Traveling Far For That New Car - Automobile
But neither is purchasing cars from afar just a rich guy thing to do, as I once believed. Buying a vehicle hundreds or even thousands of miles away can be the committed car guy thing to do. Or just the thing for the guy who ought to be committed. I traveled to Northern California from New York once and drove home in a new 1994 Alfa Romeo 164LS. Alfa’s departure from the U. S. market wouldn’t officially commence until the end of the 1995 model year, yet even in September 1993 sources at... A complete dearth of blue, ’94 five-speeds, less than one month into the 1994 model year. Although there was only a modest discount involved, the same as if Alfa’s cars were selling well, it seemed obvious to me that Alfa’s end was nigh. I’ve never regretted it, not even when the 164’s windshield cracked in three places courtesy of flying stones on the long trip back to New York, or when I flattened part of its exhaust system on a small canyon masquerading as a pothole in a... Two years later, the Alfa had to go. I’d tracked down one of the last Land Rover Defender 90 station wagons remaining from a limited one-year-only U. S. allotment in 1995, and I got on down to. Source: www.automobilemag.com
