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Originally Posted by redpoint5
You would have to be extremely unlucky or just bad at making car buying decisions to end up spending more money buying used- ever.
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I don't know how it is where you live, but here in BC it seems that decent 3-5 year old imports (the only used car/truck I would buy...except for my $400 winter beater, of course!) hold their value way too well. Here they seem to depreciate at a rate proportional to the value on the odometer. For example (in Canadian Pesos):
a) Brand new Toyota RAV-4: $28K
b) 2007 Toyota w/65K miles: $21K
Supposing you run your car to 150K miles, car a) will cost $0.19/mile and car b) will cost $0.25/mile (as 65K miles have already been "spent"). THAT'S how my logic works in this area.
Sorry...this thread has completely lost its original purpose.
Back to the Leaf, then. I can't wait to see what EVs we'll see soon. Even if they aren't cost effective, they will hopefully be cool. Being cool while reducing pollution? That's DOUBLE cool! I'd buy that.