The High Heeled Ruminations Of Melrose Plant

[CrushedVamp]

No American vehicle trend to me was more dumb than the Humvee craze of the early 2000's.

Not only was it a gaz guzzler, it was not even a pickup and could carry anything other than people. And despite having a crazy ability to go off-road, those that bought them would never take them off-road anyway. It was all a status thing, which as all of you should know by now, I am polar opposite on. I could care less what other people think of my choices as long as I have thought things through and made a decision on what I feel is best for me.

For now, I like my Honda CRV, but I also buy my used cars outright and try to stick with models that go for a long time. I literally drive my cars to the last mile. When I am done with one, they go to the crusher to be turned into scrap metal. Typically, I try to get 250,000 miles out of one before they ultimately die.

[pebblesf]

4 hours ago, CrushedVamp said:

No American vehicle trend to me was more dumb than the Humvee craze of the early 2000's.

Not only was it a gaz guzzler, it was not even a pickup and could carry anything other than people. And despite having a crazy ability to go off-road, those that bought them would never take them off-road anyway. It was all a status thing, which as all of you should know by now, I am polar opposite on. I could care less what other people think of my choices as long as I have thought things through and made a decision on what I feel is best for me.

For now, I like my Honda CRV, but I also buy my used cars outright and try to stick with models that go for a long time. I literally drive my cars to the last mile. When I am done with one, they go to the crusher to be turned into scrap metal. Typically, I try to get 250,000 miles out of one before they ultimately die.

Those "hummers" were a bummer for sure.   I suppose some folks have enough money to afford tossing money away on stupid vehicles like Hummers, not to mention their never ending thirst for gasoline.  I tend to keep vehicles forever as well, but that is only possible if you are somewhat handy and can tend to basics yourself such as oil changes and basic maintenance/repairs.  I can understand how many would prefer to buy a new car every so often, trading in a low mileage well maintained vehicle that might even have a bit of original warranty left on it.  Today's vehicles are super complex, and very expensive to repair.  

[higherheels]

I live more on the country side, but still have most of the daily needs in reach by foot or bike.

Living without a car would be possible, but sometimes very inconvenient.

6 hours ago, CrushedVamp said:

I literally drive my cars to the last mile

I like that mindset!

My car is 19 years old and I'm not planning on replacing it. If I look at new cars I don't feel like I'm missing out on anything, more the opposite. So I'm trying to keep it well maintained and maybe also drive it to the last mile 🙂

[Cali]

I had one car that was at 250,000+ when I totaled the front end in a accident caused by a mountain lion crossing a freeway. My next one blow a rod when the oil pump failed at about 160K. I now drive a 4-wd RAV4 which has 120K+ on it currently.

The new ugly, dumbness 'truck' of the day is the Tesla 'pickup'.  It seems the same people who bought the hummer also bought on of these.

Edited 27 minutes ago by Cali

[pebblesf]

6 minutes ago, Cali said:

I had one car that was at 250,000+ when I totaled the front end in a accident caused by a mountain lion crossing a freeway. My next one blow a rod when the oil pump failed at about 160K. I now drive a 4-wd RAV4 which has 120K+ on it currently.

The new ugly, dumbness 'truck' of the day is the Tesla 'pickup'.  It seems the same people who bought the hummer also bought on of these.

I'd sooner drive a 1977 AMC pacer than one of those tesla "pickups", what a joke they are