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FuckTheMainstreamMedia says

RC2006 says

F250 hit a BMW and the BMW hit my wife's odyssey, bent frame enough that she couldn't open her door. She also has minor whiplash.

Speaking of which, why the hell do the idiots driving those big trucks insist on driving way too fast for conditions. Morons don’t realize that heavy large trucks take longer to stop than smaller cars? The new compensation? No longer a sports car, now compensation is a large truck?

Or the BMW driver could've decided to squeeze in between the truck keeping the proper distance and the car in front. When I rented a 26' U-haul box truck a was amazed at the number of idiots thinking that the gap between the truck and the car in front is there for no fucking reason.

Another thing I checked. Prices are down from last year's peak. Interest rates + Bad Loans/Repos = Cheaper Prices.

Used Car Price Trends - CarGurushttps://www.cargurus.com › Price Trends
Make Avg Price Last 30 Days Last 90 Days YoY
CarGurus Index $29,463 ‑2.13% ‑4.26% +0.26%
Coupe $36,892 ‑1.19% ‑2.06% +6.42%
Hatchback $17,312 ‑1.62% ‑1.74% +9.13%

Used car prices are dropping quicker than ever in history. Some categories have been dropping 1% per week lately. Wholesale is dropping even more quickly.

Normal appreciation/depreciation is +/- 0.1% per month from what I've heard.

just_passing_through says

Used Car Price Trends - CarGurushttps://www.cargurus.com › Price Trends
Make Avg Price Last 30 Days Last 90 Days YoY
CarGurus Index $29,463 ‑2.13% ‑4.26% +0.26%
Coupe $36,892 ‑1.19% ‑2.06% +6.42%
Hatchback $17,312 ‑1.62% ‑1.74% +9.13%

Used car prices are dropping quicker than ever in history. Some categories have been dropping 1% per week lately. Wholesale is dropping even more quickly.

Normal appreciation/depreciation is +/- 0.1% per month from what I've heard.

Looks like Jeep has found a stash of mail-in ballots in some warehouse, LOL.

PS. Used car prices are big part of the inflation number, right? Meaning that it could keep going down in the months to come.

just_passing_through says

Used Car Price Trends - CarGurushttps://www.cargurus.com › Price Trends
Make Avg Price Last 30 Days Last 90 Days YoY
CarGurus Index $29,463 ‑2.13% ‑4.26% +0.26%
Coupe $36,892 ‑1.19% ‑2.06% +6.42%
Hatchback $17,312 ‑1.62% ‑1.74% +9.13%

Used car prices are dropping quicker than ever in history. Some categories have been dropping 1% per week lately. Wholesale is dropping even more quickly.

Normal appreciation/depreciation is +/- 0.1% per month from what I've heard.

So it's habbening.

RWSGFY says

PS. Used car prices are big part of the inflation number, right?

That's what I've heard too.

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2022-11-15/us-household-debt-jumps-most-since-2008-even-as-card-rates-surge?srnd=premium#xj4y7vzkg

I believe mortgage debt hide credit and auto debt.

Don't you really mean wholesale user car prices are imploding?

Because retail lags wholesale, and like a home seller, car dealers are mostly still asking peak prices based on 3% interest rates and negligible supply.

zzyzzx says

Don't you really mean wholesale user car prices are imploding?

Because retail lags wholesale, and like a home seller, car dealers are mostly still asking peak prices based on 3% interest rates and negligible supply.

No retail level bargains where I live yet.

https://www.cnbc.com/2022/11/18/carvana-to-lay-off-1500-employees-amid-economic-uncertainty-.html

Carvana lays off 1,500 employees following stock free fall

HeadSet says

No retail level bargains where I live yet.

And Used car prices are among the highest nationwide in the DC area.

just_passing_through says

Used car prices are dropping quicker than ever in history. Some categories have been dropping 1% per week lately. Wholesale is dropping even more quickly.

So it's habbening!

A drummer I play with, was the mantainance manager for a large car lot in Miami. A week before he was talking about how connected and dialed in he is at his job.
Then last week he said, a bunch of car carriers showed up and removed the entire inventory to bring them all to auction. Then closed down, in the blink of an eye.

The prices of their inventory was dropping so fast, along with their overhead, they would be paying people to take their cars from them.

Still no used or new car bargains here yet.

Eric Holder says

So it's habbening!

Up until this past week: https://www.cargurus.com/Cars/price-trends/

HeadSet says

Still no used or new car bargains here yet.

No, not yet.

Nope.

Lot of cash ready for a deal and a lot of people who "Know what I got".

New car inventory is still low. WTF is going on? Supply chain breakdown? Inventory control?

https://finance.yahoo.com/m/9a801cdf-a385-33d1-a268-04f3c9294946/general-motors-is-reportedly.html

General Motors is reportedly cutting around 500 jobs, a month after CEO said ‘We’re not planning layoffs’

HeadSet says

Still no used or new car bargains here yet.

The Deals are all at the auctions. They buy them cheap and put them up for sale with a huge markup, to protect the rest of their inventory.
(Shrugs) It worked for the Real Estate market.

gabbar says

New car inventory is still low. WTF is going on? Supply chain breakdown? Inventory control?

China is dying demographically. So is a lot of Asia that makes the electronics for some car parts and other electronics. I dislike Biden in general, but he made a good move following through with Chips Act. Probably will be his only and greatest achievement. And yes probably kick backs to the big guy included... But this is a massive project. Drove by it a couple weeks back. It's huge.

https://www.azcentral.com/story/money/business/2022/12/07/what-to-know-phoenix-taiwan-semiconductor-factory/69707994007/

zzyzzx says

https://finance.yahoo.com/m/9a801cdf-a385-33d1-a268-04f3c9294946/general-motors-is-reportedly.html

General Motors is reportedly cutting around 500 jobs, a month after CEO said ‘We’re not planning layoffs’

500 jobs out of an employee count of 167,000. Oh no!!!

Tenpoundbass says

The Deals are all at the auctions.

Auctions is where the cab company got most of its vehicles, so I am familiar with them. Still no deals yet.

Good video on this:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cBKCNlQeVgI

HeadSet says

Tenpoundbass says

The Deals are all at the auctions.

Auctions is where the cab company got most of its vehicles, so I am familiar with them. Still no deals yet.

There won't be any deals on cars until there's more of them. THIS is the same thing as real estate that some users can't wrap their mind around. If there's no product and people NEED a car or house you'll pay more. INVENTORY. 10 people fight for 1 house or car and the price goes up. 10 people move out of the Bay Area and no one wants it prices drop. 10 people move to my town and there's only 1 house, prices go up.

Not shitting on you Headset. There's just some lately that don't have any logic here or are basing it on the specific zip code they probably rent in. That's not the rest of us. It's the uhaul effect. Check the prices going into CA versus out to say Texas somewhere. Same route. They'll damn near pay you to bring a truck back to CA from TX.

It looks to me like the goal is to make the same profits on fewer sales. This solves the resource problem the greenies/globalists want while keeping corporations solvent. Unless rising rates can solve inflation (and even cause deflation(?)), only the rich will own anything while the rest of us own nothing but still be happy.

WookieMan says

HeadSet says

Tenpoundbass says

The Deals are all at the auctions.

Auctions is where the cab company got most of its vehicles, so I am familiar with them. Still no deals yet.

There won't be any deals on cars until there's more of them. THIS is the same thing as real estate that some users can't wrap their mind around. If there's no product and people NEED a car or house you'll pay more. INVENTORY. 10 people fight for 1 house or car and the price goes up. 10 people move out of the Bay Area and no one wants it prices drop. 10 people move to my town and there's only 1 house, prices go up.

Not shitting on you Headset. There's just some lately that don't have any logic here or are basing it on the specific zip code they probably rent in. That's not the rest of us. It's the uhaul effect. Check the prices going into CA versus out to say Texas somewhere. Same route...

I can attest to the Uhaul stat.

GNL says

It looks to me like the goal is to make the same profits on fewer sales. This solves the resource problem the greenies/globalists want while keeping corporations solvent. Unless rising rates can solve inflation (and even cause deflation(?)), only the rich will own anything while the rest of us own nothing but still be happy.

I believe it's a generational thing. Multiple factors. The boomers built a shit load of houses that weren't needed. Lenders fucked up and loaned to unqualified people. Housing crash happens and shit hits the fan. Builders stop building and the trades lose a generation of plumbers, hvac, framers, concrete, electricians, etc. So we're now left with a labor shortage in the trades and a bunch of you tuber digital generation.

We solved this by having damn near negative interest rates to an extent though not all that much building outside of hipster areas like Denver and Phoenix (Boomer retirees). Combine that currently with covid and cities going to shit we have a very weird situation. Millennials are finally having families and realizing that you cannot raise kids in cities. No one was building in the far out suburbs where there's cheap housing because of profit margins so existing home sales sky rocket.

This is why I get so testy on this topic. We're witnessing the 80's and early 90's. It's a cycle. The same happened in the 40's and 50's. If you have kids you don't want to raise them in a city. It's a central work place for big business. A good chunk are there to serve in the restaurant, tourism, travel, service type industries. Basically it's ghetto/losers. Then you defund police and allow blatant homelessness and no one wants to live there. So prices drop in the highest cost of living areas, but rise in the outlying areas. But it drags the median price down. This is regardless of interest rates. It's demographics, movement and inventory.

This will happen again in 2050(ish) is my guess. You guys can call that prediction out then. Goal is to be alive then, but not much longer after. As long as I see a grandkid at some point, life will have been fulfilled for me. I'm not long for this earth lets put it that way. If you're not enjoying life why do it? That's my single goal. To see one of my boys had a kid and not have to pay for the wedding.... Hold the baby and start doing really crazy shit when I'm 60. No intention of living past 70. All my parents boomer friends are in miserable health and quality of life. I kind of want to go like Sonny Bono did. Just smash a tree and die on a mountain. Maybe fall into the Grand Canyon. No chance in hell I want to "feel" what 80-90 is like. Rant over.

It's coming..

https://www.zerohedge.com/markets/americans-10000-underwater-auto-loans-surges

https://www.axios.com/2023/03/01/low-income-households-are-falling-behind-on-car-bills

Low-income households are falling behind on car bills

WookieMan says

The boomers built a shit load of houses that weren't needed.

But we have a housing shortage Lt. Dan!

Houses wouldn't be 1/3 of the price that they are if there were adequate housing stock. Had Trump built 10 new Metro areas, the median house would be $150 to $175K the building boom would be so great, nothing that Joe Biden did would be fucking up the economy. They would have had to outright halt all construction on those towns, to have crashed the economy.

Tenpoundbass says

WookieMan says

The boomers built a shit load of houses that weren't needed.

But we have a housing shortage Lt. Dan!

Houses wouldn't be 1/3 of the price that they are if there were adequate housing stock. Had Trump built 10 new Metro areas, the median house would be $150 to $175K the building boom would be so great, nothing that Joe Biden did would be fucking up the economy. They would have had to outright halt all construction on those towns, to have crashed the economy.

Building new cities goes against greeny and the globalists.

I don't understand why anyone doesn't just pay cash for a used car.
After a few years they lose most of their value but they still are good.
I guess it's a dumb question; nobody has any cash.

clambo says

I don't understand why anyone doesn't just pay cash for a used car.

Sub-prime borrowers are about as good with their money as the proverbial drunken sailor or politician. They can't save up for a car, or anything else.

I've always paid cash for my cars. And it's not a few years. As soon as you leave the lot, your car loses thousands in value. It's a depreciating "asset" for getting you around. Whatever runs and requires low maintenance, go for that.

I used to pay cash for brand new Toyota's and Honda's, then keep them for decades passing them to family members (kids newly getting licenses, so reliable cars that can take dents make sense); however, in recent years (before the FED tightening) when loan interest rates were heavily subsidized (like 1.5%) or lease residues were heavily subsidized (e.g. 70% residue at the end of 4yr lease), on some more fashionable brands, while dealers refused to budge on sale prices (likely due to accounting reasons, a little like some home builder would rather throw in a new car instead of discounting on home sale price because discounting would instantly put his inventory into negative equity and could trigger the bank into recalling commercial loans on the inventory), financing and/or lease became better deals. Of course, the folks taking out subprime loans were likely not coming to that conclusion after crunching the numbers.

FuckTheMainstreamMedia says

Speaking of which, why the hell do the idiots driving those big trucks insist on driving way too fast for conditions. Morons don’t realize that heavy large trucks take longer to stop than smaller cars? The new compensation? No longer a sports car, now compensation is a large truck?

I think the truck trend has a few helpers:
• Federal (and California) regulations are tougher on cars than "light" trucks (pollution, fuel economy, required "safety" features, etc are all tougher for cars)
• Marketing
• Versatility of trucks
• Dumbed down and numbed driving experience narrows the additional pleasure of driving a sports car
• Perceived and actual safety benefits of being higher and heavier than everyone else

The safety thing is a bit tricky. Physics will tell you that if 2 vehicles collide head-to-head, the taller and heavier vehicle will generally come out on top (literally and figuratively "on top"). So, buy something bigger than most other vehicles! It's an arms race that started when farming and handyman work pickup trucks were refitted with larger cabins and rear seats to become the 1990s SUV craze. Now that everyone has a large variety of SUVs to choose from, the SUVs and pickups have been progressively getting bigger to continue to trend.

But this safety logic is not fully correct. More than 1/2 of driving fatalities occur in single-vehicle accidents and many of multi-vehicle fatalities occur in the at-fault vehicle. Tall trucks substantially increase rollover risks and rarely have sufficient roof strength to protect occupants from being crushed, so the multi-vehicle-crash benefits are mitigated by single-vehicle-crash increases. One disconnect is that many drivers believe that the biggest danger comes from other vehicles, so multi-vehicle crash scenarios are given more weight than they deserve.

As a society, the benefits of tall-and-heavy are only relative to other vehicles: If everyone upsized then there's really no benefit overall. Also, the advantages of upsizing are only to the disadvantage of everyone else.

Unfortunately, government crash requirements exacerbate the trend to upsizing. Vehicles of all sizes are required to protect occupants in side-impacts of ever-increasing height and force. That puts small vehicles at a significant disadvantage, as truck bumpers are now aimed squarely at the heads of people in cars. Instead, the crash safety should at least partially come from requiring that the tall and heavy vehicles take extra measures to limit the damage they do. For example: Truck bumper heights should be required to meet car standards when the trucks are driven on-road and the bumpers could be required to spread and dampen force – it's much easier to limit aggression than it is to require substantially more defense.

NuttBoxer says

Whatever runs and requires low maintenance, go for that.

Which automobiles would fit these two criteria?

Hurry up and crash I have to buy a car in a few weeks after mine was totaled by old people that rear ended me.