Posted on 12/08/2024 6:43:32 AM PST by dennisw
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Dec 1, 2024
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#vehicles #carmarket #marketcrash
The Car Market crash of 2025 starts now… here’s proof. The writing is in the wall and something has got to give… and soon! What do you think? Do you think we’re heading toward a legitimate car market crash in 2025? Let me know your thoughts.
See the video!!! https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1ZSLsSGRlGk
The only comparable sedan I can get is way up in the stratosphere in price. I can afford one but every one we we have driven we just don't like, far too complicated. We live in the sticks and you have to go to a dealer just to have the oil changed on most of these cars. Not for me.
Greed and stupidity are a terrible combination and auto-makers have both in spades. My sister has a Lexus something and most of the dod-dad crap on it doesn't even get used. Just something else to break. Who needs it? Certainly not me.
If both of my current vehicles that cost in the mid-30K range when purchased "only" had gone up by inflation to the mid-50K range now I'd just say "oh well" and move on.
<>Only one vehicle was a sedan.<>
And the sedan will fit in a garage.
I chuckle at the families around here with big vehicles, typically a gargantuan PU and an SUV.
Too big to fit very well in even a 24’ x 24’ garage; both parked in their driveways.
Over 150K sitting out in the weather to deteriorate is stupid.
Do you think single women don’t need to buy large things? Do you think they don’t own houses and need to buy buy building materials to improve their property, plants and other landscaping supplies, 50-lb bags of salt, dog food, bird seed, chicken feed? What about firewood or an antique? Some women drive SUVs because their greater size and weight can offer more protection in an accident while others find that the high ground clearance and 4WD makes them better in snow.
Me, I drive an F-250 Superduty work truck like most of my women friends.
Well, good for you. Who said anything about single women? I believe my post was about WOMEN in general.
I didn’t mean to set off a tsunami with my opinion about SUVs...I am an elderly female and I depend on caregivers and friends and find it difficult to get in to their SUVs so that was my simple observation.
Be careful who you’re calling old fuddy-duddys....I happen to fit that description. Sold a ‘78 Chevy Malibu when we moved from CA - it was what I drove when my husband moved to other autos or pickups etc. The Malibu was totally refurbished - paint job and all - sold it for the same in 2006 as when we bought it new - $5,000.00 - don’t remember the mileage but pretty low as I didn’t drive anymore than I had to...went to the same location for our jobs etc., so we rode together.
Had my Tundra serviced recently and was perusing the showroom models. New Tundra is $85K. Granted it had everything but why spend $85k on a truck?
People who make money will buy expensive trucks for tax write off purposes.
Hard to find that era of trucks anywhere, and if and when I do see one, owners tell me it’s not for sale.
That’s my point. People are dumb enough to do that to themselves, so they’ll lose their minds when something happens or goes wrong.
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I fall into that category too. So it’s self-deprecating humor.
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People like SUV’s bc they lift you higher up to see where you are going than a sedan does. A minivan does that also, but it is dorky, uncool. SUVs have four seats so taking passengers is not a problem. That is also why the extend cab trucks are better for many who have gear and people to haul.
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Yes. I learned to drive on a 1931 Model A Ford 4 door. My dad bought it in 1977. Years down the road, I drove a 2010 Ford Expedition. Very similar body style. About the same size.
“No one was smart enough to figure out how to just use last years chips as soon as they saw a problem coming? That was the stupidest thing I ever saw... Let all those cars just go to waste because they didn’t want to redesign a computer board on the fly to use last years chips. Really?”
This isn’t 1970 with discrete components and analog signals. ASICs and boards and digital busses are designed years in advance and highly integrated.
Now that Tim Walz showed me how to service a manual cruise control, I’m not afraid to drive an older vehicle
“People who make money will buy expensive trucks for tax write off purposes.”
Business owners will but hard to see how a high-income employed person would take advantage of that. Clearly, not all of these $90,000 pickups are owned by business principals.
I did not know about internal water pumps until just recently. My work Ford Explorer had one go out at about 125K miles. It was like a $3000 fix. Glad my work paid for it, or I would have lost my feces on Ford. They had to pull the engine to replace the water pump, it was around a 10 hour job I think.
It’s almost like they are intentionally trying to do worse.
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