# Is this a Good Time to Buy a Car?

**URL:** <https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-this-a-good-time-to-buy-a-car/853629>\
**Category:** In My Humble Opinion\
**Created:** [May 12, 2020, 5:37am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-this-a-good-time-to-buy-a-car/853629 "2020-05-12T05:37:49Z")\
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**Author:** ![Balthisar](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/balthisar/32/2825_2.png) [@Balthisar](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Balthisar)\
**Post date:** [May 29, 2020, 7:06pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-this-a-good-time-to-buy-a-car/853629/41 "2020-05-29T19:06:34Z")

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> [@Si\_Amigo](#):
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> Gently used? Shirley you jest! Rental cars can be a crap shoot because people do things to them that they would never do with their car.

Maybe a rental Challenger or other meathead car might make me think twice, but the majority of people who rent cars treat them no differently than their own cars, and most people are reasonable. It’s probably safer than buying a non-rental used car, because the idiot Challenger driver drove it for an idiot for 60,000 miles, whereas a rental may have only accumulated a few hundred idiot miles.

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