Personal Finance

3855 readers

33 users here now

Learn about budgeting, saving, getting out of debt, credit, investing, and retirement planning. Join our community, read the PF Wiki, and get on top of your finances!

Note: This community is not region centric, so if you are posting anything specific to a certain region, kindly specify that in the title (something like [USA], [EU], [AUS] etc.)

founded 2 years ago

MODERATORS

[email protected]

128

Americans can no longer afford their cars (www.newsweek.com)

submitted 11 months ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

66 comments fedilink hide all child comments

you are viewing a single comment's thread
view the rest of the comments

[–] [email protected] 69 points 11 months ago (29 children)

But car buyers' preferences have also shifted dramatically to larger trucks and SUVs in the past 10 years or so, and even more towards high-tech and comfort amenities in the form of cameras, sensors, radars and large infotainment screens," he said.

You can’t buy a smaller truck because the manufacturers lobbied that large trucks are exempt from stricter emissions and thus they don’t have to engineer a smaller, more efficient truck.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 11 months ago (2 children)

The Hyundai Santa Cruz and Ford Maverick would like a word with you.

[–] CADmonkey 1 points 11 months ago (1 children)

Have you tried to buy a Maverick?

[–] [email protected] 1 points 11 months ago

No, I went with the Santa Cruz instead.

load more comments (26 replies)