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Originally Posted by Teh_Bandwagoner
I figure the only way to get top value for your car is just to never sell it and drive it to the ground, new or not.
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That's pretty much my philosophy too. I tend to sell a car when it reaches the point where the cost of repairs is more than the value of the car though (at that point I can sell it to someone with the mechanical ability to do the repairs themselves for a few hundred dollars).
I think the point made about new technologies is a valid one too, especially with things like stability control (if safety features are important to you) starting to become standard. If you buy a 3 or 4 year old car you probably aren't getting stability control unless you buy something fairly high-end, while this year a lot of relatively cheap cars are including it on their base model and in a couple of years it will be mandatory on all new cars.