| Author | Message | ||
| Rob Lay (Rob328gts)
Board Administrator Username: Rob328gts Post Number: 4730 Registered: 12-2000 |
I have never bought a new car yet. Wife has. | ||
| Marcus Mayeux (Mmayeux73)
Member Username: Mmayeux73 Post Number: 422 Registered: 4-2002 |
I went on a test drive with a A4 Quattro and fell in love, could not really afford it at the time, but I made it happen. It is a 99 A4 Quattro 5 speed-still love it. My next goal is an F-car, I am so determined-it is a life long dream of mine! Not a new one but a piece of Ferrari history! best regards, Marcus | ||
| Marq J Ruben (Qferrari)
Member Username: Qferrari Post Number: 341 Registered: 2-2002 |
I never worry 'bout the 'drive it off the lot' depreciation as I have yet to buy my cars with the intention of selling after a short period anyway. Keep my daily drivers for 6-8 or even 10 years so it really isn't an issue. As a matter of fact, I always get a good bit more than average for the car when I go to sell it as it is a 'one-owner' car. I have a friend that buys all my daily drivers when I'm done with them and I consistently get better $$ than similar cars listed in the paper as he knows that I've taken care of the car.  PS. Also, it's well worth any perceived depreciation to me to have a brand new car that no ones kids have puked in (either figuratively or literally), a car that has had questionnable work done on it, has less than top quality repair parts; no surprises, etc.,etc.IMHO | ||
| Ernie (Ernie)
Member Username: Ernie Post Number: 648 Registered: 11-2001 |
I have never bought brand new. Two reasons. 1) The instant you drive of the lot the car drops $6000 in value. 2) If you wait just two years you can get the same car, with a few miles on it, for $10,000 less. The only thing worth buying brand new is a home, cause it only goes up in value. As far as the first vehical I bought off a lot, it was my Expedition, and it was three years old. I got it for $20,000 less than what it was going for brand new. | ||
| Vincent (Vincent348)
Junior Member Username: Vincent348 Post Number: 215 Registered: 4-2003 |
oh, totaled it about 9 months later, first new car i didn't pay for and last new car I have bought. | ||
| Vincent (Vincent348)
Junior Member Username: Vincent348 Post Number: 214 Registered: 4-2003 |
never have bought a new car for myself. Bought a f250 longbed new for work, getting paid on mileage. | ||
| Lloyd (Lloyd)
Junior Member Username: Lloyd Post Number: 67 Registered: 8-2001 |
1974 Fiat X1/9. Closest thing I could get to a Ferrari after graduating high school. I loved that car and kept it for many years. Damn thing was reliable too. Thanks to learning to drive a standard on this car I still drive every standard car like the only acceptable RPM is just under the red line, driving all my passengers crazy. You can tell they want to yell SHIFT. | ||
| Rijk Rietveld (Rijk365gtb4)
Junior Member Username: Rijk365gtb4 Post Number: 189 Registered: 1-2002 |
1974 2CV.............. | ||
| Mr. Doody (Doody)
Intermediate Member Username: Doody Post Number: 1018 Registered: 11-2001 |
the first car i ever owned was also my first new car. it was an 80-something Honda CRXsi. i kept it for about two years. i've owned nine cars since the CRX (four of which are in the driveway right now). the shortest ownership was about 11 months (996 C2 Cabriolet). longest so far is my Audi A4, which i've had for about four and a half years now, and intend to drive into the ground. oddly enough, the only used cars i've ever bought are my two f-cars. doody. | ||
| William H (Countachxx)
Advanced Member Username: Countachxx Post Number: 2502 Registered: 2-2001 |
in 82 when I was 18 I got a BMW 320iS, similaier to todays M3 in flavor. I wrapped it around a fence 3 months later  Then I got a Toyota FJ40 Landcruiser which was cool then an 83 TBird Turbo coupe, nice car Got my 308QV when i was 25 | ||
| William Huber (Solipsist)
Member Username: Solipsist Post Number: 883 Registered: 9-2001 |
1970 BMW 1600. I had it for 6 months, couldn't keep it running & it was VERY slow. | ||
| Craig (Beachbum)
Junior Member Username: Beachbum Post Number: 116 Registered: 9-2002 |
this got me thinking, i bought my mom a new car, i bought my niece a new car, but ive never bought myself a new car, pretty funny, always buy used cars, im to cheap to take the depreciation | ||
| Dr. J C928 (Attitude928)
New member Username: Attitude928 Post Number: 21 Registered: 11-2002 |
A 1980 Black/Red interior Saab EMS. Great suspension & even greater breakdowns. After I would leave it for repair, the car service guy would say, "Another guy with another Saab story." | ||
| martin j weiner,M.D. (Mw575)
Member Username: Mw575 Post Number: 905 Registered: 5-2001 |
'55 ford victoria--Pink and White---Ouch!! | ||
| Peter (Bubba)
Member Username: Bubba Post Number: 311 Registered: 5-2002 |
A brand new car for me is coming hopefully next week. It's actually a Toyota van! Talk about practicality. Very first car is an 89 BMW 735i that was kept for only a few months before moving to a 90 or 91 MB 560SEL. | ||
| les brun (Labcars)
Junior Member Username: Labcars Post Number: 85 Registered: 1-2003 |
April '82, leftover '81 Scirocco S. Red/tan. Man, I LOVED that car. Mostly 'cause it was new! | ||
| jake diamond (Rampante)
Junior Member Username: Rampante Post Number: 106 Registered: 4-2002 |
April 1961-- 1961 Sunbeam Alpine (black with scarlet int.) A solarcoaster ! Jake | ||
| Taek-Ho Kwon (Stickanddice)
Member Username: Stickanddice Post Number: 346 Registered: 11-2002 |
1999 Mitsubishi Eclipse GSX. Four wheel drive turbo beauty. For all the rally racer wannabes stateside who could not get their hands on the Lancer EVOs. Still have it and will soon "restore" it and only drive occasionally. It was and is my most valuable collectible. It was the first car I bought with my own cash too. | ||
| BobD (Bobd)
Intermediate Member Username: Bobd Post Number: 1161 Registered: 3-2001 |
'77 280Z. Silver/black. | ||
| Bill Sawyer (Wsawyer)
Member Username: Wsawyer Post Number: 802 Registered: 2-2002 |
1974 Capri with the 2800cc V-6. | ||
| arthur chambers (Art355)
Intermediate Member Username: Art355 Post Number: 1487 Registered: 6-2001 |
1966 vw. In 1965. Art | ||
| Eric Eiland (Eric308gtsiqv)
Member Username: Eric308gtsiqv Post Number: 782 Registered: 11-2001 |
Wow, Jere...glad to know that I wasn't the only person on the planet with a diesel Nissan! You're right, those engines would probably outlive the car itself. Those Sentras were built pretty tough back in those days too! One night, coming back from a marching band competition at about 3:00 AM, I fell asleep at the wheel on the interstate and rolled it about 4 or 5 times! It came to rest on the driver's side in the median, so I climbed out the passenger door on top (man those doors are heavy when you're fighting gravity!). Sat on the side of the road until some guy came along in a pickup truck and pulled over. He helped me roll it back over on all fours and gave me a lift home. When we (parents and I) got back to the scene an hour later, the State Troopers were there fishing through the glovebox. Told them I was the owner, what happened, etc. They almost gave me a ticket for reckless driving (LOL!), but said I looked scared enough and didn't want to "rub it in"...so they let me off. I climbed in the smashed up car, turned the key, fired right up, and drove it 15 miles to the house! Body shop did a superb job putting her back together. Unfortunately, less than six months later, I was hit head-on at an intersection by a huge Chevy Caprice....back to the body shop! Funny thing is, that car ran like new until I paid it off and traded it in on the '86. Actually, I owned 3 Sentras and 1 Stanza after that car, simply because they were very solid cars. In fact, wish I'd never traded in the Stanza on the Ford Taurus...what a nightmare the Taurus ownership was...but that's another story. | ||
| Jere Dunham (Questioner)
Member Username: Questioner Post Number: 529 Registered: 1-2003 |
Hahaha, Eric, I sold Nissans back then and sold two of those wonderful cars. They even put a diesel engine in the Maxima for a year or two. Must have been about '83 or '84 on the Maxima. I sold one of those. The original owner still had it last year and had put well over 300K miles on it. When I saw it last the suspension was drooping, paint was totally wasted and interior was trashed but he said he still got around 35 MPG. My first new car--1968 Olds 442. Red with red interior--4-speed car. Loads of fun back then. I put a Crower roller cam, Doug's headers, high-rise manifold, 750 cfm carb, Jahn's pistons, 4:56 rear end gears and a Hurst spring loaded competition plus shifter. I wish I still had that car today. While I was away in the Navy my mom was driving it and raced a guy I used to race all the time in his SS396. She missed the 2nd to 3rd shift, hung in neutral, dropped a valve and cracked a piston. I told her to go ahead and sell it rather than keeping it while I was gone. She's really a pretty cool "old lady." | ||
| Ralph Koslin (Ralfabco)
Junior Member Username: Ralfabco Post Number: 102 Registered: 3-2002 |
1989 Mustang GT Conv 5.0 5 Speed I kept it nine months and put 1,800 miles on it. I purchased it through my fathers wholesale dealer license. I basically got my money back. I then purchased a 90 Z-51 Corvette and took a bath when I sold it to my cousin two years later with 4K miles on it. Ralph | ||
| ross koller (Ross)
Intermediate Member Username: Ross Post Number: 1139 Registered: 3-2002 |
i have never bought a new car, and don't know that i will. 20 years ago it was due to a lack of funds, but now its more a lack of wanting to get clobbered with instant depreciation. am happy enough to buy something at least 2 years old and at least feel like i am getting some value for money. | ||
| Carl Roberts (Carl63_99)
Junior Member Username: Carl63_99 Post Number: 58 Registered: 10-2001 |
My first new car was a 1991 Pontiac Grand Am. I drove a hard deal on it, got it down to $11,000 from $14,400. Just about walked out twice on the salesperson. Started driving home with 17 miles on the odometer. 2 1/2 years later rolled it trying to avoid an 18-wheeler swerving all over the road. Miss that car, with the 160hp Quad four it got great gas mileage, and could smoke the tires from a stop. I raced a Z24 in Mexico, going 90-100 mph between Monterry and Saltillo through the mountains. If anyone has ever seen that road, you'd know those speeds were pushing the limit. No I drive a minivan, and need all that room. :-| | ||
| Craig Dewey (Craigfl)
Member Username: Craigfl Post Number: 581 Registered: 1-2001 |
My first car was a 1975 VW Scirocco in Ferrari red. I had it for two years before I bought my Porsche 924 (another red car). | ||
| Eric Eiland (Eric308gtsiqv)
Member Username: Eric308gtsiqv Post Number: 781 Registered: 11-2001 |
LOL.....no, that Sentra couldn't even smoke a turtle! | ||
| Robert McNair (Rrm)
Member Username: Rrm Post Number: 301 Registered: 5-2002 |
Eric could you 'smoke' a diesel dasher with your sentra?! | ||
| Eric Eiland (Eric308gtsiqv)
Member Username: Eric308gtsiqv Post Number: 780 Registered: 11-2001 |
Yes, Robert...the diesel jap. cars must have been rather rare. Looking back on it now, my car was probably the "prototype"  . Got excellent gas mileage for those days, but that diesel fuel was messy, stunk, and was sometimes hard to find (unless you liked filling up at "trucker gas stations"). | ||
| L. Wayne Ausbrooks (Lwausbrooks)
Intermediate Member Username: Lwausbrooks Post Number: 1568 Registered: 8-2002 |
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| L. Wayne Ausbrooks (Lwausbrooks)
Intermediate Member Username: Lwausbrooks Post Number: 1567 Registered: 8-2002 |
I was out of firing range. | ||
| "The Don" (Mlemus)
Advanced Member Username: Mlemus Post Number: 4352 Registered: 8-2002 |
Wayne, Did the cops that were chasing you try out there guns on it? M | ||
| L. Wayne Ausbrooks (Lwausbrooks)
Intermediate Member Username: Lwausbrooks Post Number: 1566 Registered: 8-2002 |
'94 Nissan Altima SE 5spd. Bought it in September 1993 and sold it in 1998 with a ton of abusive miles on the odo. It was bullet proof. I got a bigger kick out of buying that car new than I did with any of my subsequent new car purchases: '95 Nissan 240SX SE, BMW M Roadster, Porsche Carrera, MBenz E500. | ||
| James P. Smith (Tigermilk)
Junior Member Username: Tigermilk Post Number: 129 Registered: 7-2001 |
94 Saturn SL. Still have it and use it as my daily driver. | ||
| Robert McNair (Rrm)
Member Username: Rrm Post Number: 300 Registered: 5-2002 |
Eric a DIESEL sentra? I never heard of one! Actually I can't remember any diesel japanese cars. Thumbs up on the 'B' I had a 73. | ||
| Eric Eiland (Eric308gtsiqv)
Member Username: Eric308gtsiqv Post Number: 779 Registered: 11-2001 |
1983 Nissan Sentra (diesel powered!) 2-door...paid roughly $5,000 brand new....no A/C, no radio, all vinyl interior. A real sweatbox in the summer, but could go for a month on 1 tank of fuel. The diesel engine would rattle your teeth at idle, literally! I had just turned 16, and was working part time to make the payments, insurance, etc. (my father co-signed). Carpooled other friends to school, and that helped pay for the gas. Paid it off in '86 and traded it in for another Sentra...GAS model WITH A/C, radio, etc. that time! What I'd do to be 16 again! BTW, my FIRST car was a '72 chrome bumper MGB roadster. Missed that car so much over the years that I finally bought another MGB recently just for nostalgia sake. | ||
| Sunny Garofalo (Jaguarxj6)
Member Username: Jaguarxj6 Post Number: 385 Registered: 2-2003 |
In 1999, bought a mint condition 1974 Jaguar XJ12L in dark blue/dark blue, 38k original miles, kept it for 2 years and change, sold it with 42k on the clock. Thus began my love affair with Euro Trash ;) Sunny | ||
| "The Don" (Mlemus)
Advanced Member Username: Mlemus Post Number: 4345 Registered: 8-2002 |
1988 Celica All-Trac Turbo got it with 45 miles, Sold it in 93 with 136,000 Matt | ||
| Marq J Ruben (Qferrari)
Member Username: Qferrari Post Number: 336 Registered: 2-2002 |
A 1971 TVR 2500. Kept it for 30 years, sold it only to buy my Ferrari. Put well over 275,000 miles on it (a couple o' engines). Restored it to concours a couple of times. Was, and still is, the nicest example extant of that model in the US. Chassis #2027T. Won 45-50 1st Place trophies. | ||
| Robert McNair (Rrm)
Member Username: Rrm Post Number: 299 Registered: 5-2002 |
What was your first new car and how long did you keep it? I've been LEGALLY driving for 18 years and have owned well over 30cars and today I ordered my first new car. I am hoping to keep her for a very long time. Let's hear your stories! |