No options - base truck, your terms (o down, 48 months) - payment? $1141.

Down payment of $12,000, 3% interest rate and 75 months of financing gets you to $550/month-before TTL. The loan would cost over $4k in interest.

And they’re two weeks away from being shit out of luck when the company they’re working for decides that they’re expendable.

They tend to think there’s nothing wrong with what they’re doing though. No drug stronger than denial.

It happens. I used to work with a handful of people just like this. One bedroom apartment - or a two bedroom with a roommate - and a Audi/BMW/Mercedes with a $900-1200/mo. car payment.

Spending money on something that’s only going to lose value over time vs. something that can increase in value over time is what I was criticizing. You’d recognize that if you knew how money works.

Illinois.

Knowing how to finance yourself into a corner isn’t ‘knowing how money works’.

Who’s buying them? People who don’t know how money works AND are more interested in impressing others.

There’s an apartment complex about a mile from my house - FIVE Raptors in the parking lot. They’re there every day when I leave at o’dark thirty in the morning. I chuckle nearly every day because they have to have…

Or “Welcome to 2013 in Illinois”:

There’s a suburb of Chicago that has a Dodge Magnum with regular plates and it just cruises up and down the main street pulling people over. Same PD has Chrysler Town and Country minivans, F150 pick up trucks, and some other oddball unmarked/regular plate cars with full LED light treatments.

Depends on the specific city/village but most in Northern Illinois are way too lenient for it to matter long term. A dude with that many Pep Boys accessories on a car isn’t likely to file a claim for insurance - just go back to Pep Boys and replace the broken shit...

So much for wondering what a Colorado with the ass end of a Camaro on it would look like...

I see a mashup of Focus and WRX in this car...and a lot of Accord in the front end. It’s trying too hard to be ‘different’ - that’s when it becomes ugly...like the Chris Bangle BMWs.

GM should focus on making their trucks more visually appealing...paint it forest green and it looks like a constipated Incredible Hulk trying to force an unwilling shit.

You want to go back and relive the slow rise from a severe recession where only the ‘already rich’ gained more wealth and the majority of people experienced very little sustained economic growth?

People wouldn’t buy the more expensive small cars - which is the real issue Ford is attempting to address. Moving production of small/barely profitable (in comparison to trucks/SUVs) products to a country with lower cost of living expenses makes sense from a business perspective.

Americans have gotten used to ‘made in…

“...has increased 74.5 percent to 87 percent between 2006 and 2013.”

If the car requires premium fuel (91 or greater octane) and it’s stock - it’ll usually have a sticker in the area of the tank fill tube. I’ve owned four cars that require premium fuel and they’ve all got a sticker.

If the car is not stock and the engine requires higher octane fuel, the owner usually knows it.

Everyone…

A friend of mine, when buying a new Supra, wound up leaving a dealership that didn’t take her seriously, going to the next one - buying the car and returning to the first dealership with the car - specifically to show them how ‘being a judgmental herd of morons’ kept them from making a sale. She then laid rubber in…

Last Wednesday, I watched a 20 something in a Mini cut off the guy in front of me right after the light turned green. Mini guy was in the right lane and decided, 8 car lengths from the intersection, that he HAD to turn left. Light turned green, Mini guy punches it and cuts across two lanes. Little did he realize that…