lol - 2% increase every 6 days. hmm, by end of year... I don't want to do the math.
Cars have gotten more expensive.
Sure would like to have the GTO though.
Don't forget all the stupid stuff it does that you don't need it to do. I just want a car with good mileage and a CD player. They don't make that anymore. Everything is bluetooth or media stick compatible.
I would too I wrapped it up in bovine in 1973!
Don't forget ...70,000 miles was considered worn out. 100,000 miles was something to brag about. Typical warranty would be a year and 12000 miles.
I know where there is a nice one in a mans barn. I bet he never did price it to you LOL!
Yes I do but he wants to spend more on it first.
The stock market is rough...but the best advice was Buffet's...he said....the stock market takes away money from the impatience and give it to the patience. I had to learn very careful where the bottoms in stock are (wait and wait for the bottom to occur)...buy at those bottoms....see it GO EVEN LOWER...wait 3 to 6 months and then sell at an 18% to 60% gain. The stock market is ALL a physiological game...you HAVE to BE Prepared to play with some very big boys that are seeking to take away you money. They give you a mental shaking and laugh when you sell out lower than when you bought. I refuse to give them that satisfaction so I lay in wait for those bottoms and buy then. Never take tips from MSN and other financial pundits...they are trying to unload stock companies that are in trouble. I like to buy no news stocks with P/E ratios below 10 that fall for no reason other than people get tired of them or moved to what they perceive as greener fields...only then the fields become green. Set-up a nice safe dividend portfolio for utility stocks...everyone pays their utilities..and the dividends are nice.
That was back when you could buy your neighbor's car for $30. to $100. used.
Nothing wrong with Tinkering...i do it too. I have some of those good reasonable company penny stocks 8 to 12 cents....that i'm hoping for a four to 8 fold increase. Bread and butter dividend portfolio and then your risk-on 8 fold increases i call them. What fun is it holding a $60. /share stock that floats from $53. to $74. over the course of 5 years....THAT's NO FUN!!!! Tinkering is fun...risk is fun....that is "safe risk"...as safe as you can make it studying the company. Big fan of newcomers in junior energy and junior mining stocks. I'll ride their new coattails to hell or heaven....hoping for heaven.
Agreed,
I totally understand that the quality of vehicles has gone through the roof. And I get that it's amazing what they can do. But it drives me up a wall that there's so much on there that's computerized and un-needed.
Just about every electronic piece has some built-in diagnostic functions that can usually help with major failures but not that great overall. For instance, you can tell if a sensor is shorted to ground or a voltage source but if it's just not accurate then there's really nothing to tell you otherwise. Mechanics rely on these "features" a lot these days.
You drive by wire today.
Wife and I are both retired so the only reliable vehicle we need is one to go to the Dr. Otherwise the old 95 Toyota 218,000 miles does the farming, 2001 Dodge 3500 184,000 miles pulls the cattle trailer, and a 94 Jeep Cherokee 315, 000 miles does the bear hunting and fishing.
