[pbanders]

I've owned Porsches since '82, about a year after I got my EE degree and started working. If I had one thing that I could do over again, it would be to have kept with owning cheap, low maintenance, reliable cars for the first 10 years after I started working instead of owning a Porsche right away. Even the cheapest Porsche is expensive to own, even if you do the work yourself. Every dollar you save when you're young has a tremendous amount more potential leverage than a dollar you save later. Had I gone the route of cheaper cars, I'd have been in a position later to own a heck of a lot nicer car (and house) when I could really afford it.

Caveat - if cars are all you care about, then you've got to do what you've got to do. Guys I know who were like that structured their careers to be in the car industry so that they could feed their obsession.