Don't buy a car - Live in Detroit anyways

[Richard]

It costs around, approximately, estimate of $3,000 a year for a car
---with around $1,000 of that being gasoline purchases.
Figure in registration, plates, insurance, maintenance, etc.
Four brand new Tires are damn near impossible to get under $400

MANY would love an extra $3,000 in their pocket.

Yearly Depreciation is brutal , AAA estimates on it
Small sedans–$2,114
Small SUVs–$2,840
Minivans–$3,839
Electric vehicles–$5,704
The higher the price, the greater depreciation $ amount in any year.

People need to wake up to the 2020+ realities of the Detroit area
There are THOUSANDS of UN-employed people, today, right now.
Many others are in that $20,000 - $30,000 a year income bracket.
A car is a burden, a monkey on the back, a money pit, for families.

but if they did not have the car they would not be able to make the money to spend the $3000 and would be unemployed,maybe if we guaranteed everybody a government wage they could stay home and then would not even need a car.

It cannot be that bad,I live in the hood and seem to drive the oldest car around,[[1997),everybody else is driving new or less then two year old cars,employed or not.

[dtowncitylover]

everybody else is driving new or less then two year old cars,employed or not.

Oh, do you go out asking drivers if they're employed or not?

[Richard]

Oh, do you go out asking drivers if they're employed or not?

No,just aware of my surroundings.Everybody is aware of what everybody else is doing.

[Honky Tonk]

No,just aware of my surroundings.Everybody is aware of what everybody else is doing.

And yet, some people are just clueless.

[Zacha341]

Hah! I have a 98' in great condition subscribing to the 'contribution-to-recycling' car concept!

Guaranteeing everyone [[able bodied for, or the disinterested in working) free group transpo, a living wage is a great vote-puller but hard to pull off in reality, unless we're all living well beyond the poverty line.

The elite will not live that way, whatsoever! It's just good for the masses.

It cannot be that bad,I live in the hood and seem to drive the oldest car around,[[1997),everybody else is driving new or less then two year old cars,employed or not.