1989 Mitsubishi Montero as Good an Investment as a House

Back in the days of classified ads in your local newspaper, you paid by the character for an advertisement of your own. This led to many difficult-to-comprehend abbreviations in ads for real estate, and so the copywriters who crafted this '89 Mitsubishi Montero magazine advertisement used such abbreviations to suggest that the purchase of a new Americanized Pajero would be just as wise as buying a new house.

The median cost of a new house in the United States in 1989 was $120,000 and now it's $348,000, so we can assume that the appreciation in value of a $17,099 Montero has not kept up quite as well. But still, it had more cargo space than the Cherokee and Trooper!