I’m currently in need of a car for my 17 year old (we’ve tried to make do with just tow cars and it’s not working out) as well as a replacement for my 11 year old 100K mile Audi which will need a $4K timing chain soon. I am over analyzing as usual. It looks like a decent used Japanese car with CarPlay (which I feel to be a game changer for not fucking around on your phone while driving) is going to cost $15K to $20K for the daughter. For me I’m looking at a twoish year old E450, and to get a truly loaded one (I like ALL the tech) that’s about $55K. The Audi is probably worth $8K (on top of the age and miles some asshole put a giant ding in the door a couple weeks ago, it’s not pretty). Not looking forward to the big expense, but I think I’m going to pay cash for the kid car and finance about half of my car. MB is offering 3.09% on late model used cars for 36 mos. Depreciation on German sedans is still pretty steep. I’m seeing E450s that stickered for $75K go for less than $55K with less than 20K miles and still under factory warranty. I’m currently in need of a car for my 17 year old (we’ve tried to make do with just tow cars and it’s not working out) as well as a replacement for my 11 year old 100K mile Audi which will need a $4K timing chain soon. I am over analyzing as usual. It looks like a decent used Japanese car with CarPlay (which I feel to be a game changer for not fucking around on your phone while driving) is going to cost $15K to $20K for the daughter. For me I’m looking at a twoish year old E450, and to get a truly loaded one (I like ALL the tech) that’s about $55K. The Audi is probably worth $8K (on top of the age and miles some asshole put a giant ding in the door a couple weeks ago, it’s not pretty). Not looking forward to the big expense, but I think I’m going to pay cash for the kid car and finance about half of my car. MB is offering 3.09% on late model used cars for 36 mos. Depreciation on German sedans is still pretty steep. I’m seeing E450s that stickered for $75K go for less than $55K with less than 20K miles and still under factory warranty.