Actually it probably is, but with prices where they are it's not a big deal, especially when you consider the other costs of owning a car.
Yep
I usually don’t worry about the mpg of any of my vehicles
Most are V-8 4WD
I just find a screaming deal on a large comfy safe vehicle that I can use to haul home improvement stuff and get to my weekend getaway cabin , which has a 1/2 mile road that’s been scraped and graveled twice since 1993 so ground clearance and 4wd is required if it’s rained recently
Most people worry a lot about mpg and never realize the depreciation is what is their biggest expense
I have never and will never buy a brand new car so depreciation is not an issue for me
I gets cars for almost nothing by telling friends that if they are shopping for a new car I might want to buy their old one
But only if when they are shopping they tell the sales weasel that they are giving their current vehicle to their son daughter etc and not trading it in
Then after the final price on the new car is settled tell the sales weasel you might want to trade it in after all and ask what they will give ,
It’s usually peanuts , after they have settled on the price of the new car and can’t inflate the trade in allowance by jacking up the price of the new car
So when the dealer offers them $3000 for a car that’s worth $12k I drop what I’m doing and meet em at the stealership with $3000 cash
New roundhouse loves her five speed tdi beetle
Couldn’t find a gasser with a manual trans , and she test drove a tdi and liked it
She went to a stealership and asked to see the cheapest used five speed beetle they had
Salesman said “we got a cheap one that’s a five speed , bad news is , it’s a diesel “
I bought my first tdi when The company I was working for had me traveling 200-400 miles a day and paid .57 cents a mile
My 5 speed 01 golf got 44 so I usually pocketed 50 cents a mile
I paid $3500 for it , cleared $5000 in mileage after fuel and sold it for couple hundred more than I paid
After the company required me to start driving a company truck
But they did let me pick out a new truck , “pick out whatever you want just keep the payment under $700”
So they bought a new crew max tundra and told me I could take it home nights and weekends