saintern wrote: > [SNIP] I . . . was wondering if you can indeed alsmost drive it for > "free", buy selling it for the same price if not for more than you > bought it for minus of course regular matience and insurance. I don't think you can drive any car for "free," although a DeLorean may be about as close as you can get. In today's market, even a rock solid car with very reasonable maintenance costs (e.g. Toyota Camry) has a pretty steep depreciation cost. There are no guarantees with depreciation, but you can make some good guesses. Imagine that you buy two $15,000 used cars today, an 18 year old DeLorean and a 3 year old Camry, then drive them both for one year. The Camry would probably depreciate by $1,500 and require $100 in maintenance, while the DeLorean required $1,500 in maintenance but depreciated by only $100. Of course this doesn't account for insurance and fuel; the Camry would come out a bit cheaper on both (much insurance information is in the DML Back Issues). If you are a teenager, insuring any $15,000 car could cost you a quite a bit. And remember, expect the DeLorean to occasionally be out of commission while you perform that $1,500 in maintanance. This is a non-dollar cost to you. Personally, I like to consider how much the DeLorean improves my quality of life. A year of DeLorean driving is a lot more fun than a year of Camry driving. The way I see it, that fun is worth at least $5,000 a year to me. So my DeLorean has already paid for itself! - Mike Substelny