Maybe this shows that the price for the Mustnag GT will be a lot less in six months or so? Maybe even some rebates showing up?

 

Doesn't seem to be the case around here.

One dealer has a $6,000 markup and another a $5,000 one, both are selling the GT's the same day they get them.

 

I just checked eBay... there still seems to be some people bidding on X ammount over MSRP.

 

I disagree, other than a small number of colletor cars, motor vehicles are NOT investments.

Look up "invest" in your dictionary. Invest means to spend money with the expectation that you will ultimately make a profit. Investment is the act of or an item used with the goal of creating a profit.

They are capital expenditures. They are something you buy to get utility out of (transportation) and they are something that we all know will go DOWN in value as the asset is used and worn out and eventually will have to be replaced.

The only way you could possibly construe a vehicle to be an investment is if you use it in your business or to get you back and forth to your job. But even for that, a Mustang would not be a good investment as a much better investment for that purpose would be a Kia or a Hundai. [/b][/quote]
Yup. Cars are toys if you like nicer ones or consider it part of your 'personality'. Who cares what its worth is later if you like it now? There is no way in heck that I am 'holding on' to a car for some stupid thought that it will be a collector's item in 20 years. I'll have this one for two years, something cooler will come out like a cobra, and adios, next!. It cracks me up when people have Mach 1s packed away in some garage and they never drive it. So it will, uh, be worth about what it was new 20 years from now? duh. I work hard to make money so I can spend it.

 

Hey, I'm 'investing' in my happiness. The way I look at it, is you never know when you're going to take the 'dirt nap.' Might as well enjoy the now. My parents realized that 10 years ago. What is the good at saving money, when (God forbid) you die, you won't be around to spend it on your happiness? So they're out vacationing to Australia, Japan, Germany and parts of rural Oklahoma.
Good for them!


Enjoy the NOW