Amazon: "New price" for a 122S

[TomTom]

OK, so lets compare the figures:

1965 - Amazon, call it £1100, beer = 7.8p: number of pints needed = 14, 103

2008 - S60 (new, basic spec), call it £21,000: beer (average) = £2.70, number of pints needed = 7,777

So a new Volvo today is twice as cheap as it was 43 years ago, in beer terms.

In 1965 you could buy 23,530 litres of petrol for the cost price of your 122S
In 2008, you can buy 20,000 litres of petrol for the cost of an S60 (new).

So we can conclude that:
a) it is better to fill up your Amazon with beer
b) beer down south tastes like unleaded
c) ("don't drink & drive")
d) the Amazon is a brilliant car
e) in 2025 you will be able to buy a condition 2 Amazon for the cost of 2 litres of fuel (although by then President Livingstone will have banned both!!!)

Tom

[mountain]

tomtom,

im so glad that you worked that out, i was afraid my brain would stop if i tried!

[Gordon Hunter]

Originally Posted by TomTom

a) it is better to fill up your Amazon with beer

Great, if we all fill up our Amazons on home brew then the government will collapse due to lack of revenue!

Well done Tom. Must have taken ages to work that lot out!

Gordon

[JD.7]

VOLVO price list for 1965

122 saloon 2 carburetter ( 90 ) HP disc brakes

basic price £930. 0. 0.
purch tax £195. 6. 3.

total cost £1125. 6. 3.

overdrive was total cost £76. 2. 6. ( optional )


not made up just taken off my original 65 pricelist....spelling for carb. as it is on pricelist lol.

[druid]

Originally Posted by TomTom

OK, so lets compare the figures:

1965 - Amazon, call it £1100, beer = 7.8p: number of pints needed = 14, 103

2008 - S60 (new, basic spec), call it £21,000: beer (average) = £2.70, number of pints needed = 7,777

So a new Volvo today is twice as cheap as it was 43 years ago, in beer terms.

In 1965 you could buy 23,530 litres of petrol for the cost price of your 122S
In 2008, you can buy 20,000 litres of petrol for the cost of an S60 (new).

So we can conclude that:
a) it is better to fill up your Amazon with beer
b) beer down south tastes like unleaded
c) ("don't drink & drive")
d) the Amazon is a brilliant car
e) in 2025 you will be able to buy a condition 2 Amazon for the cost of 2 litres of fuel (although by then President Livingstone will have banned both!!!)

Tom

Well done mate! Sad, but bloody well done