Thread: If you won the lottery...

What would be your car purchases? I never play unless the jackpots are at least $150 million, because the cash option after taxes screws you over. You can have fun, but not have "baller" money. Say the powerball. $280 million, $145 cash, say $90-95 million after taxes.

I have only one car I wanted since I was a child, the legendary McLaren F1 GTR. Apparently over 1/4th, some say half are destroyed due to car accidents or poor care. They are also notoriously hard to get. Sultan of Brunei has at least eight I believe.

First off...

570-4 Superleggera
458 Italia
Range Rover Sport Hamann Conqueror II
BMW Luma M5
Phantom Drophead Coupé

Get a nice house, maybe a miami/nyc condo, amex centurion card for "status" more than anything, then just live a nice life. $70 million in the bank, $10 in bonds, securities and high risk investments, other $10 is just **** off money for cars, clothes, luxuries, parties... And absolutely NOT go broke, that will last the rest of my life. It kills me to see ditch diggers or hicks win and then in 5 years the money is gone or the poor bastard is dead or they keep working the same dead end job.

The two stories I hate is the millionaire who won the 300 million powerball and now his family is dead and he flushed the money away, the other is the guy who won a $4 mil post tax state lottery, wife left him and took half, he spent almost all he had left on crack. $1.6 million on crack. Thats Scrooge Mcduck's worth of crack.

Anyway what would YOU do?

First off- Invest *ALL* of it...... then go spend once I made some play money with it. There couldn't be a worse use of money to take 90, then go spend 10 right out of the box on houses, cars, toys, etc. That's idiotic IMO.

That being said, once I got the 90 working for me, I'd probably pick up a couple more Porsche GT3's a GT2RS, and likely a Scud.

What would you invest in?

The USA lottery sucks... in the UK if the jackpot is say $100 million then you win £100 million!!! no money is taken away!! The US onc seems like a tease.. they should just tell you how much you are actually going to win not some pie in the sky number..
Back to subject,i would buy shares in the Lottery company! with that kind of High dollar investment you would be a major share holder and would return far more than you put in

i would pay off the one i have and go take a well deserved vacation

I would hire people to kill people

Keeping in mind, lotteries are a tax on people who don't understand math.

Originally Posted by 2Props

Keeping in mind, lotteries are a tax on people who don't understand math.

That's how I was raised, and can be expanded to nearly every form of gambling. The house always wins.

I would buy SilverSurfers Challenge Stradale, do everything I have ever wanted to my WRX, get a super modded RS6 Avant as a DD and buy my dad a 250 California. As for the rest I would prob just blow it on hookers and well...blow.