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The Best way to Add Value to your Used Car: Be a Celebrity
By Zack Klapman
If you want to buy an unreliable, depreciating asset, nothing works better than a Jaguar XJS owned by a famous person. The entry price will be way too high, it’s painted an extremely common silver/gold -so no one can pick it out of a crowd of idiots who had $10,000 and access to cars.com-it will break a lot, and in 30 years most of the star’s fan base will be dead, so it won’t be worth anything.
This is Tom Petty, and his 1996 Jaguar XJS. It is being auctioned off for charity (Doctors without Borders), with the current bid at $40,000. Cars.com turned up 2 clean examples under $10k. Depreciation: Free Fallin’. Obviously, the purchase is a write-off. And you can say, “I bought Tom Petty’s Jaguar.” But you, and your friends, better loooove Tom Petty and Camry-gold paint because the general reaction to this car will be an obligated eyebrow and fake, “Oh, very cool.” This will be followed by your trapped audience’s monotone memory of the one Petty song they can remember, a bullshit fact about the car they hope is correct, and a silent 2-minute walk-around while they pretend to care.
Jags are nice looking, as is this one (I almost made the terrible mistake in high school of buying one, only because I saw the words “V12.”). And yes, I’m taking things a bit far, but I would prefer to spare myself the maintenance woes, and not obligate my friends to the awkward moments in the garage, and just write a check to the charity.
…although a Jaguar XJS drift car would be pretty cool. “Classy tire fire you got there.”
Source: Rolling Stone
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2012-10-16 14:22:07
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