$1,768 a Month, with $10,407 Down, 5% APR, on a Ford Pickup?

I have a car problem.

I have a couple muscle cars.

My truck is a 2022 RAM 3500 Cummins HO Crew Limited.

Both my kids drive newer Mercedes, one is an E350, the other a E450.

Wifee drive a 2023 Lexus LX twin turbo.

I do own a car dealership and several other businesses though....

Not only that, but if the truck don't have a few little nips and scrapes, bumps and scratches, who would dream of piling the kids in, and hacking down fallen logs like my grandfather did to get us into the 3rd crossing of mckinnie creek way up in the woods where we always camped and there were no bridges, just ex loggers who knew what to do?

You don't want to dent up a shiny toy worth the same as a home do ya?

No matter what you drive, if you drive it on roads that have been salted and don't wash the bottom of it frequently, it will rot somewhere.

I remember growing up north of Watertown, there were two kinds of vehicles, those that were in various stages of rust decay, and those that soon would be.

Generally they lasted two years and on the third year you noticed the rust.

^^^^ THIS IS THE WAY

Just think of this. It must cost Ford about 10k in parts to build that truck and they charge you 100k for it.

Who's the suckers ?

I can blow that Dodge off the road with my Nissan.

Have a friend who owns a towing business in Los Angeles, he said Lexus rear wheel drive are his least towed, Mercedes on the other hand

If he kicked it hard enough it would get better mileage

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I buy this for 15K, I spend 10K putting in an engine and transmission, if needed. Maybe 5K additional work. I'm 30K in cash. I drive it for 100-150K, save my cash, and do it all over again in three or four years.

However, our local welfare ranchers. These third generation Dutton wannabes get incentives to raise substandard beef, fuck up good farmland, and lease a POS 120K brand new Ford every two years. Rag it out, lather rinse repeat, and get their USDA welfare check for not growing food.

Same with certain sod farms in Northeast Oklahoma. I know one that thinks he's King Shit and he's nothing but a glorified welfare hoochy. He takes up 5K acres of great farmland where people could be growing vegetables, fruits, and nuts to grow shitty grass for suburbanite shitholes.

But, it's a free market, right? I mean, he only gets 200-250K a year from the USDA in the form of subsidy checks to grow that fucking sod.

Cuban mechanics are amazing. The amount of ingenuity they have to have is off the charts.

gotta 2002 toyota tacoma run great no problemsthink people buy these monster trucks for status

I bought my Titan because I needed the power and weight to tow. Compared to others it kind of looks small to me. I guess I have just gotten used to it.

It tows like a champ.

i have toyota corolla standard shift 2014..i not crying yet

LOL. I’m sure he isn’t making that in a year.

I just paid 25 Grand for a 2016 Ford F-250 4-wheel drive super cab with 58,000 miles on it shit is real....

Cuba is proof positive that if you want to, you can keep any car going forever. They are daily driving vehicles in Cuba that are 60-65 years old.

i getting over 41 miles a gallon

I drove a Volkswagen Rabbit diesel in the early 80's that got a solid 50MPG

Are you one of the people stupid enough to spend that kind of money on a vehicle?

I combined my errands and trips and use only three to five gallons of gas a month

I'm not sure that frequent washes are good either. How do you wash the bottom? By spraying spraying upwards of around 30-45 degrees. Push all of that salt into crevices where it can stew out of sight.

Nevermind the automatic car washes that use the recycled pit water for undercarriage washes.

And if I were in you situation, I might be spread out like that. But, my guess, you don't have monthly payments on any of them.

Not far off from mine either, and my payment is 800.00 less a month. Crazy flipping times

Find what you're good at, find a way to make that of value to whoever would value it and do that. Give a shit about what you do and give great customer service or quality. If you don't want to do physical labor or make one off items find something you can get make in quantities and sell those. Or find something you can make once and sell many of. That's my schtick, images with print on demand. Then diversify an investment portfolio and invest aggressively. Once you have 3-4 million invested you can plop a bunch in a DRIP income investment.. like QYLD for example (there's several). It's like $17 a share but pays 17¢ per share per month. 4 million in that is 50K a month income for essentially life. Covered call ETFs are amazing. Monthly compounding interest that you can DRIP.

Once you have a chunk in something, start letting the money work for you. Even if you put into low yield investments... like 2 million at 5% gives 100K a year income... if you drip that for a decade it's now 150K a year.

only 18 percent use manual transmission...but 66 percent say they can

😆 you could be driving a 505HP alfa romeo for 80K.

Agreed

My MORTGAGE is less.

In a way you're correct. I'm not doing anything to "make" that much. It's all passive at this point. Never underestimate the power of India not understanding US copyright laws. My wife makes more than I do. Our taxes are a nightmare... you think your taxes are high...

The thing about naysayers is this, they're usually incorrect. They think they're the smartest in the room. They're easy to spot and they all are the same.

And to the person making more than me, that's freakin AWESOME. Good for you!

manuel transmission is far superioer to automatic

My neighbor literally just paid $115,000 for a F350 Diesel. It's outrageous yet he can write most of it off for business.