame. A lot of these "exotic" sports cars are really custom built "kit" types of cars. But merely because they build them in another country and they "appear" to be luxury sports cars, people in the USA covet them. And the prices on these "kit" cars may indeed be high end, but the handling and performance is rarely as refined as a more recognized type of manufacturer, like Ferrari. And for the about the same scratch, I would take a Ferrari or even a Maserati over some obscure foreign made kit car, any day.

And I also found the Mangusta to be particularly ugly. But one persons sports car poison is another persons sports car passion.

dupontregistry

For 42k I guess it's an OK, deal, but you could get a decent Ferrari for around that price. They look a bit better from the sides, but from the front I find them ugly and unrefined. And if you ever wreck one, you are pretty much screwed on most repair parts, I'm sure.

 

[Perknose]

Originally posted by: SlickSnake
And the prices on these "kit" cars may indeed be high end, but the handling and performance is rarely as refined as a more recognized type of manufacturer, like Ferrari. And for the about the same scratch, I would take a Ferrari or even a Maserati over some obscure foreign made kit car, any day.

dupontregistry

For 42k I guess it's an OK, deal, but you could get a decent Ferrari for around that price. They look a bit better from the sides, but from the front I find them ugly and unrefined. And if you ever wreck one, you are pretty much screwed on most repair parts, I'm sure.

Well agreed that these boutique brands are often just not a very good deal. And LOL at those pics which reveal the Mangusta to have a lame-o, pedestrian FoMoCo sourced steering wheel and main instrument panel cluster -- the same one that was taken out of mid-sized Lincolns and fobbed off on the last abortive T-Bird!

Also, my late wife Jessie grew up in Lake Forest but her family, though reasonably well off, was far from super rich.