Originally Posted by zeppinger

If anyone would care to, though I dont really, they could calculate the amount of money lost due to investment in a car? What I mean is that if you dont want to count depreciation as cost of onwership how about loss of opurtunity. If you buy a cheap car, lets say 10,000 just because it is a round number though admittedly higher than most of us cheap *******s would pay, and you sell it 10 years later for 4,000 then did you really only lose 6,000? What if you had put that money into a "real investment" and gotten 15% back? I think depreciation is a very important hidden factor in car ownership. So does AAA, Consumer Reports, and Wallstreet Journal. Do these people have hidden liberal agendas?