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.
The prices of cars these days are completely fucked
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.