The rich in America can afford to buy super-luxury autos-and many do. But car connoisseurs increasingly are purchasing time shares in fancy cars. Over the past year, George Johnson, owner of a New Jersey construction company, has spent about $30,000 for a total of 90 days' drive time in a Lamborghini Murcielago and a Bentley Continental GT, among other pricey rides. "It's not worth it to buy one of these cars when you have to fix them," says Johnson, a customer of Gotham Dream Cars, which sells fractional shares in trophy cars in New York and Miami (minimum package: 20 days, about $9,000). Gotham President Noah Lehmann-Haupt says the costs and hassles of insuring and garaging exotic cars driven just now and then, and the rise in U.S. millionaires since 2000, are feeding his business.
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