CosmosMpower

Correct I paid 35.8 on a 41+ sticker car but my deal was a total fluke. It took me 3 months to sell it for 36.3 and it was like a brand new showroom car with just over 2k miles on it. To me if a car can't even fetch near MSRP new the resale isn't going to be good. Why buy used when new ones are thousands off?

lleron

So you made $500 on a car after driving it for a year and 2000 miles and consider that bad resale..? I think your perspective is a bit skewed and obviously you've never owned a German car which loses 10k right off the lot or a fiat abarth that lost $10k on a 22k car after two years.

rob-2

that sounds like a great deal. Nearly zero cost of ownership:

TommyDeVito

All that pissing and moaning in this thread and that's what you are out? LMAO. You may be the guy that gets the big bag of Charmin home....then proceeds to split the plys making every roll into two.

CosmosMpower

My deal does not represent the market. I got my car on a pricing mistake in writing that I basically forced the dealer to honor. They quoted me a price on a base close out no options 15 STI and I got a loaded 16 Limited. I think they lost 2K+ real dollars on my deal to sell me the car and make me go away. Not typical and even if I had gotten the really good Heurburger CO dealer invoice deal I still would have lost money on the car. Not to mention I barely drove the car in 10 months and it was literally showroom perfect. If I had actually driven my car say 8-10K miles in that one year it would have been worth 31-32K which is a 10K loss on the sticker price in 10 months and 10K miles. That's pretty terrible resale in my book.

I've owned 15+ BMW's and 3 Porsches and none of them lost anywhere near 10K in a year, new or used.

EastS2k

I have to second the WRX awesome resale value paradigm. Just imagine how the 'general public' is getting screwed by picking up base WRX's for 28k with the idea of selling it for 25k a couple year later... yea not going to happen.
I guess if you compare it to a ford product it has better resale value, just look at all the mustang owners crying their cars lose 50% value in a year, I imagine its not a good feeling to buy a 40k mustang gt and trade it in for 25k if you are lucky in one year.

Buying a new subaru is a good idea only if you can get one for slightly higher than dealer cost, which won't happen since subaru is keeping an artificial demand for them, hence you only see a couple WRXs on the lot at a time.

My philosophy is if you are going to lose your ass on resale, might as well get something you like and not because you think you can get more money back later, paradox.

Last week I had a friend tell me how awesome of a deal he got on his premium wrx, when I found out he paid 31k pre TTL the first thing I asked him if the dealer had a return policy.

Really a base WRX is a 25k car, a premium is 26-27 MAX, its special in a sense that its an alternative to a v6 camry - but straight power wise the camry will be a quicker car... lol.....

TommyDeVito

Invoice on a premium is 28k. Some of us get them at 27k, and have room for a couple of "extras" and still arrive at 28k.