At this price, I want two
The Autoextremist suspects that some of us may not know what we’re talking about, vehicle-wise:
Ask the average armchair auto “expert” out there what he or she wants in a car, and they’ll say something like this: “I want a car that looks like a Lamborghini, has the emissions of a daisy, the carbon footprint of a butterfly and costs no more than $10-$12,000. Oh, and by the way, when I’m done with it I expect to be able to bring it back and get a new one for the same price I paid three years ago.”
Actually, were it that clean and that cheap and that slow to depreciate, I wouldn’t care if it looked like a Pontiac Aztek. After all, I don’t have to look at it; I’m driving.
Wry Mouth »
21 August 2009 · 7:23 pm
Hatless in Hattiesburg sent me.
As for not needing to worry about the looks of the vehicle one is driving, I would have to add that *that* is one of the reasons I so loved my first two just-out-of-college cars: a Mercury Bobcat wagon ($300 from a friend), and my beloved white Pinto ($500).
Remember the days when your parents wouldn’t buy you a new car in high school? I do. ;o/
CGHill »
21 August 2009 · 7:37 pm
My first set of wheels was a battered (and, for all I could tell, deep-fried) ’66 Chevy II/Nova, which only made it over the $150 mark after I put in the stereo. (At the time, man did not live by AM alone.)
McGehee »
21 August 2009 · 8:59 pm
If I hadn’t already traced the decline of Western civilization to about 83 other factors, I’d trace it to kids in high school expecting to be bought new cars — and getting them.
Oh, well. Call it #84.
Jeffro »
21 August 2009 · 10:10 pm
I want more power, better mileage, cheap insurance and low property taxes (it’s a KS thing), too. Might as well dream big.
Donna B. »
21 August 2009 · 11:44 pm
I’ve owned plenty of new cars in my life, including a Corvette convertible. Now, I drive a 1998 model because it hasn’t left me stranded anywhere yet. When it does, I’ll get a different car, but probably not a new one ever again.
I simply no longer care what people think about me or what I drive.
Fishersville Mike »
23 August 2009 · 2:05 pm
Favre might just retire again…
Dustbury discusses what people want in their cars. Sounds like what the Obama administration expects health care to look like….