Huh, then they are way more common in Europe. I even see them pretty much monthly in snowy Oslo, Norway during winter. Head to Italy and you see several each hour. Head to Monaco and you see one every street corner lol
Philadelphia isn't a rich city and Delaware is tiny.
The US is also huge. Most people with these that are actually driving them anywhere but to car shows are pretty much only going to be in places where flashy things are common. LA, Vegas, Miami, San Francisco, etc. I've seen plenty in those cities, but I don't think I've seen anything above a Porsche anywhere else. Except for the one Ferrari I saw parked at a Holiday Inn in Oklahoma City, which was from Florida... which is further away than Norway is long.
Edit: I get it. I didn't cover every major city in the US where they are common or where people have seen a nice car once. I have seen more expensive ($250k+) cars in Santa Fe than anywhere else I've had an extended stay. I obviously didn't cover everywhere. Holy crap.
Then the people down here commenting with "bro there is a green one in Philadelphia" just proves my point.
There is an absolute legend of a Ferrari owner that lives in podunk Wyoming, and people say they often see him parked on the Main Street of his little town, and he has over 150,000mi on it.
I was gonna comment somewhere above that I just saw a Ferrari on 95 a couple weeks back. Gotta be super wealthy to drive this time of year with all the salt on the roads.
There are two levels of wealth regarding super cars.
At one level, a man works for years to finally be able to buy the car of their dreams. It’s exactly what they wanted, the exact color. They even picked out the stitching on the leather. They spend Friday nights rubbing it with a diaper and it lives a comfortable life in a climate controlled garage, driven 500 miles per year to the golf course (but only on their Saturday morning tee time, not their Tuesday or Friday tee times) and Cars ‘n’ Coffee events to chat with other men in cargo shorts who have similar cars.
Then there is another level of wealth where you street park it in the center of London outside of your penthouse like it’s a fuckin’ 15yr old Honda Fit with no hubcaps. If When someone keys it or steals the wheels, you just buy a new one.
I live in a small state capital, Boise, and we still get occasional stopovers with expensive sports cars. I’ve seen 2-3 here in Boise over the years. I think it’s because we’re the only stopover between Seattle/Portland and Salt Lake. My guess is they were traveling around, stopping here, Salt Lake and then on to Denver or Las Vegas.
I live in. Super tiny farm town north of Sacramento. We have a super rich dude who invented some part or all of something related to how they are able to shake walnut trees and catch the nuts. He bought his wife a lambo for their anniversary like 15-20 years ago. Haven’t ever seen another besides theirs lol
im from boise and lived in slc & was gonna say i dont think i’ve ever seen a nice car like that in either of those places, you need a car for the weather so its subaru central hahahaha
Yeah the supercars are more evenly spread across Western Europe with concentrated areas though for example around racetracks or areas like the Münsterland or Munich/Hamburg while the US have them concentrated in big cities and thinly spread out over barely populated or rural areas. Big luxury cars regardless of age and remaining worth are most commonly found in Eastern Europe.
There's special parking spots at the malls here in Bangkok for people with cars like this (out from so the mall can show off how rich its customers are) and there's always one or two sitting out front.
But.... lots of people with way way way way way way way too much money come here to hide.
When I lived in Hong Kong about 20 years ago, I looked down from our apartment (21st floor) and saw about 30 fancy sports cars in the parking lot of a fancy restaurant. Hubby took the toddler down to have a look. They were Ferraris and it was some kind of a group meetup/gathering. He said quite a few of them were flown in from countries in the region. I thought Hong Kong Island was a weird place to have their gathering as you can’t really go zipping around super fast. Mainland Hong Kong made more sense to me.
My friend and I were in Merchantville, New Jersey, a subset of Pennsauken in Camden County, tripping on acid when we saw this amazing white spaceship parked outside of the candy store. I had never seem a Countach before, not even on TV. The guy came out out a 3' tall chocolate Easter bunny and rotated the passenger door open to strap it in.
He didn't so much pull out as launch down the street, hitting 30mph in 2 seconds. "Did we really just see that?!"
Go a little west of philly to Lancaster, and they're all over the damn place. My brother in law has one, and he has 4-5 friends that have one (one of them has several now), and there's a huge group of guys that get together semi frequently.
I get it. There is a car museum in a small town in Atlanta suburbs. It does not have newer cars, but they have car shows, but it is just a cool museum. The car shows bring in amazingly beautiful cars.
Even within cities. LA has so many full on cities within its county borders. If you go to Inglewood you probably won't see any, no matter how long you hang out. If you go to Rodeo Drive you'll see as many $300,000 cars as you'll see normal everyday cars. In San Diego you'll see a super car commonly enough, but go up to La Jolla and you'll see them every few blocks. There's even a stretch of road with a Bugatti, Lamborghini, and McLaren dealership all back to back to back, with a classic car dealer not much farther up the street.
I mean... barely tho...
from wiki
The 48 contiguous states and the District of Columbia occupy a combined area of 3,119,885 square miles
With Alaska and Hawaii its 3,809,525 square miles
Europe covers approx. 10,186,000 square kilometres (3,933,000 sq mi)
no... bc hes comparing it to tiny cities/states (which comprise the nation). JUXTAPOSITION. see how that word is now obviously more important than the other? its a sign to learn and internalize that word.
yes it is dude... hes talking about the frequency of finding cars... if you're in a less populated area... or in a place of low gdp per capita... youre probably not going to find the car... hes using a simplified codex of AMERICA to communicate that idea...
...as a response to how prevalent said cars are in Europe. And, you won't believe this. Europe ALSO has a variance in both GDP and population density!!!! And the point of bringing up the US to communicate this idea still remains an absolute mystery to anyone with any sense.
I think youre missing the point...
Europe is highly developed with very low rural communities. Most of Europe is STACKED. super high dense, even their 'rural' communities have 5-10x most of USA's rural population density. Most of USA is not stacked, its rural af.
From Wiki
Rural areas in the United States, often referred to as rural America, consist of approximately 97% of the United States' land area
Rural Europe on the other hand is 80%
If we take the inverse
3% of USA is non-rural
20% of Europe is non-rural
that's a 6.6x multiple of USA. Which is NUTTTY!
think of Germany. 85m people living in a tiny state... its 50% of the size of Texas. which has a population of 35m people.
when people think of the USA they might think of cities, but the vast majority is rural super depopulated areas
I see them in Tampa area on the regular... probably one every week or two. Depends on where you drive, but they aren't that uncommon. And a few in the neighborhoods around me too.
I can take photos of a lambo, ferrari, rolls, benley, and g wagon on all the same floor tomorrow. Houston. Those cities you mentioned are by far not the only ones with flashy cars.
There are a ton of super cars in Orlando. I think any city with a population of over a million in a large populated state is going to have a lot of super cars.
2.2k
u/abfaver Feb 19 '25
The only time I have ever seen them was when I live in California over 20 years ago. I havent seen one on the road ever since (Delaware/Phili area)