It's ironic, but this year I sold my 40 yr old little truck that got 45-60 mpg on a consistent basis depending how I set the IP from power to mileage. Sold it for 2 1/2 times more than what I bought it for in 81 new. Less than a 100k miles on it, original and most of it's life garaged or covered. 81 VW rabbit pickup with 1.6 diesel in it. No, it didn't have all the electrical bells and whistles, but it had plenty of torque for how small it was. And the gas mileage was great. There were other vehicles as well even older that got over 30 on a regular basis. That was before all of our great tech, but they didn't seem to fit with big oil pushing our need for big and powerful. They basically only made the Caddy pickup here in the US for three yrs and just stopped even when they were selling them as fast as they could make them, still heavy market demand.
“The markets can remain irrational longer than you can remain solvent.”
John Maynard Keynes
