Car dealers are the absolute worst scumbags who provide absolutely zero value. They rarely know anything about the cars they sell, they all lie cheat and steal at every opportunity. Every single part of making a deal is an opportunity to get fucked by them. Fuck them all, goddamn leeches.
Can you tell I just bought a car?
Would it make you feel better to know that car dealership owner is one of the leading occupations for millionaires in amerikkka and that they’re an organized and reliable right wing voting block
As much as I despise Tesla, I appreciate their attempts at breaking the dealership oligopolies
Every defeat of the petite bourgeoisie is an advancement, even if it's to the relative benefit of the haute bourgeoisie
Helped a family member buy the best car for $15k they could get. That ended up being a TEN YEAR OLD Honda fit, selling for it's new price from TEN YEARS AGO.
Fuck the used car market
wut
How many miles? I've got a 12 y/o one with <80K miles. I think it was like 18K brand new.
avg market for your car is around 13-14, assuming it's clean, used market sucks right now
Honestly. You have to be on top of all these things like:
Car quality
Good deals
Potential recalls
Attempts at scams
Potential insurance coverage
Repair costs
Time it takes for maintenance
Fuel efficiency
The likelihood of your car being targeted for theft (happened to me ugh)
And that's before you even get behind the wheel.
This whole hyper individualism thing is all for a stupid infrastructure that could be fixed with trains.
I remember reading an article long ago about car salesmen and was shocked at the story of a family that came in with their old clunker and left with a new car a few hours later. The idea that people would just make a major purchase like that was deeply unsettling. You didn't even read Consumer Reports on that model!!@#$% Madness!@!!*!!(((!!!!
I helped a friend buy a car recently. She ended up taking a couple trips to shop around for options, but I was proud of her for that.
So easy in fact that some insurance companies won't even open new policies on certain kias.
You can start a Kia with a program downloaded onto a USB stick. There was a Tiktok video that showed how to do it, it went viral, and now kids can basically pick and choose any Kia on the road and drive off with it.
It's not a program on a USB stick, it's literally just the USB port. They're breaking off the outer keyed part of the ignition. The remaining piece has a metal tab that a USB port conveniently slips over, allowing you to turn the ignition without a key.
Why some Hyundai and Kia cars are easy prey for car thieves
TL;DR they tried to save like ten dollars by cutting corners and not having an immobilizer
A few years ago I paid a quarter of that for a similar year Toyota with 5k less miles
"Supply shortage" my ass
It’s really wild. Seems like just because “inflation” (private companies price gouging the shit out of everything) is a talking point, other people just tag along and no one thinks twice about it
Consider the Buick lesabre.
There are a billion of them, they look dorky as hell and for something like 20 years they ran on the 3.8 v6 so parts are everywhere.
Oh, the engine famously runs forever too.
One of the most interesting and damning little glimpses I have ever read about Chris Roberts, the head grifter behind the Star Citizen grift, is that his lifelong dream was to have a space game where everyone can enjoy the experience of visiting a luxury car dealership. Except in space.
A car guy I know once told me to look at the interior of used cars. If the previous owner has trashed the interior chances are that they also did not take very good care of the rest of the car.
i mean if you're making a serious effort to try to sell a car, cleaning it is probably the first thing that even a moron would think to do.
I'm hanging onto my [reliable manufacturer] compact car for dear life.
Dealers are scum. Private sales are the way to go. I got a good deal off Craigslist. If you buy something that lasts a while like a Honda, you can get a better price on older models like from the late 2000s.
I hate how lately people keep saying “might as well buy new used is so expensive!” But you look at lightly used cars with sub 50k miles are 5-15k less. That’s not nothing folks. Maybe it’s just my poverty mindset but I don’t get people buying new.
Those are super unsafe and you can't drive them in the rain.
Well, you can, but you're taking your life in your hands.
You can totally drive a motorcycle in the rain safely. I'm not sure where you got this idea from.
In Asia, people commute to work on motorbike all the time, rain or shine.
However, motorbikes aren't really practical car-replacement devices in North America. They have less cargo capacity than cars (important when you live in a food desert and grocery shop once every week) and can only seat 2 people, an appalling limitation when you have to ferry your kids around your car-dependent hellhole of a town.
Motorcycles do not solve the problem of having to deal with dealership salesmen
