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Originally Posted by series.trackday
If you buy a car at MSRP today with $1000 down and an 84 month loan, then there's going to be a gap until the day it's paid off. You'll be paying the note down slower than the car depreciates.
Also: You can cancel gap coverage at any time. So if you get the note lower than the insurance value, just cancel it.
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Happy to discuss actual math - but if you buy a GR86/BRZ at MSRP with an 84 month loan today, you will have zero gap the day you walk out (if you believe the thread about the flooded BRZ where he just got 41k for his 5000 mile, 6 month old totaled car). Explain to me when, given the current climate, that that gap will exist. As another example, I just sold my 1.5 year old BRZ with 32,000 miles on it for $500 less than sticker. Obviously, if I financed every penny, I never had a "gap."
Second, if a gap does exist, it will be a LOT smaller than it would have been in years past.
Third, what are the chances you total the car? What are you paying for the gap insurance? Keep in mind that, in the current climate, the chance that your car gets totaled are a LOT smaller than they used to be.