I only learned to drive after I was 40 years old and got my driver's license. I immediately bought my first new car when I got my driver's license. Compared with my friends and colleagues around me, it should be considered relatively late.
Before buying a car, the only items I bought for more than 100,000 yuan were the only apartment I live in now. It feels quite difficult to choose a car that suits you among the family car of a wide variety of brands and models.
Putting aside the newly launched low-priced electric cars in recent years, household cars have always been considered high-priced consumer goods , liability instead of assets . Not only will the car not be able to increase its value after purchase, it will also increase various expenses, and at the same time, it is constantly depreciating and depreciating.
Assets and liabilities
This is somewhat similar to the electronic products we purchase in daily life, such as mobile phones, computers, tablets, drones, cameras, etc. It is expensive and can improve the quality of life. It can be used for daily entertainment or as a production tool.
Among the electronic products used in daily life, the most typical product is mobile phones.
When a mobile phone manufacturer releases a new mobile phone model, different sales prices will be set according to different configurations (memory size, screen size, camera pixel size, processor model, etc.).
The same model, different configurations and different prices
is generally 3 intervals, and a modified model will be launched in 4 years. The appearance design will undergo relatively large changes, and screen performance will also undergo relatively large changes. In the middle of the year, new models will be released every year, but it is just a simple hardware upgrade.
Update different versions
The operating system of the phone itself will continue to be upgraded. Some of these upgrade packages are just updated with security protection or modification of bugs, while others are completely new designs (whether to download and install each upgrade package in time, you can write another article to discuss it).
Mobile operating system
Smartphones all need to rely on application apps downloaded from the application market. Some of these application apps are charged, while others are free. The application APP will continue to update the version. No matter what the content of the updated version is, the size of its installation package will basically become larger and larger.
Mobile Application Market
Operating System and Application APP upgrades will tend to be more models with high market share, and newly released models often have the highest market share. A few years later, on the mobile phone models released earlier, the application APP was running slower and slower, and the phenomenon of crashes began to appear. Even after following some tutorials to clear unnecessary cache and junk data, the slow running and crashing situations still cannot be improved, so the time for changing the machine is up.
Over time, users actively or passively develop the habit of constantly changing their phones, and even form different "genres".
- "One change" : Every time a new model is released, the latest model will be purchased immediately and the original phone will be sold at a discount. Because old mobile phones are basically the previous generation, they have not been used for a long time and are relatively new in quality. Whether it is in the official recycling service or in the third-party recycling platform, you will get a good quote. If the price increase of the new model is not large, you only need to pay less money and basically lose 2,000 yuan or 3,000 yuan, and you can use the latest mobile phone. The depreciation loss of 2,300 yuan can be regarded as a rental fee, just like spending some rent every year to rent a newest mobile phone to use. The joy of using the latest models of phones is always to make them enjoy it.
- "I have to change it before changing" : If you buy a mobile phone, you will continue to use it. The standard for replacing a mobile phone is that the application APP has crashed or is slow enough to meet the normal use. When choosing a replacement model, it will not be the latest top-end model, but it is often the previous or the latest generation of low-end models. Old mobile phones that have been replaced for many years will be sold to recyclers walking around the streets at very low prices, or to repair mobile phones on the roadside.
- "Collector" : There will be different operating methods depending on the financial strength. The strongest is often fond of a certain mobile phone brand, and will not buy all generations of models, and the old mobile phones are included in their personal collection. , who has average strength, will carefully study and compare after the new model is released, and only sell and buy models that you think are of leapfrog significance. Old mobile phones will also be included in your personal collection. These users have become mobile phone collectors. If you are lucky enough to visit, you will find that some people have a wide range of mobile phone models, while some are not many, but they are all classic.
No matter what kind of phone replacement habits are, consumers are cultivated by manufacturers to frequently update, and such consumption impulse will continue from mobile phones to other products.
When I got my driver's license and was about to buy a family car, my mobile phone consumption habit was continued
Before I was about to buy a car, we only knew a few car brands with large market share. The same method as purchasing a new phone, we started to read review videos and articles in large quantities, visit various forums and groups, and quickly count the brands and models that can be purchased within our budget range. After comparison and consultation with friends, we chose the Chevrolet 's Explorator.
Chevrolet Explorer
When we decided when to buy it, we made a bet with ourselves, "When will we take a Shanghai license plate and when will we buy a car" . As a result, the first time we participated in the Shanghai private car quota auction, we successfully auctioned the license plate (sometimes, bets with ourselves are the best solution when we are hesitant, which is worth writing another article to share with you).
Chevrolet's Explorer has been criticized by many people for the large amount of plastic parts in the interior, which looks a bit cheap, but my family and I are very satisfied with the driving experience. Moreover, according to the habit of buying mobile phones, is within the maximum amount of funds to bear. When purchasing the highest configuration of , I chose the top configuration of .
Explorer interior, more plastic parts
About 2 years after I bought Explorer, the Chevrolet Trail Blazer , which is bigger than Explorer, is available in China. This car has 7-seater and 5-seater versions, and the length is more than 30 centimeters more than Explorer, which looks more atmospheric. The new modified model of the Explorer has also been released at the same time. The appearance has changed a little, and the vehicle's machine has also been greatly improved. Later, when Chevrolet improved and upgraded the vehicle and machine, the first generation of Explorer could no longer upgrade the vehicle and machine operating system, and some latest application APPs could not be installed and used.
Chevrolet Trail Blazers
According to the quote from the used car dealer at that time, selling my "Fierce Explorer" would lose 70,000 or 80,000 yuan at a discount, which is equivalent to spending more than 30,000 yuan a year to rent a family car for a long time, which seems to be quite cost-effective. But in the end, this plan was not implemented due to the opposition of his family.
Through film and television works, we often see countries with a long car culture. One car will drive for a long time, and a large number of classic cars and antique cars are driving on the road. The updates and upgrades of classic models seem to be relatively slow.
The family cars we are seeing now are more and more additional functions other than transportation are added. These accessories and additional functions are updated quickly, and are constantly innovating, allowing car companies to release new versions of models every year. This upgrade strategy similar to mobile phones will make it easy for us to update and replace according to the consumption inertia we are already accustomed to.
