Stop buying the crap then. Buy old and used.
This fucking shit has to stop. These cars cost a shit load because of massive markup and a shit load of "features" you never asked for.
I am not going to go buy a new truck for $60-70k. It is NOT WORTH IT. Unless it makes you money somehow and you can write it off as a business expense. Even then.. FFS.
I drive something that's over 20 years old. I bought it in cash about a decade-ish ago.
It works, I don't need it to do anything else. I replaced the head unit to make it do some extra stuff but that probably cost about $250 since I did it myself. It doesn't track everywhere I go and upload it to some database.
It doesn't need "software updates" to work properly. Etc...
Source: https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2025-08-25/surging-car-prices-push-buyers-to-take-out-longer-auto-loans
From the post:
>Shirria McCullough so loved her new, black Honda Pilot SUV that at first, she didn’t pay close attention to the loan terms. It was only after someone online pointed them out that the panic set in.
McCullough, a licensed clinical social worker in North Carolina, has been trying to eliminate debt from her life while documenting the process on TikTok. After she posted about the $45,000 Pilot, bought in 2023, a viewer commented that they’d never heard of Honda Motor Co. offering loans lasting seven years. McCullough hadn’t realized the loan’s length. The thought of her and her husband paying interest for so much time — adding thousands of dollars to the overall cost — made her “feel sick to my stomach,” she said.
Stop buying the crap then. Buy old and used.
This fucking shit has to stop. These cars cost a shit load because of massive markup and a shit load of "features" you never asked for.
I am not going to go buy a new truck for $60-70k. It is NOT WORTH IT. Unless it makes you money somehow and you can write it off as a business expense. Even then.. FFS.
**I drive something that's over 20 years old. I bought it in cash about a decade-ish ago.**
It works, I don't need it to do anything else. I replaced the head unit to make it do some extra stuff but that probably cost about $250 since I did it myself. It doesn't track everywhere I go and upload it to some database.
It doesn't need "software updates" to work properly. Etc...
Source: https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2025-08-25/surging-car-prices-push-buyers-to-take-out-longer-auto-loans
From the post:
>>Shirria McCullough so loved her new, black Honda Pilot SUV that at first, she didn’t pay close attention to the loan terms. It was only after someone online pointed them out that the panic set in.
McCullough, a licensed clinical social worker in North Carolina, has been trying to eliminate debt from her life while documenting the process on TikTok. After she posted about the $45,000 Pilot, bought in 2023, a viewer commented that they’d never heard of Honda Motor Co. offering loans lasting seven years. McCullough hadn’t realized the loan’s length. The thought of her and her husband paying interest for so much time — adding thousands of dollars to the overall cost — made her “feel sick to my stomach,” she said.
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