[Vwdiesel] Re:thanks

[Robert L. Coyle, Jr.]

--- "Doyt W. Echelberger" <Doyt at buckeye-express.com>
wrote:
> --- 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.

It has been said that a Volkswagen Diesel is the last
car you'll ever own, because you buy it once and keep
it for a lifetime.

Robert


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