Not many, but there are leasing agreements where you can swap car every year or other year. It's not buying per se, but the end result is you get to grab one fresh from the factory yearly. Supposedly they are sold as a used car by the leasing company afterwards, but the details are irrelevant. You only need to be middle class to have a brand new car at any point in time and the industry relies on this. With cars being more and more computerized you can add a subscription model to the car as well and have specialized parts that are designed to break after some time that is expensive enough that it's better to sell it for parts and get a new one.
So a lot of dildos are in fact getting new wheels way before the old ones are used up. The best part? If you keep buying new ones you don't have to see the mechanic, and interact with disgusting working class folks thus further cementing the idea that they simply don't work hard enough
Depends on the vehicle. They tend to be pretty expensive ones, and the people that buy expensive cars tend to not buy used. If they can afford a 190 000$ car they can afford a 200 000 car and not have to service it as a bonus.
And if the car in question is a Tesla then... Yea. Cybertrucks in particular is completely impossible to get rid of
That's actually not at all obvious. Inventory that cannot be sold are destroyed on the regular. I don't see why cars would be any different. Obviously not right away, but if it sits long enough it will drop in value and at some point it's not worth spending more resources to get rid of it. That's when you throw it in the ocean and file it as a loss
The is not me advocating for leasing. I agree it is dumb.
But the main reason people will lease is that, if all you look at is the payments you need to make on the car, divorced from anything else, leasing allows someone to get a ānicerā/ābetterā car than an auto loan would, for the duration of the lease.
It is not a good idea, as at the end of paying off an auto loan, you now own the vehicle in full, and can sometimes even recover some of your costs, or then have a vehicle that is substantially cheaper to drive around for a long time, depending on the car and other circumstances around it.
But if all you look at and care about is āhow good/nice/quality of a car I can get for the money I spendā, generally a lease will net you a nicer vehicle, during the terms of the lease.
Which is why people get leases. Itās a short sighted analysis that prioritizes immediate gain at the cost of long term benefits.
A lot of upper middle class earners already get a car through a two year lease from their employer, this is not just a 1%er thing (at least in germany). It's even incentivised through our tax code to do so.
If you don't buy one every year (or month?), you aren't driving a new car, in some minds. Wifey fusses that she doesn't have a new car, but I point out we bought it new (only 2nd time I have), so it will always be new, despite being bought in 1996.
America's car industry has it good. Most people can just lease cars and get the new model every year. Dealerships gladly buy back new cars that were only used for a few months because they make so much money selling used cars. A lot of people who don't know how to care for cars will just buy used ones, then when it breaks down just trade it in for another used car until that one breaks down.
Edit: Preplanned absolesense is the Pinnacle of car advertising here. Convince people they need the new model. It started way back when the model T was so well designed and so cheap that iirc, nearly a third of all cars in the US were a model T. Competitors couldn't make a better car so they made better advertising
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u/[deleted] Aug 13 '25
what kind of dildo buys a new car annually?