How else can I buy the newest Ford “own the libs” truck with the lift kit and coal-rolling accessories?
Funny, but let’s not pretend this is solely a conservative issue.
People want to own nice shit with modern amenities that’s newer so they dont have to mess with it and i don’t blame them. That’s absolutely reasonable. It’s just crazy expensive and many loans are predatory.
People want lots of things.
And people deserve lots of things whether or not the market values them highly.
People deserve nice, newer cars with modern amenities even if they can’t afford it? Yeah, you’re correct: that does seem to be the mindset of the people I know with nice, new cars that cost more each month than their rent. Not sure I agree with the idea that they “deserve” them. But, then, I’m not sure anyone “needs” or “deserves” new cars just because they want “nice shit.” Very modern capitalist of you though.
Me: Everyone deserves to live comfortably regardless of how much capital they have
You: Wow you fucking capitalist
??? lmao
Sure thing, champ. You seem confused about the difference between capitalist critique and underwriting unnecessary consumerism.
Regardless, you don’t seem worth the time, so I’ll save us both effort and block you. Feel free to respond, but I won’t see it.
Bro thinks only rich people deserve heat and ac, bluetooth audio connection, driving assists and accident prevention, etc etc. lol
Fuck poor people, amirite?
I’ve only ever bought like 20 year old used cars. I can’t even comprehend how anyone has enough money to afford a new car. It’s not even the price of the car itself, which is always absurd anyways, but the cost of insurance on a car that new and registration is also just insane. A friend of mine recently bought a car that was only 5 years old and their payments including insurance and everything are still almost as much as the mortgage on my house. It’s no wonder everyone is under water with their car loans.
Where did you find that cheap-ass house?
The 90s
Nope. 2021. It just looks like a place where people turn into missing persons and it’s in a fairly low COL city. I am also just barely scraping by on the payments until the PMI drops off.
Fair enough. Was being cheeky. Hopefully things loosen up for you soon 🤞
Picked myself up a crack den (not literally but might as well be) like 8 years ago. My dad built houses and taught me how to do most of the work so I bought a cheap place I knew I could eventually fix. Also in a fairly low COL area. So a shit house in a fairly cheap city in a cheaper housing market. It was either that or just accept never owning a house so I jumped on it and just barely scrape by.
My mortgage payments cost me just as much as renting a slightly nicer house in my area so the point still stands that my friend is paying nearly as much for their vehicle per month as most people here pay in rent.
Well, it’s not exactly fair to compare a crack house in crackville - which I’m picturing as Mantua, OH - to the average house, let alone any place in an urban area. But congratulations all the same.
Maybe they bought their house like 10 or 12 years ago.
10 years ago in 1994?
There were a lot of cheap houses available in 2012 through 2014, the problem was having the credit you needed to get one of them.
I recently saw a house that I saw for sale back in 2013 for $75,000 on the market for $530,000.
When the pandemic hit, i was just looking for a car. A lot of people back then were selling the cars they haven’t payed off yet. I was truly shocked to find out that some people spend like 1300 a month on car payments.
Americans are more underwater
on their car loansthan ever beforeAnd with our EPA regulations disappearing, that water is toxic.
Alternatively: “Car prices higher than ever, wages not keeping up with inflation.”
Yet another reason why car-focused transportation is a hilariously dumb idea.
Build some transit already
*siphons all the funding away to cronies and general corruption
“See? Mass transit just doesn’t work here.”
I bought mine cash, used Peugeot 308, 10k€. I feel like every car in US needs a real-estate-size loan to afford it
It feels like in the US way more often than ever before people are buying in the luxury/premium car space. I stay exclusively on the cheap end because it’s all I need. The options for new economy cars shrink every year, but there’s a million pickup and SUV options. It seems normalized to spend way more on a car than you really need, partially because financing is offered on ridiculously long terms (5+ years) for a depreciating asset.
The explanation is pretty mundane.
The last 2 years have seen really, really fast depreciation, because the car shortage of 2020-2022 drove up cars way beyond their normal prices. Some cars actually appreciated in value in 2021.
So when the shortage untangled eventually, used car prices plummeted. Here’s a chart of the most robust used car price index.
At the same time, several EVs saw huge price drops as Tesla tried to preserve market share against increased competition. When the new car drops in price by $20k, then the used market for that car similarly drops suddenly.
So when the value of vehicles drops unexpectedly across multiple markets, you’ll have a lot more people whose car values failed to keep up with their loan balances.
Feels good to be completely debt free on the cars. Yes it meant when my work car started showing issues, I had to review my expectations when going electric and couldn’t get the van/large car I thought I needed and we downsized to a hatch back instead, but truthfully I think that was a kick in the nuts I needed to realise I was getting pulled into a weird spiral of thinking I always need more, when really 99% of the time I’m fine in a small vehicle (and it’s so much nicer to drive and get around in). For these few times stuff won’t fit I’ll use our older ICE which is a bit more spacious, and when that’s not enough I’ll rent a van and bill it to the client!
Most people go for low money down offers on loans and stay upside down for at least half the life of the loan.
