Your preaching to the converted Ben!
I've given this tons of thought - but my 505 Turbo is my BABY and I don't
want it to be driven into the ground. I want to do a full performance
restoration and have it just as my summer car, and as a development mule for
all my performance modification ideas.
The other big reason is that the car just isn't very enviromentally
friendly. Poor gas mileage is cause for concern and the cost of operation
is very high. Combine this with valuing my time - I figure I want to spend
my garage time doing cool stuff (making the 505 T a monster) rather than
maintaining the daily driver.
So - a fuel efficient newer car won as the solution to our needs. All the
cars in our budget havebeen dissappointments though - so hopefully the TDi
wagon will impress. Will have to do more investigation on their reliability
though - so far it looks fairly poor.
I did get a head up of a fully restored 504 Wagon though on e-bay - that would make me happiest of all! (Thanks "the505inme"!)
Thanks for your insight.
Rabin
- Original Message -----
From: Ben Pender
To: PeugeotGroup
Sent: Saturday, March 05, 2005 2:56 PM
Subject: Re: [Peugeot-L] Off Topic - buying new daily driver...
Rabin,
The newest car I have ever owned is my 89 Audi 200
Turbo Quattro. Its currently responsible for about
1/3 of my daily driving and all of the driving with
the family. The other 2/3s is taken care of by my 71
MGB/GT (with Datsun 280Z 5 speed). My wife drives my
old VW Golf with 302k miles on the clock now (I am the
original owner). This is to provide the background
for what I'm about to say...
It sure sounds like you have a very reliable, sweet
driving Pug. Even your wife seems to love it. If
thats the case, why even consider buying a new(er)
car? From what you say, there really aren't any cars
in your price range that compare to your Pug. Also, I
may be mistaken, but I get the impression that
whatever you buy, you will be keeping the Pug anyway.
If thats the case, why not just keep driving the Pug
and pay yourself $200-400CDN (a regular "car payment"
that most folks make their whole lives) a month for
doing it? Put that money away and let it earn
interest for you instead of interest for the car
dealer. Plus, you can pay for repairs out of this as
well. As long as your Pug requires less than
$2400-4800CDN/year (in this example, and really, what
car does?) it won't be long before there is a decent
sum of money in that pool. Then, when car fever
REALLY hits (like if you were to see a sweet 405 wagon
or something), you just buy it without it affecting
your finances at all. Plus, I've found that having
lots of money set aside for cars and stuff, while
driving a cool, unique, comfortable, reliable, CLASSIC
set of wheels is a really nice place to be. This way,
you can both free yourself from monthly car payments,
drive cool cars, and be financially secure. Just
think of it as getting paid to drive around in a car
you obviously love!
Plus, being in a position where you can basically
have any car you want is so comfortable that, if
you're like me, you become even more comfortable
driving something older anyway!
Why drive the ordinary when, with nothing more than
a little planning and discipline, you can always drive
something Extrordinary???????????????????????
If you just have to have something newer RIGHT NOW,
I would suggest a VW Jetta TDI Wagon. Good gas
milage, sweet chassis, nice curves; one that is a
couple or three years old should easily be in the
sub-$20kCDN category.
Just my thoughts.
Regards,
Ben Pender
P.S. Sam Walton always drove an old beat-up pickup.
I wonder why...:^)
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