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Personal Finance and Investing

PoindexterOglethorpe

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7. Are used cars more expensive here than in other countries?

Reply to bucolic_frolic (Original post)

Fri Sep 14, 2018, 03:27 PM

Sep 2018

Also, new cars supposedly lose a lot of their value the moment they are driven off the lot, which seems to be mainly true of American cars, not so much for German or Japanese ones.

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Here's Why Buying a Used Car is So Expensive in the United States [View all] bucolic_frolic Sep 2018 OP

Owww! Stop shouting! (I mean the narrator, not you.) NT mahatmakanejeeves Sep 2018 #1

I know! I've watched several of his videos...lots of good info... ret5hd Sep 2018 #2

A couple things he is wrong about A HERETIC I AM Sep 2018 #3

"They hold no inventory and have no stake in the sale of the cars advertised on their website." bucolic_frolic Sep 2018 #5

OK, fine. Not sure how much experience you have in the automobile industry, but I have a wee bit.. A HERETIC I AM Sep 2018 #6

So generally car prices are inflated because the industries that feed off them bucolic_frolic Sep 2018 #4

Are used cars more expensive here than in other countries? PoindexterOglethorpe Sep 2018 #7