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Originally Posted by samwichse
https://www.carmax.com/car/16425950
I mean seriously. CarMax is far from the cheapest place to buy a car, and there's a 3 year old Volt with 36k on it for $13.6k.
The base price on a new one is literally $20k MORE than that. Sure, there are tax incentives. But even with the max of everything, you're looking at $10k more. Is 36k miles worth $10k to your wife? That's not even shopping around, but going to the CarMaxPrice sure and searching for Volts in California.
You want something that saves money on gas? $10k will buy you 75k miles of gas for a v6 Accord ($3.50/gal, 26 mpg)... where's the economy there?
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For most people there don't appear to be any tax encouragement to buy used.
These economy hybrid cars suffer catastrophic depreciation.
I don't know about you but I am going to use that to my advantage. In 7 years my leaf lost about 85% of its MSRP and had 45,000 miles on it.
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1984 chevy suburban, custom made 6.5L diesel turbocharged with a Garrett T76 and Holset HE351VE, 22:1 compression 13psi of intercooled boost.
1989 firebird mostly stock. Aside from the 6-speed manual trans, corvette gen 5 front brakes, 1LE drive shaft, 4th Gen disc brake fbody rear end.
2011 leaf SL, white, portable 240v CHAdeMO, trailer hitch, new batt as of 2014.
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