gearheadgrrrl
Veteran Member
- Joined
- Dec 15, 2002
- Location
- Buffalo Ridge (southwest Minnesota)
- TDI
- '15 Golf DSG, '13 JSW DSG surrendered to VW, '03 Golf 2 door manual
I think the secret is keeping debt down and getting value for the dollar.
Back in '68 when I was working at the Chevy dealer a new Z28 Camaro came in, I checked and found it was unsold. Got home from work and talked my parents into co-signing on a loan to buy it, then next day got back to work and found it had already been sold to the School Superintendent's kid. So here I am with mom and dad talked into cosigning, employee discount available- We had some Corvairs in stock and I still could have ordered a '69, and I damn well should have! The last of the Corvairs were pretty well built and would have easily lasted the 10 years 'til my 1st Golf diesel in '78 and probably longer. I could have bought a nicely equipped Monza coupe with 140 horse engine, 4 speed, and a few performance options for at most $2500, instead I spend more on buying and fixing a string of used cars over the next 10 years.
Back in '68 when I was working at the Chevy dealer a new Z28 Camaro came in, I checked and found it was unsold. Got home from work and talked my parents into co-signing on a loan to buy it, then next day got back to work and found it had already been sold to the School Superintendent's kid. So here I am with mom and dad talked into cosigning, employee discount available- We had some Corvairs in stock and I still could have ordered a '69, and I damn well should have! The last of the Corvairs were pretty well built and would have easily lasted the 10 years 'til my 1st Golf diesel in '78 and probably longer. I could have bought a nicely equipped Monza coupe with 140 horse engine, 4 speed, and a few performance options for at most $2500, instead I spend more on buying and fixing a string of used cars over the next 10 years.