You've been talking about that deal recently, and the company has just closed a round, looking at the numbers on the books, and the finger starts pulling on the configuration of the mercedes s and bmw seven. But the fingertips were suddenly on the screen, and you painted the last month's super luxury limousine — the s800 national car, sold 1,142, twice as many mercedes s, three times more than bmw 7。
You're not the kind of guy who gets carried away by marketing, but you're gonna settle. Next, i'll help you figure it out. No big words. It's just how it's spent。
What can you get for the $1 million you have
Walking into a mercedes store, the sales will laugh to tell you that the s450l, which guides the price of 960,000, is now fully accounted for by good faith money, replacement subsidies, which will give you a cash discount of 150,000 to 200,000. This means that you buy not only a car, but also a brand of luxury that you've never had in the last decade. The bmw is more direct, with a combined benefit of directly exceeding 200,000, and individual configurations falling even by 301,000。
Welcome to the world。
But you know it's not for nothing. Behind it was the delivery of s800 from the top of the hierarchy, which began in august last year, and the sale of 11,300 units in four months, which exceeded the annual figures for benz level s (10,399) and bmw 7 (10,454). You're going to buy the bba now, essentially to pay for the market share that was taken -- with coupons。
On the other hand, you go to the store and tell you the sale: between 70. 8 and 10. 18 million, without a penny, the lift is in a few weeks. But when you get in the car, you step on that natural wool carpet, you look up at the marked sky top, the zero gravity seats in the back, and the 148. 5 degrees reclining angle is the most comfortable angle you've had after a deep massage。
And that's when you know where your $1 million is -- every penny's still in the car, not a sign。
Your entire cycle book. Numbers don't lie
Let's make the most of it. When you're gonna drive this car for 10 years and run 15,000 kilometers a year。
You're opening s 800, mostly for charging, and the total cost of electricity is less than 27,000 a decade. And mercedes s, the same mileage, burned 10 years of fuel for 117,000. The extra $90,000 is enough for you to take your family to the top three overseas holidays or hire a five-year private piano teacher. What about mercedes and bmw
Ten years is conservatively estimated at 100,000 to 110,000. You can save $780,000 just for maintenance。
Together, the total cost of use for the top ten-year cycle is 2,864,000, compared to 5,724,000 for benz s and 53,020 for bmw 7. In 10 years, you've kept nearly 290,000 more than anyone else, which is equivalent to an additional high-level, customized private travel budget per year, or half of all the top-level education of your child from elementary to high school。
The best thing is, when you decide to sell a car, the three-year residual value is about 72 per cent, compared to 60 per cent for mercedes s and 55 per cent for the bmw seven. The extra 290,000 you have left behind is another strong sense of presence at the moment you sell the car。
Your time needs more than money
You're the kind of guy who's in the back with the next videoconference. From shenzhen to guangzhou in the morning, you need an absolute private space on the 100 km road. You point out the one-click privacy pattern in the realm, the space screen is slowly rising, and the privacy screen glass is blinding the outside world。
You open the little tableboard, go over the 40-inch projection screen, and it feels like your mobile office。
If you change to mercedes s, you have to put your hands on the news, or you have to stare at the middle screen; if you turn to the bmw 7 system, its chassis is solid and it gives you a sense of control, but it's for the driver. And you, the one in the back. Your coffee won't even shake when your hyperbolic air hangs through the speed belt。
On the books, it was a large man of 5. 5 metres, but turned around because it had been marked with a rear wheel, which was more flexible than many of the b-class vehicles you had ever driven. You fight on the road for seconds, it never drags mud and water。
Call yourself
Go to a restaurant in the traditional trade. You put the mercedes s key on the table. You don't have to say one more word. This social currency of “others know who you are” is benz's home for 40 years, and it is true that you have not。
But when did you find out you didn't need this? It's probably after your company's successful ai project, or when you found out your circle started talking about algorithms and industrial chains, not car signs. More and more people around you have bought their places of honour, including those who just made the company c-wheel technology new, and those who don't need anything to prove themselves。
The reason why zhang quan ling, a prominent journalist, bought it, is simple enough to give you a glimpse — “because it allows me to sleep completely”. They are not buying cars, they are giving themselves an immediate reward order for their time and body。
So, is your money going to buy you a hard currency on the social field to be respected at first sight by someone who doesn't know you, or is it going to be going to buy a real efficiency machine that really serves your experience every minute
If you choose the first one, you need the general social intake ticket, benz-s and bmw-7, which has paved the way for you with an unprecedented discount. If you choose the latter, you know what it's like to burn money in technology and comfort, and the s800 will make you every kilometre of the next 10 years, and you'll see how well it's calculated today。
