I'm in the car dealership up servicing my 10 year old car and the showroom looks sad as hell :sadbron:

[beenz]

Like I said, I'm in the dealership getting my 2015 car serviced, and I went to the showroom and it's a damn ghost town. the sales people just walking around aimlessly or they in they offices. I don't see one person looking at any of the car inventory. hell, there's not even anyone outside looking at the used cars.

yet there are plenty of people sitting in the waiting room with me getting their cars serviced.

so I decide to look at the new/used cars, and the 2025 version of my car is 52K. a used 2023 version of my car is like $35K. which explains why no one is looking at the cars. at these prices combined with high interest rates, it's obvious why everyone is content with taking care of the car they already have.

that car payment. those interest rates. the term riding to the wheels falls off, and since I just bought 4 new tires like 6 months ago, those wheels shouldn't be falling off anytime soon.

I did sit in a few of the new cars, and that smell........ it was glorious.

 

[Ezekiel 25:17]

Paying $600/month for 5 years is for the birds.

 

[ORDER_66]

It's the economy... plain and simple... no one buying these cars cause they too expensive and car companies will do anything to make a profit so...

 

[Richard Glidewell]

Old Vehicle.......Haynes manual........laugh at showrooms as I puttputt by.........

 

[TRUEST]

Ok. This is neggable offense. I will give you a few minutes before the boys and girls of the devilish realm descend, to assemble to commence upon thy head , an endless battering of strikes.

If you gon humble brag , do it well. Wtf car you got mane

 

[MadScientist]

Paying $600/month for 5 years is for the birds.

The crazy thing is that this is the low end of what people are paying.
and they are HAPPY with an $800 car note

 

[NoMorePie]

I was at the Mazda dealer last year for an oil change cuz I'm too lazy to do it myself

I saw the Miata and I almost lost all sense of control

 

[Da Jungles]

We just bought a new car 2 weeks ago. It was packed with people looking to buy.

 

[beenz]

It's the economy... plain and simple... no one buying these cars cause they too expensive and car companies will do anything to make a profit so...

they better get it thru their thick skulls that regular people ain't trying to buy 50K normal cars. the car I have now, I paid like 22K for when I bought it used 8 years ago. car payment was only $300 at the time.

$600 car payments 8 years later for a newer regular car is obscene IMO.

these dumb ass car companies need to realize that people want 20-25K cars. and ya'll wonder why BYD isn't available in the united states. they'd completely upend the existing car industry just off their pricing alone on comparable cars.

 

[Rekkapryde]

Paying $600/month for 5 years is for the birds.

sad part is that is the note of a roughly 30k car note at 7% for people with GOOD credit with NEW CARS.

imagine shytty credit on a used car and dem notes.

 

[BmoreGorilla]

Them brehs make commission too

Might not be a bad time to negotiate with one of those dealerships who are down bad

 

[ba'al]

Ok. This is neggable offense. I will give you a few minutes before the boys and girls of the devilish realm descend, to assemble to commence upon thy head , an endless battering of strikes.

If you gon humble brag , do it well. Wtf car you got mane

OP already lives in the devilish realm. Chicago. Mess around and have some YN turn you into a blunt and catchy drill song. Smoking on that Truest pack.

 

[JNew]

Unless your willing to pay over 100k for a new car your getting junk and wasting your time.

 

[blues_funk_reggae]

the sales people just walking around aimlessly or they in they offices.

That's because there is no one to sell to. My girl's sister was doing sales for a dealership last summer, we went to pick her up a few times and the sales team was just chilling, she did it for 3 months before she quit. There was literally no one to sell to, no one on those call lists is trying to listen. No one was trying to sign up for a 60K car. On the phone all day doing cold calls, managers talking about writing people up for not hitting numbers
, beyond stupid.

 

[Buckeye Fever]

I sold cars in 2008 in Bloomington, IL, and I was "walking around aimlessly" every day I came in. I'd get my coffee and watch from the window like

I sold 3 cars my time there.

A Hyundai Sonata, Nissan Versa, and a Nissan Rogue.

I quit and went around the corner to make brake components at Flexitech, and got laid off months later because of whatever was going in 2008 with the market