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Buy a basic car and you'll be fine.
The Highlander, like many SUV’s, is an AWD van. Very reliable. But if handling is your thing, it won’t satisfy you. It’s your wife’s car, right?
Yeah I paid $70,000 for my truck last year.
Why do you think it should cost less?
Buy a Honda civic with 4 cylinders, basic options. You will save a bunch.
* nonetheless, auto sales are flat to declining overall, and lots of dealerships are barely surviving
No, easy credit is how people afford it.And payment schedules stretched out to infinity. Today's prices sound high, but a brand new 1963 Oldsmobile Super 88 equipped the way most people liked them with Hydra-Matic, AC, power steering and brakes, all optional in that day, and a couple of trim upgrades came in at about $4,200, and that was considered a mid-level priced car, you saw them everywhere. That's $34,000 in today's money and those cars were financed for 36 months. By the mid-70's with inflated prices exploding, but not incomes, payments were stretched out to 48 months in 1975 to make them more affordable--that's also the first year makers offered what today we call incentives. Eventually we got to the 60 month period, a time over which most cars have reached 100K miles. I used to read Automotive News in the mid-80's and I can remember a proposal by Toyota in which buyers could actually sign over their home as collateral for the privilege of stretching payments over ten years. I couldn't believe anyone would be foolish enough to do such a thing considering the car is going to be virtually worthless by that time, but I'm sure a few gullible people fell for it. My friend in San Antonio worked for a large chain Nissan store for 13 months and from having zero experience became their top seller in four months. He said you would not believe the deals people would make with rolling over negative equity onto the price of a new car as long as they could afford the monthly payment, and management would sign off on it.
Because the Coastal Elites in California set the 'pace'. They don't mind a few thousand extra to virtue signal their Green Superior Morality.
A lot of Liberal that fucking hate our guts get rich by making your average car starting at $25K and $3500 a year for insurance on your average driver under 35.
I think they are trying to force everyone to take the bus with people they admit are inferior to us,
Because people want them to do so much. Power everything, safety out the wazoo, more electronics than the space shuttle, sophisticated suspension and steering, ABS, horsepower out the wazoo, 6-8 speed transmissions, brakes that would have been formula 1 50 years ago, great build quality. A 2016 honda accord runs the quarter in 14.4 with the ac running, a 69 chevelle ss 396 muscle car did it in 16.3.
FYI, a car which is 1-3 years old is usually a great discount over a new car on the lot.
Cars are too complex and fancy to be cheap sometimes.
My father bought a new Volvo in 2013 "loaded" "leather" etc.
It has some stuff that I could do without; extra airbags (4 in the front). front anti collision radar, front parking radar, rear parking radar, side blind spot radar, rear camera, electric windows, moon roof, GPS,
Water pumps and alternators(most common problem) were around 70 bucks and you could fix it yourself.
NuttBoxer saysa recall for a battery solenoid,
What the fuck is a battery solenoid???
It's the thing which prevents muffler bearings from running out of blinker fluid.
It's the thing which prevents muffler bearings from running out of blinker fluid.
DASKAA saysIt's the thing which prevents muffler bearings from running out of blinker fluid.
My Wife would pay to fix that.
bacon and Trucks are a good trigger for across the board price increases.
Buying a BRAND NEW automobile without having the rest of your wealth strategy figured out, in progress, or otherwise at the point you could retire tomorrow, is foolish at best.
Buying a BRAND NEW automobile without having the rest of your wealth strategy figured out, in progress, or otherwise at the point you could retire tomorrow, is foolish at best
Buying a BRAND NEW automobile without having the rest of your wealth strategy figured out, in progress, or otherwise at the point you could retire tomorrow, is foolish at best.
You are taking a direct fucking hit with the depreciation. These stupid things ARE NOT investments for the most part, with 99% of them going only down in value.
Yeah, you may get lucky and not have ANY repairs over the time you own the car, but the previous mentioned costs plus depreciation will likely cost much more than repair costs on comparable used auto.
These stupid things ARE NOT investments for the most part, with 99% of them going only down in value.
No no no, you're both wrong. IT's the 8 years of Obama that made cars so fricken expensive. Duh ?
"Easy credit and longer repayment terms have coaxed many consumers into buying more car than they can really afford," said Ed Mierzwinski, U.S. PIRG's senior director for consumer programs, in an email. "It's even worse for those who have been subjected to deceptive and predatory lending practices at auto dealers."
Yeah, I'm actively searching Craigslist for a new used car lately. I don't want to have to drive my next car for 17 years to make the numbers work out haha...
Actually I'm thinking of picking up another Accord coupe V6 which they quit making after 2016. Maybe hold it 6-7 years and then buy an electric after I own a house.
Do right-wingers see everything through a Trump lens?
you are the real reason ICE sedans are dying.
A lot of ppl are waiting for EV prices to fall so they can buy in.
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And it's EASY to get these cars well over $40-45k without even trying.
I've been reading on the joys of sub prime auto lending lately, but am wondering when the music is going to stop - and people quit financing cars for 7+ years.
I pay cash for my whips.