Investment: Buying a car because it'll help you reach a higher paying job further away. Speculation: Buying a limited edition or already antique car, and neve

Investment: Buying a car because it'll help you reach a higher paying job further away. Speculation: Buying a limited edition or already antique car, and never using it, because you believe someone else in the long future will want it more because its rare. Trading: Buying a car today to sell in the next weeks because you have better information/trading connections/higher volume than the original seller and can source a better price, or you have the distribution channels to move it cheaply and take advantage of smaller profit margins in other areas.