3 ms·

What model of car?

• kasey_junk 9y ago
  I saw this with inexpensive manual Japanese imports the last time I shopped ~4 years ago. In particular lowend civics & Subaru imprezas were holding their value such & the dealer incentives & financing made the calculation essentially even. I have friends that said the same thing about certain diesel sedans (pre mpg scandal) but never calculated it myself.
• brianwawok 9y ago
  In my case above it was for the wife, so it was a Honda CRV. Small Japanese SUVs had a very very high value retention for the first 4-5 years. Something like maybe the sticker price new is 25k, but what you really pay is closer to 21k new. A 3 year old would be going for 17-18k. After the maths above, it ended up costing more per year to buy used.