My annoyance with car commercials is no longer limited to the awful Christmas/holiday seasonal ads. But now, instead of encouraging people to buy their significant other a car, or telling people that it’s a financially practical idea to buy a luxury car for Christmas, the goal now is to try and con other people into buying your car for you.

I’ll be honest, I am not a fan of the wedding registry that is just “give us money”, whether it’s to go on a honeymoon or buy a house. I’ve lived my entire life in the era of gift registries for weddings, so the overall idea doesn’t bother me- just the ones that are only about the money, no matter what they claim the money will be used for.

And I have not minded registries being extended to baby showers (hey, there’s a ton of stuff you need that you do not already have), and I have been fairly accepting of things like the Amazon wish list. So maybe I am being hypocritical in my hatred of the new Dart Registry from Dodge.

Still, I hate this idea of building a your dream car online and then trying to convince your friends and family to pay for it for you. Especially since the ads are very much targeted at young people- “your dad buys the engine for your birthday, grandma funds the rims for graduation”.

How about instead of teaching our young people that their friends and family should buy them the things they want, they learn how to save up for it. Or that maybe their first car does not need to be brand new. Whatever happened to the junker found in the want ads?