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How to opt out of the privacy nightmare that comes with new Hondas (sherwood.news)
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[–] 60 points 2 years ago (8 children)

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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  • [–] 18 points 2 years ago (2 children)

    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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  • [–] 4 points 2 years ago

    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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  • [+] 16 points 2 years ago* (last edited 1 month ago) (1 child)
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  • [–] 6 points 2 years ago

    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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  • [+] -12 points 2 years ago (4 children)

    People who have a college education and well paying jobs.

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  • [–] 4 points 2 years ago (2 children)

    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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  • [–] 2 points 2 years ago (1 child)

    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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  • [–] 2 points 2 years ago

    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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