As far as the polygon count, It depends on its use and inteded result. Yeah spending $1 to by a car sounds like and sometimes is a good Idea, Sometimes you want to spend $300,000 to get the McLaren F1! Just depends on what you WILL do with it.

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Once again Michael beats my post so I seem redundent....Please refer to the post just previous to this one.
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