I bought mine cash, used Peugeot 308, 10k€. I feel like every car in US needs a real-estate-size loan to afford it
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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!
Americans are more underwater ~~on their car loans~~ than ever before
Most people go for low money down offers on loans and stay upside down for at least half the life of the loan.
An increasingly large number of Americans owe more on their auto loan than their car is worth
So thats what it actually means.
The same term is used with housing and perhaps anywhere a loan is involved with yes purchase of property.
But in the case of (new) cars isn't this applicable to literally everyone the moment they drive off the lot? Like it's gonna take a while untill the loan payments catch up to the depreciation of a new car.
This might be a bit controversial
But if you can’t afford to buy the vehicle in cash, you can’t afford the vehicle.
This is the inherent evil in the spread of Western values. Build car centric societies. Keep people poor, keep them dumb, and keep them fat.
Part of me thinks this [the article] is entirely false due to the fact that as soon as someone buys a new car and finances it, they owe more on the loan than the car is worth due to the drive-off value drop (blanking on the actual name)
But I didn't actually read the article, and intuitively I know that the face value conclusion is very likely correct.
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.
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.
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.
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.