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Old 01-20-2007, 10:05 PM   #7 (permalink)
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Almost everything you list is a money sink on maintenance when bought used and a money sink on depreciation if bought new. Land Rover/Range Rover are just plain horrible. I sold my BMW 740 because the maintenace costs at 79k miles were nearly as much as the annual payments on the Titan. Worse yet is the spectre of a catastrophic failure that costs 50% or more of the value of the car to repair. I was an ardent follower of the 740 bulletin boards. There were guys with $20k used cars that had lunched an engine that would cost $12k to fix. Head gasket is $5k, cats are over $2k, transmission is $6k. Great, great cars to drive but I was scared to own mine any longer.
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