Just saw a "Buy One get One Free" CAR commercial!!!

[Lovecrafty]

If that doesn't indicate how low our economy is, and how desperate we've become, I don't know WHAT does!!!

[mopinko]

1. what kind of car?

[name not needed]

2. This kind

[mopinko]

5. sadly,

i am tempted. i am car-twisted.

[Lovecrafty]

3. Here's a link

http://money.cnn.com/2004/08/26/pf/autos/bc.autos.freecar.reut/

Buy a new car, get a used one free!

[mopinko]

6. thanks

i just got the word that my beloved old mercedes is on her last legs. she will probably last for 6 more months or so, but she just got her LAST big repair. so i am kinda looking for a new car. i could actually afford a new new car for the first time in my life. this would be great, cuz i got 2 teenagers about to start driving, and that is the number one reason i don't want to get a new new car.

[shanti]

8. let them drive the benz

why not if you have a new one? i have a teen too and fret about the day he can drive!

[mopinko]

9. yeah, that's the plan

i love her very much, and was resisting letting them drive her.(heidi is her name) but now that mike has given the sad prognosis, i probably will. she is everything you could want in a teen mobile- big, safe, good handling, gas guzzling, ugly, rusty, perfect for them.

[shanti]

11. SAFE for them...

that's a big plus!

[IronLionZion]

4. the car market is in the shitter

thanks to the Bush economy. High fuel prices, poverty, unemployment, increase in living costs, decrease in wages/overtime,


well Arnold says if that bothers you then you are economic girly men. Suck it up Faggots! Don't mind me and my 6 Hummers! (I think he actually has more than that)

[Old and In the Way]

7. Up here in Central Maine, I think there might be 200 used car lots

within a 50 mile radius. In my town of 3000, I'll bet there are a couple of thousand used cars available to purchase. I think there is a huge secondary used car market that must be very static. I don't know why people would get into this business....I see more and more used car lots popping up every day. Seems like a losing strategy, the investment of buying them, holding them (losing value the longer they sit), and selling them in a buyer's market.

I think we are awash in cars.....many more cars available than people to drive them.

[mopinko]

10. i suspect the growth in charity donations

might have something to do with it. that is how a lot of the older cars around here get to the small dealers.