Horse Carts & Carriages for sale | eBay https://www.ebay.com/b/Horse-Carts-Carriages/167220
Horse Carts & Carriages for sale | eBay https://www.ebay.com/b/Horse-Carts-Carriages/167220
1980 V-8 mustang, $5500 brand new back in the day
Ford Bronco V-8 $8800 or so
Seems like a Good Thing that my 2018 & 2020 purchases of perhaps my last [driving life] cars [same brand, engine, xmission, drive-line, body style] to be added to the fleet summed to under $50k.
Sayonara, baby.
Our kid purchased a new vehicle in late 2020 for about $28K plus taxes and fees. That same vehicle model, with a smaller & less powerful engine for the 2023 model year, now sells for about $42K MSRP. Good timing. The vehicle was paid off late last year (two years of payments - early payoff).
The basic function, design and use of an automobile hasn’t changed since the first Model A rolled off the line.
A start-up could make a fortune making a basic car like that.
A necessary step would be to squelch the Fed Interstate Highway Extortion Racket. States could make their own necessary compacts. Who want to drive to California or New York anyway?
Guessing that many young people with 800-1000 car payments will default and many cars will flood the market used and at better prices...
Last vehicle I purchased was a 2016 Nissan Acura, gently used, for my son. Total $8K cash. Been running beautifully for 2 years.
I never buy new. I do not finance; cash only. I let someone else pay for the depreciation and my mechanic husband gives it a thorough evaluation before purchasing.
Cars are for conveyance. Everything else is ego.
I was looking at newer trucks recently. I ended up buying a junker for parts and am learning how to rebuild the blown tranny in the junker. I was looking forward to a new Tacoma, but not gonna spend $50,000 for pickup.
They are pricing the peons out of the automobile market all together. Within five years, cars will once again be considered a luxury item reserved only for the very rich and famous.
Auto companies are digging their own graves by bowing to state and federal mandates. Dealer factory trained mechanics can’t even properly diagnose onboard electronics now. The EVs will be worse. They will price themselves off the market out of business. From what I hear RAM Trucks are the worst in that respect.
I have an old 2003 truck I am fixing up.
I have been offered more than I paid for it 8 years ago.
Regardless if my 2016 FLHX Street Glide kills me or not...
Thank Bill Clinton (and every president since, including a willing Fed) for printing money to fuel their projects and rendering the dollar of little value. I don’t want to say the Baby Boomers destroyed America, so I’m open to hearing anyone else who can defend them.
In 1970 Ford was advertising their Maverick for $1,995. This was a very basic car with a 6 banger and three on the tree, no air, nothing power. It was an upgrade on the Falcon chassis. I paid cash for one and it was a good car for the money.
A comparable basic car today is probably well over 30 grand.
We are buying a new subcompact John Deere tractor for gardening and mowing. This is $38,000 and by the time we are done buying attachments it will be close to $50,000. This is a tractor small enough (without attachments) to be loaded in the back of a full size pickup.
I bought GM my entire life and even had a GM Mastercard that earned discounts. I switched to Toyota after the Dexcool/Manifold gasket defect ate a motor. Switched to made in America Toyota and never looked back.
I’m retired now. Drive a Tundra Platinum that I bought when I retired. Nicest truck I’ve ever had. It’s a Unicorn now. 2017 w/ 50K miles.
Haven’t bought a new car in over 20 years. Unfortunately, used cars are bringing almost as much as news these days, especially pickups.
Soon any well made vehicle with an internal combustion engine will command a premium price. Most people still do not want EVs despite government pressure. Future elections will pit politicians who are committed to mandating EVs and banning gas powered cars against those who will support freedom of choice.