HUGE sale on the 2015 Mitsubishi Mirage

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Yeah, if they can lease someone the Mirage, they can sell it for $10,000 and still get $14,000+ for it. :tongue:

Subaru: Yeah, I had a hunch these were popular. At the auto show folks were all over the Subaru display area like ants at a picnic. I had to circle back there 3 times to even be able to sit in the Outback.

I briefly considered a Subaru for an all-in-one car, something I could use as a daily driver AND a tow vehicle (I read that some Subarus can tow up to 3,500 pounds). The fact that they are so popular means they aren’t really going to bargain with you much on a purchase, because if you don’t buy, the fellow standing right behind you WILL.

I find the Subaru marketing odd as well. Every Subaru commercial features people camping, fishing, and driving around the back country roads, but nothing about towing capacity. . . You’d think the types of people who go camping and fishing would have little boats, pop-up campers and such to tow. Maybe they’re holding that part back for if/when sales slow down? One would THINK it would be a natural fit though. . . you don’t have to buy a big cumbersome pickup truck, you can buy our comfortable station wagon type car, get 28 - 30 mpg, and still tow up to 3,500 pounds.

Have I considered Quaaludes??? Seriously? That’s what “the system” wants, everybody medicated. I see these pill commercials every day. The side effects are usually worse than the condition they are meant to cure. Back pain, cancer. . . and my favorite, a side effect of anti-depressants is suddenly being overwhelmed with the desire to commit suicide, nice touch. Maybe I’m high-strung and a little crazy, but at least I know who I really am! (BTW, none of this stopped me from buying stock in Johnson & Johnson, I want to be on the receiving end of these pill dividends,- but I guess I’m not supposed to talk about that on this forum. . . )

“Right there, that should tell you something about how the car-buying public views the desirability of those Mitsubishis.” Yeah, I know, but as a cheapskate I am drawn to it like a moth is drawn to a porch light. The way I look at it, if I hold out for awhile one of three things is going to happen:

  1. Come late April, they mark the Mitsubishis down even more and I get a brand new car out-the-door for under $10,000. and spend the next 10+ years boring everyone to death bragging about the great deal I got. . . .

  2. Later this summer, a manual transmission Honda Fit LX, (in blue or maybe even yellow) comes along and I buy it with exactly the accessories I picked out for it. . . .

  3. I drive my current vehicles through the summer, throw in the towel on the manual transmission, and buy a new Honda Fit alongabout September or October or so, and retire both my current vehicles when the registration / emissions expires in November.

Either way, I win in one way or the other. :smile:

Edit to add: “You can always trade in a year.” That’s only half the statement. The other half is, “. . . at a huge financial loss.” :wink: