Warranty Up!!!!
10-13-2004, 11:54 PM
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Originally Posted by red_rx8_red_int
I agree! Why buy a car to be a weekend queen? I understand dedicated race cars where the suspension will kill you during a commute. But for any other car purpose, I buy it to drive it. If you can't handle the depreciation of the high miles than buy another less expensive car. In other words, if your budget is say 10k per year in total cost, then you could buy an expensive (overly IMHO, but I think VALUE is the most important factor) porsche and only drive it on the weekends, keep it for 4-5 years and sell it with 10-15k miles at a pretty hefty price. Total cost of ownership is x dollars. Or you could buy a less expensive RX-8, and drive it daily and sell it 4-5 years later with 150-200k miles for a pretty cheap price and the total cost is still x dollars. To me, the 8 buyer is much better off. A little less performance but much more time in the car is my ticket.
10-14-2004, 12:00 AM
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even the newer ferraris will hold up to daily driving well. Ferrari CEO insisted that a major design principle of the Modena was to have much more maintainability than a 355.
Sure maintenance is a lot more expensive than other cars but (1) that person is driving a ferrari, and (2) that person bought a ferrari.
Sure maintenance is a lot more expensive than other cars but (1) that person is driving a ferrari, and (2) that person bought a ferrari.
10-14-2004, 08:32 AM
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50,000 miles averaging say 18 MPG equates to 2777 gallons of fuel at $2.50 a gallon comes to $6,944.44 in gas in 1 year. HOLY ISH.
If I drove that much I wouldn't have got rid of my 32MPG Honda...
If I drove that much I wouldn't have got rid of my 32MPG Honda...
10-15-2004, 06:52 AM
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Originally Posted by RotaryNoob
50,000 miles averaging say 18 MPG equates to 2777 gallons of fuel at $2.50 a gallon comes to $6,944.44 in gas in 1 year. HOLY ISH.
Luckily a project at my furthest flung customer has come to a halt, otherwise I'd have cracked 50k in a year too. As it is, I've done 6500 in under two months.
To whoever suggested doing a long commute in a cheap runaround... nope! You've obviously never tried it, drives you nuts. Worth having a nice car -just- to do that in if you ask me.
10-15-2004, 07:38 PM
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Lambert,
If I remember correctly, you live in the Cullman area. You better answer these folks, or I'll have to come over & find you.
But of course, you don't spend much time at home, obviously....
If I remember correctly, you live in the Cullman area. You better answer these folks, or I'll have to come over & find you.
But of course, you don't spend much time at home, obviously....
10-15-2004, 09:39 PM
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Originally Posted by cgrx
DAMN ! I have about 23K in 8 months and I thought I drove a lot ! JEEZ !
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10-20-2004, 09:36 AM
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Originally Posted by bernieunger
His dealer told him to drive it like he stole it and he never stopped.
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