What's the Best Way to Buy a Car?
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Brian Preston, CPA, CFP®, PFS and Bo Hanson, CFA, CFP® | Fee-Only Fiduciary Advisors
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🗓️ 6 February 2023
⏱️ 25 minutes
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| 0:00.0 | Question from Sergio. How lenient are the guys with the 23-8 rule? If I plan on holding |
| 0:13.6 | my car for its entire useful life, he says I'm referring to Corolla's and civics here, |
| 0:19.3 | not Jaguars and Land Rovers. |
| 0:21.4 | Oh, is that the end of the grand, the end of the land? |
| 0:25.9 | That's it. |
| 0:26.9 | Should it probably go over what the 23-8 rule is, too? |
| 0:29.8 | Here's the question I have for Claire Fire for you, so talk about the thing you can go over. |
| 0:33.4 | I think a lot of people, because if Sergio is probably wondering if he can, the question, |
| 0:38.0 | if you're talking about Corolla's and other things, because realize this whole thing is |
| 0:41.5 | to be about discipline. We don't want your eyes and your ego to be bigger than what |
| 0:47.6 | you're, your wallet can afford. That's really why we have 23-8. And a lot of people have |
| 0:51.7 | a sticking point that we have three years. And I'm going to tell you, I'm very rigid |
| 0:57.2 | on the fact that I think you should pay off the car within three years. But I am flexible |
| 1:02.1 | if that somebody's offering you the same interest rate on a four-year loan or five-year |
| 1:06.5 | loan as the three-year loan, take them up on that. I mean, I'm okay with you having |
| 1:12.1 | that way if you got an emergency, I like having flexibility. But I still want this car |
| 1:16.7 | paid off within three years. |
| 1:18.2 | I was going to say, you're saying, if the interest rate is the same, it's okay to take the |
| 1:22.0 | five-year payment, but then you need to do the math to calculate what the three-year payment |
| 1:27.0 | should be. I think that's fine, strategy. But you are saying, we're pretty strict on 23-8. |
| 1:32.0 | Even if you're going to drive it for 10 years, it doesn't make sense to finance it for |
| 1:36.7 | five. Even if you're going to have it for that whole useful life, because all that car |
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