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Whatever happened to the beater
myntik1:
Can someone please explain to me what happened to the 1500 beater? In 2 weeks my commute is going to go from 15 miles a day to 42. When I got my Xterra in 01 I wasn't concerned about the mpg since fuel was cheap. Now that I'm staring at 3.22 I was thinking about getting an older, more fuel efficient beater to fly up and down the highway with. So for the last few days I've been looking for a cheap beater. It wasn't until 96 that I paid over 6 hundo for a car. And those cars I could keep glued together for almost a year. Now 11 yrs later I can't even find a 3 tone early 90's Escort for 15. What is the world coming to when beaters now start at 4-5K?
ChadTower:
They are in demand now.
Ed_McCarron:
Settle down, shmokes. He's talking about cars, not discipline.
My guess? All the low end fuel efficient cars are Japanese, and are still in better shape than what you or I consider a beater.
shardian:
Sucks, doesn't it? I was more in the market for a $3k slightly better beater, but those are selling for $5-6k right now. I then gave up on that and the started looking for you 1500 beater - they are in the $3k range. I gave up and accepted the fact I'll be driving my beater 740GL Volvo until at least the Fall - when fuel efficient car prices should go back down.
The Volvo gets a whopping 20-21 mpg average. Its a 4 cylinder, but weighs a TON.
ChadTower:
--- Quote from: shardian on April 09, 2008, 02:56:05 pm ---I gave up and accepted the fact I'll be driving my beater 740GL Volvo until at least the Fall - when fuel efficient car prices should go back down.
--- End quote ---
What makes you think they'll go down in the fall?
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