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Smart Shopper Smart Shopper-Archives Depreciation: Foreign vs Domestic Vehicles 
70 messages, Last post on Jul 24, 2007 at 9:30 AM
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The one sure-fire way to avoid taking a beating on depreciation is to keep your vehicle until it has to be towed away to the junk yard. My 1985 Ford has over 250K on it and I finally think I have it broken in.  That old technology is a lot easier to fix too. Today I went out and it wouldn't start. On a new vehicle I would just tow it to the repair shop. Not with my old beater. I popped the hood, looked around, found a bad wire, patched it with duct tape and off I went. I bet I could still sell it for the $1500 I paid 10 years ago. |
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Replying to: oldfarmer50 (Jul 11, 2007 3:45 pm)
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Replying to: oldfarmer50 (Jul 11, 2007 3:45 pm) One day this Texan was in TN and he stopped to talk to a guy in hay field. The Texan asked how big his place was and the Tennessean replied he had 150 acres. The Texan said "Hell I can get my truck, drive all day, get up the next morning drive all day again, and then get up and do it a third day and still not get to the other end of my property in Texas." The Tennessean replied "Ya I used to drive a Chevrolet truck to"
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Replying to: joel0622 (Jul 11, 2007 4:02 pm)
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Replying to: british_rover (Jul 11, 2007 4:21 pm)  i guess it goes without saying the guys at the Chevy store tell the joke a little different then I do.
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Replying to: joel0622 (Jul 11, 2007 5:00 pm) I know all the Ford and Dodge ones but never heard one for Chevy.
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Replying to: british_rover (Jul 11, 2007 5:31 pm) Would I be a Ford man if I didn't? Chevy Cheapest Heap Ever Visioned Yet Can Hear Every Valve Yell Can Hear Every Valve Yelling Cannot Have Expensive Vehicle Yet Chevrolet Can Hear Every Valve Rattle On Long Extended Trips Car Has Extensive Valve Rattle On Long Extended Trips. Cheap Hardly Efficient Virtually Runs On Luck Every Time Cranks Hard Every Valve Rattles Oil Leaks Every Time Crappy Hot-Running Engines Very Rusted Out Lose Every Time BTW Kirtstie and Tidester are going to get us for being WAAAAAAAAAAYYYYYYYYYYY off topic
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Replying to: joel0622 (Jul 12, 2007 4:52 am) Err on topic... Depreciation bad domestics uhhh too many rebates err yeah something like that. |
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Replying to: british_rover (Jul 11, 2007 3:49 pm) I imagine I use duct tape on a lot of things I'm not suppose to.
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Replying to: oldfarmer50 (Jul 12, 2007 5:34 am) On topic - Some time next year, I expect my '07 Pontiac G6 with 8K miles (MSRP $22K) to be about the same resale value as my '05 Toyota Matrix 4WD XR with 40K miles (MSRP $20K). I've owned about 40 cars over 33 years and most of them were BIG 3 (American). I guess that I'm growing up, because I don't plan to trade until 2009 where I used to trade one of the three on average of every 8 months. 
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