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New vehicles and getting ready IF old jo wins.
Posted: Sat Oct 03, 2020 8:15 am
by The Stranger
Maybe this makes me a bad man but I drive around in a Chrysler Alpine, avg. gas mileage 12-14mpg. Right now i am ok with it since I only drive it on weekends or when not working and gas here is $1.90 a gallon. Other is a 1987 Mazda B2000 that has starts up everytime i need it, about 22mpg.
Is anyone else looking forward? Honestly if Trump loses we are looking at $4.00 per gallon gas, our elect will go up 25%, stock market will crash and the economy will come to a screeching halt. all will make prices of everything from cloths to food rise.
I am looking at a car that gets 35mpg and there just aren't many American cars to look at? SUV's, & 4x4 pickups are out of the question starting at $40,000.00+.
What's anyone's suggestions since I DO NOT want to buy foreign BUT they seem to have bigger motors, better gas mileage and more to choose from!
Re: New vehicles and getting ready IF old jo wins.
Posted: Sat Oct 03, 2020 8:20 am
by UCAV
Toyota, KIA, Hyundai, Nissan, Honda, all are built here in America. All have models that get 30+ mpg, and sticker in the 20K range.
Re: New vehicles and getting ready IF old jo wins.
Posted: Sat Oct 03, 2020 8:25 am
by The Stranger
UCAV wrote: ↑Sat Oct 03, 2020 8:20 am
Toyota, KIA, Hyundai, Nissan, Honda, all are built here in America. All have models that get 30+ mpg, and sticker in the 20K range.
I know where they are made but in my SMALL brain the profits still go overseas! 
I have looked at a few Toyotas and Hondas.
Re: New vehicles and getting ready IF old jo wins.
Posted: Sat Oct 03, 2020 8:29 am
by UCAV
I'm sure some profits go overseas, but they are employing a lot of Americans right here in the south, from Louisiana to Georgia, and that is just the factories I have passed by on my travels to NC.
Re: New vehicles and getting ready IF old jo wins.
Posted: Sat Oct 03, 2020 10:32 am
by flaokie
Another option is to consider a newer used car.
You can find many examples that will have low mileage, and a service history.
The sale price will already have been depreciated, and you would be buying a car that you don't have to be concerned where the money goes.
Re: New vehicles and getting ready IF old jo wins.
Posted: Sat Oct 03, 2020 7:10 pm
by UCAV
flaokie wrote: ↑Sat Oct 03, 2020 10:32 am
Another option is to consider a newer used car.
You can find many examples that will have low mileage, and a service history.
The sale price will already have been depreciated, and you would be buying a car that you don't have to be concerned where the money goes.
This absolutely is the best way to buy a new car.
Re: New vehicles and getting ready IF old jo wins.
Posted: Mon Oct 05, 2020 9:20 pm
by TiredRetired
My wife's 2020 Jeep Cherokee with the 2.0T engine and very creative computer controlled gearing with a ZF 9 Speed Auto gets 35 on a trip and 25 around town. This is with a 3500 pound SUV with AWD. Not telling you to run out and buy a Jeep because we did, but they are over 90% USA product.
Back to that Chrysler Alpine. My God, I have not heard of one of those in something like 40 years. Were they not a Brit car? Are you a limey? 
Re: New vehicles and getting ready IF old jo wins.
Posted: Wed Oct 07, 2020 6:21 pm
by The Stranger
Re: New vehicles and getting ready IF old jo wins.
Posted: Wed Oct 07, 2020 6:37 pm
by flaokie
Re: New vehicles and getting ready IF old jo wins.
Posted: Wed Oct 07, 2020 7:00 pm
by TiredRetired
Aha, an Aspen. My F-I-L was a car dealer. He used to call those Chrysler Aspirins. 
