I guess this is why I just plan on driving the wheels off my GP until it's dead. If you take care of these things, you'll get easily over 200k, which I fell give you your money's worth if you keep up on the car mechanically and cosmetically. It's when you trade in every year or every other year that you get socked, especially these days. You keep digging yourself a hole 4 or 5 thousand dollars at a time every time you trade in, and in 5 or 6 years you've accumulated enough debt on a car that isn't worth a fraction of it, and basically still paying on debt from the last few cars. All of that to drive the latest and greatest. Everyone's got a different view on this topic I think, but financially if you buy new you'll come out best by just driving it until it's dead. That is of course unless you're spending a shitload on major repairs, which on one of these usually isn't a concern.