yes.  and the point is that even a collectible was a horrid return on investment compared to a risk-adverse index fund

my original point is not what you did or didn’t do with your car, it’s backing up the point of cars not being appreciating assets for investment.

I have had a hell of a lot of fun in the thing over the 25 years I have owned it.

you mean 6th richest person in the world Warren Buffett’s answer

great example - the Ford GT that sold on BaT last week. the 27-mile, 2005 Ford GT would have cost somewhere around $165K when brand new (it had all four options). it sold for $395K - more than double the price they paid for it! not bad, right? who wouldn’t want to double their money on a car investment?

1988 RX-7 convertible.  The injectors were leaky (I think) and the engine would flood out.  To start the car, I’d pull the injector fuse/relay/whatever and then crank the engine to try and get rid of the excess.  Plug it back in and it’d fire it up.  Meant to get it fixed, but it was stolen off the rough and tumble…

yeah - every time a white 951 comes up on BaT or PCM, i hope it’s gonna be red.  love the fleet.  mine is straight up suburban dad these days - Odyssey and Outback.  le sigh.  my wife keeps needling me to get something, but I haven’t found the right scratch yet.  someone near me has a 84k mile 924 turbo for about 12…

you’re killing me. it was glorious. it also had side skirts that made the car look even better imo. here she is the day I bought here at a MB dealer in RI. you can just glimpse the red through the windows.  i got it for a little over $20K back then.  deal of a lifetime.

Easy.  My 1987 944 Turbo.  I bought it in 2000 after my RX-7 was stolen.  Had 10K original miles.  Daily Drove it for about 7 years up to around 80K miles.  Then I got the itch for a convertible.  And more power.  So I got an e46 M3 - great car, loved it.  But these days I wish I still had that 944.  Alpine white over…

my folks got a v8 toureg back in the day. had to lemon law it. turns out, the very first ones had an emergency broadcast frequency in the entertainment system that in germany was used for alerts, but in the DC area was a common military frequency. the car’s radio would turn on in their garage and stay on for a while. …

hey guys look at the millennial who didn’t know all minivans used to just have one sliding door

I screwed up my save scum and am playing through NG+ on Bloodborne to get the final ending I need (kill Gehrman, die to Moon Presence) for platinum.  Don’t mind though, still riding high on killing OoK on my 4th try solo.

My first car was a 1998 Hyundai Excel - my parents bought it as a second car for when they couldn’t commute together.  it was as base as you could get (no front speakers!), so I’m guessing it was the 1.3L rated at 64 horsepower.

nice try, GM guy

2010 Sienna for $4500 - one owner, clean title. $50 left for your first tank of gas. done.

In 2003 when I had to PCS from Norfolk to San Diego (lemme upgrade ya), I bought my parent’s 1991 Toyota Previa. I, and 5 other able bodied college or shortly after college aged men piled in and spent 10 days driving (DC-NC-NOLA, STL, Denver, Vegas, Grand Canyon, SD) in December and Jan. Captain’s chairs in the middle…

no - they invented the old SiriusXM unit that you used to have to mount before automakers started building the chipset into their OEM radios

i used to work for SiriusXM and it’s pretty lol-worthy that in 2021 spotify is introducing early-2000's car tech. we were constantly fighting to get the space on mobile phones that apps already had in cars (which is a big reason why the company bought pandora).

pump to table, as it should be

windshield chip repairs cost $30-40 for private parties.  if every one of the 140K trucks had to have chip repair every single week of the year, the $218M in cost (assuming $30 per chip and no bulk discount) would increase the total operating budget of the USPS by 0.3%.  Or about 0.03% of the DoD budget.