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stfu about poo poo rear end cars! this is the best thing ive ever https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oIzLude-_wE seen there is a cargo version i want for doing errands GOD drat!
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Nocturtle posted:It's even worse: Hello, I'd like to introduce you to a friend of mine, the average us consumer, they suffer from a crippling debt addiction.
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Most Americans finance their cars and are in debt up to their eyeballs. It's bizarre if you're not used to it. It's considered above and beyond if you buy your car with cash or pay it off quickly. My car was $2000 and I drive it once a week. It's not even worth the insurance. I want to sell it for an ebike.
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Nocturtle posted:It's even worse: They actually can't afford those vehicles, people are taking out six and seven year loans to pay for them
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Fitzy Fitz posted:Most Americans finance their cars and are in debt up to their eyeballs. It's bizarre if you're not used to it. It's considered above and beyond if you buy your car with cash or pay it off quickly. Most dealers don't want you to pay cash because they get a commission on car loans they originate
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Suplex Liberace posted:stfu about poo poo rear end cars! this is pretty cool. looks expensive, though. and those axles look pretty flimsy. how much weight can it hold in the cargo area?
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Mayor Dave posted:Most dealers don't want you to pay cash because they get a commission on car loans they originate Didn't they used to love cash payments? That may have been decades ago. Or maybe I'm imagining it. They were trying to push financing on us at the mattress store the other day. Monthly payments for a mattress.
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Nocturtle posted:The point is for the average new car price to come out as ~$50k USD a lot of people must be buying the even more expensive options. americans who go out looking for cars fall into one of these categories • big SUV (need an "everyday vehicle"... but not a car or minivan because the neighbors would think I'm a poor) • pickup truck (Tom called me "gay" when he saw me driving a car two years ago and I've never stopped thinking about it) • prius (felt guilty about purchasing a car and hoped this purchase makes up for it) • subaru (trying to justify intensely bland suburban lifestyle choice by pretending to be an outdoorsman even though they've never once hiked anywhere without an attached parking lot) • tesla, audi, or bmw (I want other people to think I'm wealthy) and • cheap used car - a true comrade, probably a very good person... sees a car for what it is: a tool required by some due to being trapped in the hell cycle of american capitalism Polo-Rican has issued a correction as of 17:45 on Jan 28, 2022 |
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Don’t let the customers fool you like that, they really want the Escalade but are poor enough that the bank won’t let them be $100k in debt.
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Karach posted:this is pretty cool. looks expensive, though. https://wicycle.com/products/bikes/e-cargo-delivery-bike
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nomad2020 posted:Don’t let the customers fool you like that, they really want the Escalade but are poor enough that the bank won’t let them be $100k in debt. i don't think the banks are turning anyone down! as soon as uber and lyft blew up, seemingly every loving uber driver in nyc bought a black chevy suburban or escalade
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God Hole posted:https://twitter.com/Lock_Os/status/1487076000387289092?s=20&t=G9SPpl4zda1ld6oNEabcFw The problem here is that there was a maximum weight limit
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This bike literally costs more than my car (a used hybrid civic, because I'm a Good Person). But 125 lbs is pretty good. why not just get a straight-up cargo bike, though? why do you need a transformer?
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You bought a car you don't get to question anyone buying process
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Karach posted:This bike literally costs more than my car (a used hybrid civic, because I'm a Good Person). when did you buy it? even if it's a piece of poo poo, if it runs you might be able to get 5 grand for it right now
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Fitzy Fitz posted:Didn't they used to love cash payments? That may have been decades ago. Or maybe I'm imagining it. They did, but then the auto companies decided to open their own financing arms and as soon as the profits from loans started flowing they stopped wanting cash. The big auto dealership chains also finance cars, so unless you shop somewhere like crazy Eddy's used car lot you're not going to get any sort of deal by paying cash. e: the pro move is to finance the car and then pay the loan off before the first bill hits Mayor Dave has issued a correction as of 18:09 on Jan 28, 2022 |
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Pepe Silvia Browne posted:when did you buy it? even if it's a piece of poo poo, if it runs you might be able to get 5 grand for it right now I got it for 5 grand originally a few years ago. we live in the country. until we get horses, and until they install a hitching post at the grocery store in town, there isn't much choice but to have a car.
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My dream is that USDOT or NHTSA or whoever sets some standard that in practice requires every personal vehicle to look like the new USPS trucks
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Yeah, don't tell a car salesman you are paying cash until a price is agreed upon. They will want to charge you more for the car if they know they won't be able to take any extra money from you for financing.
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Fitzy Fitz posted:My dream is that USDOT or NHTSA or whoever sets some standard that in practice requires every personal vehicle to look like the new USPS trucks
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Fitzy Fitz posted:My dream is that USDOT or NHTSA or whoever sets some standard that in practice requires every personal vehicle to look like the new USPS trucks it also tasers your balls whenever you're in it
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Dolphin posted:the horn is a goose honk and it tasers your balls if you honk it USDOT take my money
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Mayor Dave posted:They actually can't afford those vehicles, people are taking out six and seven year loans to pay for them The average car loan is now up to six years. There was an article a few years ago about how that length has drastically increases over the last decade or so, and how more and more loans are being made with the remainder of the balance of the previous loan rolled into them. It's looked like a huge bubble for the last five years or so, but it somehow hasn't popped yet, I don't know how.
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suddenly remembering when my dad's company gave him a company car, but it was a sedan and he refused to drive it, instead insisting on commuting two hours both ways every single day in his giant stupid toyota tundra
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disabling the taser makes it drive off a loving cliff
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Ham Equity posted:It's looked like a huge bubble for the last five years or so, but it somehow hasn't popped yet, I don't know how.* *The Auto-Loan Bubble reached Critical Mass in NUMBER Thread, Issue #79! -- Stan
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https://www.quora.com/Why-were-Soviet-cars-so-terrible-Was-communism-mostly-to-blamequote:Trust me: Russian cars and trucks are jewels of engineering and mechanics. but also russian cars sucked too
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Karach posted:This bike literally costs more than my car (a used hybrid civic, because I'm a Good Person). I can understand the utility of having it turn into a pram/shopping trolley, not worrying about locking it up when you go to the shops and packing as you shop, it's a neat idea, I'm not sure it's for me, but it's definately for someone
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Louisville, Kentucky. Red = surface parking. Purple = garage parking.
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Here's a channel chock full of drivers deciding the rules of the road don't apply to them and then getting wildly indignant (and sometimes violent) when someone holds them accountable for their dangerous behavior. I don't know what purely infrastructural solution there could be for the scenario beyond a one-way speed bump that completely blocks wrong-way traffic. Automated camera enforcement, on the other hand would rapidly eliminate it. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tMckoqLbCs8 The guy filming has been at it for years now and is a bit eccentric, but otherwise seems a decent chap.
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Cugel the Clever posted:Here's a channel chock full of drivers deciding the rules of the road don't apply to them and then getting wildly indignant (and sometimes violent) when someone holds them accountable for their dangerous behavior. I don't know what purely infrastructural solution there could be for the scenario beyond a one-way speed bump that completely blocks wrong-way traffic. Automated camera enforcement, on the other hand would rapidly eliminate it. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-hIDNgsc2-s I like the guys in Moscow called Stop a Douchebag. They plant huge stickers on windshields of cars driving on their wide sidewalks. I feel for the folks in apartment blocks though but it's a land of contrasts.
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much better systematic solution than holding up your cellphone. I wish people here had the guts to do that to cars also want to know where to get those stickers but don't tell anyone I asked
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Polo-Rican posted:
i on ce worked with a guy who owned a hybrid sedan which i remarked on positively because they were rare at the time. i must have said the wrong thing because the next week they'd traded it in for one fo these action man motherfuckers lmfao: 
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SMILLENNIALSMILLEN posted:i on ce worked with a guy who owned a hybrid sedan which i remarked on positively because they were rare at the time. i must have said the wrong thing because the next week they'd traded it in for one fo these action man motherfuckers lmfao: these and the new landrovers all have this micro machines aesthetic that makes it look like they open up into some sort of miniature theme park for cars. I don’t know if it’s an improvement on the puffy “suffering from a serious skin reaction” look of other vehicles but at least it’s appropriately infantilizing
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Excellence in Concrete Paving
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