I find depreciation is a fact for any vehicle, so I buy the vehicle I need and that has the lowest operating costs.
I do my own maintenance between my 2008 city Golf(MK4 chassis) and 2006 hemi ram 2500. The volt is so new I don't have too, but then again, when one checks the owners manual, what maintenance will there really be?!? It has the lowest maintenance schedule of any vehicle I have ever looked at!
My spouse had a BMW 3 series, and I was seriously looking at getting her a used one. I just couldn't justify the maintenance schedule a BMW requires, it requires specialize BMW service on the newer models, which runs thousands of dollars every 20-30K. Since I put a fairly high amount of km on vehicles the volt is hands down best. Now because it is new, I am paying monthly for it above the other two vehicles which are paid for. The Golf is the lowest costing maintenance vehicle I own for the mileage I put on it, and the truck is by far the highest. However the drive and forget it factor of the volt is great. Wife really likes not even having to think about putting gas in it. The other vehicles it was weekly, but she is well within the volts daily range so has added gas once herself since we owned the car last Aug, and that is only because I am deployed to the middle east and wasn't there to fill it. She likely will not need to add gas as I will be home in Apr to fill it up lol.
Basically buy your vehicle and keep it until it is so used up it's too expensive to maintain or has broken beyond repair, which with regular maintenance, can be a very very long time. Most people buy vehicles out of "want" not "need".
I do my own maintenance between my 2008 city Golf(MK4 chassis) and 2006 hemi ram 2500. The volt is so new I don't have too, but then again, when one checks the owners manual, what maintenance will there really be?!? It has the lowest maintenance schedule of any vehicle I have ever looked at!
My spouse had a BMW 3 series, and I was seriously looking at getting her a used one. I just couldn't justify the maintenance schedule a BMW requires, it requires specialize BMW service on the newer models, which runs thousands of dollars every 20-30K. Since I put a fairly high amount of km on vehicles the volt is hands down best. Now because it is new, I am paying monthly for it above the other two vehicles which are paid for. The Golf is the lowest costing maintenance vehicle I own for the mileage I put on it, and the truck is by far the highest. However the drive and forget it factor of the volt is great. Wife really likes not even having to think about putting gas in it. The other vehicles it was weekly, but she is well within the volts daily range so has added gas once herself since we owned the car last Aug, and that is only because I am deployed to the middle east and wasn't there to fill it. She likely will not need to add gas as I will be home in Apr to fill it up lol.
Basically buy your vehicle and keep it until it is so used up it's too expensive to maintain or has broken beyond repair, which with regular maintenance, can be a very very long time. Most people buy vehicles out of "want" not "need".
