Maserati Hearts the Super Rich. If Not Them, Who?
Maserati doesn’t want me and they don’t care if I know it. So says Maserati President of North America, Jim Selwa. Not even the “mass affluent” who have to purchase their cars on credit interest them. The makers of the fanciest of all Fiats is “focusing on the super wealthy, the top half of one percent who control all of the world’s wealth.” Despite recent economic woes that the rest of us are feeling, the super rich are still spending. In fact, it’s been a good year for Maserati. In fact, it’s been a good decade, with worldwide sales up 700% since 1997. Apparently, I have a better chance with one of Maserati’s models than I ever have of stumbling into Maser’s target demographic. In other words, I have no chance at all.
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Funny how some super rich simply cannot bear to be seen with the plebe. As far as I know, they have the same bodily functions as the rest of us..... And when peple like Bill Gates and Warren Buffett both attribute their success to 90% luck, I just laugh at people who think of themselves as superior because richer.
A lease make perfect sense on a car like this. Who really wants to own it? Lease it for 3 or 4 years, drive it, enjoy it, return it when it is used up, and lease the new model.
"I still am not at the point where I can waste money on an expensive but unreliable and money-eating Italian beauty." It is the only thing to which a man should aspire in this vale of tears.