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Anonymous01/28/26, 23:21No.28824419
are they right?
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Anon01/28/26, 23:31No.28824429
yes obviously. All the costs go up together the more you spend on a car.
More expensive car has higher insurance + higher maintenance costs + premium gas + bad gas mileage + more expensive tires etc etc etc
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Anon01/28/26, 23:35No.28824434
Neither of them are rich.
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Anon01/28/26, 23:35No.28824436
>spend 40k on a new car
>drive at least two years without any fixup costs>spend 4k on le beater
>spend 10k a year on retarded shit that keeps failing like rubber parts or entire engines failing due to the previous 5 hands having neglected oil changesYeah it is cheaper. Kinda
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Anon01/28/26, 23:41No.28824443
what most people completely ignore is the fact that the time of good old beaters is almost over.
80s, 90s and 00s had incredibly simple cars you could choose from that were easy to fix even when they got old.
those cars are now 20-40 years old and parts are getting rare -> expensive. also, parts itself can be fucked by now since they're out of production for years and degraded sitting in warehouses.so if you're getting a beater in 2035 made in 2015 there's a big chance you won't be able to fix it on your own and repair shops will have moved on and may not want to work on your pile.
driving a 20 years old car used to be a perfectly viable choice a couple years ago and for the most part still is but people think this will be forever like this which is simply not he case.
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Anon01/29/26, 00:04No.28824470
How worth it is it to learn how to do stuff myself
I want to make my old car last as long as possible but aside from learning how to do oil changes other things seem pretty complicated and a bad idea if I fuck it up
But shops around here seem to keep trying to rip me off, I always go asking about 1 thing and they find 5 things wrong and want to charge me thousands
Do I just drive until my car explodes?
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Anon01/29/26, 00:44No.28824510
Short answer, yes. Cars are expensive tools, nothing more. Treat them as a status symbol and your future self will want to kick your teeth out for it. Don't ask me how I know.
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Anon01/29/26, 01:11No.28824530
sort of. suffering for no reason won't make you richer, it'll just make you suffer. learn more about cars and it will open up more opportunities to own one that's inexpensive, doesn't require giving up every single comfort, and won't bleed you dry
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Anon01/29/26, 01:13No.28824532
No, you should only have a bicycle.
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Anon01/29/26, 01:47No.28824572
depends on what they mean by "piece of shit beater" if it's reliable,safe to drive and not a moneypit i'd say yes
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Anon01/29/26, 02:01No.28824583
skipping the car payment will free up cash flow
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you will not get rich by spending less. you will avoid poverty by spending less, but you will not get rich.
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Anon01/29/26, 03:11No.28824655
I know several actual rich people from my job in tech (I report directly to the owner of my company, he's quite wealthy). They all drive nice cars. Every single one of them. This 'I'm rich because I drive a beater' is just poorfag cope. Actual rich people look at buying a nice car the way us normies look at buying a TV.
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Anon01/29/26, 03:11No.28824656
sir mixalot taught me more than these nobodies
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Anon01/29/26, 03:20No.28824672
I know a guy who got rich in construction. He does government construction contracts(he's a company owner not a construction worker just in case if it's not clear), roads and whatnot. He owns some Bentley for special occasions but if he rolls down to the store or to the construction site he'll be driving his 25 years old nigsan. As he was getting there he also typically drove cars that were over 10 years old.Did he get rich because he drove a beater? No he got rich because he probably knows some local government people who make sure he's the one who gets their contracts, but the beater daily driver is something showing a mindset that helped him get there.
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Anon01/29/26, 04:15No.28824723
>If you buy/drive an inexpensive car you will just become wealthy
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Anon01/29/26, 04:16No.28824726
Driving a beater wont make you rich, but it will save you an unthinkable amount of money that if invested will have compounded returns. It's not some magic trick, but it goes a long way.That also doesn't mean you need to drive a soulless utility egg shitbox. I bought this for $4500 cash and only spent maybe $3k over the 7 years I dailied it. Because it wasn't worth much and I had no loan, I carried liability only (250/500) which was way cheaper than the comprehensive you need for a financed vehicle.The cheapest possible Kia would have been many times the cost over that same time period, even with 0% interest financing and no repairs.
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Anon01/29/26, 04:19No.28824730
you need the right beater. I love impreza beaters. I have one a 2.5TS at 170k, a WRX at 230k, and I've owned multiple GF8s at 300k