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Borrowers Are Going Underwater on Car Loans

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Re: Borrowers Are Going Underwater on Car Loans

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Americans make terrible decisions with cars. The article includes two anecdotal examples. I suspect that my income exceeds both. I would never pay as much as they did for a car. Cars are terrible investments. Most should be purchased as the bare minimum cost to get back and forth to work. I particularly dislike the common refrain, "the cost to repair it is more than the car is worth." It's the wrong mindset. The repa…

I think many Americans make terrible decisions with money.

The really sad part: It's easily curable, with financial education. Why it's not part of middle school education, I'll never know.

Re: Borrowers Are Going Underwater on Car Loans

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Earlier quoted context omitted.

Cars last a long time now. My car is 20 years old and it’s still far cheaper to maintain that car than to buy a new car.

Depends where you live - 20 years of salt nets you a frame that will break if you sneeze

I live near Boston.
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