parking...revisited

[billmonahan]

 

We are currently in the hunt for a new vehicle ourselves, so I have been doing lots of research on new vehicles.  When you begin to compare cargo capacity and occupant capacity, the SUV is one of the worse vehicles -value wise- you could purchase.  A Buick LeSaber will haul more people, in better comfort and use less fuel than a Ford Explorer.  I don't consider the PT Cruiser to be and SUV, but rather an econo wagon... a very sharp looking econo wagaon at that.  Gino     Save yourself about $40,000 over the next few years....find youself a friend who goes to used car auctions and buy: Nice 300D Benz, maybe $1500 Acura Integra, 92 or newer, maybe $1200 Honda or Nissan or Toyota, maybe 2-300.   You could even get the Buick for less, and if you absolutely had to have a SUV, believe me it would be less than retail, although there is a hot market in those, so even auction prices are up...all the dealers are looking for those.   I was looking at some new car ads the other day, for entertainment purposes...it read "new Ford Explorer, only $503 per month, for 84 months" (no kidding!) and calculated that I could buy 27 M-B 300s with that money...now, you could be sure that at least one of them would be running on any given day (they don't break much).

[Nick Hughes]

Gino, Here it is my friend. The real solution to your problem. Begin by ringing up the president of the local Outlaw biker chapter and say "You are a jackass" and promptly hang up the phone. Do this every few days for about 3 months. Then, one day, fifteen minutes before your CIO gets out of work, don't hang up. Of course our now enraged biker friend will be apoplectically screaming at you down the phone about being gutless and not showing your face etc. Tell him "Hell, show my face, get over here and I'll kick your ass you chickens*** weasel." He'll ask where and you say "Under the cottonwood tree next to my Toyota 4 runner in 15 minutes, moron." At this point, you should phone the police and tell them your gay lover, a member of the Outlaws, is threatening to come over and beat you up, and you might also contact several local news station and sit back and watch the fun from the seat of your bike. You could even video the whole fiasco and sell it to "Real TV." Over to you, Nick