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Buying a car is fucking awful
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Honestly. You have to be on top of all these things like:
Car quality
Good deals
Potential recalls
Attempts at scams
Potential insurance coverage
Repair costs
Time it takes for maintenance
Fuel efficiency
The likelihood of your car being targeted for theft (happened to me ugh)
And that's before you even get behind the wheel.
This whole hyper individualism thing is all for a stupid infrastructure that could be fixed with trains.
I remember reading an article long ago about car salesmen and was shocked at the story of a family that came in with their old clunker and left with a new car a few hours later. The idea that people would just make a major purchase like that was deeply unsettling. You didn't even read Consumer Reports on that model!!@#$% Madness!@!!*!!(((!!!!
I helped a friend buy a car recently. She ended up taking a couple trips to shop around for options, but I was proud of her for that.
Most people I know only get a car when their old one won’t run anymore. So if you wanna take your time with the purchase, you’d better have some really good people in your life willing to drive you to work and to the store for weeks on end.
Makes me yearn for the days of the
when the only car on offer was a cheap one designed in the 60s and never updated, and you had to get on the waitlist for a year to buy it.