"I could have bought a bigger house, a fancy car, " says Pistritto, who drives a ten-year-old Nissan Pathfinder.

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Whether you want to have lots of babies or a big house or a fancy car, those goals go on your plate as things you value.

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It is not pots of money or a fancy car.

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They are also freer from the numerous "status competitions" (the social pressure to drive a fancy car, wear designer clothes, enroll the children in private schools and take European vacations) that further drive up the cost of living in big cities and suburbs.

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His latest fancy: an online car dealership, launched in May.

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BMW's Mini and Daimler's Smart car, make fancy cars, not cheap ones.

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So every time I hear about yet-another automaker, especially a luxury one, conjuring up a brilliant new plan to take its car-owning experience to the next level by having dealers construct fancy buildings, I scoff.

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The big brakes, working with car's track-tuned ABS, the stability control and the fancy magnetic dampers' "body-control logic, " enable the F12 to perform truly miraculous feats of trail braking.

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