My Son Ron, just bought a $75,000, 2020, Ford RAPTOR and my Grandson has a $70,000, 2019. My younger Son Aaron just a month ago bought a new 2019 Ford F250 Super duty, with the BIG Diesel and lots of extras and spent $71,000 and change and my 2016 F150 was over $50,000--:surprise: I bring this up only to show that prices are completely out of sight today (My new F100 Ford in 1969 was $3,600) and this is why most Folks are buying used vehicles at heavily discounted prices, so it skews the published sales charts completely! There are probably more USED Harley's bought and sold yearly than total new bike sales worldwide, so the 'sport/ hobby,' is still very alive and well:grin:
Just checked Craigslist, 374 used "Harley" listings..and that's a pretty consistent number...month after month.
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"just bought a $75,000, 2020, Ford RAPTOR..."
Good Golly! Are you a lottery winner? What a colossal waste of money; especially for a young person making "payments"...YIKES!
I have never, in my life, bought a new car.
My used car purchase/price history since becoming a 2 car household:
Car 1: 2005 - $5000 - still driving it today.
Car 2: 2002 - $4500 - still driving it today.
Car 1: 1991 - $2500 - sold for $500 in 2005
Car 2: 1988 - $1800 - sold for $250 in 2002
$12,750 = total amount spent "buying cars" over a 31 year period...$411 per year!
How much did I save with just liability insurance for 31 years? A FORTUNE!
Also, I'm an amateur, self taught, mechanic...never pay for repairs...OCD in nature too...both of my 14+ year old cars look and run like new.
I'm not "retirement age"..but I'm pretty much retired...people ask "how do you do it"...well, I didn't spend ~$75,000 for the two cars sitting in my driveway!
Want to save a fortune on a near new car...buy a salvage vehicle...not something that was smashed...find one that was beat to death with hail stones...purely cosmetic damage..but still knocks 20-30% of the price because of the salvage title.
Almost bought a car off craigslist...dealer tried to rob them on the trade-in, so they put it on Craigslist...~60k miles, a decade old, ~$4800...~$22k when new....great deal but I didn't need it.