Buying a car is fucking awful

Dealerships and used car salesmen are the scum of the earth. Buying private party is an annoying amount of legwork but you save a few grand by doing so and it's not so bad if you have "car friends" to help you through the process. I'm a big fan of the $5k 10-year-old "normal car" with 100k miles or so.

Try motorcycle.

Can’t really take a bunch of kids to the store on a motorcycle, unfortunately
- get a long motorcycle
Those are super unsafe and you can't drive them in the rain.
Well, you can, but you're taking your life in your hands.
- You can totally drive a motorcycle in the rain safely. I'm not sure where you got this idea from.
  In Asia, people commute to work on motorbike all the time, rain or shine.
  However, motorbikes aren't really practical car-replacement devices in North America. They have less cargo capacity than cars (important when you live in a food desert and grocery shop once every week) and can only seat 2 people, an appalling limitation when you have to ferry your kids around your car-dependent hellhole of a town.

I hate how lately people keep saying “might as well buy new used is so expensive!” But you look at lightly used cars with sub 50k miles are 5-15k less. That’s not nothing folks. Maybe it’s just my poverty mindset but I don’t get people buying new.

Car dealers are the absolute worst scumbags who provide absolutely zero value. They rarely know anything about the cars they sell, they all lie cheat and steal at every opportunity. Every single part of making a deal is an opportunity to get fucked by them. Fuck them all, goddamn leeches.

Can you tell I just bought a car?

Would it make you feel better to know that car dealership owner is one of the leading occupations for millionaires in amerikkka and that they’re an organized and reliable right wing voting block
- Decent article from Slate about the absurdity of their conference and political power

Dealers are scum. Private sales are the way to go. I got a good deal off Craigslist. If you buy something that lasts a while like a Honda, you can get a better price on older models like from the late 2000s.

Send X

Helped a family member buy the best car for $15k they could get. That ended up being a TEN YEAR OLD Honda fit, selling for it's new price from TEN YEARS AGO.

Fuck the used car market

Have you considered a Kia? No payment required

Like, no downpayment?
- You can start a Kia with a program downloaded onto a USB stick. There was a Tiktok video that showed how to do it, it went viral, and now kids can basically pick and choose any Kia on the road and drive off with it.

A car guy I know once told me to look at the interior of used cars. If the previous owner has trashed the interior chances are that they also did not take very good care of the rest of the car.

Tomorrow Zelensky will be trans

Wrong post? Also, what the fuck?

just say no

Owning a car where I live is not a choice and moving is not affordable. Death to America.

Honestly. You have to be on top of all these things like:

Car quality

Good deals

Potential recalls

Attempts at scams

Potential insurance coverage

Repair costs

Time it takes for maintenance

Fuel efficiency

The likelihood of your car being targeted for theft (happened to me ugh)

And that's before you even get behind the wheel.

This whole hyper individualism thing is all for a stupid infrastructure that could be fixed with trains.

I remember reading an article long ago about car salesmen and was shocked at the story of a family that came in with their old clunker and left with a new car a few hours later. The idea that people would just make a major purchase like that was deeply unsettling. You didn't even read Consumer Reports on that model!!@#$% Madness!@!!*!!(((!!!!
- Most people I know only get a car when their old one won’t run anymore. So if you wanna take your time with the purchase, you’d better have some really good people in your life willing to drive you to work and to the store for weeks on end.
- I helped a friend buy a car recently. She ended up taking a couple trips to shop around for options, but I was proud of her for that.
Makes me yearn for the days of the
when the only car on offer was a cheap one designed in the 60s and never updated, and you had to get on the waitlist for a year to buy it.