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Is getting a cybertruck for $79,000 a good idea for my dad? He's getting old and this will probably be his last car.

>> No.29198698

Yes. son of the year

>> No.29198714

Or just get him something comfy

>> No.29198809

>>29198632
I think you should ask him what he wants. My dad is a stupid carfag boomer too & I plan on buying him the car of his choice after I make it. I once asked him why he cares so much about cars and he explained that for his whole life every time he could buy a more expensive car he felt like he had achieved a new level of success. I can't relate but I could tell he genuinely meant it, buying a new fancy car made him feel successful. We've had our differences but I would be proud to buy him the car of his choice at some point, I doubt he wants anything that's more than like $80-100k or so anyway.

>> No.29198829

>>29198632
yikes.. get the man a '69 Corvette. not an electric meme mobile

>> No.29198835
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>>29198632
Dude he will love that shit.
Also make sure you install like 100 FTM in the hard drive so he can have unlimited satellite wifi too.

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>>29198632
$79k?

Only if you're going to have it towed home and parked in your garage for the next 50 years.

>> No.29199075

>>29198632
Get the old man his grail car, not that memeshit.

>> No.29199079

>>29198632
yes
he can use it to run over poor people with

>> No.29199179

>>29198632
Ask him what he thinks about the cybertruck before you buy it. Boomers will likely hate it and would rather have a Ford or GNC.

>> No.29199217

>>29199179
>GNC

Oops, meant GMC

>> No.29199281
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>>29199075
This.

Drop 25k to 50k on a restored 1965 Mustang or 1968 Corvette Stingray.

>> No.29199359

>>29199179
This. Boomers are very specific about their trucks, and likely take offense to the Cybertruck.
>Where's all the chrome???

>> No.29199882

>>29199075
>Get the old man his grail car
this, why would an old boomer want the memetruck

>> No.29199941

>>29198809
I was thinking this too, he's not really a car guy but he's a very typical normie boomer he would probably like a corvette or a mustang or something like that. But I've never heard him say "this is my dream car" so I have no idea

>> No.29199966
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>cybertruck

>> No.29200001

>>29198632
Buy him a Taycan instead. Same price, way better build quality and performance.

>> No.29200923

>>29198632
Why would you get a man who struggles with an iPhone a car that requires you to jump through hoops in order to operate? Good bait you made me solve a captcha

>> No.29201028

>>29198632
it's a beautiful car. it will never be made due to safety standards. and it's a tesla so it's shit by definition

>> No.29201036

Any person over 60 should take a drive in a S-class before deciding which car to buy.

>> No.29201144

>>29201028
>it's a beautiful car.

- Stevie Wonder

>> No.29201347
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>>29198632
He'll no brother.
Talk to him about cars. Find out what he wanted in his youth. Thats the car to get him.
I'm old and I don't want that new shit.

I would LOVE a 10th anniversary 280zx though.
Or an old 1970s Jeep Chief all tricked out with an mp3 player.

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>>29201036
S Class are pretty wonderful to ride in, but I hate what the current generation did to the interior. The Tesla knockoff reeks of rampant cost-cutting.

>> No.29201562

>>29199281
>65 Mustang
Mah nigga

>> No.29201655

>>29198632
Is your dad a flashy guy who wants everyone looking at him? Even so does he like how ugly it is?

>> No.29201717

>>29199075
This. A restored '65 or '66 will likely cost less and will admired more by him and his boomer friends.

>> No.29201780

>>29201347
Listen to this guy OP

Recently got lucky with stocks / crypto and wanted to pay my gratitude back to my dad. Offered a new truck, he said no and pointed out a classic muscle car he used to have.

>> No.29202254

>>29199966
Ah yes, I need these things.

No seriously.

>> No.29202320

>>29199941
Just work out a way to casually ask him if there was a car he wanted but couldn't get when he was younger. He'll be stoked and it'll be a better fit for him than some touchscreen space car. Even when he's not driving it he'll just be happy just to be owning it.

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>>29199281
>1968 Corvette Stingray
This is my make it car and I'm not even a boomer. Rad and iconic but isn't so expensive that you need to be paranoid or deal with stupid high costs when shit breaks.

>> No.29202652

>>29198632
don't buy, just do a 3 years lease. It's not like he's going to make it through the end of the lease anyway

>> No.29202678

>>29198809
Based and adult pilled

>> No.29202793

>>29198632
no get a lordstown like a real man

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>>29202320
Yeah good idea, he's retiring soon, it would be a good retirement gift

>> No.29202985

>>29198632
Other anons have made good suggestions, probably the right ones, but if he wants an electric pickup wait for the Endurance to come out, the "Cybertruck" is a heavy piece of shit on paper and reality always winds up being worse than that anyway.

>> No.29202986

>>29199966
the dude that buys this has a youtube channel with a logo that is just an outline of his beard

>> No.29203083

>>29202986
Very accurate kek

>> No.29203822

>>29198632
better getting him a gold-plated potato.
that'll take up less room hidden in the garage under a tarp then

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>>29198632
Based son. I plan on buying something nice for my mom when my net worth hits $2MM. She has always been there for me. She has spent lots of money on me and my siblings, taken us on a lots of vacations, always helped me with homework, picked me up in the middle of the night when I got too drunk at house parties etc.

My dad isn't getting anything. I enjoy spending time with him, but he has been a pretty shitty dad ever since he cheated and divorced my mom. He (almost) hasn't spent any money on me and my siblings. He didn't even pay child support afaik.

>> No.29204401

>>29199882
>old boomer
why would old boomer know what they wnat?
they need to be told what to like
they have no independent thought

>> No.29204898
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Gonna buy my dad a restored mk2 gti. He had one in the 90s . Sold it because I was born. He loved it .