How to opt out of the privacy nightmare that comes with new Hondas
How to opt out of the privacy nightmare that comes with new Hondas
I was the first person to ask my Honda dealer how to turn off data sharing. It didn't go well....
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Are any of you even able to afford new cars? Who the hell's buying this shit? I probably won't have a new car ever.
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Also mind that soon these new cars will be used cars with the same bullshit.
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Buying a new car never really made sense to me even when you could afford it. 2 - 3 year old model is effectively brand new but a lot cheaper. Why pay more if you can pay less?
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Mostly social signalling
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Fuck social signaling.
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2 - 3 year old model is effectively brand new but a lot cheaper.
I've always heard this, but where is this actually true? When I bought a Camry like a decade ago, I could get a brand new one for $19.5k or used ones with 50k miles on them for....$18k. so yeah I paid the extra 1.5k to not have to deal with potential random shit.
When my wife bought her car a few years ago it was a similar situation. The only used cars that were "a lot cheaper" had like 100k miles.
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Total new vehicle sales has remained roughly static for a little less than two decades. So yes, people can afford new cars.
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For most, they can afford to finance them, but the rates aren’t looking too good lately
https://www.statista.com/statistics/290673/auto-loan-rates-usa/
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Well yeah, they follow the prime rate.
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Yeah rates alone have made financing a new car pretty stupid. Save as much cash as possible and spend within your means
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It made sense to me when I could take advantage of a tax credit for EVs in 2017. Now that car companies/dealerships simply jack up prices to eat that discount, it doesn't make sense even in that case.
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Yes
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People are buying new cars. I'm guessing it's mostly leasing.
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People who have a college education and well paying jobs.
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✅ well paying job
✅ Dropped out of college and went full time
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I have a college education and a well paying job the monthly payment on a new car has doubled since I bought my last one in 2020. No way am I buying a new car at these prices/rates.
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Fair enough
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back in my day Spock had small hair
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With my last raise I'm over 130k a year and I still don't buy new cars. My 2010 Audi is still running just fine.
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That's great, but the question from that OP was "are you able to" and your answer should be yes. I make less than that and I definitely am able to. But I'm waiting on the market to correct first
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Though it also depends on how you define "able to". Like I could fit a car payment in my budget but it would eat up most of my disposable income and I'm not willing to give that up, even if new cars weren't so enshitified. I bet there's a lot in this "technically capable but it would be a stupid financial move" group.
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That's probably a sound decision
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