Jose Guillen Has an Expensive Speed Habit

Jose Guillen is addicted to speed, and it's getting quite expensive. Relax, I'm not talking about amphetamines, I'm referring to his constantly rotating selection of luxury sports cars. In an interview with the Seattle Times, he admits to owning as many as nine at a time, though lately he's cut his collection down to about half of that size, including a Mercedes Benz S-65, a Porsche Cayenne Turbo, a Ferrari and a Lamborghini.

A guy who's out of town for half of the summer with more cars than he knows what to do with ... you'd think it'd be fun to be his friend, right? Not so fast -- Guillen apparently skipped that day in kindergarten when they taught how to share:

Guillen owns a luxury apartment in Santo Domingo and had four parking stalls to keep some of his cars there. He has employees to wax and shine them, or to vacuum the interior.

But only Guillen drives the cars to the gas station. Guillen is very superstitious and his cars are like his bats. If someone else uses them, he throws them away.

"I don't like seeing someone driving my car," he said. "For me, it's like: 'Might as well sell it'."

Funny, I used to know a guy in college who was like that with the girls he dated. In any case, it's not only paying for the actual cars that has done a number on Guillen's wallet but also the tickets that come with it, as well as the hours spent in driving school trying to clean up his record:

"I've been going to school quite a bit trying to get the [demerit] points taken off my license," he said of classes for traffic violators he has attended in Miami. "But that's something you really can't control. When you're in one of these fast cars, you think you're going 40 and you're really going 100 because these cars go so nice and smooth."

Ain't that the truth. It gets pretty annoying after awhile, which is why I stick with domestic four-door sedans.