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In college I sold used cars in a black neighborhood (2005-2007ish) to a client base that was 95% black and had wrecked credit. Yes, they truely are dumb as hell. Most people have no idea how disgusting and mentally retarded they are. The behavior and mindset of 90% of them is to live within in the moment, react on pure knee jerk emotions, and never take responsiblitity for your fuck ups. You would try to push them to buy a car that you knew would be a solid reliable car in good condition that they could afford. They would turn it down if it wasn't flashy. They would spend way outside their budget and get high mile high risk vehicle instead because it had a nice CD player, tinted windows, or stupid looking rims. Didnt matter if it ran like shit. All they cared about was "Will this car make me look cool so I can get pussy." That is it. Nothing else mattered.
They would spend way outside their budget and get high mile high risk vehicle instead because it had a nice CD player, tinted windows, or stupid looking rims. Didnt matter if it ran like shit. All they cared about was "Will this car make me look cool so I can get pussy." That is it. Nothing else mattered.
I mean to be fair that's the mentality for most people when it comes to cars. I've met a lot of dumb millennials making $500 payments on German shit. I love cars, I drive stick, I carve the mountain roads, I've owned every drive train (well except rear engine)... yet I've never bought a car new in my life.
I drove a stick shift for 11 years but had to ditch it when I started having kids. Sitting in traffic on hills was a bitch, but I still miss it Nothing is more fun than shooting the gap in flowing traffic doing a 5 to 3 down shift, doing burnouts at a random stop light, and being able handle snow driving better than automatics. It is a shame that more people in the US dont drive them and therefore auto companies dont make them.
Yeah traded my auto for a shittier stick car at 18 and haven't looked back going on 20 years. It does suck in very heavy traffic (especially my last car when it had a heavy ass clutch) but that doesn't come up for me much these days and it never really stopped me anyhow (I just let the gap grow a bit before pulling up if I'm tired/trying to save the clutch). I have the wife's car if I sprain my ankle or something.
Yeah even in sports cars these days it's hard to get a 6-speed manual. I hate the single clutch paddles, dual clutch I'm sure I would like but it's not the same. The used market has some fun stuff these days though. Got me a RWD manual V8 that I intend to hold onto as long as I can.
I buy used, but I don't think the benefit is always as clear as people make it. Given that most of a car's cost comes in maintenance, it can be very sensible to buy a new Japanese car and drive it forever. My first car was basically that. It was a year old when I got it but it was basically new. I drove it from 16 until 26 full time, then I bought a stupid-car, and I drove it when stupid-car was in the shop or it was going to get mud on it. I only sold it because I don't have room in the garage now.
Ehhh see I want to agree but it's not really true anymore... Assuming you are talking about a Honda or Toyota (Nissan is trash it's basically a French car now, Mazda is aight, Subaru is good but the labor costs on a turbo boxer are not) that was true 10 years ago but now everything is a BMW. Both in terms of components (The wife's Honda has a German transmission, the new Supra is a BMW) and in terms of the vast amount of computers and sensors and systems and also in terms of the desire to force you to use the dealer for servicing and parts.
I hear what you are saying though, it's exhausting going from old/high mileage car to old/high mileage car but I would just buy something fresh off lease w/ 30-40K miles. Let someone eat that initial depreciation at least, you are still going to get fleeced to an extent because dealers always get first pick of lease returns but 40,000 miles on a car that should go to 250,000 is nothing vs. 1/4 of it's MSRP.
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