[DeTomaso] Road & Track online
Boyd Casey
boyd411 at gmail.com
Thu Mar 6 11:41:13 EST 2014
The interesting thing is that we hardly ever got Volvo's in on trade. Back
in the days I was in dealerships (80's -2005) most Volvo owners seemed to
buy their cars new and keep them forever. You know Volvo was always
advertising their 400,00 - 1, 000,000 cars. The typical Volvo buyer (back
in the Volvo "Cube" ere was the pipe smoking, pencil caddy , slide rule guy
who knew every specification and was not inclined to buy "someone Else's
problems " Which was the famous excuse for not buying a used car. I have
owned a few over the years because they were well made, safe, and REALLY
CHEAP! and they really were good for a few hundred thousand miles. I once
threw a rod half way between NY and Newport RI in the middle of the night
(around 100 miles to go to make it home to Newport) They car made it home
running on 3 cylinders with a hole in the block! If I remember correctly it
was an 89 740 which was one of the top of the line models. I always like
the Volvo 1800 the Roger Moore drove on the TV show "The saint" they looked
great but didn't really run as well as they looked!
On Wed, Mar 5, 2014 at 5:21 PM, Jerry Knotts <knottsj at galstar.com> wrote:
> Boyd,
> Also you have to remember that Volvo is the original sobb sister.
> jerry
> On 3/5/2014 3:19 PM, Boyd Casey wrote:
>
> I certainly agree that the largest the sample size the more diverse
> the lis will be but at some point one has to draw the line. But some of
> the choices I suggest don't even belong in a list of cars.The most
> substantial error (in my opinion is the 1997 Thrust SSC.How can a "one
> of" land speed record machine even be considered in a list of cool
> cars? I don't consider it to be a car except under the largest stretch
> of the imagination. The Bronco isn't a car it's a truck , The Saab
> although it is a car is as far from cool as one can be, When people
> used to come into dealerships I worked at trying to trade out of these
> "boat anchors" we had an inside Joke , we said " I don't wan't to hear
> any Sobb (Saab) stories" Saabs and Peugeot's had the lowest residual
> value of any car on the market. These cars had a residual value value
> of between 22%and 28% for 60 months (for comparison purposes Hondas
> and M.B) which had among the highest residuals values between 48 and
> 54% for 60 months). The residual value was the most important basis in
> calculating what the cost would be to lease a car. A car wih 50%
> reisdual value for a 60 month lease would lose 50% of it's value over
> 60 months . So to make a long story short these cars were pieces of
> junk.
> And how about the original Boss 302? Instead of the modern version. I
> don't want to come across as a complainer but I just think that they
> didn't provide what they promised in the title of their article. Many
> of the cars listed ar in fact very cool. But I think they are a far cry
> from the "coolest" in the past 51 years.
>
> On Wed, Mar 5, 2014 at 2:20 PM, doug sedon [1]<[1]sedond at yahoo.com>
> wrote:
>
> redneck supercar? the car maybe not. but the owners?
> absolutely! i
> have never belonged to a list - cars or otherwise - filled w/so
> many
> freaking rednecks. i own #2602 in spite of it! ;~)
> doug s.,
> commie pinko owner of #2602
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The interesting thing is that we hardly ever got Volvo's in on trade.
Back in the days I was in dealerships (80's -2005) most Volvo owners
seemed to buy their cars new and keep them forever. You know Volvo was
always advertising their 400,00 - 1, 000,000 cars. The typical Volvo
buyer (back in the Volvo "Cube" ere was the pipe smoking, pencil caddy
, slide rule guy who knew every specification and was not inclined to
buy "someone Else's problems " Which was the famous excuse for not
buying a used car. I have owned a few over the years because they were
well made, safe, and REALLY CHEAP! and they really were good for a few
hundred thousand miles. I once threw a rod half way between NY and
Newport RI in the middle of the night (around 100 miles to go to make
it home to Newport) They car made it home running on 3 cylinders with a
hole in the block! If I remember correctly it was an 89 740 which was
one of the top of the line models. I always like the Volvo 1800 the
Roger Moore drove on the TV show "The saint" they looked great but
didn't really run as well as they looked!
On Wed, Mar 5, 2014 at 5:21 PM, Jerry Knotts <[1]knottsj at galstar.com>
wrote:
Boyd,
Also you have to remember that Volvo is the original sobb sister.
jerry
On 3/5/2014 3:19 PM, Boyd Casey wrote:
I certainly agree that the largest the sample size the more diverse
the lis will be but at some point one has to draw the line. But some
of
the choices I suggest don't even belong in a list of cars.The most
substantial error (in my opinion is the 1997 Thrust SSC.How can a
"one
of" land speed record machine even be considered in a list of cool
cars? I don't consider it to be a car except under the largest
stretch
of the imagination. The Bronco isn't a car it's a truck , The Saab
although it is a car is as far from cool as one can be, When people
used to come into dealerships I worked at trying to trade out of
these
"boat anchors" we had an inside Joke , we said " I don't wan't to
hear
any Sobb (Saab) stories" Saabs and Peugeot's had the lowest
residual
value of any car on the market. These cars had a residual value
value
of between 22%and 28% for 60 months (for comparison purposes Hondas
and M.B) which had among the highest residuals values between 48
and
54% for 60 months). The residual value was the most important basis
in
calculating what the cost would be to lease a car. A car wih 50%
reisdual value for a 60 month lease would lose 50% of it's value
over
60 months . So to make a long story short these cars were pieces of
junk.
And how about the original Boss 302? Instead of the modern version.
I
don't want to come across as a complainer but I just think that
they
didn't provide what they promised in the title of their article.
Many
of the cars listed ar in fact very cool. But I think they are a far
cry
from the "coolest" in the past 51 years.
On Wed, Mar 5, 2014 at 2:20 PM, doug sedon
[1]<[1][2]sedond at yahoo.com> wrote:
redneck supercar? the car maybe not. but the owners?
absolutely! i
have never belonged to a list - cars or otherwise - filled w/so
many
freaking rednecks. i own #2602 in spite of it! ;~)
doug s.,
commie pinko owner of #2602
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