Who in hell can afford to purchase a brand new vehicle of any make when the cost of living is so inflated?While at the same time the amount of pay you get is basicly static.
I own a 2003 Nissan pickup and even though I want to replace it with a Ford F-150,The cost of the vehicle,Insurance,Finance charges and of coarse the sales taxes paid to the State of Connecticut would make a purchase prohibitive to me.
I have a 2004 Nissan Frontier and I cannot wait to get rid of that hunk of junk.
Sometimes the manufacturers offer crazy lease incentives. I bought my car in 2009, it was a bad time for the car companies anyway but they offered a 20% discount on the price if I leased the car. So I leased the car for 3 years, then bought it out of the lease with a 2 year financing deal. Roughly the same as financing it for 5 years but with a 20% savings off the top. Before I bought it I checked the value, I was 30% ahead of similar used car asking prices. To this day I don’t know why they offered that leasing discount. Maybe I ended up paying the sales tax twice, I didn’t think about that until now.
-—I own a 2003 Nissan pickup and even though I want to replace it with a Ford F-150,The cost of the vehicle,Insurance,Finance charges and of coarse the sales taxes paid to the State of Connecticut would make a purchase prohibitive to me.-—
Same here. We live in MA, have three cars, and the newest is a 99. In other states, where an equivalent home would cost 50% or more less, I guess you could afford $25k for a new car.