[quote=flu][quote=jimmyle]Great deal, you can’t even find used 2011 Accords at this price.
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A good portion of late model preowned at dealers/etc are lease returns or loaners. Most of them are fully loaded (at the time of 2011). You’ll end up paying for options. Great if you feel you need those options. Others, folks don’t care for those options…Furthermore, there’s a change the following year, some of those “options” end up being standard equipment.
Depending on your equipment selection, you might end up doing much better new versus preowned…So if you stick to your guns and go easy on the options group, you might do considerably better with new versus preowned. Also, factory-dealer incentives galore might end up make an current year vehicle effective base price much less.
When I bought, it was the first year mid-cycle update. More items went into the standard equipment package than the year right before it. So while the 2010 model preowned about $2k cheaper than 2011…it didn’t have the updated turboed engine (had the older 3.0 N/A engine that was 40hp less), didn’t have Bluetooth/usb integration, didn’t have the roof rails/etc)…It had a bunch of other stuff like heated seats, etc that I didn’t care for. For me, (and again personal choice), it made sense for me to go with the newer model.
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Heated seats and on-demand AWD are the sh!t! I drive in the snow so these options will be in my next vehicle, along with all the other goodies. Excepting that I would prefer paper maps over Navigation (with its annoying voice leading me down the garden path) and am a good parallel-parker so don’t need a “backup camera,” lol.
I don’t like newer Cadillacs because they talk too much and won’t shut up.
