Good For New Buyers , A Rip Off For Owners

[Yaris Hilton]

Originally Posted by Bob Dog

It does aggravate me that to see perfectly funtional vehicles that could have served so many of purposes destroyed like so much garbage: the commuter vehicles of the poor, the vehicles that are used by recyclers to haul scrap, the mobile homes of the homeless, the winter beaters people who live in regions where salt and winter would otherwise destroy newer cars, trucks used to haul firewood and other destructive agricultural commodities, the work trucks of handymen and landscapers.The list goes on and on. Let them drive new vehicles sounds like let them eat cake to me. As a frugal person who believes in getting all the useful life out of manufactured goods, it disgusts me. I sure people in the third world are looking at this an saying wtf are they thinking.

I agree completely. "Waste not, want not." I'm glad I don't have to watch 'em drain the oil out of the engine, fill it with sodium silicate solution, and run it till it seizes. A particularly barbaric way to kill a car.

I've got to get a little maintenance work done on my "clunker" before taking the family to the beach with it. It also serves as my "truck" with a trailer behind it, and my knockaround vehicle for going places like the rifle range where I don't want to take the shiniest, newest one. No way in blue blazing hell is the government going to destroy it for a $4500 discount on an overpriced new vehicle. But its retail value as a used car is $725, according to one of those online sites. Fine. I'm not planning to sell it anyway. As long as I can reasonably keep it fixed up, I'll run it till the wheels fall off and won't go back on.