Cash & Cars Winner takes cash over CCX

[a social dsease]

Here's the story.

http://www.cbc.ca/canada/north/story...r.html?ref=rss

The guy who won the Koenigsegg CCX lives in a remote town in NWT that doesn't even have any paved roads! Pretty obvious choice to take the cash..
Glad to see the money went to someone who deserves it however, I hope this helps him with his cancer treatment and the associated costs.

[Kloubek]

As great of a car as it is, I would have easily taken the cash as well. I probably couldn't afford a damn muffler for the car.

[Trini]

yea I would take the cash as well

is the list of winners up?

[Eleanor]

Originally posted by a social dsease
Glad to see the money went to someone who deserves it however, I hope this helps him with his cancer treatment and the associated costs.

Stories like this are good to hear. I wish you luck in your fight Louie

[Tik-Tok]

Good for him (bastard... should have been mine)

Really though, I bet if he kept the car, he could have sold it for a lot more than a million.

[E36M3]

Are you kidding? He wouldn't get more than 500k for it.. you can buy them at the official dealership in Vegas and they are hardly flying off the shelves. Not sure if you noticed the global economic meltdown or not, but it isn't helping swedish supercar sales.

Originally posted by Tik-Tok
Good for him (bastard... should have been mine)

Really though, I bet if he kept the car, he could have sold it for a lot more than a million.

[FilthyMcNasty]

oh man i bought 3 tickets to the lottery, hoping to win the ccx. at least a cancer patient who could use some happiness won. I wonder where the car is going to end up though?

[ZorroAMG]

Yeah, cause a cancer fighting man from a nowhere town in NWT should find it in his best interest to try and sell a million+ car. Was that a serious post?

Congrats, Louie!

[badatusrnames]

Originally posted by Kloubek
As great of a car as it is, I would have easily taken the cash as well. I probably couldn't afford a damn muffler for the car.

Insurance, maintenance. How many people could afford to keep the car?

[2002civic]

why is the prize winner list not up yet?

[JfuckinC]

lol norman wells!
my friends go up there to make snow for ice roads sometimes imagine the ccx on an ice road!!

[A790]

Originally posted by badatusrnames


Insurance, maintenance. How many people could afford to keep the car?

I don't think they actually intended for the winner to take the car. It's just too impractical- even a Ferrari or a Lambo is somewhat "practical" given they cost significantly less than $1,000,000. This car was more for the symbolic value. After all, they even secured a buyer from the US beforehand

[Redlyne_mr2]

A part of me would have probably kept the car..

[Destinova403]

any word on when the winners list is going to be posted up?

[clem24]

Man another out of town winner. Ok I have no problems with this guy winning the car/1M, but seriously... Has anyone else noticed that anytime there are these big lotteries, it seems 90% of the TOP winners are usually from some dinky town, and almost never from Calgary or Edmonton??? And if you go down the list of winners of the biggest prizes, also the same thing. I am going to have to assume most of the tickets are sold locally with a minority being sold to smaller markets. But something either isn't right or just truly weird.

[Xtrema]

I would have take the cash as well. No place to run that car in Calgary unless you want to be like certain white Lambo owner.

Taking a mil and pay $300K for a Lambo or AM still leave you $700K to maintain it and live a baller life.

[chkolny541]

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[rp_guy]

Originally posted by clem24
Man another out of town winner. Ok I have no problems with this guy winning the car/1M, but seriously... Has anyone else noticed that anytime there are these big lotteries, it seems 90% of the TOP winners are usually from some dinky town, and almost never from Calgary or Edmonton??? And if you go down the list of winners of the biggest prizes, also the same thing. I am going to have to assume most of the tickets are sold locally with a minority being sold to smaller markets. But something either isn't right or just truly weird.

how many of you guys are buying 10 tickets at a time though?

[clem24]

Originally posted by rp_guy


how many of you guys are buying 10 tickets at a time though?

Shouldn't matter how many tickets you hold. The highest concentration of winners should be where the highest concentration of ticket sales are.

[Ripper]

Release the rest of the winners damnit! Although I'm assuming all the top prize winners have already been contacted.