I hate to here stories like this one....it pisses me off to win that much money and want this....


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A Missouri couple claimed half of a $ 261.3 million Powerball jackpot. Their spending plans are decidedly modest for the time being.

He wants to get a tractor with brakes and she wants a new refrigerator. They chose the cash payment and walked away with $73.6 million (before taxes).


It is just not right!!!

Originally posted by rxevolve10
I hate to here stories like this one....it pisses me off to win that much money and want this....


(copywrite www.powerball.com)
A Missouri couple claimed half of a $ 261.3 million Powerball jackpot. Their spending plans are decidedly modest for the time being.

He wants to get a tractor with brakes and she wants a new refrigerator. They chose the cash payment and walked away with $73.6 million (before taxes).


It is just not right!!!


I would buy several cars.



I would get:



1. BMW M5
2. 911 GT2 or 911 Turbo or Carrera GT
3. Escalade
4. Corvette Langenfellter


What do you think ???

I think its sad that people bother to enter a lottery if they have no dreams for what to do with the winnings.

Me (as a Brit), I'd have several houses/apartments (lakes/scotland, south france, thailand etc).

A main house with a large garage, containing a changing miz of classic/modern cars (e-type, austin healy, AC, lamborghini, lotus , aston martin etc).

I'd also see the world, China, NZ, Mexico etc...

Hmm a tractor with brakes, now that'd be good too...

My own racetrack complete with rally stage

1.) Zonda
2.) Koenigsegg
3.) Enzo
4.) 959
5.) Viper SRT-10
6.) Prodrive WRC WRX
7.) Top fuel dragster
8.) Busa
9.) Cigarette offshore racing boat
10.) Dino Ferrari
11.) Renntech S600
12.) Shelby Cobra
13.) Michael Shumacher's F1 Car
14.) GT40
15.) life insurance (lots of it)

Ferrari Enzo
Lamborghini Murcielago
Ferrari 360 Modena Spider
Porsche 911 GT2
Mercedes S Class

Condo in Monte Carlo

"Log Cabin" in Telluride

New home here in San Antonio

And I would go to every F1 race around the globe.

That's about it.

Now back to reality, I'm off to work.......................
:)

I'd be getting me a 2002 RX-7 Spirit-A sent over from Japan first thing. Then I'd be buying a nice house, a kick-ass gaming setup. I'd invest the rest and live off the interest/dividends taking ski trips/surfing expeditions every few weeks/months for the rest of my life :)

If I won $241 million I would built a very good track in Japan and ask the best motoring team to test drive their cars there for free!!! of course I will also get more cars...

I will still be a doctor though

First thing would be to donate $7.3M to charities.
After that, chunk a few hundred thou in each of my kids' college funds. Pay off the house, pay off the cars, buy another RX-8 and an FD. Put the rest in my portfolio.

A few mil for a house, a few nice cars and a nice home theatre.

Then I would probably give a few mil to my brother and parents... why not?

Then I'd live off the interest and probably eat out a lot :) I'd see the world!

No point in buying too many cool cars as I wouldn't have many places to drive them. LOL

I would buy 1 of each color RX-8 (including white) fully load them and just show case them.

wow

I would never work again
I would buy multiple cars
I would relax

I'm with B-Nez. I'd give a sizable percentage away to charity.

Then I'd go on a permanent road trip.

I would give it all away to charity.

I'm perfectly happy now. While spoil it?

are you serious

no are you nuts!!!

haha..

1. Pay off house, cars, other bills.
2. Pay off some of my parents' bills.
3. Give some to my favorite charities.
4. Take a few months' sabbatical from work and travel.
5. Buy an Aston Martin Vanquish.

Originally posted by Squidward
no are you nuts!!!

haha..


my real answer is:

1. give a big portion to my family and best friends, put away a big portion.

2. nice closed estate in the palisades with a large carport & garage (min. 8 cars).

3. buy the following vehicles:

- Mazda RX-8 (daily driver)
- Ford GT
- Bentley Continental GT
- Ferrari 360 Modena Challenge Stradale
- Hummer H1
- Saleen S7
- Lotus Elise (111s US-spec)
- Chevy Silverado 3500

1. Pay off all debt (school loans, credit cards, etc.)
2. Pay off my parent's house
3. Buy a townhouse for myself
4. Diversify the rest of the $$ so I'd never be poor again
5. Quit job, travel world
6. Be a Baller, and Ball as hard as possible

- VoodooKhan

Estate planning.

Probably buy a bunch of new residential realestates in the hottest areas in California. Rent them out and sell them in a few years and make more money. Do it again and again and again.

Other things....

Get my own yacht
Get my own plane
Get an RV and travel around the continent
Car-wise - Murcielago as the daily driver; the RR Phantom w/ a driver for my wife and kid

Some of you guys aim way too low, It's 74 million we're talking here!

well we don't want to just blow it all in the first month or two ya know... maybe have it last for like.. the REST of your life??

I wouldn't worry about gas mileage on my 8!

I'd buy a few hundred acres somewhere wooded and hilly. Build my own private road so I can enjoy RV and Sunday Driver-free twisties in my future 8 on my way back and forth to my private fishing hole.

Small lottery win 1 to 2 mil, divy it up amonst mortgage, cars and business note, invest the rest, minus a little party/vacation money. Help family and a few selected friends a little.

40 million, which is what tractor and fridge dreamers will come home with.
Very nice home here in PA
100 acres in bumf(*& nowhere
Condo in Maui

Give 10% to charity
Give another 10% to family & friends

Cars M5 (early 90's), finish my 7's mods, Sti, Fx45 or Toureg, Race spec 951, keep the 8. Maui would get the convertable 350Z.

That should leave me about 31million plus, 30 million of which would be invested and I'd live off the interest. 1 million would be partied away and gambled (lots of time in Vegas & I'd check out Monte Carlo as well) and wasted in such an extravagant manner that I would never want to waste money again (hey I saw Brewsters Millions). Plus it's be a lot of fun if I lived through my million dollar party

Invest in real estate around the world.

Donate to charity.


Purchase a few cars:

- Supercharged Mazda RX-8 (2-Rotor)

- 2005 Subaru Legacy GT (Flat-4)

- Honda S2000 (Inline-4)

- Volvo S60R (Inline-5)

- Supercharged Infiniti G35 Coupe (V-6)

- Porsche Boxster S (Flat-6)

- BMW M3 (Inline-6)

- 2005 Chevy Corvette (V-8)

- Supercharged Mercedes CLK500 (V-8)

- 2006 Lexus Supercar (V-10)

- 2005 Ferrari 460 GT (V-12)

- VW Phaeton (W-12)


Sponsor a CART racing team.

Okay, let's just say it's $20mil.

25% to spend.
25% to save/invest.
25% to family/friends.
25% to charity.

I realize I'm real conservative to most here, but with winnings like that, well, other people need it more than I do.

Amen on the real estate investment. That's how you can make $ without a problem.

But since I'm in college...

- an old beater car to learn stick.

- take defensive driving courses

- Buy Black 6MT Rx-8 with appearance package, 19' 7-spoke bronze rims w/custom fuel tank.

- '65 Corvette.

- '04 Porsche Cayenne Turbo

- '03 Lamborghini Gallardo

- Buy a house in Huntington beach

- Buy a custom bus from Marathon w/driver

- Travel

supercharger has the right idea IMO

Originally posted by mikeb
supercharger has the right idea IMO

Not my cup of tea, to many duplicate cars :

- Supercharged Mazda RX-8 (2-Rotor)
- 2005 Subaru Legacy GT (Flat-4)
- Volvo S60R (Inline-5)
- Supercharged Infiniti G35 Coupe (V-6)
- BMW M3 (Inline-6)
- VW Phaeton (W-12)

All basicaly serve the same purpose. 4-5 seater fast comfy sedans. I cant see anyone driving more than 2 of these regulaly after the first month.

But gratz to Supercharger for makig a real 'first post' typed instead of cut n paste!

lets see

like alot said

pay of loans
pay of parents loans
help out my Temple
Buy an Apartment in Trump Towers in NYC
Buy a house on Polo Drive in Old Westbury NY

Buy myself -
Leather and Navi for the 8
E55 AMG or RS6 (dunno which i prefer)
VW Toureg
Benz SLR
Buy Parents
Acura MDX
A6

With the rest talk to my financial advisor and invest
then head into work at my minimal salary

FERRARI ENZO
FERRARI F40
FERRARI F355

LAMBO GALLARDO
LAMBO MURCIELAGO
LAMBO COUNTACH

nice seaside condominium penthouse

invest a huge chunk and save the rest

you like Itailian cars or what mockgbird

1. Pay off all debt
2. Quit working, move to home below, spend the rest of my life managing my money, traveling, playing with cars, computers & technology, and shooting
3. Buy 500+ acres of western-states mountain property, build large log home with indoor/outdoor shooting ranges and private race track.
4. Supercharge my RX-8... with this much money, warranty be damned! :)
5. Buy a vacation home on beach somewhere, possibly Hawaii.
6. Pay off some of my extended family's debt.
7. Give some to charity.
8. Dedicate some to venture capital
8. Purchase a few cars to drive and tinker with:
- 1969 GT350 Mustang
- 1971 Chevelle SS 454 convertible
- 2004 Supercharged Infiniti G35 Coupe
- 2004 Nissan 350Z convertible
- 2004 Corvette ZR1
- 2004 BMW M5
- 2004 BMW X5
- 2005 Mustang SVT Cobra
9. Retain an on-call private jet.
10. Purchase a motor home and spend a few years seeing the country, then sell it when it gets old.
11. Purchase a medium-sized yacht and spend a few years seeing the world, then sell it when it gets old.
12. Invest the remaining money live off the interest.

Hmmm.......a bunch to charities, especially for research in Autism(my son has it), Some to my immediate family, college tuition for my son and all his cousins, A few houses in warm climates, a bunch of cars(1955 TBird, Aston Martin Vanquish, RX 8, Mercedes AMG, classic corvette to a name a few)Travel, Boat and just kicking back!!!

Why not start a serie of convertible RX8´s made along the Porsches at www.valmet-automotive.com and order some titanium
bolt, nuts and washer kit (from www.mettec.com perhaps?) for
the RX8. Try out the Renisis engine in an ultra-light airplane like
an Pelican, all this to start with....

Lets change mine, I just found out I need a stronger clutch to go with the higher HP in my third gen. And it seems like a good idea to get an light aluminum flywheel. And I need shocks, so I went with Tocikos all the way around. I would just pay for my Rx7's mods and repairs with my big lottery win.