In other words, before you retired to spend all your time giving people bad advice, you were in the auto industry, ripping people off?
Thanks for the clarification.
A car represents transportation and, to some extent, entertainment expense. Considering all the expenses is the way smart people work. If you plan to keep the car a short time, good resale value minimizes your depreciation expense. Even if you plan to keep a car for a very long time, the resale value is the market's estimate of how long the car will last and how much repair expense will be encountered along the way and good resale value is your insurance policy against needing a different car to meet different needs that you didn't expect. Either way, when buying new, high resale value in the older models is an indication the car will help you keep your costs down.
Either way, Edmunds and KBB are far better indicators of resale values and projected expenses than a troll like "mike hunt."
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