If you are of the type of people who enjoy having a new car, you might be looking for a logical justification for doing what you really love to do anyway. It’s okay- we are all constantly on the lookout for different ways that will allow us to justify doing what we just feel like doing. We all know that there are some definite advantages so buying slightly used cars, such as the fact that if they have only been used for a couple of years they will most likely last just as long as a new car will. But when it comes right down to it, it is just a whole lot more fun to buy a new car. So let’s take a look at both the pros and cons of buying both new cars and used cars. There are upsides and down sides to doing both of these activities.
On the one hand, a new car is a special kind of rush. Once you have gone through the ordeal of dealing with te car sales people, you get to ride home smelling that sweet, vinyl and plastic scent of pure victory. Nothing much can ever compare to that, no matter what anybody says. Plus, there is also the fact that when you buy a new car, you are supporting the continued strength of our economy. Everybody who worked on that car made money, and inevitably spent it on other things which create jobs for other people. New cars are almost patriotic, as saccharine as that sounds.
On the other hand, used cars are a more rational buy most of the time. A car is going to lose most of its resale value in its first two years, but will still not need much more maintenance for a few years after that (above and beyond the maintenance that all cars are going to need). Overall, you can get basically the same car (sans new car smell) for less than half of the price of buying a new one. And it may last as long as one you buy new.