I've given a car for Christmas before. Granted it was two years old, so it wasn't a $60,000 car with $800/month payments.

I've done a ton of research when buying cars, so I think the only situation where it's okay would be if I had already been researching for a while, had all the options picked out, and had test driven, but just hadn't pulled the trigger..... then it would be more like "just buy the ****ing car already".

Well, not now, but sadly I have before. :D

BTW Lexus is the one that invented the big red bow on the car. Something like 25 years ago, they started the "December to Remember Event" and featured the cars with the big red bows on them (the bow is actually made of thin sheet metal)
We had to get one to shoot in a commercial for something else, and had to borrow it from the local KC Lexus Dealer.

Not all of them are sheet metal, Mr. TinyEvel. Sometimes they're made out of plasticky nylon or some sort of latex material ... guaranteed to eventually make it to the ocean and kill a whale. Also guaranteed to flappity-flop like an annoying bitch all the way home.

So I say, save the whales and buy your SO a nice seasonal gift package from Harry and David. They deliver free and you can personalize the accompanying card.

FAX

Totally agree with you Rainman. That commercial where the guy's wife prefers his truck over the Tahoe...Come on! That's $100K just for transportation. Yikes! Of course the wife is happy now. But when they can't afford her new shoes, there will be hell to pay.

She better let him piihb

It, the ad campaign from S+S Team One, started in 1998 in the LA market and nationally in 2001 and I believe the bows were made by King Size Bows.

If I did get one, it sure as hell wouldn’t be one of the $75k trucks that GMC seems so proud off.

I try to keep my cars for as long as I can, then when it’s time for another, I try to keep the purchase price about 8-10% of my annual income. And if financing, only term to 36 months.

Doing so allows us to contribute a shit load each month to savings. We put an entire check from my wife’s pay into savings each month, directs deposit. Don’t even miss it

I can’t even imagine having a $500+ per month payment for likely 5+ years. Jesus Christ. I used to do that shit when I was young and has some decent money. Now, I still make decent , money but that car pay,ent is going into my account instead of a car. And I now have a good stash of money for my “oh shit” fund to draw from when shit goes wrong with the house, cars, or whatever else.

Unless you are uber rich and buying a car is like buying a pack of gum, you shouldn't buy something that expensive without input from the person who is going to drive it.

I bought my 92 Mercedes for $83K in 1992

https://assets.hemmings.com/uimage/6...@2X.jpg?rev=27

You wanna talk car payments to me???

Loan Amount $83,000
Interest Rate % 9.55%
Years 4

Monthly Payment $2,087.20

Plus ultra performance car insurance costs ...

Between the two it was close to my wife's take home pay at the time.

I still have the car, not the wife

Who are you trying to impress?

She will find a real man with that truck and shaft the dude that bought it for her with the payments...

With a 9% interest rate? Nobody.

Re: the OP- gifted cars don't come with payments.

I could very easily and confidently but my wife a car because she is so specific about the brand and features that it actually makes it easy. Now it would still need to be something that she obviously needs which was the case recently. But in the end it still doesn’t really feel like a gift unless it is paid for all at once.

I'd say the same about you if I thought you actually had a brain.

I am impressed with his ability to swipe images and claim them as his own.



https://www.myclassicgarage.com/vehi...edes-benz-500e

It was 1992. That's what new car money cost back then.

Depends on the car...:)

Whenever I see those commercials, I've always presumed those cars were bought with cash and it was the hoity toity crowd just flaunting their wealth.

do the metadata on these.

I don't have lots of pics of my cars. Most are on external drives and I am too lazy to go find them.

Hagarty has lots of pictures of my cars on file.



https://i.postimg.cc/Znn3bb69/500e.jpg

https://i.postimg.cc/SKw77Gr6/ft-pass.jpg

Here is my old 260Z from the same location and my old Chevy pick up that I have posted before

https://i.postimg.cc/nLBqRnTj/gz-2.jpg

https://i.postimg.cc/7L2nF3PL/greenZ.png

my lab next to my SLK Benz

https://i.postimg.cc/NGpmPJ84/image-3.jpg

Do I need to post the title too?







I did find a pic that may (twin?) be you:D:D:D:D

Depending on the car, I'd feel pretty dang great about it. Wife is frugal, so it would mean we just won the lotto!!

People give their spouses Christmas gifts? **** me!

Oh well shit.

Then yeah. My wife has heard me lust after the Same handful of cars the last 18 years. So I would have confidence she would pick out a good one.

I think the teddy may look different after the ride home.

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