100% this, and what were once middle class basics are being priced out of the actual middle class, and one of the consequences is exploding personal debt to remain in the perceived middle class. Housing, education, health care, and now new cars...

Oooohhh! Now we’re getting all juicy here. Now I feel like my life is an utter failure and my feelings are so terribly hurt because some anonymous person on the internet made some random insults. Ain’t it amusing? We can all be our own keyboard warriors and say whatever we want to invisible people we will never meet…

Says the person that seems to waste more time commenting on jalopnik articles than anyone else. your life must be stressful having to constantly calculate how much money you’re not making.

Cripes, deadspin is nearly unreadable.  I keep going back about every two months or so and I’m losing hope...

Is this just a pure numbers increase (like in 2020 5 bagillion used cars were sold at an average of $X, and in 2021 there were 5 bagillion cars that sold at an average price of $X+40%)?

Depends on how much they cash out, but assuming they’re paying back multi-million $ loans at Long Term CG rate, it would be 20%. But yes thats still less than even a middle class yearly tax bracket. Long Term CG tax is broken and can easily be fixed imo. Maybe a long time ago, calculating effective tax rate over long…

Weird that you’re scolding others for “not understanding money” and then go on to imply stock shares aren’t a liquid asset.

If the deal was consummated on the Dealers lot, and the freelance represented the Dealer, then yes the Dealer is culpable for all monies.

I bought a Chrysler T&C about 20 years ago from a Chrysler dealer (is there such a thing as a legit dealer?). Title delayed. They said Chrysler’s finance arm was swamped. I finally showed up in person, demanded satisfaction. Said they were violating NJ law by not producing a timely title, and I was violating NY law by…

I mean, you go to a dealer expecting a conman for a salesman, but maybe not this level of conman.  

I’m glad I live and buy cars in Ontario Canada, where you get the car - with title and plates, all at once. If you already have plates the dealer gets them transferred to the new car by the Service Ontario office where the title change is processed. If you buy from a dealer you get clear title - guaranteed by OMVIC.

I paid cash for a car and they threw on temp tags and told me it would probably be 2-3 weeks before I got the title in the mail. My temp tags expired before I ever saw that title, I ended up getting a ticket because they dragged their feet mailing a piece of paper. 

Internet comments are full of perfect market timers.

And eventually, no matter how hard the original organizers try to stop it, eventually, sooner or later, some assholes will show up to roll coal, rev engines, do burnouts, and plow a Mustang into a crowd. Car meets have a limited lifespan, you gotta get in early before the assholes show up and take it over, and then it…

Unfortunately most of the cool C&C meets with cool interesting cars come from upper class areas.  NIMBY and Karen’s are rather thick in those areas.

Yeah. It takes a significant amount of self-policing and at a certain point, the show gets too big. The most successful ones I’ve seen take place in things like church parking lots where there is no interference with non-participants on a Saturday morning, or outside shops with limited parking that discourages camping…

I’ll provide a little bit of a counterpoint. My wife rides a 2020 Himalayan. Her 120lbs is great for the bike. She keeps up with me on my R1200GS fine when we are riding be it on road or soft off road. I know I could light it up and rip 0-60s in 2.5 seconds and top out at something like 125 and she isn’t going to…

I recently bought a car and the salesperson was reasonably useful, pointing out the differences between trim levels and showing us the models they had in stock. He did not try to upsell or play games.

Its years beyond its should need to die. Like probably 20 years past.

“Good salespeople would help find ways to match people to what they need, and be able to talk about the advantages of their product. Without desperation.” I agree, but how many people come onto a car lot unsure of what they want? Haven’t they already decided? My guess is people are there solely to test drive (maybe,…