How much do you earn and what's the max you would be willing

>>17689471 (OP) #
Household income of 60k

Buying one for 50-60 next year.

Most I've spent so far was 20k, have always bought used. I'm 24 and it will be my 8th car. This will be my first new purchase.

I've always argued buying used, and still say it's the better way to go. I want a vehicle that I know exactly what's happened to it for it's whole life since it got off the lot. No rattles caused by somebody's Mickey mouse fix, no scratches from people setting shit on the roof, etc.

Household - $190,000-$200,000

Max - $80,000

Currently 2017 BMW X5 ($67,000) is my most expensive

>>17689541
>2017 BMW X5

HAHAHAHAHAAHHAHAHAHA

t. /o/

>>17689543
The price of marriage

>>17689550

oh... I'm sorry for you, anon, I-I didn't mean to be rude...

>>17689471
$10k AUD a year (uni student on government payments)

Currently I wouldn't spend more than $3-4k, but if I land a decent job I wouldn't have a problem spending upwards of $80k on a car.

>>17689471
Income £48K (personal, also household as I live alone)

Max I'd pay at the moment with the mortgage and other bills, about £30k

$50K net per year. Max I would spend is somewhere around $25K. I like to tune cars rather than buy something that's already pretty fast.

>>17689471
11k. No more than 10k

>>17689550
I'm going to buy my wife an x3 or a q3 depending on what's around. Women love those things

Not much. $10/hour.

At this point, I probably wouldn't bother to look at any cars over $20,000.

I bought my Lexus for $16k. The styling holds up pretty well, so casuals probably think I'm some well-off professional lol

>>17689471
Household $190,000-$210,000

Just bought one for over $100k

So did the wife, unfortunately.

>>17689537
>No rattles caused by somebody's Mickey mouse fix, no scratches from people setting shit on the roof, etc.
>He thinks cars are magically made by a wizard and not assembled, and often fixed before leaving the factory, by human hands
Early failures are much more common than ones after a car has been out and about for a year or two

I am a freelance software dev, so my income changes a lot. Last year I grossed $84k though, year prior to that it was about $56k. I am on track to hit $70k this year I think with the current project I am on.

I wouldn't spend more then $300/month on a car payment + insurance. Outside of that seems like a waste to me.

>>17689471
making about 13k a year (uni student)

currently looking for my first car, budget is 3k

starting salary should be about 50k and then my car budget will be around 20k

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people who buy cars for status >>>/out/ now

>>17689471
~$27k/yr

For daily drivers I try to keep it under $5,000 because I prefer to pay outright in cash and avoid any payments.

>>17690999
>poorfag

Why would we want to be mistaken as plebs?

>>17691022
Still in college here, but I would rather put the extra money in my retirement account.

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>>17690948
This seems like a bad idea.

You're going to be paying that off $20,000 vehicle for a painfully long time at $10/hour.

Make about 50k right now. I bought my toyobaru new(ish) for 21,500 with 5k mi on it

>>17691075
I actually got the title back in April.

You can have nice things if you save up.

Over six figures

Max probably 50k, but it would need to be something I really need or want

Cars lose value quick, so it would suck to pay that much and lose it all since I decide to keep the car longterm..

>>17689471
Hey there dataminer! I earn $-10000 every fortnight and I'd be willing to spend $3.1415926 on a car.

>>17689471
i make about 1k a year and i would be willing to spend 5

60k a year
I just bought a cheap 8k Corolla.
Insurance on anything newer was too high because I'm under 21

68k/yr.
Wouldn't spend more than 45k on a car, unless Mazda came out with a new RX-7. In that case, I'd be willing to make 55k work.

$72,500

I spent $5600 on my 04 Mazda 3 6 years ago, $3400 on my wife's 00 CR-V 2 years ago, and $2600 on my son's 94 F150 3 years ago.

>>17689471
$75k indiv
$115k joint (wife)

Just bought a $2k miata

Also taxes are a pain in the dick

>>17692059
wife should be a stay at home mommy honestly. you're getting fucked by barely meeting the income tax bracket + expense of car/commute work bullshit for her and kid car (if any).

128k a year. Most expensive car I bought was 17k and another for 14k in cash both of which I still own.

I could see myself spending 30k+ on a collectible car or even 55k+ on an M2 but it depends how long I stay single for.

>>17689471
22k

atm i wouldn't spend anymore than 15k but im young

currently driving a 2013 Dodge Avenger RT

>>17691004
/thread

>>17689471
4160
4000

>>17689471

20 / 4 / 10 rule

>Put 20% down
>Finance for 4 years (48 months)
>If your calculated monthly payment is more than 10% of your gross monthly income, you can't afford it

With 158k gross income, I could get a ~65k car with 20% down and 0.9% APR.

I'd still never go that high. I don't think I'd ever spend more than 40k. Not worth it

>>17692082
Learn how taxes work. Entering a new tax bracket never makes you poorer. Only money earned above the threshold is taxed at the higher rate.

>>17689471
110k$

the most i ever spent on a car was 12k$ for my wifes used Lexus. i never spend more than 3k on cars for myself.

>ITT: people spending 50-100% of their annual pretax income on cars

Top kek

I made $87k last year and I drive a mustang GT worth around $9k.

You all are fucking awful with your finances

>>17693147
getting 300% into debit just to boost that credit rating like a champ

>>17693174
>I drive a mustang GT worth around $9k.

my condolences

>>17689471
$84,250 gross. I wouldn't spend anything more than $15k on a car

32k as a college student
60k in 2 years

Caving on a 124 Spider Lusso next month

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making 40k after taxes
still have my first car i bought 3 years ago for 750$, albeit after putting some money into it

>>17692059
>not including the salary of your wife's son

Get with the program!

>>17689550
This

I bought her a brand new '15 Edge Sport not too long ago, leftover model so i got a great deal on it. Shit, even I like to drive it sometimes it's fuckin loaded. But I daily an RX8 so I'm still happy

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>tfw it seems like everyone makes more than you

I make 33-34k/yr and bought a 20k 2017 civic hatch. Wifey makes 15k/yr and we only pay $400 rent. I plan on paying her off asap.

>>17693174
Yes, we are, but you still drive a shit car. $9K can buy you a much more entertaining car with about the same practicality

I make about 32 grand a year after taxes, and I still probably wouldn't spend more than 5 on a car. I'm 22, I don't need nice things yet, I'm fine with my NA Miata honestly.

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i have 3 ivy league degrees and am a physician, make 350k a yr, spend only 20k cash on a car

absolutely NO REASON anyone making less than 250k a yr should spend any more than 20k on a car. cars are the worst way of spending money possible. basically 99% of americans have no reason to be driving anything better than a 1k civic.

fucking poor people stay poor you dumbasses with no self control or delayed gratification, keep eating cheetos and drinking soda and getting fat, keeps us in business lol

>>17694315
Weird I make about same as you and I spent about 80k on cars so far. I am getting ready to buy another 50k car.
Is there reason why you are saving so much? I already have few houses, no need to buy another one when price I so high right now

>>17694315
Yeah dude but my dad works for nintendo

Checkmate

>>17694343
Great. Run upstairs real quick and ask him why the Wii U was such a massive pile of shit.

>>17694442
To make mad all

Am I the only one who things it's completely retarded to trade a year's worth of work for a car? I'd trade like 1/3 or 1/4th after tax max

>>17694776
You dont buy a new car every year do you?

I make a little under 250k. 200k is the max I'd spend but only as a one-time thing for my dream car and only after my savings goals had been met.

Current car was about 110k, and I plan to keep it for 10 years, at which point I'll either buy my dream car or just keep my current car forever.

>>17689471
>Individual income $45k
>Max - $15k

There's nothing new that I like and is in my range, so under $15k for an older 4Runner is what I'm looking at.

~$100k. Bought one for $30k after taxes, etc. recently. I have low rent & can't buy a house unless I strike it rich, so fuck it.

>>17694315
So I see the bait here but this is actually pretty close to my situation. My wife and I are both in professional specialized fields so we pull in around that much.

We have old cars that we got years ago and I finally just bought something around 20k. I probably will buy something fun and more expensive at some point but I see no reason to at the moment, gotta keep stacking my chips.

About 30k a year

Unsure what I would spend; got my car a couple years back and plan to not get another til I -need- to (should be another 5-7 years), so a lot can change between then and now.
I'll calculate my budget for a car when its required.

>>17693115
I'm in the same boat as you. I make just as much except I never liked spending more than 10 grand for a car.

I earn about 30k a year

My car was 31k

earn 18k aus a year.
would be willing to spend like 5k max.

If you notice the underlying trend in this thread: the more more you make, the less you spend on cars.

People who have money have money because they're smart with money. You don't go blowing 1/3rd or even more of your annual income on something that loses value. That's just fucking stupid.

110k per year
I can't see spending more than 15k on a car. Cash of course

60k
8k
My favorite cars can be aquired for less than this

I make about 35k/year now. Should be going up to at least 60 once I find a job actually in my field.

I bought a mk6 golf with 99,000km for $9000 CAD a few months ago and I plan to drive it till it dies.

My next car will be a Golf R when the new generation comes to Canada in 2021.

>>17689541

We have a few 17's for $10k less than that.

0ZCW Cold Weather Package
0ZDA Driving Assistance Package
0ZPP Premium Package

$55,998 just under 5,000 miles. Silver/black

10% of annual gets budgeted towards my car. I've owned my car for 12 years, and will buy my next one with cash.

>>17689471
about 320,000k a year after taxes
20,000

cars are shit.

>>17689541
wow your wife makes 180,000$ to 190,000$? pretty goodanon

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$50k / year w/ totally free health insurance in a very low-cost place to live.

I'd spend maybe $13k tops.

>>17689541

Is that USD?

About 40k.

I'd spend about 15k max.

The amount you earn is kind of irrelevant. Out of that 40k I have about 20k of spending money because I live cheaply, while some people claim to be living paycheque to paycheque at 100k.

>>17695493
>If you notice the underlying trend in this thread: the more more you make, the less you spend on cars.

You saw that with Sam Walton and Mr Buffett. They both hung on to their old cars except Mr Buffett had to get a new one because his wife kept on nagging him to get a new one with modern features and accessories.

http://www.cleverdude.com/content/lessons-on-humility-from-the-life-of-sam-walton/

Even though he was a billionaire many times over, he drove a Ford pick-up truck, and he lived in a humble house in Bentonville that almost anyone with a job could have afforded (Michael Bergdahl, What I Learned From Sam Walton, (New York: John Wiley & Sons, 2004) p. 114) and he purchased many of his clothes from Wal-Mart. Bernard Marcus, chairman and co-founder of Home Depot, recalled going out to lunch with Walton after a meeting in Bentonville: "I hopped into Sam’s red pickup truck. No air-conditioning. Seats stained by coffee. And by the time I got to the restaurant, my shirt was soaked through and through."

Sam Walton was made in america but sold mostly chinese goods.

>>17694946
Are you me? The next housing bubble can't pop soon enough.

>>17691004
/thread and the money saved paid off my homes early. Disposable income and no debt is very nice.

I took my cue from used car dealers. I met many very rich dealers at auto auctions and rarely do they dump money into personal cars because they have wiser priorities than pissing away cash.

One gent who owned a 200 acre salvage yard would take the tags off whatever he was driving and skin it out if a customer needed parts. He's a millionaire several times over, owns a house in the Bahamas, and gives zero fucks. He's famous locally for building a road through what was technically wetlands. He asked if he paid the fine could he keep the road. He did, he did, and the fine was around a million bucks. He's also known for shooting and killing two dindus who tried to rob him in separate incidents over the years.

Even if you aren't rich you can copy success.

>>17695003
Stack chips and retire while you are young enough to enjoy it. Life after 50 is fucking horrible. Life after 40 isn't that great even if you work out and eat well. Age and entropy are motherfuckers.

>300$/ month
> 4K

Ayy lmao!!!!

Make 45K a year min, though last year it got up to 55 with overtime.
So about 55K.
I would spend no more than 15K on a used car, nonfinanced.
I would spend no more than 40K on a new car, financed.
Most new cars do not interest me other than the FoRS, Fiat 124, Juke Nismo, and Toyota GT86, though.

>>17692099
How old are you? If you're single making that much, you browse /o/, why haven't you bought Nice car yet?

Youth is wasted on the young.

Go out and buy yourself a Porsche 911, Mercedes amg, Alfa Romeo giulia Quadrifoglio, etc

>>17689471
93,000 to 820,000 usd/year range over the last five years depending on the % of it in jail or prison.

I am willing to spend no more than 5% of my net holdings at a given time on a car

This year so far is pic related, a dc2 integra race car, and a low key van

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>>17697990
Forgot the pic lol

>>17697829
Which you can't really afford

>>17689471
make 66K/yr
would spend max 12K on a car

Probably no more than 50% of my yearly income before taxes, which is a little over 60k at the moment.

Just bought a new car though. Financing about half of it. Yes, debt is "bad" but I'm using it to build my credit. When I do buy a house they'll look at my credit history and having a large loan like car payment will do nothing but help. Especially because I'm diligent with paying things back.

I could easily afford the car payment too since I'm currently saving over $1700/month after my IRA (already maxed) and 401k contributions. Figure I could put some of that towards a new car because fuck it. Life's too short to drive a boring car.

>>17689471

>$250,000 - $350,000 all in
>~$30,000

$70000 this year
used econobox for $6000

I generally try not to spend more than 10% of my annual income on frivolous good.

>>17698220
There is a disturbing amount of thrift and intelligence ITT.

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>make $33k/yr
>buy $20k car
>2/3rds of yearly income on something that will be worthless in 5 years

And that gentlemen, is how you remain poor.

>>17698130
Actually I have 35K cash in the bank right now and no debt. I could easily afford a 15K car if I wanted to spend the money.

>>17689471
$215,000
The most I ever spent on a car is $25,000

>>17689471
I make $24/hr...the last vehicle I purchased was $2k, however it took another $2k in parts to get it safetied...I did all the labour...

>>17693188
>paying off debt to get into more debt

>yearly income
A good amount.
>max willing to spend on a car
More then most people spend on their house.

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- 75k individual
- wouldn't go more than 30k new
- recently spent $15,800 on pic related because my old car bit the dust.

>>17694315
but do you know what it's like to kill a man?

>>17699426
mistakes were made

60k a year.
max i would ever consider is about 30k

I make $54k/yr.
Probably $30k.
I bought a new Accord 4 years ago for $24k and I don't regret it, I'll drive it til it dies.

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>>17699426
>didn't even get a Crosstrek

>>17689471
Mid 60s salary. About 30k car

72k, spent 22k on a toyobaru. Normally i would not go above 20k but my mr2w3 broke
wife drives a 17k new car an makes around 30k, but i paid it

>>17699470
>>17699490

Don't need a turbo or a lift kit, I daily it where there's lots of snow and rain, and the manuél suits me fine.

I'm really enjoying my first awd car.

Currently making 50k while living off mommy and daddy, my only expenses being gas, insurance and school. Parents pushed me into spending 26k cash on a new accord. Honestly would have rather saved the money for a house, or other investments. No reason to drop more than a 1/2 a years wage on a new car, especially when a top of the line one with leather seats, a v6, and other fancy shit costs less if it's only a few years older. Reading this makes me even more depressed that I folded.

>>17697755
>Life after 50 is fucking horrible.
It's great. I didn't smoke or become overweight. My joints and back are in great shape. But a lot of others that are close to the same age are overweight and have bad knees or backs. Taking care of your health is just like taking care of your car (change oil, wax, scheduled maint, good gas). Human bodies and cars can have bad luck, but ignoring the lemons and bad luck, both bodies and cars can go on in great shape even when older.

There are people here in the 70's that walk around fairly spry. Probably a key thing is they have medical plans courtesy of their jobs. If you only have minimal medical care from medicaid (many doctors don't "accept" it), then life is tougher. Lots of Practices have evolved tricks to legally discriminate against patients who have lower profit potential.

make like 20k a year or so. 15k car because financing deal was good enough I wont be negative if i sell and i have nearly no bills

income tripling soon :^)

>>17689471
ITT: Retards who spend more than 15% of their income on a hobby

>>17689471
52k a year. paid 8k for my first car. going to sell it and buy a 2k shitbox to daily. i made the mistake of buying a sports car to DD, was great for a few months but then i put tens of thousands of miles on it doing menial shit, like driving an hour to the in-laws weekly.

currently saving for a 50% down payment on a mint SW20 mr2, which will run me about 10k.

Single dude who makes 36k a year. Bought a car for 14.5k.

65k
9k
More than that wouldn't be prudent.
Why put so much money into a depreciating asset?

$73k
Around $20k at an absolute upper limit, but realistically around $13-14k.

45-55k a year

the most i payed for a car is 900 bucks, one year on and it hasnt broken down yet

i refuse to pay more than 2000 for a car

>>17700758
>Why put so much money into a depreciating asset?
Because there are a lot of people who love that magical first year of owning a new car. And there are even more who enjoy that first 3 years of bumper to bumper warranty. So those people eat the depreciation for people like you who then benefit.

>>17700758
>Why put so much money into a depreciating asset?
It's a hobby, some people spend a fortune on cameras, or knitting wool. The PDSA estimate the cost of dog ownership at $42,545.

>>17689471
I just started a job where I will be making 117k/yr and I also just bought a car for only $1000
I have been poor for so long that I can't get out of the mindset.

>>17689471
>How much do you earn
nothing
>what's the max you would be willing to spend to buy a car?
i dont even have a driving licence
>inb4 underage
im 24

>>17689471
second from the right has seen some shit

>>17701687
> Know old guy who just sold his house to the airport
> Now worth like 26million
> Was pulling the gate out to sell for scrap

Your not the only one

>>17689471
6500 a month from work, recently bought a low miles f550 for 6k. Sold my nice little truck for that one and use it every weekend as a mobile welding shop to make more and pay for the gas to drive it.

>>17701812
Plan on getting my cdl or a better job I mean

>>17689471
$9.20hr
I'd spend $5,000 on a car with cash max and maybe 10k if I had to finance
I own a 2003 Nissan Xterra and a 2005 Honda Shadow VLX 600

>income
6-10k per year depending on how many shifts I get
>how much I spent
5k total importing a car from japan with financial help from parents

>>17689471
>$20k
>$30k

>ITT broke faggots try to make each other feel good about being poor

Make about $12k/yr
Would spend $1.5m max, would have to be a good deal though

My income isn't fixed and I haven't had much work lately. Last job I did was for my aunt and I got lowballed. I don't really have to pay for shit so I wouldn't mind spending as much as I could earn on a car. Currently, however, I'd only be able to spend about 5k on a second car. I was thinking about a Miata or MR2 since I want a different experience from my heavy Volvo S80. It's decent for road trips but it's not nimble at all and has a 4 speed auto.

Household income 25K

Roll around in a 25K car

praise kek

>>17689471
>How much do you earn and what's the max you would be willing to spend to buy a car?
OP, I sure as hell don't buy a car to impress the types of social club golddigger girls you showed in your picture.

20k

500k

I make 32K working part time at dairy queen and just signed a loan on a 40K ford mustang ecoboost

>>17704609

Imagine being so insecure that this is the message you received from the OP.

>>17706419
Not him, but those girly sorority clubs are too much like: MY boyfriend bought this for me.