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Don’t buy a new car. New cars are for rich suckers. Cars are the most common type of depreciating asset.

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If you’re rich you don’t care

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exactly why you should go for a second hand one if you aren’t drowning in generational wealth.

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What? My point stands. If you care, you aren’t rich. You just have some cash from a few good years.

Would you care about the deprecation in value of your toothbrush?

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I’ve had 3 cars the first was 10yo when i bought it, the second was 3yo when i got it, the last one was new. Each one lasted 5 years, 12 years and then 10 years respectively. Moved to a walkable/bikeable city & I don’t even have a driver’s license anymore. New cars are not bad as long as it doesn’t get changed out every other year, and you get one that is a reliable model.

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You had a brand new car that only lasted 10 years?? What are you doing to your cars??

My friend has a 1993 Toyota Land Cruiser that the mechanic said drives like new.

I have a 2008 Nissan 350z that I’d expect to get another 10 years out of.

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Sold it when we moved out of the country, lol. It was a 2007 FJ Cruiser we got for 18k, sold it for 10k. Only changed the starter (drowned it), and a couple other things. Best vehicle I ever owned.

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I saw this on TikTok and it’s been burned into my brain since.

https://cdn1.frocdn.ch/vZBqPK4EuWepdGt.mp4 (link might not work with some security settings).

The amount of money seemingly regular people are dumping into car payments is unreal.

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Could you link the clip somewhere else? That host is blocked in basically every layer imaginable for me - uBlock, bad SSL settings and AdGuard

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If you care enough, just open it up in a private window or a new profile. Also, unless you don’t want whoever is between you and their server (if anyone is) knowing you watched a TikTok video of a woman going around asking other woman what their car payments are, bad SSL settings is whatever.

Here’s the original link: https://www.tiktok.com/@toyotacargirls/video/7202381347908832558

I just didn’t want to deal with people complaining about “A TIKTOK? ON MY LEMMIES?”

Either way, I can’t win with you people.

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Taking out a loan for a vehicle does not mean you are rich lol.

Anyone can get financing for a shitty new car, not everyone can figure out how to retire by the age of 55

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