04-24-2006, 12:55 PM | #1 |
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Buy, sell or hold the V?
am pondering a simplification of life. the antique has its own destiny, but the V, while a fantastic car, is also highly underutilized by me since all that it sees is stop and go traffic in commuter duty.
i could do well for myself by moving into a more fuel efficient vehicle for commuting since i have on backup the vroom ability. if i could only have a single car, it would be the V, but as it is, it's just totally underused. thoughts?
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04-24-2006, 12:58 PM | #2 |
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04-24-2006, 01:16 PM | #3 |
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What, no lecture from rumatt about getting rid of cars too early?
Sell. Clyde'll put the V through the necessary paces. |
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04-24-2006, 02:42 PM | #9 |
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You will never justify the cost of a new car based on fuel mileage. If you want to get rid of the V, fine. Just don't kid yourself that you will be "saving" money by doing it b/c of it's bad gas mileage.
At my commute of 25 miles per day, I think I figured a 3 year break even point on buying a $2000 commuter car at $3/gallon. That's way to long to gamble on it making financial sense imo. I didn't figure in selling the V b/c I wouldn't, but your commuter car wouldn't cost $2k, either. |
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