this post was submitted on 26 Jun 2025
269 points (97.5% liked)
Fuck Cars
12300 readers
2204 users here now
A place to discuss problems of car centric infrastructure or how it hurts us all. Let's explore the bad world of Cars!
Rules
1. Be Civil
You may not agree on ideas, but please do not be needlessly rude or insulting to other people in this community.
2. No hate speech
Don't discriminate or disparage people on the basis of sex, gender, race, ethnicity, nationality, religion, or sexuality.
3. Don't harass people
Don't follow people you disagree with into multiple threads or into PMs to insult, disparage, or otherwise attack them. And certainly don't doxx any non-public figures.
4. Stay on topic
This community is about cars, their externalities in society, car-dependency, and solutions to these.
5. No reposts
Do not repost content that has already been posted in this community.
Moderator discretion will be used to judge reports with regard to the above rules.
Posting Guidelines
In the absence of a flair system on lemmy yet, let’s try to make it easier to scan through posts by type in here by using tags:
- [meta] for discussions/suggestions about this community itself
- [article] for news articles
- [blog] for any blog-style content
- [video] for video resources
- [academic] for academic studies and sources
- [discussion] for text post questions, rants, and/or discussions
- [meme] for memes
- [image] for any non-meme images
- [misc] for anything that doesn’t fall cleanly into any of the other categories
Recommended communities:
founded 2 years ago
MODERATORS
you are viewing a single comment's thread
view the rest of the comments
view the rest of the comments
Tbh surprises me just how many must be buying new cars too.
I know you’re right but gonna ramble a bit…
People still make stupid mistakes buying used because the issue is people wanting / buying far more vehicle than they can reasonably afford. Like you make 30K…maybe a 9 year loan on a 70K vehicle is a bad move.
I’ve had this conversation a handful of times with people that ‘like driving fast cars’ but aren’t really car people. They want to buy that used 50K M series BMW or AMG Mercedes 5-10 years later cause it ‘use to be a 120K+ car’. They then find out that the maintenance/parts costs are still that of a 120K+ car. Not to mention the reason it’s being sold now is it needs a 15K turbo replacement or the like.
Last year I bought a motorcycle and asked the dealer what’s the longest loan term they’ve ever got approved…15 years. For a powersport dealer! I didn’t even know that was within the realm of possibility. They don’t sell anything but toys.
Seems so nonsensical to me. Even if you're someone who drives every day there are perfectly serviceable used cars out there for $5000 whos remaining useful lifetimes outlast the repayment period of a new lease or loan.