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It's possible to run nice cars without spending too much overall. For example, I tend to go for cars that have 5 year warranties, try to find one around 2.5 years old with low-ish mileage. You can run it for 2 years, after which you should hopefully have average mileage and 6 months warranty remaining so can sell it for a decent price.

Over the years I've had some fancy cars and overall I don't think I paid more than AED 2.5k/month which is about what it costs to lease a Pajero. Or at least that's how I convince myself anyway.

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Yeah, I specced up an XF with all the cool shit and it came out over 400k. Even with 20% down and 5 years it's like 6-7k a month. I can't justify that when I get a minimum fare cab to work :rofl:

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I've got an F-Pace S. It was 2.5 years old when I got it with 30k km on the clock, paid about half what it cost new. Even with loan interest and servicing, as long as it doesn't depreciate more than AED 60k over the next two years, it will cost me less than the Nissan Pathfinder I was leasing through my employer. No brainer really.

Of course if I lose my job and have 30 days to leave the country, it might be a different story.

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I didn't see that many luxury/nice cars in Doha compared to the UAE and most were driven by locals, not expats. It seemed like most western expats either just ubered/taxi everywhere or drove a basic Japanese and flipped it in due time. Something to keep in mind. The buzz of a nice car wears off quickly and you're still stuck taking taxi/ubers whenever you go out for drinks (which, in Qatar, is 99% of the social life). It was cheaper for me to take taxi/uber everywere than it was to have a monthly hire and I didn't have to deal with parking or worry about dings or Qataris in their Land Cruisers or traffic fines or reselling.

If you're just going to be doing city runs and getting around Doha, be realistic. Regardless of whether it's a Toyota or a Mercedes, it's still the Doha Expressway. But if you want to go off roading then a jeep makes sense.

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The guy wants a V8 SUV. Don't be so dull.

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No he wants a supercharged or at least twin turbo-ed V12 something or other, he realises now how low he was aiming.

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True, he didn't know what he didn't know.

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For two years I drove about 65km daily on Salwa Road, C Ring at Al Saad out to Al Udeid airbase and back. No way I wanted to move further out so driving it was. I did 2 months in a buzzbox tin can then moved up to something a bit more sensible. Quality of life improved immeasurably. When it comes to living in that part of the World I feel its sometimes the little things that mean so much.

I think if everyday was a 5-10km drive around the city area today I would try and stay close to a metro station and make use of that.