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By the time the Land Rover was built in 2003, the brand had already been bought by BMW and then shortly afterwards sold to Ford.
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04-12-2013, 01:47 PM | #17 |
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Auctions are a gamble. You can get royally screwed, or you can make out like a bandit.
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04-12-2013, 02:27 PM | #18 |
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the rule of thumb I was given years ago was "buy a 2 yr old car every 2 years" - the major depreciation will have already happened, it'll still be within warranty period and more likely to be reliable, and sell it before it gets to be too much trouble, and you're still going to get most of the value back out of it if you don't trash it.
Doesn't work for everything - but it's a fairly good starting philosophy Then again - what do I know - bought a Land Rover And whilst mooning over the new Aston Martins in a show room - musing about how nice it'd look parked in our driveway next to the Disco, Him looked at me and said "Gods woman don't you want at least one car that works!?"
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04-12-2013, 03:25 PM | #19 |
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04-12-2013, 03:31 PM | #20 |
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I guess they both sound bad, now that I think about it.
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04-12-2013, 03:42 PM | #21 | |
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04-12-2013, 03:43 PM | #22 |
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I resize them on my desktop using paint, then post.
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04-12-2013, 04:54 PM | #23 | |
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Today, a car with 40,000 miles is still a new car. Unfortunately, auto manufacturers, who could not maintain sufficient sales due to that model's quality, then sold cars to rental fleets at a loss. To maintain factory production. Notice few if any Toyotas, Hyundai, or Hondas in a rental fleet. Those manufacturers don't need rental sales to maintain production. As for Land Rover and Jaguar, well, those are now Indian companies. The Indians (Tata Motors?) are upgrading those those products. Consumer Reports' April issue is essential to the decision process. |
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04-12-2013, 05:02 PM | #24 | |
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04-12-2013, 08:01 PM | #25 |
Esnohplad Semaj Ton
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Thanks for the suggestion. I subscribed. Never would have bought the damn Caliber if I'd read their data on it. We've had issues with basically everything they say is low-quality about it.
The random internet reviews we read of it were glowing. |
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