More Than 80 Percent Of Americans Can’t Afford New Cars - eviltoast
  • Bizarroland@kbin.social
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    1 year ago

    My current main driver is a 2020 Malibu. It’s fast, it’s sporty, it gets great fuel mileage, and I bought it secondhand. I let somebody else put the first 30,000 miles on the car and in exchange for that I paid like $12,000 less than the cost of a brand new one.

    It was also like a year and a half old when I got it so it wasn’t even that old of a car. This is the first car I’ve ever had payments on, all of my other cars were bought with cash, and I still have the pickup that I got in 2008 in the middle of the crisis for $3,000 cash with 350,000 miles on the odometer and she runs great.

    The only reason I don’t drive the pickup instead of this car is because it is slow and clunky and doesn’t get good fuel mileage and it’s an old beat-up pickup truck.

    I also have an old jeep that is a project car that I’m working on. Paid cash for it, it cranks and runs.