Speed matters. Ask any pilot. Frustratingly, speed costs money and lots of speed, as the warbird set says, costs cubic money. In the single-engine piston world, we'd each love to blast across the sky over 230 knots in a Cessna TTX, yet for most, the exchequer doesn't quite stretch to the nearly three-quarters of a million dollars needed to buy one.
This is a companion discussion topic for the original entry at https://www.avweb.com/ownership/speed-buying-180-knots-for-180000