Wednesday, June 25, 2025

0% Financing

I am beginning to hear car dealers offering 0% 72 month loans.  What does this mean, besides cars are not selling?  It means they are guessing interest rates for the next several years will be low enough that this rate will not hurt too badly. 

UPDATE:  Carfax's list of 0% loans points out that those rates are often specific to models that are not selling well (EVs, of course, because the market is largely purple-haired people with septum rings, their soy boy husbands, and only slightly better groomed "people who give birth").*  You generally need impeccable credit scores as well.  Often these are 36 months.  That is why the Kia ad I heard this morning was so startling: 72 months.

*Let me emphasize that I really like EVs.  They have very low maintenance costs, when did you last have an electric motor fail?, and once a charger network equivalent to gas stations exists, they will be pretty awesome 22nd century technology. 

3 comments:

  1. I don't recall ever having a gasoline engine fail. But I do have trouble toting a can of electricity.

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    1. I have. My 1978 Camaro Z28, broke the crankshaft at 117 mph. (Chevrolet had switched from forged to cast crankshafts.) This stranded me in Fort Irwin at sunset. It was fixed under warranty. Evwen when the engine does not fail, fuel injectors fail.

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    2. Battery. The weight of ten miles of electricity is not trivial.

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