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Car loans are stretched to the 84 month and 96 months now (and they'll helpfully roll your last car loan into it too)

• cr0sh 7y ago
  I know this info - but just reading it makes me wonder why people go along with the scam. I get it - I once had a car loan too; it wasn't even a new car (but I bought it from an actual dealer, so it wasn't some weird sketchy loan). Paid it off, had the car for a while, then it died and I moved on. That was the last car I financed, too. Since then, my wife and I only pay cash for used cars, and spend the extra money normally used for payments, for maintenance and upgrades on the vehicles (upgrades are on my side, mostly - I own a Jeep Wrangler - don't own one unless you like to throw money into a hole - but it's more fun than a boat, so there's that). We own our cars for as many years as we can, until it becomes more expensive to repair than to buy something else. But, there again, I think my wife will keep hers for as long as parts can be found for it (2013 Outback - solid vehicle), and I'll keep my Jeep until I can no longer get into it from age (then I'll probably just delete the lift and put regular tires on it). My VehiCROSS on the other hand...I'll cry the day I sell it, unless it's at a car show auction should it ever become a collectible. Heck - I'll still cry - I love that truck.