boem@lemmy.world to Technology@lemmy.worldEnglish · 1 year agoMore Than 80 Percent Of Americans Can’t Afford New Carsjalopnik.comexternal-linkmessage-square200fedilinkarrow-up1661arrow-down139cross-posted to: hackernews@derp.foo
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minus-squareBuffalox@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up3·1 year agoI was told in the 90’s that in America if your car was 3 years old, your neighbor might worry you weren’t doing too well, and you could buy 6 year old luxury cars for peanuts.
minus-squareangstylittlecatboy@reddthat.comlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up2·edit-21 year agoLuxury cars are notorious for not holding their value, unless by “luxury” you mean performance cars, so that’s normal. I was born after the 90s so I wouldn’t know, but generally speaking I’d always heard the average car in America is ten years old.
I was told in the 90’s that in America if your car was 3 years old, your neighbor might worry you weren’t doing too well, and you could buy 6 year old luxury cars for peanuts.
Luxury cars are notorious for not holding their value, unless by “luxury” you mean performance cars, so that’s normal.
I was born after the 90s so I wouldn’t know, but generally speaking I’d always heard the average car in America is ten years old.