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Old 01-04-2018, 05:39 PM   #117
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Originally Posted by dowroa View Post
Is the premise that this is a garage queen car that stays stock and sits or is actually used for intention?

2017 Yellow.Series Current Used Avg Depreciation (27k avg) - 9.0756%

2016 Hyper.Blue Series Current Used Avg Depreciation (21k avg) - 26.2%

2015 Series.Blue Current Used Avg Depreciation (21k Avg) - 30.6587%

Those are for cars that were used.

I think you can plot a general trend from the limited used car data available and see relevance to limited pricing and where the tS would arrive:
  • New - $33,495
  • off the lot - 1 yr - 30145.5
  • 1 - 2 yrs - 24786.3
  • 2 - 3 yrs - 23228.7825


It is a gross extrapolation based on limited data points. However, I think that is a reasonable guesstimate for a car actually driven. It may be higher, as I was calculating without TTL, but ball park.
Impressive... seriously! I would end up driving it to and from work, the wife's impreza does the heavy lifting in the family. Based on the past limited ed models this might be a bad purchase in my particular situation. I may end up eating the grunt of the depreciation before it levels off.. years after i've gotten rid of it.

My only other option for getting back in a BRZ is to wait for the used market in my area to make sense.. Can't snag a 13-14 near the KBB value. The southern "no salt on the roads therefore our cars are better" tax. I'd love to just have a brz as a second car, the car is brilliant in the curves.

Hell of a post man, Much appreciated. That's as close to hard data on an imperfect science as you can get.
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