[s-cars] S Car values

[Wylie Bean]

Hey Cal,
If you need a little more time on said soapbox I'll gladly yield mine to you.  Hear hear!
 
Wylie Bean
TheRingmeister at triad.rr.com
90 cq
91 90q20v
92 UrS4
08 Q7 3.6
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-----Original Message-----
From: "Jerry Scott" <jerryscott at wispertel.net>

Date: Tue, 28 Jul 2009 08:24:05 
To: Calvin Craig<calvinlc at earthlink.net>
Cc: s-car list<s-car-list at audifans.com>
Subject: Re: [s-cars] S Car values


I'll have what Calvin's having.
Jerry

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Calvin Craig" <calvinlc at earthlink.net>
To: "Jack Walker" <jack at walkerperformancegroup.com>; 
<s-car-list at audifans.com>
Sent: Monday, July 27, 2009 10:49 PM
Subject: Re: [s-cars] S Car values


> Yeah, but you'll lose more than $4500 on depreciation in the first year!
> This is why I never have understood buying a car new.  Let's see, I bought
> an '01 A6 5 years ago, and have literally spent less than $1k on repairs,
> and I bought it for $20k less than it sold for new.  So, if I do the math 
> in
> that instance, I could:
> A. Sell the car for $2500 and buy my used car for $20k less than list and
> pay $1k in maintenance costs, or
> B. Buy my brand new car for list price, pay $20k more, but at least I get
> that extra $2k out of the car
>
> Where I learned math, this is a no brainer.
>
> *Steps up on Soapbox*
> New cars are absolutely the worst investment of all time....sorry.  The
> $4500 offer, now just makes it a little less of a bad investment while
> junking perfectly running older cars that are the only thing some people 
> can
> afford to buy, especially in a recession.  This is all about enforcing 
> what
> some people perceive as a "green" agenda in Washington.  They've been 
> trying
> to do it for years in the classic car circles, because after all, those
> 1,000 1971 Camaros that are still on the road and average about 5k miles a
> year each are what is causing all this global warming, don't you know? 
> It's
> just now that we are in the business of printing money, handing it out, 
> and
> not worrying about what that same money will be worth tomorrow, they have
> permission to do it and a willing sponsor.
> *Steps down*
>
> --Calvin
>
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: s-car-list-bounces at audifans.com
> [mailto:s-car-list-bounces at audifans.com]On Behalf Of Jack Walker
> Sent: Monday, July 27, 2009 10:29 AM
> To: s-car-list at audifans.com
> Subject: [s-cars] S Car values
>
>
> Sad as it is the values of our cars at $4500 is somewhat attractive to
> consider, when looking the additional customer incentatives from dealers 
> on
> new cars.
>
> The true saddness comes when the car is crushed, and not availble for 
> resale
> of any of the parts.
> Which is worth quite a bit more to our group!
>
> Jack
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