[quote=bearishgurl][quote=flu]. . . Certified preowned might be a better option..or better yet, an older model that was tucked away in the dealer storage but otherwise new….[/quote]
I understand the “Certified” concept, flu, but who will certify?? Who ‘ya gonna believe? The dealer? The previous owner? Or just test-drive it for yourself? Lol!
Are you trying to say here that you’ve may have run across an “oldie but a goodie” with low mileage?? They’re pretty rare but I have seen them in showrooms before, sometimes loaded with extra equipment![/quote]
Definitely, it’s always buyer beware. Try before you buy is my motto. It doesn’t hurt to enter into a pre-sales agreement either, even if you know the manufacturer has equal or possibly more at stake than you do. Past title checks don’t hurt either, such as Carfax.
Sometimes oldie has no mileage. In cases which it’s low mileage with optional equipment, sometimes the total package still isn’t nearly as costly as an overpriced model with no optional equipment and yet still manage to have a lower towing capacity or lower performance numbers. I guess some of the newer models aren’t really made to perform well under any circumstance. My motto is why even bother with something that is a hot model, when you can barely roll it out of your garage before the insurance tells you you’ve already exceed the maximum amount you can use for that day. That just results in a really bad feeling. You have a hot model in your grasps, but can’t really do anything with it, and so you end up having to watch Top Gear or read autoblog instead…(which isn’t the same thing as actually driving)
