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Honest car commercial is too real for anyone who’s ever had to buy a car

Who doesn’t love spending thousands of dollars on a metal box with wheels?

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Car commercials always make driving look wildly exciting, glamorous, or both. But the sad truth is that if you have to buy a car, your main concern will be how much money you’ll have to pay a random guy at a car dealership.

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That’s where Cracked.com’s honest car commercial comes in.

Hosted by an aging car salesman, this fake commercial points out every depressing truth about buying a car, zeroing in on the tragic pointlessness of making cars look cool.

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You know you have to drive to work. The car salesman knows you have to drive to work. And in a few years you’ll have to do this all over again.

Screengrab via Cracked/YouTube

 
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