I like cars-vehicles-love them
but with the economy for the middle class being soooo poor-
and with repairs no longer being DIY-A-BLE-used cars are frequently too expensive also-
it is the WHY of why po folks are driving around in large older gas guzzling pickups SUVs etc
at least those vehicles are DIY-A-BLE- and you can make a $$ with them hauling things etc
Yeah-the crummy economy-and the credit card industry-has done a wealth transfer from middle class to upper upper class-
Financial types cream money from almost EVERY transaction in the USA
same folks who crashed us in 2008-and slowly drained manufacturing job-
perhaps rising wages and poor QC and labor unrest in the 3rd world will return manufacturing jobs