file.newsgroup.cars.103761 Maven / Gradle / Ivy
From: [email protected] (Theodore Chen)
Subject: Re: Plymouth Sundance/Dodge Shadow experiences?
In article <[email protected]> [email protected] (Balaji V. Ramanathan) writes:
> The part about spending $5000-7000 on repairs reminds me
>of an article I read in a magazine comparing the 5 year ownership costs
>of a Toyota Camry and a Ford Taurus or something like that. The result,
>which they announced with great flourish was that it cost the same at the
>end of the period. That was their argument to prove that you don't go
>wrong buying the Ford Taurus over the Camry.
>
> Now, if I remember correctly, the Camry costs about $4000 or so more
>in initial costs. Essentially, it means that you spend about $4000 extra
>on repairs on the Taurus. That is ridiculous. Every time your car
>needs repairs, it is extra hassles, loss of time and a dozen other things.
>I would much rather spend $5000 more in initial costs than spend $4000 more
>in repair costs.
did you account for depreciation? i seriously doubt that a taurus
would rack up an extra $4000 in repair costs over 5 years.
-teddy