The ECONOMY IS COLLAPSING And The Car Market Is SCREAMING IT!

$126,000 for a new Lincoln Navigator!? I paid $129,900 for my brand new house in 2017.

I love my '04 Corolla. No payments. No headaches. Just maintenance.

I’m a repo agent and business has been booming

Our economy struggling with uncertainties, housing issues, foreclosures, global fluctuations, and pandemic aftermath, causing instability. Rising inflation, sluggish growth, and trade disruptions need urgent attention from all sectors to restore stability and stimulate growth.

"You will own nothing and be happy" -World Economic Forum

You know what else I don't see at the ford dealership. Customers!

I was shopping for a new Honda CRV for the wife yesterday. Retail price was around $39k. The I saw the dealer was adding $4k worth of BS (wheel locks, some random battery warranty, paint protections etc) to the sticker. I told the sales guy there was not a chance in hell I was going to pay over retail. His response "sorry, we add that when they get here and cannot be removed." See ya!

Try getting a $100,000 new car loan. Banks won't lend it because they know in one year that vehicle is going to be worth half of that.

My favourite is when you have to pay 90k for an F150 and then they still want you to pay monthly for the features already on the car (self driving). Fuck them!

I’ve been a tech for 26 years. New cars are high tech garbage. I’d suggest to anyone looking for a vehicle to purchase something at least 15-20 years old. Tech is horrible, unnecessary and makes people even more dangerous behind the wheel than they already are, not to mention the repair cost and planned obsolescence (which is really what this tech is all about). How can it be so much cheaper from a manufacturing standpoint to create a tablet that controls everything in cars instead of a few dedicated units with actual buttons, yet car prices are higher than ever. Puny little 4 cyl turbo charged engines in full size SUV’s and trucks… Yeah that’s a recipe for disaster. It’s all junk, and people should refuse it until these manufacturers get their heads out of their asses.

The signs of hardship are everywhere. But government says economy is very good. It's very good only for the asset holding class. For everyone else it's ugly.

I would rather these dealers go out of business before I pay those prices for a new or used vehicle again

Bro, $105K for a DODGE DURANGO? Nah. GTFO.

Why weren't any of you guys talking about how for the past 5 YEARS ALL manufacturers STOPPED making cars costing LESS THAN $ 20,000?

What's really irritating is that they've moved so much of their production to Mexico where they pay their workers a pittance ($2.70/hr., 2024). (Before NAFTA, it was $6.25/hr. in 2012) while, as is their custom, they wreck the lives of the people in these small towns that work at their plants. It's truly evil what they do to their workers.. Life in Mexico is not cheap, like it used to be. Rents are high. Inflation, 4-5%. Making that small sum would force an auto-worker to get a part-time job just to make ends meet. I don't know how these clueless auto executives expect a worker to put their heart and soul into producing a quality product, especially cars with the technical sophistication that modern cars have. I read that in the U.S., about 32% of the cost of a car went towards materials and labor. The rest was profit. Now, they have the audacity to sell us an inferior product which, in many cases, can only be repaired at a dealership, long term drive train insurance policies, which they fight you on tooth and nail if anything should go wrong, and a 30% mark-up in price over 2 years, expecting us all to just quietly accept their greediness and allow it to become part of the status quo. The only thing these presumptuous thugs understand is money. They have the morality of a rattlesnake and should be boycotted into oblivion.

They’re not selling because very few people got a 100% pay raise.

My local Toyota dealer wants over $50,000 for a Prius Prime. They can keep it until the cows come home. I'll keep my present vehicle until the wheels come off. Come to think of it, unlike new cars, I can fix my old one. Dealers can keep their new high tech junk that's impossible for non-dealers to fix.

Toyota is making a $10,000 TRUCK!!! But it's NOT FOR SALE IN THE US... WHY?????????!!!! Because the BIG AUTO MANUFACTURES IN THIS COUNTRY DO NOT WANT IT SOLD HERE!!!!!

this doesn't happen by accident. this screams centralized planning behind the scenes

I use to make over $100k a year under trump. In 2020, I rewarded myself by buying a 2009 silverado 1500 with 115k miles for $15,000. Guess what! Im still driving it with 194,000 miles and counting. DONT BE DUMB WITH YOUR MONEY FOLKS!!!!!!