It is cheap to buy a car in the United States, but why do Americans drive shabby cars?

When talking about American life, the first thing many people think of is villas with small yards and convertible sports cars parked outside. This should be the most intuitive feeling that American movies have given us in the past. But if you carefully observe the cars driving on the streets of the United States now, you will find that the cars driven by Americans are so ordinary, so ordinary that we have nothing to do with them.

When talking about life in the United States, the first thing many people think of is bringing a car with them. The villa with the small yard and the convertible sports car parked outside, this should be the most intuitive feeling brought to us by American movies in the past. But if you look carefully at the cars driving on American streets now, you will find that the cars driven by old Americans are so ordinary, so ordinary that we cannot associate them with the life of a villa convertible. Why are wages high and cars cheap, but the streets are not filled with luxury cars?

What is the income of Americans?

The current per capita annual income in the United States is approximately US$50,000 (RMB 331,900). China takes Beijing, the most developed economy, as an example. The per capita annual income in Beijing in 2016 was 82,872 yuan. Putting aside price differences, the current per capita annual income in the United States is more than four times that of Beijing. You must know that Beijing is The city with the highest per capita annual income in China. In short, if the price of Chinese and American cars is the same, the economic pressure of Americans buying a car is only one-quarter of that of the Chinese (what car is the price of your car multiplied by four?)

The United States is the wheel In fact, the United States is no longer the world's largest automobile market after 2011 (surpassed by China), but the United States is still the world's largest automobile country. Why do you say that? Because since 1972, the number of cars in the United States has exceeded the number of driver's license holders. According to dual data from the Federal Highway Administration and the National Automobile Dealers Association, there are currently 253 million vehicles in the United States. What is this concept? If each car can hold 5 people, then the entire population of India and South Korea can be loaded into a car in the United States, plus 30 million tons of kimchi in the trunk.

Why do most American families have average cars?

The cost of repairing a car is high

First of all, don’t ignore one point. Many luxury brands, such as Mercedes-Benz and BMW, are also Americans’ dream cars. Putting aside the selling price, car maintenance costs in the United States are relatively expensive. Buying a car is not the problem, but repairing the car is. If the cost of frequent repairs is enough, you can almost buy another one. This is why. Why Lexus sells well in the United States. Being able to afford a car but not being able to repair it is a problem that plagues Americans. Labor, technology, and time are all valuable to Americans, so the repair and maintenance price of buying a luxury car is far higher than that of an ordinary model. In order to live a better life, you will not "make a fool of yourself"

Cars are not a tool to show off wealth

Cars developed earlier in the United States. The United States is the hometown of cars. Americans understand that cars are not a tool to show off wealth but a means of transportation, as long as they can reach their destination safely. That's fine, but Americans pay more attention to the comfort of cars, so large vehicles and vehicles with soft suspension are more popular in the United States. Americans are not as face-conscious as the Chinese. They do not have a strong desire for luxury cars. As long as they can meet their actual needs in life, no one cares about the brand anymore.

People in the middle class and above in the United States know how to enjoy life. They develop several hobbies, travel regularly with their families, and pay attention to physical care. Of course, these all require money to support, so they will not invest too much money in buying and maintaining cars.

On the other hand, China's middle class does not have much class accumulation, so its consumption concept is not mature, and its consumption structure only focuses on more basic consumption (wearing better clothes, eating better meals, driving better cars), but Nowadays, the consumption structure of Chinese people is getting richer and richer, and the emergence of the new middle class has also injected new vitality into it. With social development and the improvement of people's living standards, Chinese people's concept of automobile consumption will gradually change