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Originally Posted by wdb
I don't understand the need to disparage. The car is worth what it's worth. I'm very impressed with the fact that its significance is clearly recognized by those who seek to preserve automotive history. I see no need to run down the folks who would pay that much, or the people who kept the car in that kind of condition to begin with.
But consider. You're a retiree and don't drive much. But when you do drive, you want to make as little impact as you can manage. So you buy an Insight. You use it for your errands and runabouts and whatnot. You put a few K miles on it over the course of 10-12 years or so. You get older. You decide its time to sell it. By which time the car has attained cult status and become an icon. I guess that makes you a money wasting fool?
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I don't mean to disparage or run down anything, I like the Insight just fine, I'm just saying selling a car for what it cost new when it really hasn't been used is not a big deal. I also have a feeling a few of these have been tucked away in collections already from the start for the museum collections. Personally I would like to see a museum car to be one that had a life history of it's own, not just a random example of a pivot point in transportation history. So a Model T is cool, but a model T owned by say a president is really cool.