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More Than 80 Percent Of Americans Can’t Afford New Cars (jalopnik.com)
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[–] [email protected] 41 points 10 months ago (4 children)

Don't buy a new car. New cars are for rich suckers. Cars are the most common type of depreciating asset.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 10 months ago (1 children)

If you're rich you don't care

[–] [email protected] 4 points 10 months ago (1 children)

exactly why you should go for a second hand one if you aren't drowning in generational wealth.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago) (1 children)

What? My point stands. If you care, you aren't rich. You just have some cash from a few good years.

Would you care about the deprecation in value of your toothbrush?

[–] [email protected] 0 points 10 months ago (1 children)

Who are you even arguing to? Literally no one disagrees with you. Someone even replied to you to say they don't disagree with you and you doubled down. You gotta relax man.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 10 months ago

Huh? I made one reply in this thread when someone suggested that even the rich would be enticed by second hand, by u/potato

One reply sticking to your original point is not being rustled.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 10 months ago (1 children)

I've had 3 cars the first was 10yo when i bought it, the second was 3yo when i got it, the last one was new. Each one lasted 5 years, 12 years and then 10 years respectively. Moved to a walkable/bikeable city & I don’t even have a driver's license anymore. New cars are not bad as long as it doesn't get changed out every other year, and you get one that is a reliable model.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 10 months ago (1 children)

You had a brand new car that only lasted 10 years?? What are you doing to your cars??

My friend has a 1993 Toyota Land Cruiser that the mechanic said drives like new.

I have a 2008 Nissan 350z that I'd expect to get another 10 years out of.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 10 months ago

Sold it when we moved out of the country, lol. It was a 2007 FJ Cruiser we got for 18k, sold it for 10k. Only changed the starter (drowned it), and a couple other things. Best vehicle I ever owned.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago) (1 children)

I saw this on TikTok and it's been burned into my brain since.

https://cdn1.frocdn.ch/vZBqPK4EuWepdGt.mp4 (link might not work with some security settings).

The amount of money seemingly regular people are dumping into car payments is unreal.

[–] [email protected] 9 points 10 months ago (1 children)

Could you link the clip somewhere else? That host is blocked in basically every layer imaginable for me - uBlock, bad SSL settings and AdGuard

[–] [email protected] 2 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago) (2 children)

If you care enough, just open it up in a private window or a new profile. Also, unless you don't want whoever is between you and their server (if anyone is) knowing you watched a TikTok video of a woman going around asking other woman what their car payments are, bad SSL settings is whatever.

Here's the original link: https://www.tiktok.com/@toyotacargirls/video/7202381347908832558

I just didn't want to deal with people complaining about "A TIKTOK? ON MY LEMMIES?"

Either way, I can't win with you people.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago)

Trying to figure out how to flush my DNS cache on my phone was just a little bit too much, to be honest.

An alternative for next time could be to link the clip through ProxiTok, that's unlikely to offend anyone.

On the topic of the clip, hot damn. I've seen similar videos from other car dealerships before, and it's always so damn depressing to see.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago) (1 children)

Is the previous host your own server? You can get a free, good, and well recognised SSL certificate through LetsEncrypt. It's dead easy to set up and there are many guides on how to do it

Though your link works fine for me on Chrome on Android, so I don't really know what the others were complaining about

Edit to add, the site has a CloudFlare certificate and security, that should be fine

[–] [email protected] 1 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago)

No, it's not my server. It's well known file host that allows anyone to upload anything to it.

[–] billy_bollocks 1 points 10 months ago

Taking out a loan for a vehicle does not mean you are rich lol.

Anyone can get financing for a shitty new car, not everyone can figure out how to retire by the age of 55