I hear you Lefebvre and I agree on your calculations
Americans as you well know are not exactly good at long term perception, planning, the whole "look at the big picture" attitude and many other things lol
Today I walked into a high end beautiful gourmet specialty wine & butcher shop right down the road from my house. I've been wanting to go in there for some time. The owner, lovely woman, is selling her 2004 one owner HSE with 48K mile never used anything but premium fuel and she is selling to trade up. Bought and sold right here in my "city". Its Zambezi silver on black YUMMY! I could even get her to buy the xtd-warrnty I would bet as she and I hit it off well.
she wants $17500 which is exactly what I sold my black on black HSE for precisely one year ago. At that time, April 2007, I was offered $12,500 for a dealer auction price. My truck was puuuurrrfect! So is hers
fast forward a year the economy slumps, prospects getting worse and worse here. It is going to get BAD that is everyone's prediction outside Bushians.
Now I'm going to think about it becuase the prospect of having a bumper - bumper 100K warranty is very attractive.
But, regardless we can all agree that the 4.6 engine may be the best engine Rover ever offered North America, but it isn't that reliable an engine according to statistics and consumer reports which may not be entirely accurate but they all point in the same direction.
gas went up to $3:43 today, that is about 40 cents since January. I think it's prudent to wait until July when gas hits real records like 4 bucks - maybe it wont?!
but I have time on my side and according to autotrader and ebay people are selling Discos dirt cheap and not a lot of people are bidding or buying
it just isn't gas in America Lefebrve, but unemployment is up in every class, consumer product index is through the roof and only getting more expensive, and people are not just hurting but homeless and jobless for the first time in generations. No one has a plan, we are all in limbo until our *** clown President leaves and the new guy or girl gets in.