That's easy. In two years you will have a worn out '99, worth around $800.
In two year I will have a '09, still under warranty, worth $30,000 that I
will trade on another brand new 2011. You do the math
In point of fact I did not spend any additional capital when I bought my
first Mustang GT convertible. I used the money I saved, by trading my 1997
Lexus LS on a 2000 Lincoln LS V8, rather than another Lexus LS V8.
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mikehunt22@lycos.com (Mike hunt)
Let me give you an example that disproves that it pays to buy used cars
If you can afford to buy new cars. I have been buying a new V8
Mustang GT convertible every two years since 1999. The only thing I
pay for is fuel and one state inspection, the dealer provides the three
oil changes required over two years, for free.
I owed a '99. '01, '03, '05, '07 and currently have an '09 for two
weeks, for which I paid a total of $5,000 to drive home. The '07
cost me $3,900 to drive home. The guy that bought my used '05 just
traded it on my '07 a few months after paying nearly $1,000 for tires,
and it cost him $6,000 to drive it home. You do the math
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I like math..You keep saying the same thing over and over and over. But
you conviently leave out the fact that in the original mustang you
purchased in '99 cost you saaayy..? 23K? Now add that to the 5k and
3.9k and whatever else you paid for the others as you traded up(?).
Let's say in '99 when you laid out all that money I purchased a used '95
camry for 10k and put 1.5 k a year in repairs into it (I doubt I would
need that much) including tires. Now who's ahead..?
used truck prices to fall 
