Weird. I’ve seen a noticeable amount of temporary tags near me. Like every 8th car
this post was submitted on 31 May 2026
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People may still be buying used cars
It’s because Memorial Day was last week and there’s typically shitloads of dealer special offers around that time
Have you considered you might live near rich people? Also anecdotes aren’t data.
There tends to be waves of new car buyers. Which means that when that waves cars start to fail on them in how ever so many years they buy in another wave.
There's a wave every 3 and 5 years near me. Its very noticeable. Outside of that you basically see zero new cars on the road.
I wonder if there were a bunch of Honda hybrids. I had a headgasket leak and I had to sell before it showed up on the onboard computer
https://fred.stlouisfed.org/graph/?g=1WJFh
New car sales have been on a declining path since around Y2K.
Do leases count? Could be leasing, or maybe got some 84 month loan.
WE DONT WANT YOUR THIN ASS PLASTIC, COVERED IN TOUCH SCREENS JJ ABRAMS TOO HIGH TO SEE PEDESTRIANS BULLSHIT, JUST GIVE US NORMAL FUCKING CARS THAT DONT COST THE SAME AS A HOUSE
Where are we gonna live, then?!
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