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Any one else recently try to buy a car and got shocked? | |
Auburnite
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| The Don Of Nantucket
User ID: 80692948 United States06/13/2022 05:30 PM  Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation | Youtube is full of videos of that mental giant Obammies cash for clunkers destroying the engines the way they did for that F'ed up experiment...so sad to watch! Quoting: The Don Of Nantucket Destroying an 09 Volvo engine as per SOP for cash for clunkers \ETA...Just listen to the idiot sheep laugh about destroying a perfect Volvo by draining all the oil and running it til it is ruined. I wish it would have thrown a rod and hit that guy in the nuts Yep me too  PLATA BITCHEZZZZZZ UPGRADE UNAVAILABLE The Rolling Stones said it best... "What's confusing you is the nature of my game" |
| JustmeTX
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| nitebird
User ID: 66739048 United States06/13/2022 05:34 PM Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation | It took us about 6 months to find a good used commuter car for our son, and he had cash saved up. The large dealerships are pretty useless right now but we found a Honda CRV at a small dealer. High milage, but every Honda we've ever had has been indestructible. We sold our Audi that took premium gas last year. It was a nice car but was too unreliable and expensive to give to our kids. A college kid got his dad to buy it for him, with a full explanation from my husband about its issues. He paid a fair price and we didn't lose any money on it. |
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| 10822R88
User ID: 83081587 United States06/13/2022 05:41 PM  Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation | |
| Anonymous Coward User ID: 72777024 United States06/13/2022 05:42 PM Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation | it makes no sense. in the past years hundred of thousand of new cars were unsold and placed in humongous parking lots i. the desert. Quoting: Anonymous Coward 81065075 were are those cars now?? Oh no, they were being sold. Demand was strong and inventories needed to be very deep. Car dealers were sitting on lots built in the 80's and 90's lacking space for such huge inventories. You see a glass half full, the dealers had a glass half empty. |
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| Anonymous Coward User ID: 79504291  United Kingdom06/13/2022 05:44 PM Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation | In the UK I was looking to buy a decent shelled Lexus IS200 manual with a view to dropping a 1UZFE (V8) in it... Quoting: Anonymous Coward 79504291 Originally was looking at £1000-1500 for a half decent one with an MOT and now the same ones are going for 3/4000!! They don’t want us to have autonomy in older cars that aren’t traceable or electric. WTF do you want a V-8 in that car? Wanted a cheap 4 door saloon, I like Jap cars and I love v8s. Front engine rear wheel drive perfect for track days. Something a bit different. When I was in high school and my first year of college I had a 240-Z I got for a song. I wish I still had that car but by the time I sold it , it was rusted very badly from the northern New York salt. If I were you though I would leave the original engine in it, what you want to do is not easy and will give you endless problems. It used to be you could just take one engine out one car and put it in any other essentially with a few modifications, now the entire electrical system is linked to that engine and its computer. I bet you enjoyed that 240 especially in college years, I had an MR2 mk2 NA at 18 lol loved it. I’m not going ahead with the car and conversion anyway as I’m saving but the 1UZFE drops in on the standard mounts and there’s plenty of gearbox conversion kits here to mount up to the j160 (and others) and most people just use the ls400 ecu but I’d have gone full standalone Link as I intended on upgrading gearbox and power later on. I recently bumped in to the guy I sold my MR2 to, brought back some great memories although not for him as he binned it on the motorway apparently. They don’t want us to have cars though that’s for sure. |
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| SkinDeep
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| Rufus Juice
User ID: 77413848 United States06/13/2022 05:53 PM Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation | USA is collapsing. And i have no doubt there are those controlling, steering, and participating in the collapse. some are within, others are from china, others are from elsewhere "When the power of love overcomes the love of power the world will know peace" Jimi Hendrix |
| Anonymous Coward User ID: 80893761  Canada06/13/2022 05:53 PM Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation | Manufacturer's aren't sending cars to lots anymore, where my sister bought hers, they were having people order cars for a $500 deposit and then when the cars got there, the people got their money back. Only way they can get a car on the lot now. |
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| FeedYourHead
User ID: 77416429 United States06/13/2022 06:06 PM  Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation | Went car shopping over the weekend and it was quite unsettling. Quoting: Secretizer Empty lots Waiting lists for months to get a new regular car (not EV or luxury). Used cars almost as expensive as new models. “Market Adjustment fees” of 3-4 thousand extra added on. Somebody that needs a car desperately is going to be in for a surprise. You failed to mention the outrageous sticker prices of what passes for a family car these days. Even before you look at the rest of the sticker prices alone are out of control....only the very few can afford to buy a car now. Ask Alice when she's 10ft tall This is a battle for the future of civilization. If free speech is lost even in America, tyranny is all that lies ahead. Elon Musk |
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| Anonymous Coward User ID: 82768352  France06/13/2022 06:11 PM Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation | I just looked at a 2018 Jeep Rubicon fully loaded, I mean it had everything and only had 8500 miles on it! Quoting: Anonymous Coward 83493974 Guess how much That's weird I am not from Russia, my V-P-N was set to New York and my post is or was stating Russia. I think the Rooskis are hacking in to my V-P-N provider. This is not the first time this has happened. It should now say France. |
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| CigarTigher
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| Bloody Peasant!
User ID: 22020898 United States06/13/2022 06:28 PM Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation | What's a 2000 Ford 12 passanger van worth these days? Got one that runs great but we don't use it. This business will get out of control. It will get out of control and we'll be lucky to live through it. -Admiral Josh Painter The past was alterable. The past never had been altered. Oceania was at war with Eastasia. Oceania had always been at war with Eastasia. -Orwell Bloody Peasant |
| Secretizer
(OP) User ID: 73693627 United States06/13/2022 06:28 PM Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation | Guys I have info you might have overlooked on this subject Quoting: Anonymous Coward 80114030 Back in 2016 or so, I was shocked to discover that banks were bundling and selling car notes as investments exactly as they had done with subprime mortgages before. Now, WHY IN UNHOLY HELL would you bundle a depreciating asset as an investment? The answer is that "you" wouldn't, because that is insane, BUT, banks did it because the inflation/deflation cycle is planned decades in advance and now you are seeing them inflate the used car market so they can bail out of those car note bundles and/or let them rot and trigger the maltdown that is only just beginning. THEY BUNDLED CAR NOTES AS INVESTMENTS!!!!!! WWWWWWWWWWWWW TTTTTTTTTTTTT FFFFFFFFFFFFF !!!!!!!!!!!!! Wow. That causes a lot of this to make sense. Until a couple of years ago a seven year financing for a car was unheard of. They will soon have 10 year financing and you will need a second mortgage. |
| Anonymous Coward User ID: 83606674 France06/13/2022 06:29 PM Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation | Youtube is full of videos of that mental giant Obammies cash for clunkers destroying the engines the way they did for that F'ed up experiment...so sad to watch! Quoting: The Don Of Nantucket Destroying an 09 Volvo engine as per SOP for cash for clunkers \ETA...Just listen to the idiot sheep laugh about destroying a perfect Volvo by draining all the oil and running it til it is ruined. I wish it would have thrown a rod and hit that guy in the nuts Yep me too :cage: I take personal offense to this one. Have a first series S80 with a 5 cylinder VW diesel, has 300k km and is just getting started in life Amazing car, built to last a lifetime if people would just take care of them and realize what they're worth |
| zzbudzz
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| Anonymous Coward User ID: 70391341 United States06/13/2022 06:32 PM Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation | Daughter just traded a 17 mustang with some hail damage got 13K, the following week it's listed at 21.9K on their website. Quoting: Anonymous Coward 70391341 I paid 21.5k out the door in 17 looks like your daughter got ripped off by the dealership. She did ok, 2500 in hail damage and car booked for 16500 |
