[Vwdiesel] Re:thanks

[Doyt W. Echelberger]

--- Scott Kair <> wrote:
 > Thanks to all those who responded to my queries
 > about the ECO Diesel
 > I've been offered. I'm scheduled to go look at it
 > in depth this evening,
 > barring a normal Illinois springtime weather
 > calamity, and expect being able
 > to work out the deal. I've checked through Kelly
 > Blue Book, NADA Guide and
 > Edmunds and know what a dealer would have offered
 > for trade in- although an
 > "average trade in price" for one of 47 cars of that
 > vintage is imaginative.
 >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>
It isn't an ECOdiesel, but...........I bought my 1985 Jetta TD used in
January, 1988, for $6,000 and it had 30,000 miles on the clock. I had been
looking for that model for two years.  Dealers only got one copy that year,
and many dealers kept it as a demonstrator, and then passed it around
within the dealer's family for the next year......daughter, son, brother, etc.

So, $6000 in 1988, and it is 12 years later. Conventional wisdom says
depreciate it at $500 a year and it would now be valued at zero.  Actually,
I wouldn't sell it for less than $3,000 because it gets 40 miles to a
gallon and the fuel costs $1.40, and it handles and rides very nicely, and
has a huge trunk. It hasn't rusted, and the AC is the coldest I have ever
had on a car.

It may be the best automotive investment In ever made.

Doyt Echelberger