<p>how do so many college students drive 40,000 cars?</p>
<p>…They have rich parents that buy them $40,000 cars.</p>
<p>Depends on what school, you’re going to find more expensive cars at a school that has 35k tuition than at your local state college.</p>
<p>I have a Lexus, it used to be my bros though. Hopefully getting a Jeep next year.</p>
<p>Yeah. This one guy at my high school has a brand new $35k SUV his dad bought him. So lucky.</p>
<p>Actually I don’t think luck had anything to do with the matter.</p>
<p>A think a nice car is a pretty common “parting gift” of sorts parents who can afford it give their college children. Sending them into the world on a good foot if you will.</p>
<p>you can buy a used infiniti g35 for 20k</p>
<p>Doesn’t matter if I’m worth 25 million by the time my kid is 18, he/she is not getting a luxury car for college. Maybe a car worth 2 grand or so if they’re lucky.</p>
<p>At least for me, I get to keep whatever money my parents saved for me for college if I don’t use it. So if I was to get a full ride, I would be able to buy a very, very, nice car. Of course, I would spend it on grad school instead, but my point is that there could be others in a similar situation.</p>
<p>true, but a lot of the college students i see drive the current models (probably less than 2 years old).</p>
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Sucks for them.</p>
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G37s are the best.</p>
<p>I have a 1997 Honda CRV that I’m more than happy with, although it stays at home since I attend college 3,000 miles away. I don’t see any reason for kids to have such nice cars.</p>
<p>I plan to bike to school after delivering newspaper with a Honda Civic. </p>
<p>I heard about some guy at Stanford majoring in Com sci or something. Apparently, it’s not that uncommon for people over there to make $30k over a summer job. The number may be a little exaggerated as I don’t know the exact details. But he apparently bought himself a freaking bmw.</p>
<p>man I don’t know how these kids find all this money. I could really use some. It’s unreal how large the disparity is.</p>
<p>There are so many rich students at Stanford. My friend from Palo Alto has found all kinds of great things in the dumpsters that were thrown out due to tiny breaks that could be easily fixed.</p>
<p>funny. I bet the dumpster diving business is through the roof.</p>
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<p>It’s apparently a hot field. If you land a good internship, that’s $5000/mo for the summer. Couple that with a few freelance jobs and money saved up, and it’s not much of a stretch to afford a $30k car. Or, if you lease, the $500/mo payment is well within reach.</p>
<p>But yeah, you also have the parents paying thing. I have some friends who feel perfectly comfortable approaching their parents and asking for $100k for a car. Their parents make so much money that it’s no biggie.</p>
<p>Reality is: if you want to be rich, it’s all about who you know and how you are going to work with them to make you rich. The college kid with the $40k car is the perfect example. They’ll likely be able to afford the $40k (and more) sometime later in life, so why not enjoy it now?</p>
<p>I go to BU and there are definitely luxury cars everywhere. My parents made me leave my new VW at home, but on campus, Audis, BMWs, and Benzs are dime a dozen. I see a $400k Mercedes SLR weekly and a couple Nissan GTRs almost everyday. One asian student has a new 997.2 Porsche Turbo S, which costs ~180k$. I notice these things becuase I’m such a car freak :)</p>
<p>Easy – trust-fund babies.</p>
<p>My school (UNC-Chapel Hill) is so darned inexpensive that a lot of parents are able to buy nice cars for their kids since they don’t have to shell out a fortune for their education. That’s just the way it works sometimes. If you were planning on shelling out between $30k and $40k a year for your kid’s school, and their tuition ends up being less than $10k, that’s a heck of a lot of extra money that you have lying around.</p>