Anonymous
07/19/2025 19:16
Subject: How do so many young families have $80k SUVs?
Anonymous wrote:The problem is that you (and your family) are not likely to survive a crash with a large commercial vehicle in a small car. I would feel more comfortable driving a smaller car if there weren’t so many of these on the road on the highways near my house.Anonymous wrote:These cars are extraordinarily selfish - they’re dangerous to others and bad for the environment. But they’re a good representation of the people that drive them and their excesses and entitlement.
This is such a stupid rationalization and marketing ploy. By FAR the biggest factor in surviving a crash is the skill of the driver by not getting into one in the first place.
Anonymous
07/19/2025 18:38
Subject: How do so many young families have $80k SUVs?
Anonymous wrote:She doesn’t need an suv to drive two kids around.
You’re entitled to your opinion. She thinks otherwise.
Anonymous
07/19/2025 18:33
Subject: How do so many young families have $80k SUVs?
She doesn’t need an suv to drive two kids around.
Anonymous
07/19/2025 18:31
Subject: How do so many young families have $80k SUVs?
99% of the people in my McLean neighborhood are dual income doctors, lawyers, tech executives… they can easily afford those 80K cars. Speaking of cars, I just bought my wife a 130k Lexus SUV and paid in cash. She needs the SUV to take my two kids around. I am going to buy her a Porsche Panamera 4 as a fun car, will pay it in cash.
Anonymous
07/19/2025 17:41
Subject: How do so many young families have $80k SUVs?
Anonymous wrote:Who cares. It’s mostly about image. I’m quite certain I have more than most on these forums and one of my cars is a $25K Corolla.
+1
300k miles on my dulce Corolla and have a lot more money than anyone would guess given my admittedly pathetic gov salary. Nothing wrong with spending a lot of money on a car if you have a really high salary, but for everyone else, the only reasonable path to financial freedom is managing your expenses. And there are also people like the pp above who simply don't care about cars.
Anonymous
07/19/2025 17:25
Subject: How do so many young families have $80k SUVs?
It’s honestly shocking how many people think many wealthy families drive Corollas lol
Anonymous
07/19/2025 14:36
Subject: How do so many young families have $80k SUVs?
Who cares. It’s mostly about image. I’m quite certain I have more than most on these forums and one of my cars is a $25K Corolla.
Anonymous
07/19/2025 14:26
Subject: How do so many young families have $80k SUVs?
D E B T
Anonymous
07/19/2025 14:22
Subject: How do so many young families have $80k SUVs?
Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:I don't really see much of a correlation between wealth and driving nice cars/SUVs. Most high net worth people I know drive beaters or a used Corolla. They are millionaire next door types maybe worth a couple mill. I used to live in the hood and you would see lots of nice cars. Also worked many low paying jobs back in the day and coworkers had expensive cars as well. I know firefighters driving around in bad ass trucks and I know for a fact they don't make enough money to justify those purchases every few years. When I see someone with a really nice car, I just think that they are either showing off or bad with money.
Give me a break. Go drive around Spring Valley, Kenwood, Edgemoor, and similar neighborhoods. I can tell you how many Corolla's there are in those driveways - ZERO. What you will see is lots of very expensive cars.
Only a small percentage of people live in those striver neighborhoods. Millionaire next door types would be broke if they tried to live in those neighborhoods. A vast majority of people driving around in those 50k cars don't have a pot to piss in.
You're out of your depth here. If "millionaire next door types" would be "broke" if they tried to live in those neighborhoods, then you're just proving PP's point. Striver neighborhoods? LMAO.
Everybody and their brother drives those over priced tanks you tool. You think it's just a bunch of fat cats driving those things? Go to Walmart or Manassas and see all of the low class people driving those things. They probably bought them at Eastern automotive and have 10k in revolving credit card debt lol.
Anonymous
07/19/2025 14:14
Subject: How do so many young families have $80k SUVs?
Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:I don't really see much of a correlation between wealth and driving nice cars/SUVs. Most high net worth people I know drive beaters or a used Corolla. They are millionaire next door types maybe worth a couple mill. I used to live in the hood and you would see lots of nice cars. Also worked many low paying jobs back in the day and coworkers had expensive cars as well. I know firefighters driving around in bad ass trucks and I know for a fact they don't make enough money to justify those purchases every few years. When I see someone with a really nice car, I just think that they are either showing off or bad with money.
Give me a break. Go drive around Spring Valley, Kenwood, Edgemoor, and similar neighborhoods. I can tell you how many Corolla's there are in those driveways - ZERO. What you will see is lots of very expensive cars.
Only a small percentage of people live in those striver neighborhoods. Millionaire next door types would be broke if they tried to live in those neighborhoods. A vast majority of people driving around in those 50k cars don't have a pot to piss in.
You're out of your depth here. If "millionaire next door types" would be "broke" if they tried to live in those neighborhoods, then you're just proving PP's point. Striver neighborhoods? LMAO.
+1 don’t think PP knows what striver means.
Anonymous
07/19/2025 14:07
Subject: How do so many young families have $80k SUVs?
Anonymous wrote:These cars are extraordinarily selfish - they’re dangerous to others and bad for the environment. But they’re a good representation of the people that drive them and their excesses and entitlement.
Many of these people who drive their cars also whine about billionaires having too much wealth.
Anonymous
07/19/2025 12:36
Subject: How do so many young families have $80k SUVs?
Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:I don't really see much of a correlation between wealth and driving nice cars/SUVs. Most high net worth people I know drive beaters or a used Corolla. They are millionaire next door types maybe worth a couple mill. I used to live in the hood and you would see lots of nice cars. Also worked many low paying jobs back in the day and coworkers had expensive cars as well. I know firefighters driving around in bad ass trucks and I know for a fact they don't make enough money to justify those purchases every few years. When I see someone with a really nice car, I just think that they are either showing off or bad with money.
Give me a break. Go drive around Spring Valley, Kenwood, Edgemoor, and similar neighborhoods. I can tell you how many Corolla's there are in those driveways - ZERO. What you will see is lots of very expensive cars.
Only a small percentage of people live in those striver neighborhoods. Millionaire next door types would be broke if they tried to live in those neighborhoods. A vast majority of people driving around in those 50k cars don't have a pot to piss in.
You're out of your depth here. If "millionaire next door types" would be "broke" if they tried to live in those neighborhoods, then you're just proving PP's point. Striver neighborhoods? LMAO.
Anonymous
07/19/2025 12:09
Subject: How do so many young families have $80k SUVs?
The same people crusading against these cars as bad for the environment are traveling on planes and cruise ships.
Anonymous
07/19/2025 11:50
Subject: How do so many young families have $80k SUVs?
The problem is that you (and your family) are not likely to survive a crash with a large commercial vehicle in a small car. I would feel more comfortable driving a smaller car if there weren’t so many of these on the road on the highways near my house.Anonymous wrote:These cars are extraordinarily selfish - they’re dangerous to others and bad for the environment. But they’re a good representation of the people that drive them and their excesses and entitlement.
Anonymous
07/19/2025 11:06
Subject: How do so many young families have $80k SUVs?
The funny thing is so many of these families have just one kid or maybe two. They don’t need the space. They just want to project an image.