On Sat, Apr 26, 2014, at 15:17, Godfrey DiGiorgi wrote: > The Barnack is now an *expensive* historic novelty, Paul. ;-) > > The Audi vs Mercedes thing is interesting … Far as I've seen, ten year > old Audis are often too expensive to repair and keep running, seldom seen > on the road, while there seem to be a LOT of perfectly healthy 20+ year > old Mercedes on the road all the time around here.
the dangers of generalizing from personal experience — here in Colorado, there are more than ten times as many 10-year-old Audis as Mercedes on the road; i was in Denmark last week and noticed a similar proportion, perhaps not quite as skewed; my partner is on her third Audi, having being forced once again by other people's recklessness to upgrade from an over 10-year-old A4 that was in great condition; the latest purchase is a 2009, and our intention is to keep it at least five years > Quality and > durability costs money to buy but pays you back in the long run. The fact > that few people keep a car long enough to obtain this kind of value is > their problem… … and someone else's opportunity; all this household's Audi purchase were used but in excellent condition; and i just bought my fourth old Saab, a 1995 9000 Aero; while these cars present some challenges they suit my needs well while costing relatively little; my approach to cameras is similar — a mix of old and newish, but mostly purchased used, has a certain practicality that makes up for never getting to experience that new camera smell -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List [email protected] http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow the directions.
