Car loan question

Thanks for the advice, folks. I'm going to buy a car for my wife with cash so she can promptly donate it to a charity. Then I am going to buy one for me on a 72 month loan and park it in the Mississippi river.
 
Thanks for the advice, folks. I'm going to buy a car for my wife with cash so she can promptly donate it to a charity. Then I am going to buy one for me on a 72 month loan and park it in the Mississippi river.

Make sure you buy gap insurance. :spinny:
 
Wow, you stink with money.

Thanks for making it complete. Every single poster in this thread has been told they don't know what they are doing and they are bad with money. I wanted to be one of the cool kids.

And I only have a mortgage and one auto loan. Everything else is paid for - except the kids.
 
let's say you took that 16k and put it in VFIFX (Target Retirement 2050) fund from Vanguard.

Over the past 5 years it's returned 7.26%. If I put in 16k now at the end of 5 years it would be 22,714, not including taxes or dividends. That's a gain of $6,714 in the same time I paid $1,246 in interest for a total return of $5,468 over the five years.

You can either do that or pay for the car up front in full and not capture those gains.

if you look at it that way there is one clear choice and you are arguing against it.

I choose option B.

Paying cash and investing what would have been my car payment while keeping my monthly cash flow freed up.
 
Thanks for making it complete. Every single poster in this thread has been told they don't know what they are doing and they are bad with money. I wanted to be one of the cool kids.

And I only have a mortgage and one auto loan. Everything else is paid for - except the kids.

I haven't been told yet. It's fair game, though, and you should take the shot.
Pay for the kids, already, too, you societal freeloader. I'm not here to pay for your reproduction.
 
I think everyone here is missing the point. Who needs a car anymore?

I ride an organic free-range bike around town that I made out of hand-shaped fair trade driftwood gathered from our nearby beach and blessed with essential oils that detoxify my skin as I ride. This gives me clarity and purity in my life, free from any big brother mind control. I only believe in the essentials of life and avow any commercialism. I am available to give guidance to anyone here.

Everyone should try it!

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Most people seem to have a good idea of what to do in this thread. In all seriousness, debt is usually a bad thing, but cheap debt can often be leveraged to increase an investment return elsewhere. Even better is not needing to go into debt on a depreciating asset. Many years ago, a deer decided to commit seppuku on my old car and we never actually got around to replacing it--been using one car ever since. I'm sure many of you have similar stories of just cutting out a personal expense entirely after realizing it really wasn't even that necessary.
 
I think everyone here is missing the point. Who needs a car anymore?

I ride an organic free-range bike around town that I made out of hand-shaped fair trade driftwood gathered from our nearby beach and blessed with essential oils that detoxify my skin as I ride. This gives me clarity and purity in my life, free from any big brother mind control. I only believe in the essentials of life and avow any commercialism. I am available to give guidance to anyone here.

Everyone should try it!

Sent from my rose gold Apple Watch.



Damn California hippies. Make Merica great again.

edit: Just kidding Kagavi. Please keep doing what you do. ISU appreciates it.
 
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Since he doesn't appear to NEED the loan, its implicit you have less risk tolerance than mtowncyclone13. Thats really all it boils down to.

Absolutly, why take unnecessary risk? On top of that I think it establishes discipline with your spending which generally leads to more savings and having more money to invest. I thinks it's think it's the best and safest way to go but that's just my opinion.
 
Thanks for making it complete. Every single poster in this thread has been told they don't know what they are doing and they are bad with money. I wanted to be one of the cool kids.

And I only have a mortgage and one auto loan. Everything else is paid for - except the kids.

Talk about a terrible financial decision. :wink:
 
Absolutly, why take unnecessary risk? On top of that I think it establishes discipline with your spending which generally leads to more savings and having more money to invest. I thinks it's think it's the best and safest way to go but that's just my opinion.

Why take any risk in life at all? Idk....the answer is up to you.