Thread: How often do you "upgrade" cars?

to be honest. our family gets a new car almost every yr. well we have just taken delivery of our new 2009 d3, with the colour coded bumpers an all that, that means we now have 4 cars in our drive way, (freelander 2, range rover, defender(mine) an now our d3) an dont you worry, because i get told that we are stuped an crazy for having all this cars all the time buy some of my mates, but that dosent stop them from coming over all the time,

but if we do keep a car its till the warranty runs our, its just gets to expensive to fix them out of warranty, an with our luck its always somthing really big things that go wrong,

Going completely off topic. Yes Castro is a die hard communist leader. Yes everyone still receives basic rations. Yes the economy is screwed courtsey of US embargo. Public transport is largely done by virtue of offically organised hitching posts. Corruption is basically non existent. Shops are basically empty of goods and there is a two tier monetary system with two seperate currency. Yes the state keeps tabs on the movement of people. Critism of Castro is not welcomed by die hard communists. Having said all that the Cubans are great friendly people who readily smile and are extremely helpful.

Against this tiny nation there is the democratically (extremely debateable) US president. Instrutions to the US representative at the world bank is to block all loans to Cuba. American citizens face 10 years imprisonment if they visit Cuba without offical permission. ALL US companies and subsidaries are banned from trading with Cuba. That means the Cuban people find it virtually impossible to get basic medicines which you can buy over the counter. The US army does NOT need US Congress permission to declare war on Cuba. If a ship calls in at Havana it is banned from visiting American ports for 6 months, down from 12 months. What about the way the US detains prisoners on Cuba without trial etc?

Then there is the ongoing aid programme into the richest nation on the world to help educate, house and provide medical aid to the Hispanic poor in the US. That irks George W!

To pay for oil and other essential imports Cuba exports highly trained doctors and engineers.

I will put my soapbox away

Regards


Brendan

I was thinking about this question more in depth a few days back and came to the conclusion that for the cost of fixing things as they die I could easily run an old car and be ahead financially compared to buying a new one and selling them on every few years.

Nothing is so expensive in a car to make it not worth fixing compared to buying a new one in my opinion.

People say they won't keep a car after the warranty runs out as it is to expensive to fix but the cost of either trading then buying means you lose huge sums where you could just get a 4 year extended warranty which covers all parts and labour for warranty work anyway and although this will cost a couple of grand if something does go wrong your way ahead still of if you bought new just for a warranty.

And also, if a car is in warranty it means you need absolutely every little job done by a qualified mechanic and that isn't cheap either.

My foster mum changes her car every 2-3 years because it is her work vehicle and likes a new car because she does so many kms in it but she still thinks it is a real luxury to be able to do that.

Cars seem to be a loose loose loose situation. Even if you buy a 3 yr old commodore for 20k you will still loose 10k in the next 3 yrs. Obviously this is less than if you got it new but paying the car off ahead of its value it hard to do.

I have had approx 1 car per yr since I got my licence, but I am different because I grew up in the 90's reading wheels magazine and wanting all those amazing cars of the day. So I have now basicly owned all the cars I really wanted at nearly give away prices, luckily I am not all that interested in the very modern cars bar a few brands. I have also (finally) found two cars that I am happy to own longer term in the rangie diesel and my wife has a eunos 800. The eunos is an orphan here so its bought for throw away money, but nice to live with.

I've gone though a few cars. I only keep my cars for 2-3 years. But thats depends on my lease. Having a lease is great as you get a new car every 3 years! but depends on how much $ you make which can offset your tax.

Dorko

Only ever owned 1 new car and sold it 13 months after buying it. We drive our cars into the ground. Wifes 88 mazda has 350,000km on it. We would hold onto a car for 5 to 7 years so far.

I keep mine for a while too, still have my 81 rangie i bought in 94 and a 1958 FC special sedan i bought in 85, i dont particularly like new cars although a D3 or puma 110 would be nice. I will never own any boring cars like coomodore/falcon/camry etc, i would much rather keep an older car or rebuild an older car to keep.

ho har has bought me 2 cute little new cars.........the first one I was in a life

changing car accident and never liked the car since....sold it.....the 2nd I

was rolled down a 20ft embankment by a drunk diver 18 months ago an

still having health prob.....will never own a new car again ...will stick to my

landies with steel bar protection all around thanks very much


Mrs ho har