Posted on 06/11/2017 10:11:26 AM PDT by Lorianne
In that case then there has been more than a sixty percent loss of purchasing power which is what I said.
Yes, we’ve been had and I don’t understand the way that some seem to look at it. Some years ago I was listening to a man talking about how we all had so much more than people did in the past and I asked him to explain the fact that people I lived around as a child used to own anywhere from forty to one hundred and sixty acres of land and a house with no debt while most in the current era will be lucky to own one acre. His response was that people don’t need all that land now and land doesn’t have the great value in people’s lives that it used to have. Well, if we don’t need it and it has no value why can’t anyone afford it now? Maybe I don’t understand economics.
I agree.
They do look alike, the first one I noticed was the Colorado...now, they ALL look like Nissans...(and shoes)
You said the government figure was 60%.
Hmm. So there is something there other than the computers ...
“as a child used to own anywhere from forty to one hundred and sixty acres of land and a house with no debt while most in the current era will be lucky to own one acre. “
? When I was a child we had seven living in a 900 sq ft two bedroom frame house on less than 1/4 acre.
Our heating was kerosene. We had a wringer washing machine out on the back porch.
One small radio in the dining room and a three-party phone line.
I used to prop myself up in bed to hang my head in the window trying to catch a cooling breeze.
And you say we don’t have that much more now ...
Sure there is more to it, endless payments, lots of molded plastic and an engine they don’t want touched, tampered with, or altered etc. In fact doing that in many cases is illegal. They’re becoming a sealed unit where at the end of it’s life, just throw the damn thing away, like an old computer. Ya think you’re going to see all these late model cars that look like shoes in say 30 or 40 years, like an old Chevys or Fords?
Think again.
I very much agree...That part of America is way out of reach for most folks nowadays.
“They’re becoming a sealed unit where at the end of it’s life, just throw the damn thing away, like an old computer. Ya “
Most people don’t touch their ‘sealed units’ because they last so long.
And, there is a better supply of aftermarket performance parts now than ‘30 or 40’ years ago.
CAI, intake manifolds, exhaust systems, cams, tunes.
I have a 2004 F-150xlt excab longbed. 120k mi.
Runs great. I can probably sell it for 8500.
You seem detached from reality. Let me ask you, ya think most people are going to get 250 or 300k + out of one of these late model platforms that look like just like shoes? Will all that plastic hold up? lol...
“You seem detached from reality. Let me ask you, ya think most people are going to get 250 or 300k + out of one of these late model platforms that look like just like shoes? Will all that plastic hold up? lol... “
You must not remember when we had to put pieces of aluminum under the floor mats to cover the rust holes in the floor boards.
In olden days, people bragged about getting 100k miles. Now a Toyota is not considered ‘broken-in’ till it has 100k miles on it.
My SIL took her Camry in for servicing at about 175k. After seeing the oil they asked her when the last time she changed her oil.
She replied, “You are supposed to change the oil?”
At 200k she gave the car to her brother. He is up to about 300k on it.
“Let me ask you, ya think most people are going to get 250 or 300k + out of one of these late model platforms that look like just like shoes? Will all that plastic hold up? lol...”
Ten cars you can expect to last more than 250k miles.
https://www.forbes.com/pictures/ehmk45kehe/acura-rdx-2/#1659777d768b
The link is wormy and requires me to allow their ads. Like cars which look like shoes, no thanks.
I can just see you attending car shows in 30 years featuring vintage Nissan shoe cars!@
Here something really hot and sexy for ya Tex...Does this model shoe car mean "joke" in French? Or maybe, "You got Juked".☺
Anyway, you'll impress everyone when ya pull into the 99 cent store, especially if yours is a different color.
“The link is wormy and requires me to allow their ads. Like cars which look like shoes, no thanks.”
LOL! The site only makes you wait 3 seconds before continuing to the site. Only one ad and you don’t have to view it.
You just don’t want to view information counter to your bias.
“Here something really hot and sexy for ya Tex...Does this model shoe car mean “joke” in French? Or maybe, “You got Juked”
Juke quarter mile 14.9 @ 98 mph. Right up there with the 60’s supercars!
https://oldcarmemories.com/1965-pontiac-gto-truly-a-legend/
And Car Life on another occasion tested a base 4-bbl 389 1965 GTO and managed a 6.6 second 0-60 mph time and a 1/4 mile of 14.8 seconds at 99 mph.
1972 Chevrolet Camaro Z28 0-60 mph 7.4 | Quarter mile 15.3
Juke 14.9 @ 98 mph.
hmmm.
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