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From: warren@ihnss.UUCP
Newsgroups: net.auto
Subject: Re: Insanity on the net
Message-ID: <1663@ihnss.UUCP>
Date: Fri, 2-Sep-83 13:27:57 EDT
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Posted: Fri Sep  2 13:27:57 1983
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The real insanity on the net (and in the rest of the US) is the
belief that once a car is more than 2 or 3 years old or has 40K
miles, it's dead.  Avis and Hertz kill them that fast, but few
others do.  (No, I don't want to provoke a discussion of how old
your car is.  that is REALLY BORING!!!).

I believe that this insanity comes from the tradition of
buying cars on time.  People must get conditioned to losing the
monthly payments, and get scared about what to do with the money
when the loan is paid off.  I thought that 2 years ago people
finally woke up to this (and that, not the foriegn competition was
responsible for most of detroit's troubles), but it seems clear that
they will go right back to throwing their cars away.  Oh well, I
guess I would rather support the auto workers with your monthly
payments than with my taxes.

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	Warren Montgomery
	ihnss!warren
	IH x2494