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My dad bought one of these: It cost him $67,000 with $20k worth of avionics in it. Then it was annihilated in a hailstorm so he cashed the insurance check and bought another for $65k with a Banks turbonormalizer. 25,000ft ceiling, 200 knot cruising speed, 1100 knot range. Now, I don't want a plane. But I found myself comparing things to it. Scion FR-S? half a Mooney Unit. 2015 Corvette? 1.1 Mooney Units. Lamborghini Aventador? Like 9 Mooney Units. From a marginal utility standpoint it ceased to make sense to spend a lot of money on a car. Because while purchase, insurance, hangaring and gas sure buys a lot of airline tickets, it still makes more sense to have a fast plane than a fast car, at least an expensive one.