Any one else recently try to buy a car and got shocked?

yep, i got 1.9% interest...
glad i did it when i did...

Very good question

I remember seeing those pictures of new cars in lots as far as the horizon.

What happened?

Yeah you made a smart choice

I'm hoping you're right... as a buyer I'm waiting until I either win the lottery or the prices come down

Good advice before the Obiden coup, when the fussy mooch customer was king.

Now you're competing with dealers for the FSBO car, and they will snatch it up before you can finish your coffee.

I wasted 3 days last year travelling 1000 miles calling dozens of ads for the type of car I was looking for, and the local dealers were buying them within 10 minutes of the ads posting.

Long gone are the days of wasting the salesman's time test driving every color, then low balling for hours to try to get a lower price/payment. The dealers will laugh you off the lot unless you are ready to pay full price for cars in stock, (or more), and/or/plus wait weeks for an ordered new car.

It's kind of refreshing in a way to see the mooches have to swallow their entitlement attitudes and pony up the $$$, or GTFO

I will hold onto my 2011 Tacoma till it rots around me. Which I dont ever see happening.

New Car

I bet you repair is rip-off central also. Those people are great scammers.

Same with my minivan. People are rehabbing them to live in. It may take a lot of gas but it’s paid for. I baby it.

where is the best place to sell a used van worth 7000 - 12000 now?

Yes, 4 months ago i paid 16,000 cash for a 2015 T&C minivan. Almost the price of brand new. It's like new, thankfully.

LOL, good job.

Probably in 12 weeks you can buy it back for 9k.

Well.....price of lumber coming back down, maybe there's a chance for autos?!

Have you tried Carvana?

Here in LA a dealer actually added 12,000 to the cost because we said we would be paying cash.

Had to place a deposit on a car and wait until it arrived on the lot to be able to test drive a Toyota GR86

We’ve driven to nearly every dealership within 50 miles and no luck purchasing a new vehicle. This is Los Angeles, car Mecca of America

Daughter decided the GR86 was not the right choice and we are now looking for a Jeep truck. We tried ordering one online which they say is a 4 to 6 month wait.
Then they refer you to a dealership for final price. That’s when the sales manager quoted the extra 12,000 if you didn’t finance

Two months of this nonsense

Long term they don't want people driving. They are decommissioning mobility.

The future sees the average joes on the bus and the elite in limos and EVs. If they get their way that is.

Didn't anyone read my thread back in September 2021?

If you're in the market for a car, BUY IT NOW!

TAKE YOUR COMPLAINT TO VLADIMIR PUTIN NOONE IN THIS COUNTRY IS RESPONSIBLE FOR ANYTHING

Chattanooga TN has a lot of vehicles for sale.

In the UK I was looking to buy a decent shelled Lexus IS200 manual with a view to dropping a 1UZFE (V8) in it...

Originally was looking at £1000-1500 for a half decent one with an MOT and now the same ones are going for 3/4000!!

They don’t want us to have autonomy in older cars that aren’t traceable or electric.

Sucker

Worst truck on the market bar none

You wont make it 10,000 miles without a major breakdown, and the stealership will just fuck you around

If you’re leasing, you can sell the car back to them. Because he car is worth more now than when you signed for it. You’ll make a few thousand.

Bought bicycle off of Craigslist 3 years ago for 10 dollar. 500 dollar now!!

Ran into this last September 2021. Lease was expiring, wanted to re-up with new vehicle, dealer said Feb 2022 (6 months out) was earliest they could get new vehicle we paid to get on waiting list. Lease buy-out price was $5k less than vehicle was selling for used. Obviously we bought out the lease and kept the car.

Like the price of gas, this "supply-chain shortage" feels quite engineered, like economic war being waged directly against the middle class.

They dont need to track your car , you have a smart phone dont you?


To me "smart phone" is a contradiction in terms, since I never see anyone smart wasting their time with one.

Certainly feels that way.

They will either force you to stop driving by raising gas prices or by making impossible to get an affordable car.

WTF do you want a V-8 in that car?

Obama bricked hundreds of thousands of perfectly good cars with his cash for clunkers horseshit.


They wanted to get rid of non computerized vehicles.