<prompt> Human: Luxury cars are ridiculously expensive. I didnt realize how expensive until I ran some numbers. You got to see this, the car costs more than a dollar an hour, for the first 5 years of ownership. Read below for the details. The Scenario: Lester the Lexus driver goes to his local Lexus dealer and buys an awesome new Lexus GX 460 and its beautiful. The MSRP is 52,720 but Lester is no slouch so he negotiates the price down 3k to 49,071. However, to actually leave the dealer he gets hit with a few taxes and fees and ends up paying 51,068. He takes out a loan where he puts 10 and gets a traditional car loan. Over the next 5 years he drives about 15,000 miles a year, and he does all the maintenance that the owners manual calls for. Luckily Edmunds.com has a really cool calculator that helps run the numbers. This particular scenario is available here.In just the first 365 days of owning the car, he eats up 8,677 in depreciation alone. Per month its 723.08. Per day thats 8,677365 23.7726027 a day! Thats just depreciation, there is still taxes, interest on the loan, gas, insurance, and maintenance and repairs. When its all said and done, he spends 16,041, remember he only drove 15k miles so hes paying 16,04115000 1.07 per mile that first year! Per month hes spending 16,04112 1,336.75 and per day hes spending 43.95. If he wanted to pay for this off of the safe withdraw from investment income he would need 430,710 invested, just so he can support having his sweet ride.The first year is by far the most expensive one for new cars. But its also the year with the plastic off gassing, new car smell. Maybe things arent as bad for the other 4 years, lets look at the 5 year totals. Total depreciation after 5 years is 24,503. That averages to 4900 a year. Or 408.39 a month or 13.42 per day. So taken in the context of 5 years the depreciation numbers arent as bad as the first year was.The total cost is estimated at 57,032 or 11,406 a year, or 950.53 a month or 31.25 a day. 31.25 a day is a lot of money. The car costs 1.30 an hour for every hour of everyday and night during that first 5 years. Thats not a money leak, thats a money monsoon. A leak of epic proportions. Luxury cars are really really nice. But are they that nice?TLDR: Luxury cars are really, really expensive.  <response>: I think the name of the game here is to buy used. Pick that luxury car up after its 4 years old and less than half the cost. Even with maintenance you can enjoy the comforts of luxury for the price of a new econo box. 