Cars payments disappear once you start exclusively buying Honda or Toyota products. I've got a 10 year old Toyota, a 10 year old Acura and an 11 year old Acura. I'd think nothing of driving any of them across country. I think my last car payment was in 2014. sometimes I ponder buying a newer vehicle, but I can't see how it would improve my life. Besides, I'd have to get rid of something and I like the vehicles I've got.
Same here. I’m not a “car guy” every once in a while I get the itch to price out a new truck but remind myself that it won’t do anything that my current truck doesn’t do and will eat into my lifestyle. I’d rather spend that new truck payment elsewhere. I like to buy American when I can but in my experience Chevy, Ford, and Dodge having nothing on Honda or Toyota. My Toyota truck has been bulletproof. US made vehicles mostly had reliable powertrains but lower trade in value and nickel and dimed me with other smaller but still not cheap problems as they got older.
