Oh my god I would like to see a hatchback or a sedan or a station wagon on the road again please. Every car manufacturer is selling maybe a single massively overpriced sports coupe, maybe the world's most boring shopping cart that feels like it's made from soda cans but is still somehow unaffordable, 10 Suburban Assault Vehicles of various sizes, and like 3 monster trucks.
Holy shit maybe roads wouldn't be such a hell nightmare if they weren't only selling tanks.
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*(Sorry about the typo, I'll remake it if anyone wants)
Out of curiosity I looked and there's a 2006 automatic V70 with 133K miles going for $4,795 on Craigslist.
The Corolla hatchback is basically the only "normal" hatchback left, and you can't get one for less than $30k. Never getting rid of my Honda Fit
Average price of a used car in the US is like $27,000. It's like $40,000 for a used car here in Canada. Average price of a new car here is $66,000.
How the fuck can anyone afford that? I guess a predatory car loan.
The only car I ever bought I paid cash for, and it was like $5k. That's impossible now.
Yeah, if you don't already have a car or get a hand-me-down from family, you're kinda just fucked forever. Nobody established will understand why this is a problem, because they're already on the trade-in ladder and can get less ridiculous loans purely because they already had a car.
The people I know my age who have cars right now got them as hand-me-downs, and even then its expensive as fuck for everything related to it.
The boomers I know who aren't rich or anything but have the money for it do the buy new and trade in every few years thing, and I just can't understand how even that doesn't cost an absurb amount of money. They just talk about it like it's a normal thing to do. I guess that's what having a good pension is like, which no one else will ever experience lol
It's not totally impossible. I bought a car for under 4k (including registration and new parts) about 6 months ago, which I needed to only do some minor repairs on before it was running quite well. However i recognize that this kind of thing is more practical for a person like me bc I do all my own car repair/maintenance work anyway, and it you are not doing that the economic situation is quite different. That being said, while I know that the national average has gotten quite high, I wouldn't despair bc there are some decent options still.
It's so fucked that they discontinued the Fit. Everyone I know who has one loves it, they're crazy popular, but they're not expensive enough to turn a big profit.
Agreed, and add "actually practically sized pickup trucks that can carry things and aren't suburban assault vehicles" to that list.
I fundamentally believe you should need a CDL to drive a pickup and that they should only be available for purchase if you have any semblance of a legitimate reason to have one like being a tradesperson, farmer, or even just a hobby woodworker. Trucks should not be commuter vehicles.
"DON'T YOU TELL ME WHAT TO DOOOOOOOOOOO" reactionary
are part of the ratchet effect where the trucks can't get smaller, only bigger, because getting a smaller vehicle, even if they were available, would seem like being gaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaay to these chuds.Make 'em pass a CDL test to keep their truck, I doubt most of these boomers could actually pass a driving test.
Actually, everyone should have to pass a driving test like every 5-10 years to retain their license.
I told someone from another country the other day how I can just renew my Drivers License online. He was understandably surprised.
Holy shit maybe roads wouldn't be such a hell nightmare if they weren't only selling tanks
there's roads in my city that literally don't fit these monsters. car-brained city designed for automobiles and the car people still fucking broke it
One of the many things that makes me scratch my head is that so many off SUVs are marketed as the "ULTIMATE OFF-ROAD VEHICLE, CONQUER EVERY MOTHER NATURE GODDESS WHATEVER HER FORM IN THE NEW ABC-SUV BY BIGCAR!" and not a single one of them has spec of dust on them. They are all glammed out at all times. They are all driven by some guy named Zach on his way to the office.
If a truck isnt being used as a company truck ie landscaping or something, there is a 95% chance its being driven by a guy who is desperately trying to LARP as a guy who does manual labor
Oh my god I would like to see a hatchback
mood. I think some of these have also been discontinued, too lol
Of the 17, 4 of these are SUVs, 2 are sedans, and 2 of them are basically just different trims of the same hatchback. So really it's 10.
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