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Originally Posted by pj67coll
There is no car in my opinion that does what is needed better than a 123. Certainly not sufficiently to justify the increased cost and complexity. Not when you really think about what a car is needed for. So the best strategy from my point of view is to find one, or two if possible and keep them in decent shape with the only real project being to fix/upgrade/modernize etc the A/C unit.
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Based on what's parked in my driveway, I seem to agree with you. AC isn't much of an issue in northern Nevada though, so mine will be staying broken for the foreseeable future.
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Even a beetle would be fine as around here it would be fine as a winter car when the A/C is not needed and is even simpler than a 240. Nothing to leak out of it but a bit of engine oil. No power steering, no ATF, no engine coolant etc. I like that design spec.
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I've never driven a Beetle, so I'm merely speculating here. I think they might be a bit underpowered for highway use. I'm rather a fan of the slightly revised version, of which I've driven many examples. I refer to the one where they took the basic Beetle, squished it down a bit, fitted bigger tires and two extra cylinders, and then wrote the number for emergency services on the back. Unfortunately, other people are on to this idea so a good one is very hard to find for under twenty grand, and the last air cooled ones are getting near twenty years old.
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Of course all this applies to broke carachters like me  This calculation is of course meaningless to someone with enough money to just buy or lease a new vehicle without noticing it but that's not my situation so I have to consider other aspects of the motoring cost vs beneffit calculation.
- Peter.
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Since you mention it, I've been after a job in Reno that would triple my commute distance. The pay increase compared to my current job would fund a new car, so I've been considering the relative merits of a Scion FRS vs a BMW 320i and some others. I need to land the job first.
07-19-2014, 08:49 PM
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