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It's Almost Impossible To Find A Decent Used Car Under $20,000 (jalopnik.com)
submitted 3 years ago by to c/personalfinance@lemmy.ml
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Vehicles under $15k are 1.6% of the market, and their share of the market has dropped over 90% since 2019. The old advice that you can get a beater and drive it in to the ground for $5k hasn't been true for years but it still seems pervasive in personal finance spaces.

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[–] 12 points 3 years ago* (last edited 3 years ago)

They definitely shouldn't have flipped out at you about it, but that doesn't mean they were wrong. Vehicles almost never appreciate in value; it just so happens that you accidentally timed the used car market perfectly.

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