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Old 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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Old 04-24-2006, 12:58 PM   #2
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Old 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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Old 04-24-2006, 01:18 PM   #4
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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.
my default plan is to hold onto it until october for Snyde or JST or Zack.
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Old 04-24-2006, 01:21 PM   #5
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my default plan is to hold onto it until october for Snyde or JST or Zack.
I know what I said before, but I really wouldn't want or expect you to do so for me since I probably won't buy it. The others?
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Old 04-24-2006, 01:22 PM   #6
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What, no lecture from rumatt about getting rid of cars too early?
Not unless he tries to argue that getting rid of it now and buying something new will somehow save him money.
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Old 04-24-2006, 01:22 PM   #7
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my default plan is to hold onto it until october for Snyde or JST or Zack.
Now that's a dedicated 'mudgeon.
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Not unless he tries to argue that getting rid of it now and buying something new will somehow save him money.

Except when that argument is used only to justify a reason to buy something else
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Old 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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Old 04-24-2006, 04:33 PM   #10
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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.
you know the minute that i drive a "commuter" car that it's a lost cause, i think --the V is one of the slower cars in the household....giving up that sort of "speed flexibility" for gas economy would be hard to swallow. but i'm going to visit the idea.
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