Financial Influencer Shows His Bare Ignorance Abou Cars

If you’re like us, you’re hit with a constant barrage of advice from financial influencers, some of which is just plain idiotic. But one of their social media posts caught our eye recently because of the “humble” Nissan featured prominently in it. Now that influencer is being mocked mercilessly online for the misstep.

YouTube is choking out car videos.

That influencer is Jeff Rose, who runs the Good Financial Cents page on Facebook. He featured a screen capture from a post done by MLFootball, which praises professional football player Danielle Hunter for his supposed frugality.

If you don’t know, Hunter plays defensive end for the Houston Texans and has been in the NFL for years. According to the league, he signed a one-year contract extension with the Texans to for a cool $35.6 million – that’s on top of his previously agreed pay – so he will earn $55.1 million for the 2025 an 2026 seasons.

In other words, the guy isn’t hurting for money in the least.

But the original post from MLFootball praises him for being “humble” because “he drives an old Nissan which he has had for over 10 years now.” In the picture, instead of some beat up 2015 Altima or Murano is a rather nice Nissan GT-3 Nismo – hardly a humble ride by any measurement.

Sure, Hunter could afford far more expensive rides, so we suppose he has exercised some discipline in continuing to drive his Godzilla, but the sports car earned that nickname for a reason. The turbocharged powertrain pumps out a monstrous 600-horsepower and 481 lb.-ft. of torque, so it can really move.

Even more critical is the base price back in 2015: $149,990. It wasn’t a cheap ride back then, so it’s not like Hunter is suffering while rolling around in some old beater that’s barely running.

Thankfully, a lot of people understand what Rose doesn’t and so he’s being mocked. After all, how can someone give financial advice when they do zero research about what vehicle is supposedly a humble financial decision?

Now excuse us while we go pick up one of these budget-friendly GT-Rs to show off to Dave Ramsey.

See the post from Good Financial Cents here (unless it’s been taken down out of shame).

Images via Good Financial Cents/Facebook