You could pick up five of them for that money back home.
Stateside, a quarter-of-a-million dollars will get you a Ferrari 458 Spider, McLaren 12C Spider, Lamborghini Gallardo Spyder Performante, or Rolls-Royce Ghost. In China, you're looking at a 2014 Corvette Stingray. We've got nothing against the new Vette, of course. It'll probably the best car you can buy for $50 grand when it arrives in showrooms early October (assuming you can get it at that price). So the next time you complain about not being able to get the latest high-performance Audi wagon be thankful for the home-built cars you can get.
Switching careers after a few years in finance with a Mathematics and Philosophy degree under his belt, Adam worked for various publishing houses and established his own English editing company. He then spent almost a decade covering the automotive industry as Managing Editor and most recently Editor-in-Chief, specializing in breaking news coverage, in-depth car reviews and opeds. A member of the Automotive Press Association and International Motor Press Association, he will occasionally leave the office to attend a car show or drive something exotic.
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