Half U.S. households lack income considered necessary to buy average-priced used car as prices soar

We’re about 3 weeks away from that scenario (legally, if not feasibly). The upcoming driver keeps breathlessly announcing the latest PoS he’s found for $5000-7000.

Just for fun we went to check out this 20-year-old Forester* like we used to own (until it ate its own valves). The clutch pedal was like using a stair machine – it reminded me, and my dad, of his old anecdote where the farm kid, at the end of the summer, had this tree-trunk left leg from pushing the clutch on the tractor all season.

*(Passed on the Forester)

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