A gal was telling me about the first car she bought, new, off the lot...it was a Ford Taurus. About $20K.
Still needed gas, oil, filters, the normal everyday stuff, plus the new-car insurance cost and monthly payment to the bank...
One year later, her husband goes to the same lot, buys the same style car, w/only 13K on the odometer and pays only $11K. (BTW, hers has about 23K on the meter...
) He has a car payment, but nowhere near what hers is...
She's a bit pissed...and the other "goat" that got her? Her husband was able to buy his car in the color that she wanted, but was too impatient to wait for!
Me? Unless I'm lighting $100.00 bills for light in a dark room, it will be a used (but well cared for) car for me...
If you "bank" the money that you'd spend on a car payment, every month, when those little PITA problems come up, it won't sock you in the gut to roll out the bank-book and slap a few C-notes on the counter when you come to pick up your baby.
Besides, I'm a cheap SOB and I can't imagine giving someone $5,000-$7,000 of my hard-earned cash just so they can laugh behind my back as they hand me a set of minimally used keys to a demo-driven lunker...
I'm enjoying the fact that I have an original MB, from 1977, that was stickered around $33,000.00 when new. And I got it for only $1,500.00. It's in good shape and is still a head-turner this many years later. I don't care if it takes 10 seconds to get up to 50mph from a STOP sign, but when it's revving at 70mph and some ricer comes along side and thinks he going to get ahead of me...I enjoy the fact that while I'm ahead of him the full time, he doesn't have the nads to keep it up and always backs off and down around 90mph...I let him pull in behind me and he stays put...and I didn't have to put the pedal to the floor.
And, I maybe have to add 3/4 quart of Mobil1 0W40 before every 3K miles.
Damn, that 280E is nice!
