UNREAL........Miami found 300 cars owned by the gubment, that have NEVER been driven.

[url]http://www.autoblog.com/2012/04/25/hundreds-of-5-year-old-municipal-vehicles-found-in-miami-that-we/?ncid=txtlnkwbauto00000002[/url]

Imagine that.......

Later,

Geo

[QUOTE=GeoFisher;489746][url]http://www.autoblog.com/2012/04/25/hundreds-of-5-year-old-municipal-vehicles-found-in-miami-that-we/?ncid=txtlnkwbauto00000002[/url]

Imagine that.......

Later,

Geo[/QUOTE]

Give credit where it's due, think of the reduced operating costs and money saved by not having to insure or maintain the vehicles they eliminated from their operating fleet. To be fair, the lead time for getting vehicles is often much longer than the notice you get to reduce your staff that takes away what was your intended driver. And once bought and on-hand, your better off keeping it then immediately taking a depreciation hit by trading it in or selling it.

Take me for instance, when I left Knox, they scraped my car. (Or was that more like trying to kill the horse I rode in on?)

About a week ago, I read that Miami originally bought 1,200 of those cars. I'm still wondering what department was going to use them; they certainly aren't fast enough for police cars. Maintenance is off the scale for them, a battery costs about $6,000. It's going to be interesting to see what they do with these 300 old/new cars. They will have to sell them at auction or put them into service. I think it's against the law to sell government property in private sales. Maybe they are planning to use them for "bait cars." lol

Another opportunity lost....sure wish I was the saleman at that dealership.

They'd be good cars for govt people to go do inspections, or go to meetings, or run govt errands in. Maybe parking meter readers, or folks working for city supplied utilitites.

Prompted me to double check my garage and make sure their weren't an unused bass boats sitting around. None found.........