Hey, dont put every 22 year old into that mommy and daddy money umbrella LOL, I would say 75% to 80%. I work hard at my job to have my car. Figured owning an expensive kia would cost less in repairs that an S5, but after a 10mph fender bender that cost 12k in damage, I learned how wrong I was
I only put 90% under that umbrella, not all lol. Could be 75%, I don't know, but it's high whatever is from the people I knew growing up. When I say monetary help I'm being pretty broad. Either someone paid for school, knew someone and got hooked up with a good job, have their house/apartment/other bills paid for by someone else, or someone is straight up paying for their car. I stand by my 90%
22 and can afford a gt2, nice. The only young people I KNOW (so don't crucify me) that have nice cars literally fall into 2 categories. Mommy and Daddy's car, or they're trying to work to afford it and can't really. I know a 19yo that was bragging about having a newer 5.0 Mustang gt, then he traded it in for a C7. He can't afford a winter beater and does uber or bums rides all winter. Now, it's his choice what he does but he asked me for a ride to work one winter day, I said, take out your C7 haha.
I personally can't hate on anybody for what they have. If my parents coulda afforded to buy me expensive shit, what am I gonna say, hell nah guys, I wanna work hard and buy it myself??? Haha. Props to you either way! That's the Stinger color combo I wanted.
^^Lol. My parents bought my first car... a mid 80's taxi cab with 100K miles on it for $2400. Did all the major maintenance on my dime in HS auto shop (battery, starter, alternator, radiator, water pump, tune up, front end parts, brakes, tires, and some other things I can't remember). That jalopy ran well for nearly a decade and another 100K miles.
$2400 won't buy you much these days. Maybe a set of wheels and tires.
worked hard for my car lol. I'm just happy I bought it this year right before the prices went up like crazzzzyyyyy! if I waited one more week I would not be on this forum right now lol.
Like another i had a V8 at 19 saved all my money to buy it second hand, also at 19.5 wrote it off. At 22 had my second V8 had it 6 months couldn't afford the petrol. Over night the price of petrol went from .48c per litre to .58c. From memory it worked out at 10-12mpg back then. Our gallon is 4.5 litres rather than the US at 3.8 litres i believe.
