| Re: Car suggestions [message #789378 ] |
Sun, 23 July 2006 21:01 |
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"Dr Zoidberg" <AlexNOOOO!!!!!!! [at] drzoidberg.co.uk> wrote in message
news:4ihhjjF3qelpU1 [at] individual.net...
> Higgins [at] work wrote:
>> Dr Zoidberg wrote:
>>> Ben wrote:
>>>> On Sun, 23 Jul 2006 13:01:22 +0100, steve [at] italiancar.co.uk (SteveH)
>>>> wrote:
>>>>> People remember their old MkI Escorts and Hillman Avengers being
>>>>> scrap by 80k miles. If not from first hand experience, they'll have
>>>>> heard it from their fathers etc.
>>>>>
>>>>> We're one of the few markets in Europe where mileage counts for so
>>>>> much.
>>>>
>>>> In my experience, mechanically vehicles are sound at high mileages
>>>> these days.
>>>>
>>
>>> Running a newer car means you'll be paying more in depreciation ,
>>> usually in loan repayments ,
>>
>> I think you actually mean your paying depreciation plus the interest
>> on loan repayments.
>
> You don't pay "depreciation".
> You pay for an object that will be worth less in future which will either
> mean paying for it from savings and losing the interest you would have got
> or getting a loan.
> Either way you are losing money because of interest
Yeah, what you've *really* got to do is have enough money in the bank it
doesn't matter a toss which way you pay. If the interest your money earns
can pay for whatever it is you buy in a few days, just splurge out and buy
it and say bollocks to the sums.
>
>> Being stereotypical, it just sticks in my craw to be paying interest
>> on a depreciating asset.
>
> Same as buying absolutely anything on credit ,
Same as buying anything at all, in fact.
and at least a vehicle does
> have some resale value unlike most of the stuff you buy which is used till
> it gets binned
My cars (these days) generally have the same value when I sell them as when
I buy 'em. Fuck all:-)
--
Beav
VN 750
Zed 1000
OMF# 19
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| Re: Car suggestions [message #789382 ] |
Sun, 23 July 2006 21:19 |
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Dr Zoidberg wrote:
> Higgins [at] work wrote:
> > Dr Zoidberg wrote:
> >> Ben wrote:
> >>> On Sun, 23 Jul 2006 13:01:22 +0100, steve [at] italiancar.co.uk (SteveH)
> >>> wrote:
> >>>> People remember their old MkI Escorts and Hillman Avengers being
> >>>> scrap by 80k miles. If not from first hand experience, they'll have
> >>>> heard it from their fathers etc.
> >>>>
> >>>> We're one of the few markets in Europe where mileage counts for so
> >>>> much.
> >>>
> >>> In my experience, mechanically vehicles are sound at high mileages
> >>> these days.
> >>>
> >
> >> Running a newer car means you'll be paying more in depreciation ,
> >> usually in loan repayments ,
> >
> > I think you actually mean your paying depreciation plus the interest
> > on loan repayments.
>
> You don't pay "depreciation".
> You pay for an object that will be worth less in future which will either
> mean paying for it from savings and losing the interest you would have got
> or getting a loan.
I understand the principle but I was quoting your comment. Whatever way
you look at it, you're dropping shedloads and paying (or losing)
interest for the privilege.
I guess it's each to their own but our car hardly turns a wheel during
the week so I'd be dropping a stack on a driveway ornament.
--
John
'00 SV650S
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| Re: Car suggestions [message #789390 ] |
Sun, 23 July 2006 21:29 |
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Higgins [at] work wrote:
> I guess it's each to their own but our car hardly turns a wheel during
> the week so I'd be dropping a stack on a driveway ornament.
And if that was my usual amount of driving I'd be happy with a much cheaper
conveyance.
At the mo though I do 30k miles a year and drive it every day so I want
something I'm comfortable in and enjoy driving.
That and I get a car allowance which pays for it :0)
--
Alex
Piece by piece the penguins have taken my sanity
www.drzoidberg.co.uk www.ebayfaq.co.uk
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| Re: Car suggestions [message #789422 ] |
Sun, 23 July 2006 22:30 |
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On Sun, 23 Jul 2006 13:52:15 GMT, wessie <putmynamehere [at] tesco.net>
wrote:
>Iwane Matsui?
Euan MacShuie?
--
Chris
VN1500-j1 (Gertrude) Twice the fun at half the speed.
chris.desclayes at ffcc dot powernet dot co dot uk
But minus one "f"
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| Re: Car suggestions [message #789472 ] |
Sun, 23 July 2006 23:57 |
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We were somewhere around Barstow, on the edge of the desert, when the
drugs began to take hold. I remember ChrisDC <news [at] 127.0.0.1> saying
something like:
>On Sun, 23 Jul 2006 13:52:15 GMT, wessie <putmynamehere [at] tesco.net>
>wrote:
>
>>Iwane Matsui?
>
>Euan MacShuie?
Shuey McHooyey?
--
Dave
GS850x2 XS650 SE6a
Every post contains Nutri-Ceramide-R and Pre-Biotics
for your reading pleasure.
Folding [at] Home Team UKRM http://www.tinyurl.com/jkxwv
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| Re: OT: Car suggestions [message #789515 ] |
Mon, 24 July 2006 01:22 |
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says...
> "Dan L" <dan.yodanet [at] gmail.com> wrote in message
> <4ie296F3cbjnU1 [at] individual.net>:
>=20
> >We got one of those for SWMBO last year, 1.6 Auto.
> >Very nice car, good quality feel to it.
> >
> >Not too pricey either, =A311k for a '55 plater with bugger all mileage
>=20
> How people justify (to themselves) spending 11k on a car is absolutely
> beyond me.
Because they can.
--=20
Lozzo
GSX-R1000 K1
GSF600SW
"Loz has a god, and this god of his has 16 valves" (tm) Pip, May '06
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| Re: OT: Car suggestions [message #789516 ] |
Mon, 24 July 2006 01:22 |
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Beav says...
> I actually like knowing that the total cost of my last car was less than =
a=20
> single monthly payment on my neighbours X5. *He* didn't seem to like it w=
hen=20
> I mentioned it to him though.
I like the fact that buying and rebuilding my Bindit cost me =A3100 less=20
than the price of a Maxton shock absorber for the Gixer.
--=20
Lozzo
GSX-R1000 K1
GSF600SW
"Loz has a god, and this god of his has 16 valves" (tm) Pip, May '06
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| Re: Car suggestions [message #789518 ] |
Mon, 24 July 2006 01:22 |
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SteveH says...
> ginge <the.gingeREMOVE [at] THISgmail.com> wrote:
>
> > In article <1hixn00.hv2rn616jnxvkN%steve [at] italiancar.co.uk>, SteveH
> > says...
> > > I refer you to the fact that Toyotas are cheaply built heaps of Japanese
> > > shite.[1]
> >
> > But IIRC also one of the most reliable heaps of Japanese
> > shite you could buy.
>
> Maybe. The quality of the interior is, however, shite.
Being the owner of several Italian cars would usually make you well
qualified to comment on shite interiors, but personally I think you're
talking out of your arse on this one.
I've done shitloads of work on both British and Japanese assembled
Toyotas and they are pretty well nailed together on the interior side of
things, as are all the other Japanese cars I've worked on. German cars
do seem to be a little tougher, but Japanese cars will last as well if
cared for.
--
Lozzo
GSX-R1000 K1
GSF600SW
"Loz has a god, and this god of his has 16 valves" (tm) Pip, May '06
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