Dave Ramsey: Get Free Cars for Life

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Dave Ramsey's Plan to have Free Cars for Life

Get a Free Car by following this advice from Dave Ramsey. In Dave Ramsey's Total Money Makeover Program, he discusses the logic and steps in order to get FREE Cars for the rest of your life, instead of staying stuck in the cycle of paying high car loan payments. I wanted to discuss this topic in light of my own obstacles in following this plan.

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Dave Ramsey Free Cars for Life

How to Get Free Cars

Dave Ramsey Free Cars for Life

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This YouTube video describes the Dave Ramsey free car plan, but instead uses figures for five years. Watch how the plan works over five years to give you free cars for life.
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Free Cars for Life

Dave Ramsey Free Cars for Life

The complete FREE CAR PLAN can be found here

Dave Ramsey's Total Money Makeover Program

This is a six year plan thats starts with a person who is at the end of their current loan/lease.

What many people do:
1/3 of car buyers sign up for a six year loan at an avg of 9.6% interest and avg price of $26,000. That makes for a pymt of $475/mo for six years.

After those six years, you've paid over $33,000 in car payments for a $26,000 car that is now worth only about $6,000. At this point most people would go out and buy another new car and REPEAT the cycle. So they always have a car payment.

Dave Ramsey's Free Car Plan:
Step 1: Starting from the point of just paying off your loan and having a car worth approx 1500. Instead of going out to buy a new car with a pymt of $475/mo like in the example above, pay yourself the $475 payments to a savings account for 10 months. After 10 months you'll have $4750 saved + $1500 that your car is worth. With this $6250 (in only 10 months) you can pay CASH for a good used car and you don't owe anyone anything for it.

Step 2: Continue making payments to yourself (saving) $475 mo for another 10 months and you'll have another $4750. You'll probably be able to sell the car you just bought 10 months ago for about the same price you paid for it ($6250). Add these together and you can go PAY CASH for an $11,000 car in just 20 months from the staring point of the plan. At this point you're 20 months into the plan, with an $11K car that you BOUGHT WITH CASH.

Step 3: Continue to carry out payments to yourself for the remainder of the six years (52 more months), but invest these monthly payments into a good mutual fund that avg 12% returns, and you'll have $32,000 at the end of the six year plan. If you'd have bought that new car with the $475 pymts six years ago you'd just be paying off your loan with $0 in savings for another car.

Step 4: Here's where the FREE cars come in. If at this point you go buy a car with CASH for $12,000 from your car fund, you'd still have $20,000 left in there. This $20,000 will continue to earn interest at 12%. You'd be able to use that interest money to buy with CASH a $14,000-$18,000 car EVERY FIVE YEARS for the rest of your life without adding any more money to the car fund.

Step 5: If you chose to continue investing that $475 every month that you're NOT spending on car payments and earn on avg 12% on that money, you'd have over $100,000 in ten years. At twenty years, you'd have about $470,000. After 30 years, you'd have $1.6 Million. After 40 years, you'd have socked away $5.5 million!!!

Or you can just keep paying $475 for a new car payment and never break the cycle.

Saving Money to Buy a Car with CASH

2 Car Family saving $500 per month

I've created a table to show an example of how a 2 car family can save their way to FREE CARS FOR LIFE by saving $500 per month and paying cash for their cars. The table assumes that the family will keep the car 10 years; replacing one car every 5 years. After 15 years, the interest being earned on their savings (10%) will pay for NEW CARS for the rest of their lives!!!! The other option....keep making car payments until it's finally paid off. Then go out and buy a new car and keep making car payments....month after month after month.

Don't think your car will last 10 years? The numbers are about the same if the family wants to replace the cars every 8 years (one car every 4 years), by simply increasing the monthly savings to $600.

2 Car Family: $500 Per Month Budget

Year

Annual Contribution

Total Contr & Interest (10%)

Car Purchase Price


1

$6000.00

$6282.00

none


2

$6000.00

$13233.00

none


3

$6000.00

$20890.00

none


4

$6000.00

$29361.00

none


5

$6000.00

$38718.00

$20000.00 Car


-

-

$18718.00

remaining balance


6

$6000.00

$26960.00

none


7

$6000.00

$36066.00

none


8

$6000.00

$46126.00

none


9

$6000.00

$57238.00

none


10

$6000.00

$69515.00

$22000.00 Car


-

-

$47515.00

remaining balance

Year

Annual Contribution

Total Contr & Interest (10%)

Car Purchase Price


11

$6000.00

$58773.00

none


12

$6000.00

$71210.00

none


13

$6000.00

$84949.00

none


14

$6000.00

$100127.00

none


15

$6000.00

$116895.00

$25000.00 Car


-

-

$91895.00

remaining balance


16

No More Contributions

$101517.00

none


17

$0

$112147.00

none


18

$0

$123891.00

none


19

$0

$136864.00

none


20

$0

$151195.00

$30000.00 Car


-

-

$121195.00

remaining balance

Year

Annual Contribution

Total Contr & Interest (10%)

Car Purchase Price


21

$0

$133885.00

none


22

$0

$147905.00

none


23

$0

$163392.00

none


24

$0

$180502.00

none


25

$0

$199403.00

$35000.00 Car


-

-

$164403.00

remaining balance


26

$0

$181618.00

none


27

$0

$200635.00

none


28

$0

$221645.00

none


29

$0

$244854.00

none


30

$0

$270493.00

$40000.00 Car


-

-

$230493.00

remaining balance


Balance

Continues

to

Grow


You

Keep

Getting

FREE CARS



Cost of Car Loan Payments

The average car loan payment is $465. Over the course of 15 years, if you have one car payment you'll have spent $83,700. If you have two car loans in your family, you'll have spent $167,400 on cars over those 15 years.

Links to Dave Ramsey

www.DaveRamsey.com
Here's Dave Ramsey's Official website
Dave Ramsey's Free Car Program (on his official site)
Go Here to view the Drive Free Cars program on Dave Ramsey's Website

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Any Comments or Suggestions?

  • TheCureForYouthMinistry Nov 9, 2011 @ 10:07 pm | delete
    I have done the Ramsey plan and it works.
  • mayapearl Feb 8, 2011 @ 4:52 pm | delete
    I totally agree that buying a new car and paying it off over time is not a good idea. I love this lens and all the great tips and ideas, well done.
  • mellielou Feb 19, 2010 @ 5:21 pm | delete
    Free Cars for Life is my favorite Dave Ramsey idea!
  • BIRK Apr 19, 2009 @ 10:03 pm | delete
    Are there any comments from people who have actually done this program? How did it work for you? What about paying sales tax, license/registration, and doc fees? Are those figured in?

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