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How would you feel if your significant other gave you a vehicle for Christmas?* (https://www.chiefsplanet.com/BB/showthread.php?t=319932)

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

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Originally Posted by Dayze (Post 13992603)

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.

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Originally Posted by cooper barrett (Post 13992764)

Who are you trying to impress?

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Originally Posted by MahiMike (Post 13992430)

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

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Originally Posted by Lzen (Post 13992812)

Who are you trying to impress?

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.

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Originally Posted by Tornado (Post 13991991)

:shake:

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

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Originally Posted by Lzen (Post 13992812)

Who are you trying to impress?

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

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

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Originally Posted by vailpass (Post 13992854)

With a 9% interest rate? Nobody.

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

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.

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Originally Posted by Bugeater (Post 13992907)

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

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

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

Spoiler!

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!

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Originally Posted by vailpass (Post 13992854)

With a 9% interest rate? Nobody.

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

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.

https://scontent-frt3-2.cdninstagram...NzIzNw%3D%3D.2