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Darover -> RE: Considering Selling... (2/27/2008 12:59:02 PM)
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ORIGINAL: jdelp
Between the money you'll lose on the sale and the money you'll spend on a new car along w/ taxes and tags, it'll take you years to recoup that money that you want to "save" on gas. Keep your truck well maintained and drive reasonably.
I second this statement perfectly. When you stop and think, you would actually loosed by selling it.
But if it makes you feel any better, up here in Canada, where our dollard is worth just as much as yours since last automn, I pay anywhere from $4.60 to $4.80 for the amount of gas that in liters equals your gallon. And you know what for the amount of gas I use ( 3 thanks a month), gas would have to go up to some $12.00 a gallon to reflect the monthly payment of a vehicle that I would enjoy as much as my Disco. And that is the monthly payment alone. To that you have to add the higher insurance, and although it would cost less in gas, I'd have to put some in there too.
Just remember that you have to compare apples with apples. You can't compare a, 7 passenger, all wheel drive ''luxury s.u.v'', with anything less, or the comparison doesn't make sense.
On top of that, even if you find an s.u.v that cost 60% what the Disco is costing you, which is virtually impossible, you'd be saving what ???? $120.00 a month!!!! Does this offset the cost of a new vehicle ???? I don't think so.
Sorry if I'm long, but I've done all that brainstorming when gas went up here not too long ago. But then again my Disco being paid for helps a lot.
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