Posted on 11/09/2021 8:53:51 AM PST by Red Badger
Last July I traded in my 2003 minivan towards a new car. (I get a lot of miles out of my cars.) The dealer gave me $900.00 more than it was worth.
The new car I bought is worth more now than when I bought it, more than the total I paid for it, including tax, license, phoney dealer addons, etc.
I bought a 1995 F350 back in April. Now I have random people offering to buy it from me.
It’s not a diesel, either - has the BBF gas engine (7.5L)
My wife drives a 2002 Ram with 96k miles. A dealer we know wants it......... 🤔
I have a 2008 Tahoe I was going to sell it for $2500 with 250,000 miles on it my youngest son said wait a minute and show me where I could probably get around eight to $10,000 for this old thing.
According to KBB, my car gained $4000 since last month in trade in value
They have a lot of experience - working on the same cars for 60 years. The technology never changes!
Our local Ford Dealer lot is practically EMPTY.
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Local Toyota lot has 9-10 vehicles
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My dealer sent me a postcard offering be 10% over book. LOL No wonder they call dealers, stealers.
Smart move. I could make a boatload off of my truck but from my house it’s a lllllooooonnnnggggg walk to civilization.
Both Edmunds and Kelly Blue Book are buying.
When we visited Eastern Europe in the mid 1990s, still very Soviet, the buildings were kept in mid 40s to mid 50s. Very dark, maybe just one lightbulb in a room.
That’s what they want for us. To be cold, hungry and in the dark. In the land of fruited plains and abundant energy. But that’s not for us, no.
Communists are the most vile, wicked group of evil people on this planet.
Well, I take it back, the communist politicians are merely puppets of the corporate authoritarian technocrats ( along with CCP) who are the actual most evil group. Communist pols are their useful idiots, but extremely evil also.
The US and foreign governments are in a “race to the bottom” in turning their currency into toilet paper.
So far the US remains the primary currency of world trade because other currencies are even worse.
As to the future—my crystal ball if very foggy—but if I had to bet it would be on a worldwide depression of epic proportions where all currencies collapse together.
I sold my 2021 Toyota Tacoma that I bought a year ago for $43,256. This was enough to pay off my loan (owed 34,000) and was $3000 more than I paid for it plus got all my downpayment back. Going to get a RAV 4 Hybrid instead..cheaper and more fuel efficient.
I have a few oldies sitting in different states of reassembly.
What inflation. Last week was 3.99 per gallon. Today I awoke to 6.29 per gallon. Let’s go Brandon!
This is intentional.
They want to kill the Internal Combustion Engine, both gasoline and diesel, and Natural Gas as well.
They want us all to buy electric cars that have a limited range and essentially be stuck within a hundred mile bubble all our lives.
Soon there will be NO NEW CARS FOR SALE because of the FAKE CHIP SHORTAGE. All the new car manufacturers are switching over to FULL ELECTRIC car production ONLY and need this time to generate a huge demand, when ‘suddenly’ there is no longer a ‘chip shortage’. BOGUS from the get go.
Used cars will eventually all die off for lack of parts or parts so expensive they won’t be economical to buy if at all.
If you try and keep your gasoline car running, gasoline will be difficult to find because there won’t be any filling stations, only electric charging stations with a 12 hour WAIT TIME just to plug in.
Welcome to the Biden nightmare......................
I bought a new truck (Toyota) this month. It cost about the same or maybe a little less than similar used models of the same truck with 75,000-100,000 miles on them.
Need to sell the Mercury Grand Marquis but it is such a good car I may just mothball it and put it on blocks in reserve. They don’t make a 27 mpg, 75 mph, living room on wheels that will run a hole in the wind anymore. One of the most refined designs ever and I was never a ford guy.
Biden's solution? He's thinking about closing down another pipeline.
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