Who /unreasonably averse to car payments/ here? I drive a beater.

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I have the same problem.
Just seems like such a waste of money for any of these new comfy cars.

Anything worth having new is in a price range that is $400 - 500/mo - and that's before higher insurance rates.

I have two beaters, a winter and summer.
Paying wayyy less than a new car and I have just as much fun. This includes repair costs (plus I buy them broken usually)

I feel the same, for me it's paying a price for something expensive that loses money every year. A new car loses a £1000 the minute you drive it off the forecourt, you never get that back. At least with a house it's value shouldn't go down so much.

>>14626363
>5 years
Car sales in America are fucking stupid. Long contract, high prices, shit cars, high interest rates.

>>14626363
Me too. Somewhat respectable job earning $75k or so per year, still drive a $900 car... I honestly think this might be the reason I can never get a date because I live on my own and generally have my shit together for the most part.

>>14627685
>and that's before higher insurance rates.
Don't forget another 350-700 a year just to title the damn thing.

>>14627894
Please, do tell us how cheep cars where you live are.

i've never financed a vehicle and i never will.. i just don't fucking get it

bought a £500 japanese car and it does everything i need it to do

>>14627894
>high interest rates.
What? If you have good credit interest is well below the rate of inflation if not 0.

I make around 110k. Drive a 15 year old saab as a daily driver. I put about 40k miles a year on a car, so if I drive anything that isn't at the bottom of its depreciation curve I feel like I'm throwing away money. Driving, and buying, an older car really only works if you know cars though. If I didn't know what to look for, I could have ended up with a very problematic vehicle.

My wife does drive a much newer car though.

I took out a 3k loan to buy the car I wanted. Pay $100 bucks a month.

>>14627737
That has always bothered me too.

>paying a $6,000 premium just to be the guy who drives it off the lot

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>anything that's good that's made in the previous 3 years is $45k, anything that's REALLY good is $55k+

>>14626363
If youve got a stable, well paying job, go for it. I just paid off my 5 year loan recently and I do admit it feels good. But I make enough that $300 a month was nothing, the only annoying thing about it was remembering to pay it every month. Life is too short to drive a shitbox forever. And im not a yolofag, but this is /o/, an auto enthusiast board. So grab your fuckin nuts and act like it.

>>14626363
I might consider it if someone besides ferd or VAG made a medium fast, manuel, hatch/wagon that isn't FWD. Unfortunately there's no WRX hatch anymore, and the Levorg isn't sold here, is CVT only, and has 300hp, not 268.

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>>14628724
clover ate my pic

>>14626363
You could always just pay most of it in cash and get a smaller loan

i recently bought a fun little hatch for 11k put 8 down and i only pay 100 a month

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>>14628724
>mythical AWD 300+hp MS3 doesn't exist

>>14626363
So save up for something nice and buy it outright. Shitbox and car loan are not your only two options. I did the car loan dance once. Never again.

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>>14628724
Focus RS. Only $38k starting and the dealers are only doing $10k+ markups so they're presaling for ONLY around $50k

I'll never buy a new car. I'd have to be making like 150k or more a year to buy new, 2bh.

buy a three year old off-lease car with cash, drive it for eight to ten years, chop in, repeat

there you have it. that's the Terrible Secret of /o/. here's your complimentary stack of twingo memes and instagram-filtered 'track shots', now away you go

>>14628837
>someone besides ferd or VAG
I'm not buying a focus. It's too fast and too expensive anyway. Something around $26k like a WRX with around 250-280hp is all I want.

>>14626363
If car payments don't make sense to you it's probably a good idea to continue driving beaters and paying for them in cash.

If you can make sense of car payments and are stable financially, you're so dumb for not financing a new vehicle.

last new car i bought got stolen by a nigger and never found

never again

>>14630092
Dude good job giving back to the community.

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>But $400+ a month for 5 years
Nigger what are you doing
You do realize down payments are a thing? And if you save the respectable money you make for some time you can just buy the thing outright?

I mean I understand not buying New and there are plenty of legitimate reasons, but I don't think this is one of them.

I've never had a car payment, probably never will. I'm 25 and the newest car I've ever owned was '04. Went back to my classics, rocking a '79 C10 atm.