Am I crazy or is this the worst time ever to buy a vehicle?

[adam c]

The Malibu is actually a great rental car in the few times I’ve had one

[max_boost]

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You're late (as did I), it's CS.

Yea I'm just a tire kicker. I'll let you real ballers have fun lol the car market is more than I can afford these days.

[riander5]

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Non-luxury sedans are semi reasonable, lol

Live that Malibu life son

I just checked jack carter and capitol for fun... no inventory!!!!

Guess im back to my search. Someone find me a clean 2016 E63 for $55k ill buy it right now

[ExtraSlow]

What I'm learning is that this situation is really hard on people who swap cars all the time.
Ive been looking for an excuse not to buy my wife a new car so this is great for me!

[bjstare]

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What I'm learning is that this situation is really hard on people who swap cars all the time.

Preach. Thankfully I just swapped like 3mo ago so I'm good for a little while. Probably.

@riander5 if a $55k s212 pops up we'll be fighting over it.

[ExtraSlow]

Although now I'm wondering if I should sell my truck if prices stay high. Drive a 1993 accord for the winter.

[shakalaka]

Things are deff. up there in pricing however gems can be found here and there still. Toronto's market has much more options with a little more competitive pricing. We are picking up a vehicle out there next week and even after factoring the shipping costs etc., it's going to be ultimately a better deal than what we could find in AB and BC.

[killramos]

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Although now I'm wondering if I should sell my truck if prices stay high. Drive a 1993 accord for the winter.

There is almost no downside

It’s not like they will stop baking hundreds of thousands of trucks a year. And I’d argue the long term damage of Covid hasn’t really revealed itself yet.

This shit is going to correct itself, correct hard.

[shakalaka]

If you're in no rush to replace your truck if you sell it, I say go for it. It is definitely the right time to maximize the return on that at the moment.

[ExtraSlow]

The risk is inflation, but clearly there's ways to hedge against that.

[killramos]

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The risk is inflation, but clearly there's ways to hedge against that.

Isn’t your lady a public servant? She must be guaranteed cost of living increases so you have a built in hedge.

[ExtraSlow]

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Isn’t your lady a public servant? She must be guaranteed cost of living increases so you have a built in hedge.

She's not THAT kind of public servant. I don't think her union has annual raises at all. #boofuckinghoo

[riander5]

@cjblair they are out there, im just holding out for a 2016... Hoping next year or when this madness ends a 2016 with 50-70k can be had for mid fifites. Maybe be dreaming though

https://www.kijijiautos.ca/cars/merc.../#vip=20651028

[bjstare]

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@cjblair they are out there, im just holding out for a 2016... Hoping next year or when this madness ends a 2016 with 50-70k can be had for mid fifites. Maybe be dreaming though

https://www.kijijiautos.ca/cars/merc.../#vip=20651028

I only want a wagon, maybe we won’t be fighting after all.

[riander5]

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I only want a wagon, maybe we won’t be fighting after all.

Oh yea, i can't wait until the end of time for a unicorn to come around. A sedan for me

[03ozwhip]

Ya looking around all over Canada and it's crazy. I don't need the truck right now anyways, but I want it lol you all know how that goes.

But I'll try not to for a while.

[SKR]

I'd like to sell my truck, but I worry that 6 months from now I'll just be buying another one. This one I have now is an exact replica of one I had and sold a couple years ago.

I've been keeping a little bit of an eye out for 2014-15 ZL1s, but fuck, you can't touch one of those now. They're asking what used to be asking price for Z28s, and Z28s are up to where C6 ZR1s were. I wouldn't even want to guess what a ZR1 might be worth now.

One thing I'd like to know is why the market for Lumina Z34s is so competitive. They're almost never for sale, and soon as an ad goes up it's sold.

[ExtraSlow]

Z-car fanbois clearly dominate the market. Must be the FnF crowd.

[Mitsu3000gt]

IMO if you have a generic vehicle (like a truck or something) that you don't desperately need, it's not a bad idea to sell it now and take advantage of what will probably be the only time in our lives where many vehicles are either appreciating or at least not depreciating at a normal rate. If you have another vehicle or two and can make do, there is a lot of money to be saved.

[BavarianBeast]

Just realized 4 year old Porsche Boxster’s with 40,000km are selling for close to msrp. Crazy market out there!