[SirBrass]

Originally Posted by suaveflooder

I agree with you! Unfortunately, you have found out the hard way about buying new, having to loose a car when you lost your job.

This was a good lesson for me. Thankfully, I will be able to keep it, and other than my wife getting pregnant this month, there is no real risk of me loosing the car.

Going back to @SirBrass's original post, I expected to loose the typical $5k the first year, most of it by driving off the lot, but loosing close to $9k was not expected for me. Realistically, if I tried to sell my car today, I could probably only get high teens, which since I'm not selling my car anytime soon, isn't too bad. Like I mentioned before, I HATE being flipped on something, even when I have gap insurance.

Warning to those looking to buy, expect this to be a car you own for awhile so you can get your fun out of it, or buy used

No, you loose $5k by going off the lot, and another $5k by having it a year, loss of $10k.

I had a 2013 STI. $35k. When I traded it in clean in 7 months they only gave me $26k. That's a total of $9k lost. There was depreciation by driving it off the lot, and more depreciation for owning it for a period of time.