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One part "I live in an area of the country where owning a car is a necessity" and one part "I need people to think I'm successful."
Many people spend all the money they would use to build real wealth on displays of wealth, cars being at the top of that list. The way to build wealth is to not spend money and instead to invest it… at least until you hit probably 8 digits where it becomes easy to live off the wealth your wealth generates without eroding your principal. However, most people are nowhere near that and would gladly take a 7 year 9% interest rate loan on a $90,000 truck so their neighbors will think they have money.
In my small hometown there are truly people with trucks that cost more than their house appraises for.