on July 9, 2025, 21:11:05, in reply to "why are you writing $50k checks instead of taking adantage of factory financing"
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and putting that money to work in the market? Previous Message
people have just accepted a car payment as "normal", so they don't see anything wrong it. there's lots of commenters who publish these nonsense metrics about what percentage of your income is ok to spend on a car payment.
couple that with increasing car prices - particularly with respect to trucks, but also the increasing prevalence of "luxury" cars - and this is what you get.
if you pay cash for cars, it completely changes your mindset. my 10 year old jeep grand cherokee has 140,000 miles and is just about dying on me, but i just bought my wife a new car, so i'm not in a hurry to write another $50k check. if i were splitting the pain up into 84 easy monthly payments, it'd be a lot easier to just pull the trigger. Previous Message
Approximately 1 in 5 car owners pays in excess of $1,000 per month for a single vehicle. And approximately 1 in 4 car owners has a loan of at least 84 months. WTF?
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