Dealers lots are filling up

mkirsch wrote:

Grit dog wrote:
They NEVER bought brand new cars.

Yeah, "be fiscally responsible, buy used cars."

They don't manufacture USED cars. They only manufacture NEW cars.

Put another way, someone has to buy the NEW cars in order for there to be any USED cars out there to be "fiscally responsible" with.

Unless you buy some clapped-out chitbox, the cost of used these days doesn't pencil out. You pay almost-new price for a 3 year old used truck with 45,000 miles on it, except with no discount off "list," less on trade-in, no dealer incentives (which Town Chrysler Dodge Jeep in Buffalo are offering on their RAM pickups, BTW), and worse financing terms. Heck my bank won't loan money on a vehicle >5 years old!

Don't try to justify this based on Covid supply chain and pricing. I know you're old enough to remember the decades before this current mess we're still digging out of.
2 years ago, almost to the date, $37k for the truck in my signature line. Yes it was a good deal, but the normal prices were nowhere near the last 18-24months and that will not sustain, already heading back to normal (the original message of this thread...).

And you need a new bank...
The 1986 GMC we bought a couple years ago, title had a lien release from, I think 2013 on it. Not that I would advocate taking a loan for a clapped out chit box. Reference my comments about working in another thread.

Yes, someone does HAVE to buy new cars for used ones to be available. I even do it occasionally. 2001 and 2018, bought new off the lot.
And that's why it doesn't bother me to see other folks buy new when they probably shouldn't. Keeps me from having to when I can, easily.