How Many Real, Legitimate, Reasons Are There To Purchase Another Vehicle?
Posted by christiancarguy on 2 July, 2009
This post was filed in Automotive and has 7 comments
The Following is my list. Notice Mileage is not on the list nor worn out.
Please Help me out if you can think of any other..post it in comments below.
Real reasons to purchase a vehicle
1. New Driver/ First Car
2. Safety
3. Too Small
4. Too Big
5. Car Stolen
6. Change jobs/ Functionality
7. Car Total loss
8. New Business
9. Expanding Business
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7 Comments on “How Many Real, Legitimate, Reasons Are There To Purchase Another Vehicle?”
Wife doesn’t have a car! LOL!
That’s a good one…hadn’t thought of that!
car repairs exceeding what a new car payment would be
why not worn out as a legit reason? Mine is fairly worn out and has been out of commission for almost 2 out of these 6 months this year already.
Why has it been out of commission for so long – can only think of two reasons – bad mechanic, not enough money to repair it? I can understand both but.. Irene, are you talking about monthly car payment? Almost any repair is cheaper than buying a new car – including replacing an engine.
Irene, I’m afraid I agree with Marcia. Although, I do think it’s hard to speak when you don’t know the whole story. There are cars that have been so mistreated with bad driving and abused by neglect that to completely repair them is more expensive than finding a dependable used car.
The Trap, and I do mean the trap is the car payments. Many folks can barely afford their car payments. That’s when a huge repair bill comes at them, they panic, and walk into a bigger Trap. They head for the new car dealer who will gladly sell them a new one and roll the negative equity from the old one into the new loan, and the bait in this trap, “You won’t have payment for 45 days”! Snap, the trap is shut and now they have 72 more payments and negative equity from the 50 to sixty percent depreciation in the first year of that new car will add another $10,000 on average to the hole they now find themselves in.
Had they gone out and gotten a small loan to repair their car, or maintain it. In a couple years…”FREEDOM FROM CAR PAYMENT SLAVERY”.
you are so right – about not knowing a person’s whole story. I think many people including me in this generation have forgotten that car payments should be the exception rather than the rule. I’ve never had or not even familiar with the above situation but I’ve never had an expensive car nor a car payment for years.
I thought about your list … Read Morefor a few days and couldn’t think of anything to add. The only otherthing that I could think of is perhaps under safety on your list – “peace of mind” when on the road. Then you posted that video of (can’t remember her name now) the 80 yr old lady that drove 3000 miles alone in her 40 yr old car and remined me if you know your car, keep it maintained, carry a cell phone, that is not an excuse either.
oh and carry a gun just in case.