No longer forbidden fruit.
Ugh, the recession. How much of a bitch was that thing? People lost their jobs. Others lost their homes. You didn’t get to buy luxury cars for fear of looking like a dick. Didn’t see that private hell splashed all over the news but just because there were no rallies and only a handful of support groups doesn’t mean the pain wasn’t real. Oh god, those were some tough times. But guess what? Our long national nightmare is over! That Aston Martin Vantage Coupe? You can get it now!
Trader Craig Poler couldn’t hold out any longer. Browsing at the Miller Motorcars dealership in Greenwich, Connecticut, he spotted the $130,000 Aston Martin Vantage Coupe he had been dreaming about for months. “The second I saw it I knew I was going to buy it,” said Poler, 48, who trades oil and petroleum products. “I’ve wanted one for a long time, since I started seeing them in London when I went on business.” Poler, who chose a “deep, dark gray” 2010 Aston Martin Vantage Coupe, said although consumption isn’t back to where it was three years ago, people are becoming less reluctant to splash out on expensive cars and other luxury merchandise. “Some people were affected by the recession and others weren’t going to buck the trends in their social circles,” he said of the cutbacks. “Up until about six months ago you were an a-hole if you bought fancy toys.”
Now? You’re all good! You want a Ferrari? Go for it. No one’s gonna judge.
Waiting lists for Ferrari Californias and 458s are growing again, said Richard Koppelman from the Miller Motorcars dealership, explaining he’s sold out of the 458 and has a waiting list of 180 people. “People who still have jobs are saying that things didn’t get as bad as they could have been,” Koppelman said. “Earnings are good on Wall Street. People are getting tired of doing without and are saying, ‘Why not?’ Demand is definitely strengthening a lot.”
Things aren’t totally back to where they were pre fan-hitting shit, though, so exercise a little restraint. Don’t get all the bells and whistles. Hold off on springing for the add-on that adjusts the dash so that you can auto-fellate and still have your eyes on the road. Fine lines and all that jazz.
Congrats your not an A-hole any longer but you are still a douche.
This guy needs to be punched in the forehead by everybody he comes into contact with.
douche > a-hole > MBA > CFA
only when Spitzer starts visiting prostitutes again, then we know the good times are back
the trader in the article sounds like a true to form “pole”-r. Next stop, reach around.
I’m sure the woman he’ll put in the passenger seat will be thinking the same thing as he was: “I want the Aston Martin without the a-hole.”
Where do you keep this aston martin if you live in nyc?
Poler is pretending to drive the Aston in this pic:
http://cms.skidmore.edu/yourvoice/poler.cfm
That’s a pretty sharp looking car. Can you fit three kids in the back?
How much is the auto-fellate enabling dashboard tilt feature, anyway? Can I get one aftermarket for my rather pedestrian Jeep Grand Cherokee?
PUDDY: (While punching up numbers on a calculator) That chick’s whacked. We’re history.
(Back to the transaction) I just left out a couple of things:
rust-proofing..
JERRY: “Rust-proofing”?
PUDDY: (Reading off what he’s adding up on the calculator) Transport charge, storage surcharge, additional overcharge, finder’s fee
JERRY: “Finder’s fee”? It was on the lot!
PUDDY: Yeah, that’s right. (Continues reading off) Floor mats, keys..
JERRY: ‘Keys”?!
PUDDY: How ya gonna start it?
Creepy Chatroulette photo…
http://cms.skidmore.edu/yourvoice/poler.cfm
Is anyone else suicidally upset over the gross lack of Drury cleave?
Up until about six months ago you were an a-hole if you bought fancy toys.”
Something tells me this dude doesn’t need fancy toys to fit that category…
It gets terrible gas mileage and the tires only last 5,000 miles. My Prius is far superior.
Option Trader
@15- you forgot to add how awesome San Fran and Citadel are
Leave both Pol_er and Anal_yst alone!
Did someone say fancy toys?
@9 there’s a trunk isn’t there? kids can’t be picky in this kind of market.
craig poler, lax player: http://cms.skidmore.edu/yourvoice/poler.cfm
Over/Under on the amount of days before an unemployed hedgie keys that sucker??
works at BP? nice.
WOW marketer at BP good timing buddy. Cant wait for huffpo picks this one up.
458? Meh. I’ll take a 599 GTO (or preferably a 1962 250 GTO California, although that’s about 10-15x as much, sigh…)
Stiffler looks old
These cars should be invested in using EBIT not EBITDA.
-RBS Analyst
“How much is the auto-fellate enabling dashboard tilt feature, anyway? Can I get one aftermarket for my rather pedestrian Jeep Grand Cherokee?”
can and should!
@15 & @16 – I could buy that car if I wanted to AND pay cash. It’s not like I don’t have the money, I do, I make over six figures a year, it’s just tied up right now in a new trading strategy I invented that I would tell you about but it is complex and you wouldn’t understand it and it’s proprietary until I think of a cool name for it. So to be clear, I make enough to buy the car, I’m just not liquid until triple witching and don’t really want it anyway. Why would you drive that when BART is so convenient anyway.
OT
“Up until about six months ago you were an a-hole if you bought fancy toys.”
Vindication.
-PJ
@Culmination How do you think his mom feels?
what a queer! fancy toys.
couldnt hold out anylonger? haha, way to show restraint. When this gets out im thinking he wont be able to hold his JOB anylonger.
z8 ftw
I look forward to seeing this guy’s car in my rearview mirror on, say, Smith Ridge Rd. in New Canaan so that I can immediately slow down to <5mph vs the speed limit.
I’ve never been worried about coming off as an a-hole.
viva la porsche!
-dan berkowitz
Poler? I don’t even know her!
@12 just totally Kouwe’d @8! Snap!
@15 16 and 28 I’d tell you all to blow me but my mommy (Bess) will come in here and slam my head against my desk so I’m just going to ignore.
Anyways, I think people are importing the hell out of Euro luxury cars as the Euro has slid.
A guy buys a new Lamborghini sportscar and goes to his Orthodox rabbi to ask him to bless a mezuzah for the car. “What is a Lamborghini?” asks the rabbi and when the guy explains, the rabbi says “No way am I blessing a mezuzah for such an extravagance!” So the guy finds a Conservative rabbi and makes the same request. “What is a Lamborghini?” the rabbi asks and hearing the explanation, also refuses to give his blessing. So finally the guy goes to a Reform rabbi with his request. “Sure!” says the rabbi, “but what’s a mezuzah?
@berkowitz some things don’t need to be pointed out.
@38: Baruch atta Adonai Eloheinu melech ha‘olam. Now go milk the goats.
I know Mr. Poler personally and hes actually a really good person and gives his time to the community regularly. He is also a cnacer survivor who sees everyday as a bonus so I think its great he can enjoy some of the finer things in life. Me? im not so nice so I find you pathetic evil spirited losers reprehensible and a solid arguement why the freedom of speech should be limited to those with a brain. So go home to the pathetic crap hole you live in and your old generic vehicle you drive because you you have always been mediocre in verything that you do. Jealously is a bad thing and I hope you reap what sew.Yeh while your sitting there reading this, basking in your insecurity and waiting for your next target to spout your cahtartic vitriole, Mr Poler is riding in his styling car. Good for you man and Y’all go to hell !!!
@40 Won
@41
Good for him if he’s a cancer survivor whos still successful. Now, on to you: G.T.F.O/S.T.F.U.
No one gives a rat’s ass what you have to say.
40 I hope you had a cup to spit that in.
43 Your a moron bring it. Btw if you actually knew how to use gtfo or the ever popular stfu you would realise that you dont use periods when you use gtfo or stfu. But in your trogloditic world these kind of responses make you feel …… hmmm let me guess you would probably say UBER? or maybe l33t ?
What an idiot for not buying one last year. They were half off if you got one from a junior associate you just laid off.
@44 – My name is Swallows, not Spitz.
@McTexan: I hardly think you should be the one to be criticising grammar.
*you’re
*ever-popular
*don’t
I’m still trying to decipher the code that you have written beyond the improperly used ellipsis, which is properly used in a series of 3 periods (…).
I’m guessing you were educated at home most of your life? Possibly a militia-based commune? You like the Aston Martin from the UK, but you’re from Texas. I’m going to guess you drive a Toyota Highlander with an American flag on the rear window because the fuel savings allow you to buy more Skoal to spit out through the gap where your front teeth used to be.
@41:
“I hope you reap what sew”
It’s ‘sow’, genius.
-dealbreaker spelling czar
@45
The periods were intentional to add emphasis/pace, you f*cktard.
I’m the last guy to talk sh*t to someone for buying a nice car, hell if I could drop $130m on a car to keep in the City I wouldn’t be sitting @ my desk right now, but @ the Audi dealer picking up an R8. Good for this guy, I’m not one of the haters. My point was that if you think this is vitriol, you’re clearly not a Dealbreaker regular.
@48 Ahh, the third world speaks? Was waiting for the spelling wonk or grammarian to hop on and call me out for not proofreading my earlier comments.The use of double ellipses is commonly used as a symbol for a prolonged pause as opposed to the single ellipsis that is used primarily as a symbol for an omission.I drive an American brand car actually and eschew not chew tobacco products.I do display my flag proudly , do you? Or are you another typical pseudo-intellectual who talks a good game on a chat window? Is this imperious bearing based on the false premise of a superior education that was probably experienced on this side of the border if at all? Let me guess Texas must mean White Militia? Are you scared of guns and men who know how to use them? Did you get beat up everyday at school for your lunch money? Are you the guy who flips everybody off in your car and dumps your drawers when the guy slams on the breaks and comes after you?
@mr. pink – Stay on your own turf.
- dealbreaker homophone czar
@AB: touche
See you at Monster, basement level. 9:45pm. don’t be late ;)
-the gaylord
If he earned it he should spend it on what he wants. (Props to @36…as lame as those are I still like them.)
What the hell kind of name is “Skidmore” for a college????
~Felton Grabder
Dean
Rugburn School of Business
Commstain University
Smegma, GA
@41 etc- lighten up Francis
I’d hit it. With the headlights on.
Edward Smith
Yelm, WA
USA
“You didn’t get to buy luxury cars for fear of looking like a dick.” No fear here. Luxury car or not, it’s not about looking like one if you are one…
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