It's Not About Hugging Trees

A friend got one recently, said it's the best ride he's ever driven. It's not my style. I'd prefer a Jeep Wrangler, properly equipped, any day.

Posted by ghostsniper at December 30, 2014 6:34 PM

If I could afford it I'd buy one.

Posted by Van der Leun at December 30, 2014 6:45 PM

It's not about hugging trees. It's not about not being wasteful. It's about control, power of the people, replacing the constitution with the manifesto. It's about socialism/communism.

Posted by GoneWithTheWind at December 30, 2014 7:08 PM

Henry Ford had the right idea. A car for the people, you could get any color as long as it was black.

Shelby 'stangs and of course the iconic T Bird.

listen: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tbbU3nbi7vc

Posted by chasmatic at December 30, 2014 11:26 PM

Not to mention, this commercial video is about selling cars. I've noticed a lot of commercials are aimed at aging Baby Boomers. They are the ones with disposable income and unfulfilled dreams.
Play the 60s head music, get out the tie-dyed t-shirts, all the times we flopped twelve to a rented house, bare mattresses and a fog of pot smoke permanently over it all.
I lived in my car for a couple months, that was bad and I mooched where I could for meals and baths.

Now it is different. I am retired, got a pension and a medical stipend for the cancer; these commercials try to trigger impulses to buy that 'Vette, go to Pago Pago, act out all the fantasies of things I missed. Lemme tell ya something: Those were not "The Good Old Days". I had enough life in sixty-eight years to put some people in their graves if they'da followed me around. I'm surprised I am still alive but I figure God has plans for me, none of which involve turning the clock back so a balding sixty-eight year old man can act out juvenile fantasies.

I Cor 13:11 — When I was a child, I spoke as a child; I understood as a child, I thought as a child: but when I became a man, I put away childish things.

Posted by chasmatic at December 31, 2014 6:56 AM

Cars are very poor investments. I would never buy a brand new car, unless the vehicle was required as part of my job.

I have a 2006 Cadillac and a 21 year old pickup as backup. Cheap insurance, cheap property tax and I don't care to impress anyone.

Posted by Snakepit Kansas at December 31, 2014 7:44 AM

Lincolns make good presidential limos. That's about it. I've never seen any statistics, but I would bet they're junked out at about the same rate as Yugos and Vegas.

Posted by BillH at December 31, 2014 8:13 AM

Way too much money for a 4 cylinder car. My 6 cylinder Accord was a lot less.

Posted by Fat Man at December 31, 2014 8:27 AM

Investment???
Only an *employee* could utter such silliness.
Look son, saunter on down to your local city hall and pay them about $50 in extortion money for a business license and then next Dec write off a reasonable amount of the cost of that new vehicle you purchased the previous Jan. Then, in 3 years, after you've written off the whole thing, do it all over again with another brand new vehicle. Use the gov't swords to your advantage.

And for the guy that disparaged Vega's, my friend Dewey up the road has a cherry '72 that does 8 second quarter miles with a blown 427 and is STILL street legal and a real head turner at the local car shows. He and my neighbor across the road are building another '72 right now and it will be even nicer. My brother had a '72 when he was in high school and my wife had an orange 76 when I met her way back when. Vega's got a bad rap from people that don't know how to use cars properly.

Posted by ghostsniper at December 31, 2014 9:01 AM

Well Ghostsniper, although I respect your opinion, I would rather invest my money in something that can provide a direct return other than a tax write off. Back to my original point that if you have a business that may require a new vehicle, then your suggestion makes 100% perfect sense. You could also write off a used or lesser expensive vehicle.... If you have a "business" that looks more like a vehicle (pun unintended) merely to write off expenses, then good luck if you get audited by one of the many Lois Lerner's at the IRS. After working overseas for a couple years, one of my tax returns (performed by a CPA) was rejected by the IRS and it took me two years to get straightened out. That IRS bunch is not an empathetic group...

Happy New Year to you and God Bless!

Posted by Snakepit Kansas at January 2, 2015 8:34 AM

Like most new cars, it looks like just another Toyota. Sure doesn't look like a Lincoln.

Posted by OldFert at January 2, 2015 9:16 PM