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Originally Posted by NastyEllEssWon
If you can afford $600 a month you can afford $900 a month. If you're taking on a car payment for $600 a month and you dont have another few hundred dollar buffer each month, then you cant afford a $600 car payment either. that is unless you want to go paycheck to paycheck. Also if you're buying a $40k car and only putting 3 grand down on the car...you can't afford that car either.
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What...wait...whuh?
You lose a lot of ground, and whatever credibility you might have had in this conversation. There are a lot of assumptions and what ifs.
Yeah, if you are putting 3k down on a car that costs more than, say, 20k, then you probably can't afford a lot.
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He makes a fine point. The price isn't a deciding factor here, the point im trying to make is that what was once the best bang for your buck historically,
is no longer a great deal compared to the competition and is no longer an entry level v8 performance vehicle....which is what the Camaro was originally
intended for. The fact that you can get a Corvette with minimal effort instead, is a very weak point for Chevy...IMO.
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Camaro has NEVER been the "bang for your buck" car. They are new cars! New cars are expensive!
Yeah, could you get a base model Camaro for under $3k? Yeah, sure! But the median income was 6k!
How is that different from today when the median income in the US is around 45k and the base Camaro is 27k? This same line of thinking is linked with this romantic idea that years ago, they were selling boatloads of Hemi Cudas, Chevelle SS 454s, and Boss 429s in volumes that would rival modern Japanese midsized cars.
Camaro has always been at a price premium because it has always been a step above Mustang and has been priced accordingly. Not dramatically higher, but higher none the less. Challenger offers nothing compared to either the Mustang or Camaro in price and performance.
Camaro is just as affordable as it always has been. You cannot get any car from any corner of this planet that will come near the performance of Camaro at this price, not even Mustang.
Look, Nasty. Give it up. Every time some new performance car rolls into to town, there are always a small contingent of knuckle draggers that want a box with an engine for the price of a slightly used mountain bike.
There has never been a time where there was a "cheap" V8 Camaro, at least not in the last quarter century, where there was a "cheap" V8 Camaro. Cheap is also a relative term. See below:
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Originally Posted by wrong generation
its really sad when you have to take out a mortgage to buy a new car. be it camaro,mustang 0r challenger.
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Some people buy a house for 40k and some people spend 40k on their third wedding.
Camaro is a great buy in the market. Can you buy a Corvette for similar price? No, no you can't. No matter how hard you try and wish upon a star that $40k is close to $60k, it still doesn't change the fact that it's not.
So while you live in some alternate universe where there are $20k V8 cars, we will be here in this world, waiting to take a ride in the best performance vehicle for under 40k.