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To: Axenolith
were given new, expensive, autos and subsequently trashed them...

If you want to teach your child a very important lesson, you buy a 10 year old Ford Taurus with about 100k miles for about $3000. Let them drive it, them paying for maintenance, gas and insurance, for 4 years, then sell it for about $2000.

Cost of ownership - aboout $250 per year. When they start shopping for their own car, $21/month may just register in their newly educated brains as they look at new cars going leasing for $400/month.

36 posted on 06/02/2005 9:11:24 PM PDT by Go_Raiders ("Being able to catch well in a crowd just means you can't get open, that's all." -- James Lofton)
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To: Go_Raiders
ARF! Don't forget to introduce them to the wonders of the modern automotive timing belt...
37 posted on 06/02/2005 9:39:42 PM PDT by Axenolith (This space for rent...)
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