OT re Naz 2080 and "which SUV did you end up buying?"
Looking at the charts was part of what went into the 2080 number. Looking at the % move that other bear rallies have done in this bear market, guessing that the September lows were an intermediate-term low, and expecting a long, long bear rally off that low. Also correlates, approximately, with where the Nas stalled in the rebound off the April bottom.
I ended up buying (actually, ordering, they won't get it in till next month) a Subaru. AWD and studs ought to hold it to the road, at least at slow speeds. It has a low-set engine, and a low-enough center of gravity, that it doesn't require the SUV-rollover warning on the visor. Only 7.5" of clearance; when we get a heavy snow, she can drive my Expedition.
(rant alert)...........I will never buy another American-made car. Just got the tires on my Ford Expedition changed, it took them till this summer to decide to recall the 17" tires, long after they recalled the 15-16" tires. When I called up the dealer, they said, "It's just a cosmetic recall, to soothe customer's anxiety, nothing really wrong with the tires. Oh, the recall ends in 2 weeks, we won't pay for it after that. And we don't have any replacement tires, you'll have to find them yourself. We'll reimburse you up to 130$/tire max, you pay the difference if you can't find a replacement that cheap." When I called tire stores around town, I couldn't find any that had any of the tires on Ford's recommended replacement list. And all the prices were over 130$/tire. I will never buy another American car, they have learned nothing from losing market share the last 20 years to the Japanese. |
