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 1 hour 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