Fear not as by doing so, you have defeated the thinking of them thar' PHd economists who calculate how often fools trade in their current ride only to become a slave to the finance company.
Not many people have their priorities straight these days...
Actually I think that most people do understand the whole longevity versus initial purchase price issue, but they either don't care about that aspect of ownership, or they don't want to admit that their long-held beliefs have been debunked.
or they don't believe that *any* car will last significantly longer than the warranty... I used to believe it was true but even brands I used to know and trust (VW, BMW, etc.) have "turned Japanese" and over-contented their vehicles to the point that they're all one big unrepairable mass of electronics.
You're just winning friends all over the place aren't you? Good thing you're rich, retired, and own that 10 year old piece of junk that you plan on keeping for another 7 years.
I find this is funny. 21.4 - 26.3mpg only on your Accord V6?
Yesterday I race with one of these cars in terms of power there is no match. In Fuel efficiency there is no match neither.
Our improved Mercedes-Benz C280 or E320 can beat yours. I would love to prove this again in front of a news editor or a media person. Please let me know when you're ready to see something you've never seen before.
Grumpy AuContraire wrote in news:QW7Hl.1134$ snipped-for-privacy@bgtnsc04-news.ops.worldnet.att.net:
They may be informally referred to as "classics", with a lower-case "c". But that would be purely a subjective opinion.
And fraught with controversy even within the CCCA, which homologates vehicles as "Classics".
There are advocates for acceptance of certain post-war vehicles as "full Classics", although CCCA officials have so far resisted them. What, do they think that there is not one single car made after 1948 that is unique or significant in any way?
To properly fit the mold of the true "Classic" owner, you need to start sneering at owners of aging "modern" cars, especially Japanese cars.
I stick with my '91 only because I don't WANT anything newer. I don't WANT air bags, OBD-II, an all-electrical interior, even more plastic than I've already got, etc. If my previous older cars hadn't all rotted out from under me, I'd probably still have one of them.
I don't think that anyone's dumb enough to believe that. Also realize that many vehicles have very long power train warranties these days, especially certified used vehicles.
Q] From Marty Robinson: Last week you quoted Sir Christopher Wren as referring to 'The Ailes, from whence arise Bows or Flying Buttresses to the Walls of the Navis.' I'm sorry to learn that Sir Christopher used the redundancy from whence.
[A] This is another of those grammatical shibboleths, like avoiding a plural verb with none or not splitting one's infinitives, that are open to linguistic debate, to put it mildly. The argument against this form is that whence already includes the idea of coming from some place, so that including from makes it tautological.
The debate is complicated by the fact that whence is not that common a word these days, being rather literary; I had trouble finding a modern example that wasn't prefixed by from. This is from Newsday of 11 November 2004: "He is a legendary figure in his native England, whence I have just returned." That's a good example of the "proper" use.
Objectors to from whence have support in logic, but logic doesn't feature much in English constructions, especially idioms, which is how one perhaps should regard the phrase these days. One newspaper archive I consulted, hardly comprehensive, contained more than 250 cases of from whence just in
2004. It succeeds because it is informal and colloquial compared with whence used alone, a construction that is unusual enough to force readers to stop and work out the meaning.
And even a brief look at historical sources shows that from whence has been common since the thirteenth century. It has been used by Shakespeare, Defoe (in the opening of Robinson Crusoe: "He got a good estate by merchandise, and leaving off his trade, lived afterwards at York; from whence he had married my mother"), Smollett, Dickens (in A Christmas Carol: "He began to think that the source and secret of this ghostly light might be in the adjoining room, from whence, on further tracing it, it seemed to shine"), Dryden, Gibbon, Twain (in Innocents Abroad: "He traveled all around, till at last he came to the place from whence he started"), and Trollope, and it appears 27 times in the King James Bible (including Psalm 121: "I will lift up mine eyes unto the hills, from whence cometh my help").
Though Dr Johnson objected to it in his Dictionary of 1755, calling it "A vicious mode of speech" (he meant it was reprehensible, not depraved or savage), most objections to it are no earlier than the twentieth century. One reason may be that its critics are unaware of its long pedigree.
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