Last Year's Model

[Ocean's Edge]

the rule of thumb I was given years ago was "buy a 2 yr old car every 2 years" - the major depreciation will have already happened, it'll still be within warranty period and more likely to be reliable, and sell it before it gets to be too much trouble, and you're still going to get most of the value back out of it if you don't trash it.

Doesn't work for everything - but it's a fairly good starting philosophy

Then again - what do I know - bought a Land Rover

And whilst mooning over the new Aston Martins in a show room - musing about how nice it'd look parked in our driveway next to the Disco, Him looked at me and said "Gods woman don't you want at least one car that works!?"