I share SVO's sentiment.... Buying new cars isn't going to solve the problem at large - people not living their wage and buying what they can't afford on credit. If you're barely making your mortgage payment for that too big of a house you bought a few years ago... o.0 I'm nor so sure we can spend our way out of this pickle.
I know there's a few of you on this board - but who is currently driving a car they bought new, from the dealer? I believe most of us aren't (even those of us that could afford a new car).
BTW, Big Dave - I just looked at your fuel log, those are some mighty fine numbers
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On another note, I did see a pretty bad Ford local dealer commercial the other day... It said "don't buy because it's American, buy because it has the same quality as Toyota." That wasn't the bad part - at the end of the commercial it said to buy "for the environment... the economy... {something that escapes me at the moment}"
An oxymoron :/