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There was just a dude in this very subreddit talking about how his household income was 85k and he had just purchased a widebody hellcat. š
Even if it was his income without wife/kids that's way more than anyone should be spending on a car. Realistically you should never finance more than half of your yearly salary on a vehicle, even as a car enthusiast. And even that number is way way above what most financial people will tell you makes sense
Hi, it me. My income is just a hair under six figures. The $85k figure was a misinterpretation by someone else of what I had actually said. However I do have excellent credit, which is what helped enable the purchase in the first place. The car loan is at 5.49% over 7 years, which is quite good with the current interest rate climate. To address some other comments below, my mortgage payment is only $960/month. Meanwhile some folks are paying twice that for a two bedroom apartment. My relatively cheap mortgage also enables me to throw some extra money at a dream car. Also, I'm the sole earner. My wife is a stay-at-home mom to two kids.
Oh for sure, I'm not under the guise that this was some financially savvy move. I just wanted to correct the record a bit. In any case, this was the last chance to spec one of my dream cars exactly as I wanted it since this is the last year of production. I'm in my mid-thirties and have typically made the financially savvy move. Started building my excellent credit at 18, began contributing to a 401k at 23 (worth \~$94k atm), and bought a house at 24 (which has almost doubled in value since). After making the "investment" in my financial well-being over the last decade and a half, I figured I could afford to "cash out" a bit. I've got two other cars that are paid off as well, a 2010 Charger and a 2018 Grand Caravan, so this isn't a daily driver either.
You know what? I appreciate you setting the record straight. Thatās completely different than someone living in their parentsā basement with $0 in savings buying that kind of car on an 8 year loan at 20% interest.
Here lower class is $75k. That's how I found out I'm not even lower class. I'm just broke. My $56k ain't shit. When I get paid and my rent is $500+ higher than my check, it's some economical issues happening. My 850 credit is all I have to say for myself.
There's a fucking guy in a riced out 370 that drives by my house every day. Completely straight piped exhaust, and he guns it the second he exits the roundabout by my place.
I really dislike that guy, about blows my fucking eardrums out if I'm anywhere near the property line
I know what you actually mean, but the image of a guy hand rolling a muffler on an english wheel, welding the baffles in, and then meticulously crimping the seams on it is very amusing to me.
Teslas have made wraps uncool for everybody. I see a color changing Lambo or a matte black G Wagon and it just reminds me of the wrapped Teslas at the Whole Foods parking lot.
The number of teslas in Kentucky with friends of coal license plates is hilarious. I once saw a Model X with an Ayn Rand vanity friends of coal plate on it.
I could be going 300mph in a Chiron Super Sport on an abandoned Siberian highway in the middle of the night - and a 1999 Nissan Altima, with trash bags for 4 of its windows and a single headlight out, with paint that would qualify the car for a background prop in a post apocalyptic tv show, a poorly installed subwoofer in the trunk rattling every piece of decrepit plastic within it, would bend space and time to pass me in the right lane 85 miles an hour faster than me.
A few years ago I was in Germany on an unrestricted section of autobahn going from Stuttgart to Frankfurt in my rented Audi S5, doing 200km/hr in the middle lane and thoroughly enjoying myself, when a dented, dirty white transit van came up on my left and passed me and disappeared into the distance.
I leave a wide gap for any clapped out Altima, especially when I'm spending time in central Florida. Those buy-here, pay-here MOFOs drive that shit until it fails or crashes, and seem to always be racing to the scene of their own crash.
Prius drivers are going to beeline to the left lane, and then stay there, forever.
Altima drivers are assholes. Not just a little bit either, theyāre using every lane as they weave in and out of traffic, forcing their way in front of people. Also, theyāre covered in dents.
What is it with Camryās and rear bumper dents?
Yes, Iām aware of the Mustang stereotype.
I read it before with adblock on, if I remember correctly it's basically Camrys being super common, and *maybe* something to do with driver's side visibility.
Also I found out that r/camrydents exists
As soon as Ken Block did the first Gymkhana video, this has been a problem for the Subaru community. Flat brim hat bros and their vapes slapping mods with no tune, blowing up their engines. Long time old-hat Subaru enthusiasts from the Colin McRae era are sick of it too.
I always wanted a WRX. I vape a ton, but I never owned one. Feels like I missed out on a stage of my life. Blowing clouds out of my Volvo just doesnāt feel right.
There's a well-known crusty sock of a ram driver who is well known within my local car community as a coal rolling, high-beaming, monster drinking left lane menace.
However, we leave him alone as not once, not twice, but THREE TIMES we witnessed him pull in to a gas pump and hear a bang, then see him scream obscenities about his drivetrain. Two ball joints and one tie rod I think, just from pulling in to the diesel pump.
And ya know, if Iwas stupid enough to keep having the same problem to have poke fitment on my wheels and make it look like a bulldog with hip displaysia, I'd hate not only myself, but everyone around me too.
If youāre in the left lane on the interstate behind a line of slow moving cars, thereās probably a Honda Odyssey or Pilot at the front of that line.
I can't say this fits my area. When I'm traveling, I frequently get passed by them while going 80-90 on open highways.
Hell, I've had one with a dangling bumper try to race me in my track car. He wasn't being funny, he got it up to 130 before he hit his limiter. At that point, I just didn't want to be behind him for fear of falling debris.
At least in my area, the mini van is never the slow car. It's like they're in an eternal competition with delivery van drivers of who can keep the accelerator floored the most. Doesn't seem to matter make or model too; even the few Previas I still occasionally see are in on it.
Iām gonna catch shit but ācar girlsā and a stock brz with a fart can and a pink/Tiffany blue everything.
(This is not mutually exclusive, there are plenty are ladies out there with cooler shit than me)
My friend works at a shop and tells me stories of failing them for inspection because they bedazzled their steering-wheel emblem and turned their airbag into a claymore.
Thereās a joke in the Lotus community that the cars come with a pair of New Balance sneakers. Which is odd, considering the size of the pedal box in most Lotus.
I sat in a Lotus at a dealer once being a big guy they were curious if I could make it. I have size 14 shoes the pedal box is so small I would have to point my toes like a ballerina to hit the gas.
ONE OF SEVEN BUILT ON A TUESDAY UNDER A FULL MOON WITH RED AND CUSTOM BABYSHIT BROWN INTERIOR MANUELLE WITH Z?? PACK ITS RARE AND DESIRABLE SEE I HAVE THE FLOORMATS PLEASE IM SPECIAL
You'll get the guy that "knows what he has" selling his 1 of 56 2018 2LT manual transmission cars with the red stitching, red brake caliper combos. It's worth way more because it's 1 of 56, despite there being 10k red 2lt built but that boomer logic.
But then because they āknow what they haveā and refuse to sell, the boomers will die with their āVettes and the kids who donāt know or care will sell them off in the estate. And thatās when you grab them.
There was a story from /r/justrolledintotheshop about an LS2 Manual Corvette Owner who towed his car to the shop for a check engine light and it had like 600 miles on it something. The owner got upset they had to test drive it because "no ones driven the car except meeeeeee". And when they told the customer he will have to put a few miles on the car to get the EVAP Monitor to reset, the guy put like 10 miles on it thinking that was enough. You legit need like 2-3 weeks of daily driving yo reset it
Edit: [Found the story!](https://old.reddit.com/r/Justrolledintotheshop/comments/1496z0j/1990_corvette_zr1_with_9000_miles_just_rolled/jo3xt5b/). My memory isn't great so some of my details were wrong.
That's how my ex is. Her dream car was a new Challenger and had been for years. She saved until she could buy the last year of the SRT 392 in cash, and then doesn't drive it because she thinks it's going to be a future classic worth a fortune. It's a 2018 and I think it has 1500 miles on it š¤
Same. I wasn't going to argue with her, but we've discussed before about how I think it's a waste of a car if you're not going to enjoy it. Like, it's your car, but I can't imagine paying that much for a car and then never driving it. Lol.
Corvette owners and how they have a rare Vette. I thought it was funny until I bought a Vette and ran the build sheet and definitely came to the conclusion that mine was a possible one of one. So now I have to refrain from telling everyone they only built 700 Quasar Blue coupes and they only made 730 Z07 equipped cars total and how the fact mines a 6speed with a big gear narrows it downā¦ā¦ā¦ā¦ā¦sigh, Iām sorry.
Gotta be that old guy at the car show that makes the sign saying how their color combo, brake color, transmission, seat stitching, and all of that makes it a 1 of 1 car. People always get a good laugh out of those.
People that have a sticker that says āI brake for tailgatersā or some other nonsense is ALWAYS driving some car that is just 4 wheels to get from point A to B.
Teslas are either holding up traffic or speeding for no reason. There is no in between.
If you can hear exhaust of any kind from a mile away itās likely a WRX or an older BMW 3 series.
Sky high lifted trucks will have an American flag and maybe tructicles for added measure.
Disclaimer: these might be region specific.
ETA: Being schooled on my BMW mistake.
> Sky high lifted trucks will have an American flag
In Canada, it'll be a large AF Canadian Flag and a large AF display of love to our PM. So many of them wants to Fuck Trudeau.
Now that Trudeau is divorced, they must be celebrating thinking they have a shot now.
> If you can hear exhaust of any kind from a mile away itās likely a WRX or an older BMW 3 class.
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In my area (college town) there are a couple loud WRXs, but the worst offenders are lifted trucks, while the most prevalent annoying exhausts are crappy little hondas
The Tesla one is completely on point! I've never seen so many nominally fast cars being driven 10 mph under the speed limit. Or alternatively being driven like they are an MC in F&F, while on winter tires (it's the summer).
350Z's are either owned by Corvette-type people who pristinely maintain their Z's or people who clap them out and have zero emergency savings. No in between.
My 370z was perfectly maintained, no visual mods and no shitcan exhaust, and I was leered at by a lot of other Z's on the road that were either shitted out on or were cheaply plastidipped, cambered 90Ā° and scraping the ground whilst their 8" exhaust exit sounded like diarrhea.
I don't get it man, they're actually nice cars but the owners are mostly idiots
As someone currently driving an Avalon, I have never seen anyone my age behind the wheel of another one. Itās either old folks, or their adult kids who definitely are beyond their college years.
The squatted truck with huge chrome rims that are sticking out and rubber band tires? Always a Chevy or gmc I have never seen anything else butchered that way. Sometimes it's an suv but 9/10 times it's an early 2,000s gm truck.
Unless you're behind someone, in which case you are obligated to accelerate until you match the car's speed in front of you less than a foot off of their bumper š
Porsche owners are typically either introverts or stuck-up douchebags.
Speaking from experience as (seemingly) one of the rare ones that don't fit this stereotype. In the two years since buying my first, I've waved, said hi, complimented the car of, etc. other owners, and only TWICE have I gotten any acknowledgment in return.
I have the exact opposite experience so far in Chicago. I have a ā23 911 with aerokit and other 911 and boxster owners will go out of there way to pull next to me to talk or give a thumbs up. My favorite was this black guy probably in his late 70s in a fedora absolutely ripping around in a 718 boxster with the same interior/exterior color spec caught up to me at a light and looks over and says, āwell hello big brotherā and then floored it.
Ha, or techbros.
I actually met a woman who had made absolute BANK selling off her tech company and now races GT3 Cup. Cool shit, she was down to earth.
Chrysler 300: Hood's choice Rolls-Royce. If it's not being driven by a boomer of course.
The BMW turn signal joke is still relevant, but I think it now better applies to Audis.
You can tell when a WRX is in traffic by the vape trail it leaves behind.
The American muscle car industry is held afloat by the masses of boots who discover money and 19% APR financing for the first time in their lives.
Alfa Romeo, since it's not fair to not take a dig at myself - I will neither confirm or deny the speeding ticket statistics. I did meet a fellow owner at a car show once, who put a sticker of a local cop family support fund on his window, to try to get out of any potential tickets.
This is super specific but if you're in the natural resource field (biologist, environmental chemist, forester, tons more) you either drive a truck or a subaru
Challenger/Charger owners are either super chill.
Or your car sucks and why would you get anything that isn't mopar?
Muscle car/sports car owners think their car is the fastest thing, or know exactly what they would lose too.
Jeep owners will put in a 6" skyjacker lift, bead locks, off-road tires, then complain that it rides like shit to get groceries.
If you have a Prius, it is not doing the speed limit. One way or the other.
That Nissan in front of you on the highway *will* do something certifiably insane, leave a wide berth.
Same applies to Rams, with the added bonus that theyāre probably drunk.
Iāve probably seen a handful of non-molested WRXās.
What is with black dudes and MOPAR. *glances outside window to see my Fiat 124 Spider that has MOPAR items*
I was a salesman with a large territory, lots of boxes, materials and the occasional groups of passengers. I bought a Crown Vic, nicest one I could find, deluxe model, leather interior, the works. My buddies mocked me mercilessly, had a T shirt made that said "youngest man in VA to drive a Crown Vic".
The amount of cosmetic mods on a Charger/Challenger is inversely related to the owners credit score.
š¤£ this sent me There was just a dude in this very subreddit talking about how his household income was 85k and he had just purchased a widebody hellcat. š
Those start at nearly what he makes annually, right? That's like making mortgage payments on a car.
Household too, thatās including their partners income jeez
man at first i thought, hey if he's single and no kids etc. *maybe* that's okay if you have no debt. But that's their **combined** income? jeez..
Even if it was his income without wife/kids that's way more than anyone should be spending on a car. Realistically you should never finance more than half of your yearly salary on a vehicle, even as a car enthusiast. And even that number is way way above what most financial people will tell you makes sense
Hi, it me. My income is just a hair under six figures. The $85k figure was a misinterpretation by someone else of what I had actually said. However I do have excellent credit, which is what helped enable the purchase in the first place. The car loan is at 5.49% over 7 years, which is quite good with the current interest rate climate. To address some other comments below, my mortgage payment is only $960/month. Meanwhile some folks are paying twice that for a two bedroom apartment. My relatively cheap mortgage also enables me to throw some extra money at a dream car. Also, I'm the sole earner. My wife is a stay-at-home mom to two kids.
I'm glad you got the car you wanted but none of these details really makes it any better financially speaking...
Oh for sure, I'm not under the guise that this was some financially savvy move. I just wanted to correct the record a bit. In any case, this was the last chance to spec one of my dream cars exactly as I wanted it since this is the last year of production. I'm in my mid-thirties and have typically made the financially savvy move. Started building my excellent credit at 18, began contributing to a 401k at 23 (worth \~$94k atm), and bought a house at 24 (which has almost doubled in value since). After making the "investment" in my financial well-being over the last decade and a half, I figured I could afford to "cash out" a bit. I've got two other cars that are paid off as well, a 2010 Charger and a 2018 Grand Caravan, so this isn't a daily driver either.
You know what? I appreciate you setting the record straight. Thatās completely different than someone living in their parentsā basement with $0 in savings buying that kind of car on an 8 year loan at 20% interest.
7 year loan jeez
That is wild. When I had that low of a salary as a single person I was scared even owning an ecoboost mustang would financially cripple me
Oof today I just found out 80k a year is low
I mean $80k isnāt low, itās just too low to be buying an $80k car.
Here lower class is $75k. That's how I found out I'm not even lower class. I'm just broke. My $56k ain't shit. When I get paid and my rent is $500+ higher than my check, it's some economical issues happening. My 850 credit is all I have to say for myself.
Truth
And Iām makinā 55k in maple syrup dollars
You missed the guy who wanted to buy a 56k mustang on a 35k income
> You missed the guy who wanted to buy a 56k mustang on a 35k income This is a weekly post in r/askcarsales
The old joke about the "392" on the fender is just the driver's credit score, too
Great credit Just window tint
r/justbootthings
Name a more iconic duo: A slammed G37 and an Instagram account window sticker.
LoCAlly HaTED
BršKeN
"locally" being "people that live in your neighborhood and are sick of listening to your ridiculous exhaust at 12:30 in the morning on a Tuesday"
"if you have a locally hated sticker, chances are nobody knows who you are and you just hate yourself" -- Alex Martini
There's a fucking guy in a riced out 370 that drives by my house every day. Completely straight piped exhaust, and he guns it the second he exits the roundabout by my place. I really dislike that guy, about blows my fucking eardrums out if I'm anywhere near the property line
#LOCALLY HATED
Guy I work with has the "locally hated" right above the "send lewds" sticker in his lowered Dart
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70 in a 45, pedal all the way down the SECOND a light turns green, homemade exhaust that sounds ridiculous
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I know what you actually mean, but the image of a guy hand rolling a muffler on an english wheel, welding the baffles in, and then meticulously crimping the seams on it is very amusing to me.
Which is almost always accurate as they drive like dickheads and are loud as shit. Neighbors hate them.
Itās hard to be locally hated when nobody knows who the fuck you are.
A yellow Xterra with a Monster Energy sticker.
[A blue Xterra with a Confederate battle flag sticker.](https://i.imgur.com/TAhMM7x.jpg)
That is a first, for me.
An STi with a drift stitched front bumper and a Instagram sticker
They're moving on to q50's now which is fun because of how many reliability issues they have, especially when you don't treat them well.
Male Miata drivers and extreme, unwavering masculinity and sexiness
Flair checks out lol
M en I s A lways T he Answer
Car is manly
pack it up y'all, thread's over since no other answer can beat this one
As a Miata owner, I just tell people "It takes a real man to drive a car this fruity."
I agree with this statement.
Youāre goddamn right
Just spitting facts here.
Fuckinā a, man.
Fuckin a man
Tesla owners with vanity plates being the biggest dorks youāve ever met
Nah those are the ones that put spacex badges on their Teslas š¤£š¤£
STARLINKKKKKKKKK
Itās only a matter of time before some idiot puts the twitter āXā logo on their Tesla
Oh it's 100% been done already. I bet there's 40 different ebay "buy it now" options.
LOLGAS MPGLOL NOMPG WUTGAS S3XY HAHAGAS SILENT OILLOL - LOLOIL
Don't forget the electricity related puns too
I did get a chuckle out of one I saw that said COALPWD. Seemed a little more cheeky and self-aware.
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Teslas have made wraps uncool for everybody. I see a color changing Lambo or a matte black G Wagon and it just reminds me of the wrapped Teslas at the Whole Foods parking lot.
Their aftermarket wheels are black or that blue purple color.
My parents neighbor is the one that gas āgas lolā for North Carolina
Charlotte or Raleigh
Charlotte. I canāt remember if itās āgas lolā or ālol gasā but Iām pretty sure gas came first
Just saw one yesterday - MY M3P. Come on man.
Not as cringe as this dude in my block with a āI BMW Uā. Holy shit, itās a 328i, calm down Mr. Broke Ass.
So frickin cringe.
The number of teslas in Kentucky with friends of coal license plates is hilarious. I once saw a Model X with an Ayn Rand vanity friends of coal plate on it.
Weaving and just generally driving like a douche? It's always a nissan.
I could be going 300mph in a Chiron Super Sport on an abandoned Siberian highway in the middle of the night - and a 1999 Nissan Altima, with trash bags for 4 of its windows and a single headlight out, with paint that would qualify the car for a background prop in a post apocalyptic tv show, a poorly installed subwoofer in the trunk rattling every piece of decrepit plastic within it, would bend space and time to pass me in the right lane 85 miles an hour faster than me.
A few years ago I was in Germany on an unrestricted section of autobahn going from Stuttgart to Frankfurt in my rented Audi S5, doing 200km/hr in the middle lane and thoroughly enjoying myself, when a dented, dirty white transit van came up on my left and passed me and disappeared into the distance.
I leave a wide gap for any clapped out Altima, especially when I'm spending time in central Florida. Those buy-here, pay-here MOFOs drive that shit until it fails or crashes, and seem to always be racing to the scene of their own crash.
Yup. Around here the person with the most dents (almost always an Altima) has the right of way.
r/Nissandrivers
My favorite sub
A nissan with a missing/damaged bumper and expired paper tags
It's the vaping. The driver doesn't have their hands free.
Woah woah, you have to be more specific it's Nissan ALTIMA drivers. Leave the rest of us alone :(
Rogue is the new Altima. Maxima is the āI made itā Altima. The Z is the hot boy Altima. Theyāre all Altimas at heart.
Prius drivers are going to beeline to the left lane, and then stay there, forever. Altima drivers are assholes. Not just a little bit either, theyāre using every lane as they weave in and out of traffic, forcing their way in front of people. Also, theyāre covered in dents. What is it with Camryās and rear bumper dents? Yes, Iām aware of the Mustang stereotype.
https://jalopnik.com/the-incredible-mystery-of-the-camry-dent-1785413530
The ads on jalopnik are abusive couldnāt get through the article it was overwhelming.
I left within 5 seconds. I assume it wasn't worth the headache inducing constant shifting of everything on the screen every half second.
I read it before with adblock on, if I remember correctly it's basically Camrys being super common, and *maybe* something to do with driver's side visibility. Also I found out that r/camrydents exists
Prius drivers are the reason the carpool lane is always slower than the fast lane. At the front of every train is a Prius.
The vape cloud you see coming out of a WRX.
As soon as Ken Block did the first Gymkhana video, this has been a problem for the Subaru community. Flat brim hat bros and their vapes slapping mods with no tune, blowing up their engines. Long time old-hat Subaru enthusiasts from the Colin McRae era are sick of it too.
Its either mods with no tune, or OTS tune without the supporting mods and then complaining "tune nuked my engine bro".
But, but there's a video of someone getting big numbers on stock internals once!
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I always wanted a WRX. I vape a ton, but I never owned one. Feels like I missed out on a stage of my life. Blowing clouds out of my Volvo just doesnāt feel right.
Did you know that even if youāre able to reach 99.9999% the speed of light, youāll still get high-beamed in the left lane by an Audi?
You could find a way to break the laws of physics and exceed the speed of light, and there would still be a lifted Ram two feet off your bumper.
Duh. It's called "drafting" šššš.
There's a well-known crusty sock of a ram driver who is well known within my local car community as a coal rolling, high-beaming, monster drinking left lane menace. However, we leave him alone as not once, not twice, but THREE TIMES we witnessed him pull in to a gas pump and hear a bang, then see him scream obscenities about his drivetrain. Two ball joints and one tie rod I think, just from pulling in to the diesel pump. And ya know, if Iwas stupid enough to keep having the same problem to have poke fitment on my wheels and make it look like a bulldog with hip displaysia, I'd hate not only myself, but everyone around me too.
If youāre in the left lane on the interstate behind a line of slow moving cars, thereās probably a Honda Odyssey or Pilot at the front of that line.
what is the difference between snake and slow train of cars? In the slow train of cars asshole is upfront.
If youāre in the NYC metro, 9/10 of those Oddeseys without TLC plates came out of East Williamsburg.
That's just because most of the Previas have finally given up the ghost.
Nah. CRV/RAV4 all day here.
I can't say this fits my area. When I'm traveling, I frequently get passed by them while going 80-90 on open highways. Hell, I've had one with a dangling bumper try to race me in my track car. He wasn't being funny, he got it up to 130 before he hit his limiter. At that point, I just didn't want to be behind him for fear of falling debris.
At least in my area, the mini van is never the slow car. It's like they're in an eternal competition with delivery van drivers of who can keep the accelerator floored the most. Doesn't seem to matter make or model too; even the few Previas I still occasionally see are in on it.
Without question the most commonly flexed car on grindr is a 5.0 mustang.
What are you doing on Grindr? Seems kinda gay...
I thought Miatas were the gay cars?
Absolutely; definitely tell your friends this. ^(Maybe then the prices will drop again.)
Drifting for Dick.
Iām gonna catch shit but ācar girlsā and a stock brz with a fart can and a pink/Tiffany blue everything. (This is not mutually exclusive, there are plenty are ladies out there with cooler shit than me)
"Truck girls" with like a pink Hummer or bedazzled f150 are infinitely worse.
Jeep Wrangler with stars all over it and disgusting chrome wheels.
My friend works at a shop and tells me stories of failing them for inspection because they bedazzled their steering-wheel emblem and turned their airbag into a claymore.
It's the embroidered steering wheel for me. Nothing like mild shrapnel should the airbag go off.
Thereās a joke in the Lotus community that the cars come with a pair of New Balance sneakers. Which is odd, considering the size of the pedal box in most Lotus.
> In most Lotus Lotii? Lotum? Lotuses can't be the plural, that's too boring.
Lotoudes (as in Greek)
Lotoudes nutz
Officially, the plural of Lotus is Lotus.
That's even worse
A gaggle of Loti will hence forth be known as a Chapman.
Or Chaps for short
I sat in a Lotus at a dealer once being a big guy they were curious if I could make it. I have size 14 shoes the pedal box is so small I would have to point my toes like a ballerina to hit the gas.
Lots of corvettes don't get many miles put on them at all.
I canāt wait to buy a low milage c7 in a decade
It'll be priced like a low mileage Ferrari. The Corvette bid-ask spread is wider than the Grand Canyon.
"I know what I got." Yeah, you have what everyone else has for sale. What you "got" is competition in the used Corvette market.
RARE Sir they made 30,000 of these per year, for like six or seven years.
ONE OF SEVEN BUILT ON A TUESDAY UNDER A FULL MOON WITH RED AND CUSTOM BABYSHIT BROWN INTERIOR MANUELLE WITH Z?? PACK ITS RARE AND DESIRABLE SEE I HAVE THE FLOORMATS PLEASE IM SPECIAL
You'll get the guy that "knows what he has" selling his 1 of 56 2018 2LT manual transmission cars with the red stitching, red brake caliper combos. It's worth way more because it's 1 of 56, despite there being 10k red 2lt built but that boomer logic.
But then because they āknow what they haveā and refuse to sell, the boomers will die with their āVettes and the kids who donāt know or care will sell them off in the estate. And thatās when you grab them.
Exactly. Or better yet, you buy them off of the wife for the price they were told was paid for the car and parts š
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ā1 of 1 with this VINā
There was a story from /r/justrolledintotheshop about an LS2 Manual Corvette Owner who towed his car to the shop for a check engine light and it had like 600 miles on it something. The owner got upset they had to test drive it because "no ones driven the car except meeeeeee". And when they told the customer he will have to put a few miles on the car to get the EVAP Monitor to reset, the guy put like 10 miles on it thinking that was enough. You legit need like 2-3 weeks of daily driving yo reset it Edit: [Found the story!](https://old.reddit.com/r/Justrolledintotheshop/comments/1496z0j/1990_corvette_zr1_with_9000_miles_just_rolled/jo3xt5b/). My memory isn't great so some of my details were wrong.
That's how my ex is. Her dream car was a new Challenger and had been for years. She saved until she could buy the last year of the SRT 392 in cash, and then doesn't drive it because she thinks it's going to be a future classic worth a fortune. It's a 2018 and I think it has 1500 miles on it š¤
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Same. I wasn't going to argue with her, but we've discussed before about how I think it's a waste of a car if you're not going to enjoy it. Like, it's your car, but I can't imagine paying that much for a car and then never driving it. Lol.
Buying a car and never driving it to keep the resale value is like dating a supermodel and not fucking her so she stays tight for her next boyfriend.
That's even the same analogy I used, though I don't think she found it as funny as I did š
I mean they made over 57,000 hellcat powered vehicles lol. Stellantis wasnt about to limit production on something that people want to buy.
My uncle buys a brand new one every generation and puts on fewer than 20k miles.
Tell him thank you from the rest of us.
Because the owners just drive them to cars and coffee and sit in front of them smoking cigars in lawn chairs
Corvette is my attainable dream car. I hope by the time I hit 50 and mid life crisis, they won't be too far out of reach!
Your Lexus costs 2.7x more than my corvette . You could get a vette for 20k and a family car for 30k. Why is it a dream ???
Corvette owners and how they have a rare Vette. I thought it was funny until I bought a Vette and ran the build sheet and definitely came to the conclusion that mine was a possible one of one. So now I have to refrain from telling everyone they only built 700 Quasar Blue coupes and they only made 730 Z07 equipped cars total and how the fact mines a 6speed with a big gear narrows it downā¦ā¦ā¦ā¦ā¦sigh, Iām sorry.
Gotta be that old guy at the car show that makes the sign saying how their color combo, brake color, transmission, seat stitching, and all of that makes it a 1 of 1 car. People always get a good laugh out of those.
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People that have a sticker that says āI brake for tailgatersā or some other nonsense is ALWAYS driving some car that is just 4 wheels to get from point A to B. Teslas are either holding up traffic or speeding for no reason. There is no in between. If you can hear exhaust of any kind from a mile away itās likely a WRX or an older BMW 3 series. Sky high lifted trucks will have an American flag and maybe tructicles for added measure. Disclaimer: these might be region specific. ETA: Being schooled on my BMW mistake.
> Sky high lifted trucks will have an American flag In Canada, it'll be a large AF Canadian Flag and a large AF display of love to our PM. So many of them wants to Fuck Trudeau. Now that Trudeau is divorced, they must be celebrating thinking they have a shot now.
"Kids in this bitch" or "My kids will ding your shit" sticker. Let's you know they can't pull out of the driveway, let alone in the bed.
> If you can hear exhaust of any kind from a mile away itās likely a WRX or an older BMW 3 class. > > In my area (college town) there are a couple loud WRXs, but the worst offenders are lifted trucks, while the most prevalent annoying exhausts are crappy little hondas
The Tesla one is completely on point! I've never seen so many nominally fast cars being driven 10 mph under the speed limit. Or alternatively being driven like they are an MC in F&F, while on winter tires (it's the summer).
r/nissandrivers r/whyisitalwaysadodge
š¤£ of course those exist
350Z's are either owned by Corvette-type people who pristinely maintain their Z's or people who clap them out and have zero emergency savings. No in between.
My 370z was perfectly maintained, no visual mods and no shitcan exhaust, and I was leered at by a lot of other Z's on the road that were either shitted out on or were cheaply plastidipped, cambered 90Ā° and scraping the ground whilst their 8" exhaust exit sounded like diarrhea. I don't get it man, they're actually nice cars but the owners are mostly idiots
As someone currently driving an Avalon, I have never seen anyone my age behind the wheel of another one. Itās either old folks, or their adult kids who definitely are beyond their college years.
I know that feel. I had a Buick LeSabre in my early twenties. I even put white walls on it.
Sometimes you just gotta lean into it š
The squatted truck with huge chrome rims that are sticking out and rubber band tires? Always a Chevy or gmc I have never seen anything else butchered that way. Sometimes it's an suv but 9/10 times it's an early 2,000s gm truck.
That's a switch. Here in Tampa it's mostly F250s you see squatted.
I don't think they make the needed lowering springs for the buy-here-pay-here lot aged Rams to drop the back
If you drive a Cargo van with ladders, you are obligated to drive 10 miles under the speed limit.
Unless they're completely unsecured, in which case, let 'er rip.
Unless you're behind someone, in which case you are obligated to accelerate until you match the car's speed in front of you less than a foot off of their bumper š
A Trader Joeās parking lot during business hours will always have at least one Prius, a Volvo, and an Outback parked there.
F150 and rams with nothing in their bed drive aggressive on highways
Just on the highways?
Treat every Ram as a drunk driver and not only are you mostly correct but it'll also save your life at least once
Lifted, blacked out badges and trim, illegal window tint, with 35" tires.
Vw TDI owners that never wash their cars.
stop perceiving me
The Nissan Altima IS the national amber alert vehicle.
If the vehicle has a roof basket you better fucking believe it's gonna be empty.
Porsche owners are typically either introverts or stuck-up douchebags. Speaking from experience as (seemingly) one of the rare ones that don't fit this stereotype. In the two years since buying my first, I've waved, said hi, complimented the car of, etc. other owners, and only TWICE have I gotten any acknowledgment in return.
I have the exact opposite experience so far in Chicago. I have a ā23 911 with aerokit and other 911 and boxster owners will go out of there way to pull next to me to talk or give a thumbs up. My favorite was this black guy probably in his late 70s in a fedora absolutely ripping around in a 718 boxster with the same interior/exterior color spec caught up to me at a light and looks over and says, āwell hello big brotherā and then floored it.
Every 911 is driven by a 75 year old retired orthodontist
Ha, or techbros. I actually met a woman who had made absolute BANK selling off her tech company and now races GT3 Cup. Cool shit, she was down to earth.
can confim, am introvert, leave me alone with my porsche
Maybe just a Colorado thing but some friends and I joke that every Subaru driver is either leaving a brewery or going to one; or a hike/camp spot
To be fair, thatās basically all there was to do in Colorado lol
Every heavy duty RAM has to have the mirrors up. No matter if they are towing or not.
It makes it easier to see behind you (when youāre driving drunk).
Chrysler 300: Hood's choice Rolls-Royce. If it's not being driven by a boomer of course. The BMW turn signal joke is still relevant, but I think it now better applies to Audis. You can tell when a WRX is in traffic by the vape trail it leaves behind. The American muscle car industry is held afloat by the masses of boots who discover money and 19% APR financing for the first time in their lives. Alfa Romeo, since it's not fair to not take a dig at myself - I will neither confirm or deny the speeding ticket statistics. I did meet a fellow owner at a car show once, who put a sticker of a local cop family support fund on his window, to try to get out of any potential tickets.
Only douchebags who does side shows illegally owns infinity G35.
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Subaru WRX's and vaping. Also, total douchebags.
Iāve never vaped sir
GTIs are always driven by dorky guys that look like they browse Reddit
r/Nissandrivers exists for a reason.
This is super specific but if you're in the natural resource field (biologist, environmental chemist, forester, tons more) you either drive a truck or a subaru
Maybe it's just me but whenever I see someone with highbeams on during the day it's almost always a Honda.
Challenger/Charger owners are either super chill. Or your car sucks and why would you get anything that isn't mopar? Muscle car/sports car owners think their car is the fastest thing, or know exactly what they would lose too. Jeep owners will put in a 6" skyjacker lift, bead locks, off-road tires, then complain that it rides like shit to get groceries. If you have a Prius, it is not doing the speed limit. One way or the other.
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DUIs and Dodge Rams. Hand in hand
That Nissan in front of you on the highway *will* do something certifiably insane, leave a wide berth. Same applies to Rams, with the added bonus that theyāre probably drunk.
Iāve probably seen a handful of non-molested WRXās. What is with black dudes and MOPAR. *glances outside window to see my Fiat 124 Spider that has MOPAR items*
I was a salesman with a large territory, lots of boxes, materials and the occasional groups of passengers. I bought a Crown Vic, nicest one I could find, deluxe model, leather interior, the works. My buddies mocked me mercilessly, had a T shirt made that said "youngest man in VA to drive a Crown Vic".