Hannah Elliott
The Navigator
Judgement in the fog, money, risk and the call others cannot make.
Hannah Elliott operates as The Navigator in a rarified world where aspiration, engineering, and serious money collide, and her counsel carries the steadiness of experience rather than the flash of a showman. She maps the terrain for buyers, what defines a supercar, how to spec one wisely, how to carry yourself behind the wheel. Elliott does not simply review.
“And he's just a very articulate mechanic, and he will put them back together and either keep them or sell them. Cool. But if you really want to get into the nitty gritty of what goes into, and I've bought a couple of salvage title cars when I was looking for the stick shift M6, there were two for sale.”
“Which occasionally scares the hell out of oncoming drivers or my wife. And so when we got this, I always had it off in the mechanic because it just made this horrible buzzing noise. But in this, it's a very subtle vibe. Now, you could set it in the controls, so off medium hard. I want it hard.”
“And I was a member of some car club, and they would do these outings. And one day someone said to me, you know Long Island, plan a route. What do you want us to do? Take us out. So I plan a route out to the Hamptons and then back to a place called Wolseworf in Bayville. And it was a whole day of driving.”
“I was probably doing 50, but it felt like, but anyway, so when he suddenly and unexpectedly passed away, it was one of those, it wasn't even a midlife crisis. It was life is short. What are you waiting for? And so I go out online and I start, all I know is I want stick shift, horsepower, and convertible. And I start hunting things down.”
Masters in Business: “At the Money: How to Buy a Supercar”
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