<prompt> Human: Im 20 years old and still in college and my boyfriend is 25 and works full time. I dont know exactly how much he makes. All I know is he works for an oil company and is in management. He lives in a decent house that he rents but he plans on buying his own when he gets married hopefully with me. He doesnt have very many expenses. Just the essentials water, gas, etc... plus netflix and spotify. A couple months ago he started talking about how he wants a new car. Right now he has a 2011 VW. Its completely paid off and everything. But he wants something more grown up. He originally said he doesnt want to get one above 100k. But for the past month and a half hes been dead set on this pre owned Ferrari that costs about 250,000.I dont know much about money but this just seems like a terrible idea. Im doing some research right now but I just want more opinions on this.--Im NOT trying to ask for relationship advice.Update:My boyfriend said well have a serious conversation about it when he gets home. Update 2:Hes home. brb.Update 3: Hes not actually going to buy it.TL;DR:He finally told me about his money situation. Turns out he makes over 400,000 a year and has a little under 900,000 saved up. Ill go a little into detail on how he makes that much below. Basically he doesnt really see himself buying the Ferrari. It was just a fantasy. He says hes probably gonna buy a BMW for around 100k for now. Full Story Why he wanted the Ferrari and why he makes so much money:My boyfriend grew up in a poor family. I knew that, but I just found out the next part. His dad was a mechanic. The fanciest car his dad ever had was a 1990-something Ford Escort. A bright red one. He always joked that it was his Ferrari. He would put racing numbers and other stuff to make it look a little like a Ferrari well as much as it could. Its a classic sob story; his dad took very good care of him and made him happy even with their bad situation.When my boyfriend turned 18 he decided one of his life goals is to buy his dad a Ferrari. So he tried super hard in college, got a nice job, and works very hard at it. He was planning on buying his dad a Ferrari in about 10 years, however his dad passed away last year. So when we were looking at cars a couple months ago, apparently he looked at that Ferrari when I wasnt with him. He said it brought him to tears thinking about how that could have been his dads. You can probably guess why he wanted that Ferrari so bad. Summary:He has no plans on buying that Ferrari for now. Hes going to buy a much cheaper car I think he said something about a BMW M5.Update 4: My bfs Reddit username is uLovesYourHappiness if you want to ask him anything about finances, work, or this post.  <response>: Im NOT trying to ask for relationship advice.Note to all responders: In order to keep this thread on-topic and the discussion productive, we ask you to keep your responses related to finance, and avoid judging the relationship. See our Subreddit Rules, available as a link on the sidebar, for more information.That is all. 