Lessons from Life

Car for sale, asking price $1.25 million. (That's not necessarily what this specific car looks like. This photo is from the Wikipedia article, but the subject car is the same kind as pictured here.)

Yep. One point twenty-five MILLION U.S. dollars. It's a Bugatti Veyron, and there's only 200 of them that are known to have been made. Why, you may ask?

The Veyron consumes more fuel than nearly any larger car (not including buses or heavy trucks), using 40.4 litres per 100 kilometres (6.99 mpg-imp; 5.82 mpg-US) in city driving and 24.1 litres per 100 kilometres (11.7 mpg-imp; 9.76 mpg-US) in combined cycle.[citation needed] At full throttle, it uses more than 115 litres per 100 kilometres (2.46 mpg-imp; 2.05 mpg-US), which would empty its 100 litres (22.0 imp gal; 26.4 US gal) fuel tank in just 12 minutes.

Oh, and

The cost of the first scheduled service on a Veyron is £13,645 ($22,322), with later services getting more expensive. Tires need to be replaced approximately every 4,000 kilometres (2,500 mi). The cost of tires for a Veyron is £6,325 ($10,347) a set, and they can only be fitted by Bugatti. Bugatti says that labour is the bulk of the cost at £6,000 ($9,815), which also includes checking the many complex systems on the car. At every third tire change, the roadwheels must be replaced. The cost to extend the original two-year new car warranty is £38,000 ($62,164) for 1 year, and £63,000 ($103,062) for 2 years.

Somebody in Jonesboro, Arkansas is selling this car. Somebody in Little Rock, and somebody in Texas, is interested in buying it.

I wonder if they would accept my 1996 Geo as trade.

Maybe not.

But then again, I've never paid more for a car than what I've paid for a house. Or a small country.