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You need to start paying attention to your cars now.

Personally, I won't buy another new car.

1 posted on 04/12/2024 5:38:55 AM PDT by ShadowAce
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2 posted on 04/12/2024 5:44:01 AM PDT by ShadowAce (Linux - The Ultimate Windows Service Pack )
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To: ShadowAce

Why did Obama buy up your old car and destroy it? Remember that?


3 posted on 04/12/2024 5:45:51 AM PDT by ryderann
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If a new car costs 50k, then that means you have a budget of $5000/year to pay a good mechanic/service dept. to keep your old one in top shape.

I like that math. It usually costs quite a bit less for good preventative maintenance.

I’m not opposed to buying a new car, but the math just doesn’t work for me.


4 posted on 04/12/2024 5:50:41 AM PDT by z3n (Kakistocracy)
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“Personally, I won’t buy another new car.”

But how can you show off your wealth and compete in social status if you don’t?

You have your priorities mixed up friend... All good sheep practice status consumerism at any and all costs.


5 posted on 04/12/2024 5:58:43 AM PDT by Openurmind (The ultimate test of a moral society is the kind of world it leaves to its children. ~ D. Bonhoeffer)
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My older Tacoma is looking better every day. It’s a base model but I just need to haul things with it. I added a cruise control for $15, and an intermittent wiper for $113. I’m all set for what I hope are many more happy years with it.


6 posted on 04/12/2024 6:00:35 AM PDT by BozoTexino (RIP GOP)
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I’d like to reset to 1984….


7 posted on 04/12/2024 6:02:06 AM PDT by Smittie (Just like an alien I'm a stranger in a strange land)
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8 posted on 04/12/2024 6:02:33 AM PDT by Red Badger (Homeless veterans camp in the streets while illegals are put up in 5 Star hotels....................)
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"It could stop your car from going where you want, when you want, and it applies to all cars after around 2016."

Say what.? How could my vehicle stop me from going where I want, when I want to go?? What am I missing here...?

11 posted on 04/12/2024 6:05:09 AM PDT by unread (I pledge allegiance to the flag of the United States of America, and to the REPUBLIC..!)
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To: ShadowAce

If you Social Credit Score is bad they can turn you off


12 posted on 04/12/2024 6:12:11 AM PDT by butlerweave
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If you have a Hyundai Kona your 15 Minute city has arrived


13 posted on 04/12/2024 6:13:38 AM PDT by butlerweave
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Mecum auctions, or many aucti9ns really, you can get some pretty nice older vehicles for a few $1000 dollars depending on make and model, some 3ven with low miles from folks who garaged the vehicle after their spouse passed. Just gotta bring a mechanic along to listen to the engine, check the chassis over and transmission, and a few minor details to cut down on the chance of buying a lemon.


22 posted on 04/12/2024 6:31:53 AM PDT by Bob434
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I just read you can turn it off but you use it to avoid cell phone towers ,D’oh


25 posted on 04/12/2024 6:48:03 AM PDT by butlerweave
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26 posted on 04/12/2024 6:49:15 AM PDT by dfwgator (Endut! Hoch Hech!)
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He said EV cars and ones with SOS button


31 posted on 04/12/2024 7:14:29 AM PDT by roving (Deplorable Listless Vessel Trumpist With Trumpitis and a Rainbow Bully)
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This is why I will drive my 2000 Kia until it dies. Rethinking whether or not to sell our 2 1965 Dodge Darts.


32 posted on 04/12/2024 7:19:00 AM PDT by Mama Shawna
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My van is 1990 and car is 2005...
Whew! Guess I’m safe...


34 posted on 04/12/2024 7:48:36 AM PDT by SuperLuminal ( Where is Samuel Adams when we so desperately need him)
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So it turns into a Hyundai Excel, which is second in awfulness to the Yugo? I knew mechanics that would run to the bathroom and hide so the service writer wouldn’t assign an Excel to them.


62 posted on 04/12/2024 3:35:20 PM PDT by Clay Moore (My pistol identifies as a cordless hole punch. )
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