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The Ramsey Show Highlights

Can I Buy A $225K McLaren?

The Ramsey Show Highlights

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Self-improvement, Education, Investing, Business

4.6682 Ratings

🗓️ 12 September 2024

⏱️ 9 minutes

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0:00.0

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0:06.5

So I'm looking to purchase a McLaren 600 L.T. Spider. The car is $2003.

0:12.9

Well, that's just a couple hundred grand. Good for you.

0:17.0

Thank you. Thank you. But it's probably going to be the biggest purchase of my life next to the house that I live in.

0:23.3

Can I tell you something hilarious? I'm currently negotiating with James Childs over like a 98 forerunner.

0:31.6

Like literally, he just stuck his head in to talk about it. So go ahead with your McLaren purchase, Tyler.

0:38.6

So really, I mean, I'm just looking for some professional advice here on the purchase

0:43.6

because obviously it's a pretty happy price tag. I think I'm in a good financial position

0:49.1

to afford the car. What's a cost? I wanted to turn to some experts. The cost is 223,000. Wow. Wow. I just don't even

0:57.4

know how to act. Okay, cool. I'm going to act really nonchalant. Cool. Okay, cool. Um, what's your net worth?

1:05.8

It's around 1.4 million right now. Nice. Okay. Looking good. Um, let's find out, are you paying cash for the car?

1:15.0

I can, but I know that there's also benefits with a leasing structure. I own a small tech company.

1:22.5

So I also am earning about 5.3% right now on my high-eield interest savings account.

1:29.2

So, you know, if I should leave some money in there or if I should pay cash for the car.

1:33.7

I mean, if you're calling us, the only way I would get this car is if you paid cash for it

1:37.6

because you can afford it and it's done and done.

1:41.0

I'm assuming that you don't have any other debt laying around that would change my mind here.

1:49.0

I've got $15,000 on another auto loan, but that's locked in at 3.5 right now.

1:55.4

And since my savings account is earning more than that, did you say you have a $15,000 loan laying around? I do. Why?

2:05.0

You could be totally free. I could be totally free. And I know that that's what you're big on.

2:12.4

The big reason why I'm not is because it's locked in at 3.5.

2:18.0

But it'd be locked in at zero.

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