[V8] Why you stick a V8....

[dsaad at icehouse.net]

I agree on all counts Roger.
I have a hard time even thinking about spending $30+K on a new car, only to have
the fuel become next to impossible to get before the warranty runs out.
There are more than just a few sane and knowledgable people who say we are at
peak oil right now.
Add China and the rest of the developing world to the consumption pie and you
(we) have a problem.
If the bonehead in chief succedes in starting a nuclear war in Iran, we may be
going back to burning cow chips for steam anyway.

Dave

Quoting "Roger M. Woodbury" <rmwoodbury at adelphia.net>:

> I really think that in three decades or so we will have had to come to grips
> with the inevitability that fossil fuels are not in infinite supply.  I
> think also that this country will likely have found a real leader who has
> decided to tell all the truth, and this country will have weaned itself away
> from foreign oil as a means of doing much of anything that is important,
> like generation of electricity and providing mobility for the populace.
> There will be examples of internal combustion engines that reside in museums
> around the country, but the cars that we drive now will be truly antique in
> terms of engineering and propulsion.
>
> This then may be yet another reason to buy old cars now.  EVERY facet of
> automobile ownership is far less expensive when a used car is purchased
> carefully.  As I was driving home yesterday evening I stopped for fuel for
> my wife's 100CS.  The last time I had filled the car was in Augusta on
> Thursday morning.  We drove to South Portland, and did our business there,
> returning on Thursday evening before seven, having put around 300 miles on
> the car since that morning.  Yesterday we put nearly 80 more and when I got
> to the gas station, the car had just 405 miles on the odometer, and took
> around 17 gallons of fuel.  This car will be in service here for another
> 100,000 miles before we consider doing anything else, because regardless of
> the price of premium fuel, it gets cheaper an cheaper to drive the car per
> mile than anything else would be.
>
> Early in March the car goes into the shop for a routine service.  It needs
> an oil change, and I am having all the fluids changed at this point as well.
> It will also need to have a strange squeaking sound from the left front axel
> investigated...not a clicking, so it is not likely to be a universal joint,
> but an odd metallic squeaking sound when the wheel is turned hard to the
> right.  It will also have plugs and wires as it stumbles on starting when
> cold in heavy rain and high humidity, but other than routine stuff, the car
> is running wonderfully and my wife loves it.  Since it is her car primarily,
> that is what counts.
>
> Roger
>
> From: Kent McLean [mailto:kentmclean at mindspring.com]
> Sent: Saturday, February 18, 2006 9:10 AM
> To: Roger M. Woodbury
> Cc: 'V8 Audi Fans'
> Subject: Re: [V8] Why you stick a V8....
>
> Roger M. Woodbury wrote:
>  > My father is still driving in his nineties, so I plan on
>  > needing a daily driver for three decades....I doubt that
>  > the 20 Valve will last that long.
>
> Unless Audi changes its tune and comes up with a heritage
> program, I doubt a 2006 Audi will last that long.
>
> --
> Kent McLean
> '94 100 S Avant, "Moody"
> '89 200 TQ, "Bad Puppy" up in smoke
>
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