Yep, I was racing devaluation when I had a dodge truck a few years ago. That was when I gave up my loyalty to American auto companies and bought foreign. Toyota and Honda are the way to go and you can lease or put nothing down and be ahead of the payoff very quickly. It sucks that we have to pay to learn lessons like that. It also sucks that we need credit to buy a neccessity like that. Just think of what cars would cost if credit was not readily available in the economy, or the cost of houses for that matter.