As long as you can afford it, do you prefer to buy new when you buy a car?

[OriginalGeek]

17. I will very likely buy my next car new for cash

Not because I'm rich or anything but I will inherit enough to get the truck I need with plenty left over.

I hope that's not too grim or crass a way to look at things but me and grandpa often joke about it.

Last year we bought a 3 year old Hyundai for my wife and financed it. The payments are low enough it doesn't hurt to make them and we got used because they offered us the same 10year/100k mile warranty they offer on new cars and this used one was loaded with every option we wanted and more for the same price a bare-bones brand new one would have cost.

I wanted her to get a Chevy Cruz but when we went looking at cars we walked around the Chevy lot for 45 minutes and nobody ever even came out and said "Hi". I don't know if it was the POS car we pulled up in or my pony-tail and death metal t-shirt or it was too hot to come out but I know they saw us because I could see them inside the showroom lounging about, leaning on counters and shooting the shit. Finally I said fuck these a-holes and we went to the Hyundai dealer down the street and got a great deal.

I'm still pondering which truck I want - a Chevy Colorado or GMC Canyon - but I can tell you for sure which dealer I won't be looking for it at.