Fuck I miss my Civic DX Wagon so baaaaaaaad! 2wd but it had quite a lot of ground clearance and weighed nothing. So much fun.

“I put an average of 3,000 miles/year on my car”

This kind of thinking is what makes me hate the products of higher education. People will go to college, probably go for a degree that has no real world value, make very little, and then bitch about the guys who went out there and did something that has tangible results and they can take pride in. Like seriously, when…

To counter that:

That says more about how shit someone’s masters degree is than how evil a union is.

Fuck you.

If it weren’t for the rocker/bed side rust, I guarantee it’d have another 200,000 miles in it. The original 5.4 2V and 4R70W just keep on ticking without missing a beat. 

Lol, this is the absolute *dumbest* train of thought on here. Used cars are vastly more reliable than they used to be, when distributor caps and carbs would just randomly shit the bed. My wife drove a POS 10+ year old Ford Focus for years, and it would usually have one problem per year. Once the cylinder ignition…

I’ll skip the back half of your post, which others have addressed at length, and just agree that there’s no reason to not finance a used car. Financially it actually makes more sense, because you’re not financing the brutal early years’ depreciation.

Right, some people will continue their course of inaction when faced with a debt trap, and we can’t stop them from spending too much. There is no need to justify their poor choices for them.

Right, some people will continue their course of inaction when faced with a debt trap, and we can’t stop them from spending too much. There is no need to justify their poor choices for them.

I think you got the nail on the head. Everytime this topic comes up, there’s always some people that make it send like the buyer was forced to choose between a brand new 37k car our an unreliable beater. The reality is that there are plenty of sensible options in between that range that would result in a lesser…

That’s just how people who can’t afford it rationalize a large car payment to themselves. They scare themselves to death with the thoughts of “unreliability” or “repairs”, or try to pretend that the cost of repairs would make it even in the long run anyway. The truth of the matter is that your average Toyota or Honda…

Was just browsing FB Marketplace. It’s a horrible system to search for anything in particular, but just browsing through the listings its ridiculous seeing how cheap some stuff is priced. None of the vehicles are properly presented and only few have even been washed...but if you know your cars and are willing to sift…

The tires on the $3000 car were bad. See! I told you that you should have paid $25k for a new Civic!

I've bought and sold a lot of cars on CL, but now look almost exclusively on FB. Something about it feels more secure, being able to see people's profile and see seller ratings.

3/4 tread remaining, brakes have a lot of life left.

Actually, your point as it reads was “some people can’t afford to pay cash for a good, cheap used car so they should go take out a ridiculously long term loan.”

I’ve had a Pontiac badged Toyota Corolla wagon for a month.