Total car payments for a single family? Cars or trucks? Does Texas just have reeealy bad loan rates? (Sure, I would like to say that the difference is because of oversized trucks, but reality is sometimes surprising.)
Bad credit and poor decisions. Texas has a lot of army bases and it’s a pretty well established stereotype that 18-22 year olds fresh out of AIT make really poor decisions when it comes to car loans. Lots of Camaros challengers and mustangs at like 30%, then they get repossessed and sold to the next dumb kid.
I’m going to guess that since “everything is bigger in Texas!”, people feel the need to buy tanks with wheels, which tend to be on the more expensive end of the car spectum (outside of luxury and exotic vehicles).
Either way, fuck that. $120,000 pissed away in 10 years for a car (PLUS insurance, gas, repairs…). Don’t people want to be able to afford housing?
Total car payments for a single family? Cars or trucks? Does Texas just have reeealy bad loan rates? (Sure, I would like to say that the difference is because of oversized trucks, but reality is sometimes surprising.)
Bad credit and poor decisions. Texas has a lot of army bases and it’s a pretty well established stereotype that 18-22 year olds fresh out of AIT make really poor decisions when it comes to car loans. Lots of Camaros challengers and mustangs at like 30%, then they get repossessed and sold to the next dumb kid.
Edit: added to the age range.
I can confirm places like Texas and Florida have much worse auto loan rates due to higher delinquencies. Northern states have better rates.
I’m going to guess that since “everything is bigger in Texas!”, people feel the need to buy tanks with wheels, which tend to be on the more expensive end of the car spectum (outside of luxury and exotic vehicles).
Either way, fuck that. $120,000 pissed away in 10 years for a car (PLUS insurance, gas, repairs…). Don’t people want to be able to afford housing?