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It's that time of year again where we get to see the same illogical and AIDS causing ads until a week after Christmas.

These car commercials really piss me off even though it's something trivial asf.

The guy is attractive because it is NOT a huge financial decision for him.

@irene "Buy one get one half off" is the big one I've seen this year so far.

Most people can't afford a new car payment, let alone 1.5 or 2 of them.

Can't seem to find the commercial. If I find it, I'll link it.

Hey just because *you* can't doesn't mean other people can't🤷

@irene I don't have a car. Public transport is OK and costs 60€ per month. A bit of walking is necessary, which isn't a bad thing, and I would have to do the same with a car because there are hardly free parking places in residential areas (too many cars).

The funny thing is doing the weekly shopping with a bicycle trailer that I can use as shopping cart in the supermarket. That saves not only the time for moving stuff from cart into trunk, but I can also move the whole trailer several floors up the stairways all at once.

@Fast-Nop You got a ytp for public transport in nrw for zone d? 😂

@irene I live in a very rural area - the bus comes once every hour and it costs 230€ a month to use it to get to work. This trip also takes me 1,5h for 7,5km. Public transport is a sad joke in my area - there is an old trainstation that could be reactivated for a few ten thousand € but the two railway companies (Belgian and German one) can’t agree on anything so that will never happen. So I need a car.

My girlfriend and I just go to work by car and carpool together. She drops me off at work and drives into the city to her work. Either I carpool after work to the city or hop in a bus and go to the gym. Should the weather allow it I’ll walk the 7,5km home.

I love cars and Motorsports - I own 3 cars but I only drive them when I feel like it. It’s a hobby. My girlfriend has our main car that we daily. We are very bummed out about the sorry state of public transit around us :D we wish it was like in London or something like that

@irene well yeah - I also try to make trips by car as meaningful as possible so going to work, gym and grocerieshopping or something similar. Hopefully that makes up for me hooning around the Nürburgring or backroads from time to time :D

I’d love to be able to afford a new electric vehicle or at least a new hybrid. I am just totally not fond of Tesla or the cheaper options like a Chevy bolt, Opel Ampera, Nissan Leaf or stuff like that.

@irene You do in some states. Especially in small towns where there's little to no public transportation.

@beegC0de The whole point of the post is generalizing that group of people that cant, which by the numbers, isnthe vast majority of Americans.

@rutee07 That comment would be called except they're everywhere, including YouTube.

@DLMousey would biking be an option? At least on nice days?

Radically depends where in the UK (and where you need to go to.) London is at one extreme - you can get anywhere you need to on public transport with little or no planning. You'd be nigh on mad to have a car in central London, just for the purposes of driving around central London.

Most areas it's do-able if you want to go without a car, but takes longer, requires more planning and is more expensive. Rural areas it's genreally not practical - there's often only a couple of buses a day if you're lucky.

These days "Park and ride" is reasonably common amongst bigger towns and cities - you drive to the edge of town, park for a reasonable cost and then regular buses are there to take you back and forth whenever you want.

Here's the commercial that pisses me off the most lol

https://youtu.be/Bvrem8e9LHI

Drive to work: 20 mins
Public transport assuming no delays: 1h45m

@craig939393 Bingo.

If I miss my bus I can almost walk to campus quicker than waiting on the next one. If I had a bike, I for sure could get there even quicker.

Not to mention, my family all lives an hour or so outside of the city I'm in. So there's no public transportation to get me there.

Cars are a hassle but in many places they're essential.

Or she might look for second husband 😉

@Nanos Dont live in a ghetto ass city then? 🤔🤔

I know that's a magical concept and all, but it's not impossible!

@Nanos Well I mean the city I'm from isn't ghetto once you get like a mile and a half into it.

The public transportation isn't bad either, aside from the waiting. (I get to use a special bus for students that goes straight to the campus, so it's not even bad at all. But I did use the normal public transportation once or twice and the waiting can be shitty if you miss the bus lol)

I guess it could be that I'm living in a college town, but there's nothing really ghetto near the area where i live and shop.

As for the park and ride, it'd be a parking lot full of college students... I highly doubt anything would happen to my car.