AWD: Check
Factory Nav: Check (It’s extra sweet because it’s Lexus based and prob. the best nav software ever created)
7/100K Bumper to Bumper: Check
Reliable: Check
Resale: Check
Cheap Insurance: Check
Leather: Check
Toyota: Check (Work reasons)
TFS giving me financing terms that no consumer could acquire: Check
Towing: Check
The funny part of this banter is you’re calling him out for making poor financial decisions yet you invested in a brand new car that devalued horribly right off the lot. Let some sap pay depreciation and buy slightly used. Just had to comment about pot meeting kettle.
Did you pay cash and own outright?
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NM…just read the below in newer post. So you financed. IMO loans on devaluing investments means you can’t afford the toy. JMHO
TFS giving me financing terms that no consumer could acquire: Check
And though it “cost’s” more than the other “toy’s” he listed… I don’t think he would have gotten the same financing on them that he got for the granny mobile.
I’m a financial services manager. You’re trying to teach the teacher. I purchased a brand new car, because I was given an APR that even you a so called investment genius wouldn’t have been able to aquire.
Obviously, I know that a new car depreciates off the lot much faster, but if i’m paying $4,000 more in interest, wheres the incentive? Plus I’ll be able to deduct the sales tax next year.
That whole “decpreciation” thing is a mute point in most instances anyways. Obviously I can go buy a one year old domestic and save some big chicken. Trying to find a used 2008 Highlander Sport with my options, you’d be lucky to find one under $30,000. When I’m already spending that much, the $3,000 I could save and have it not make a difference in 3 years, wasn’t worth it IMO.
If anyone, especially at this point in time, is paying ANYTHING over 1.9% financing on a brand new car, they are fucking retarded, or have terrible credit.
All due respect to you, but where the hell are you getting these numbers? Rates aren’t even CLOSE to 2%. People come in all the time and talk about how their rates should be about 2% through banks and that used cars have 3% or 4% rates.
The best credit unions are around 4%, give a little…maybe 4.5%.