For starters, it looks like a lot of older vehicles are going up for sale on Craigslist here in Reno, since more people are selling their cars either to pay bills or because they have obtained a new vehicle. In my area of Reno, I noticed at a nearby apartment complex there was a brand-new Dodge Ram 1500 parked under a carport, and then two spaces down there was a longbed Chevy/GMC pickup that had some damage on the driver's side panel towards the back of the truck. This Chevy also had a lot of tags on it, the back window had a board of plywood covering the area, and it was painted orange.
So this leads onto the next thing I wanted to mention. There are a fair amount of vehicles around here that are damaged. The other day when I was walking towards Huntington Learning Center, there was a black Chevy Tahoe (looked to be a 2000, 2001) in the parking lot that was without its bumper. I admire people for driving a vehicle with damage, but on the other hand if they get into another accident with the vehicle, then more damage occurs.
With all these new vehicles being acquired, does this resemble a possible rebounding economy? Not necessarily, getting a new car is only one part of the whole puzzle. For example, a house is worth more money than a new vehicle is, depending on where the house is located.
If a brand-new vehicle is parked near a vehicle that is damaged, is it possible that the gap between the rich and poor is still increasing? We need our middle class back in the United States of America, the land of the free and the home of the brave.
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