Wednesday, November 08, 2006

Feelin' Lucky?

How'd you feel about spending $100 to get a 1 in 5000 chance at winning a $450,000 car? Now is your chance. A Mercedes-Benz dealership down in Maryland ordered an SLR for a customer last Christmas, but the buyer backed out. I think thats code for "wife said no." Anyway, his loss is our gain. The dealer is trying to recoup his losses by selling raffle tickets for this beast. For only $100 you will be sold 1 of 5000 tickets. I'm seriously thinking of buying one. It would be amazing to own one of these cars. So few are produced, and apparently even fewer are sold. Paris Hilton drives one, which could be scaring off potential buyers. V12, 0-60 in 3.8 seconds, 617 hp, top speed 207mph. Or you could just take a $300,000 alternate prize, which does make more sense. I don't know about states other than Connecticut, but here it would cost a fortune just to win it. Sales tax alone would be $27,000, then theres a gas guzzler tax, personal property taxes, and possibly gift taxes, that doesn't even insure it. I'm guessing minimal coverage would be at least $8-10,000, but probably higher. So just to drive it that first mile would cost you close to $100,000, if not more. I'll take the prize money please.

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