Lifetime Premium is a bargain! 👍
However, it's purely (from my point of view)
just to get rid of the adverts!
Put it this way. Before Premium existed,
Jordan ran a bloody good site, but had to deal with something that spiralled way out of control beyond what he reasonably expected a niche site to be to Gran Turismo fans! It literally exploded with interest in the GT games, and became much more than that as friendships are forged, and interests outside of GT were realised and shared. In order to compensate for this and pay for the additional server space and bandwidth, one is either forced to dig deep into ones own pockets, or sell advertising space. (Don't get me started on Sales & Marketing folks....
) It's what had to be done to keep a well oiled, and spotless machine, well, well oiled and spotless! Personally I think
Jordan has found the perfect way to keep us entertained, and if we're willing to subsidise it then so much the better, I mean, as far as we know he's not some 65 year old multi-millionaire who is on the take from all of us, (feel free to step in and correct me if I'm wrong of course!!!) but a regular kid like the rest of us, without the deep pockets to keep on financing and financing the growth of the site by himself, but who has now built a good solid platform from which to launch the rest of his career from (as well a keeping GT Planet ticking over
) 👍 (And how many of us wish we'd thought of it first?!!! 💡)
Premium is the way that you can get rid of all that unnecessary bombardment from internet ads.
You pay for the priviledge of not dealing with countless
"Congratulations, You've been selected to receive 2 free* Apple iPhones" nonesense.
*N.B. "Free" in Marketing speak means you sign away any rights you may previously have had to keeping any dignity you previously had! 
The Premium forum is there, but to my mind, that's not what Premium is about......is it worth visiting? Cough up & find out!!!
Premium Platinum? Huh! Do me a favour.
There's really no need. Those of us that're Premium do it for a reason,
no adverts! It's not a status thing! Ok, it's easier for some of us to justify $50 than others, but that's the way the world works! I earned it, I'm spending it! You haven't earned it? Then it's not yours to spend!!!!
It's not an exclusive club for longtime members or members who post a lot, I'm aware of members who've been here >5 years, have 10,000 posts, and yet there are members whove been here 3 months, posted 6 times, and still bought Premium.
The PM box size is nice, a larger avatar, well, I suppose it stands out a little more (if you have artistic talent, which sadly, I lack in abundance!!!!
)
Here's something to bear in mind though, Premium doesn't come with any guarantees. If you're a low quality poster, don't expect any favours come bannination time, just 'cos you're Premium. The AUP applies to each and every one of us, paid up, or not!!!
The cost of obtaining respect is priceless, especially in the situation I am in with the GF thread and everything. 👍 I will ignore the thread, so I won't go home, ending up ranting at myself. 
Also that is the reason why I put the few quotes in my signature. My e-life is in the gutter. 
