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Originally Posted by Oakes
The reasons I bought the car were
Insurance is nothing
Reliability and cheap maintenance
Employee price, which I could have sold the car for what I paid for it with 15k miles on it. It's still worth only 3k less than I paid for it almost 2 years ago and 37k miles.
Awesome gas mileage, oh and reliability.
If I wanted an STi or something similar at the time, I would have bought it. However, I didn't want to maintain or insure one at the time, so I figured I would do the SMART choice and not worry about the car for a year or two. If the car hasn't broken by now, it won't break at all, simple as that. I've given it 37k HARD miles and multiple drivers, hasn't skipped a beat. Now it's time for me to move onto something more fun since I satisfied everything I needed with this car.
The motor in it is also the same motor from the SVT Focus', the Mazda speed3 and speed6. Just not boosted or different internals.
In the end. I still win.
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I'm not going to go too much further on this but I'm assuming you financed it like most people here so you actually paid a lot more. Unless you got one of those 0% APR deals. I pay cash for my cars so I don't pay interest, instead I make money on that money while I save. It hurt to blow my turbo money for the m3 on a young low mileage car but that is the smart choice. Then your losses to depreciation are as big as they get on a brand new car. A brand new car is NEVER the smart choice. Cars in general are not a smart way to live. Best to just get the cheapest crappiest thing you can stand. I can't complain though because without people like you buying new cars, there wouldn't be used cars for people like me to buy ;)
I'd be careful throwing around words like "win". :-P