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...unusual for the typical American car owner to have a 5-year-old vehicle with 100,000 miles on it. At this point the car will not have a warranty and generally it is owned outright by the driver. Car owners are waiting much longer before trading their old autos in for new ones. A generation ago, it was not unusual for middle class Americans to buy a new model every two or three years. That is no longer an option even with car prices and incentives as attractive as they have ever been. The American consumer is frankly...
...owner who has a 2002 Mercury Grand Marquis probably paid about $30,000 for it. The car is probably worth $5,000 now. A person with modest experience and skills with auto repairs can rebuild that car for about $5,000. The car will need new breaks. It will cost $500.00 to replace the breaks with all the parts. Approximately $800 will be required to replace most of the moving parts in the air conditioning system. Another $200 will get the owner a new exhaust system. It is likely that the alternator will also need to be replaced after...
...total cost of upgrading the car so that it will run another 2 years, of course, assumes that the owner has about $3000 worth of tools...
...gunman didn't stop there. Kretschmer, who graduated from the school a year ago, fled on foot and headed toward central Winnenden. Along the way he shot a pedestrian - an employee of a near-by psychiatric clinic - before hijacking a green Volkswagen Sharan along with its terrified owner. Threatened at gunpoint, the driver, 41, turned his vehicle towards Stuttgart. But heavy traffic made the murderer worried and so they turned back again. After a wild trip down country roads, the car crashed into a roadside ditch on the Autobahn entry ramp near the town of Wendlingen am Neckar, some...
...means by which Kretschmer obtained the murder weapon seem clear. A late-morning search of his parents' house has revealed that his father, a member of a local gun club, is the legal owner of 15 firearms; one pistol that had not been locked away, as well as many rounds of ammunition, were missing, the police say. Germany's gun laws are relatively strict but registered competitive marksmen, hunters and collectors can acquire guns after their physical and psychological soundness has been ascertained. (Cover: "The Columbine Effect...