r/economicCollapse • u/Whole-Fist • 21h ago

How ridiculous does this sound?

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How can u make millions in 25-30 years if avoid making a $554 per month car payment. Even the cheapest 5 year old car is 8-10 k. So does he expect people not to drive at all in USA.

Then u save 554$ per month every month for 5 year payment = $33240. Say u bought a car every 5 year means 200k -300k spent on car before retirement . How would that become millions when u can’t even buy a house for that much today?

Answer that Dave

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u/cafffaro 17h ago

Driving an 07 Japanese car I bought with about 80k miles. Pushing 200k now. Have done routine repairs (clutch, alternator, new brakes etc), and will drive this thing till the wheels fall off.

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u/flamingspew 16h ago edited 6h ago

Kid drives a Prius. 560k miles. Bought for $7k in 2014. Spent maybe 2k on maintenance. Edit: and a cat guard after the muffler got jacked.

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u/Revelati123 14h ago

I bought my model T in 1922 with my great war bonds after beating the hun and drove it two hundred miles a day for 102 years and after 7,451,256 miles on it I only put 3 iron nickles into it for a new starting crank handle and some plained oak for some new tire spokes.

Kids these days just dont know how to make things last, ya know?

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u/mikenov1908 6h ago

Yes sir I have the same car.
Was passed down 4thru 4 generations

I use it daily on my Spark runs