http://www.carwizard.com/index.cfm

Click on the left side on what years you want to look up and it will show you how much % or price the car will retain its value in the 4-5 years time.

 

Summation:

ACURAS ROCK!

 

its funny when i read between the lines i got the same summation

 

let me go on the CL and TL board and post the link to tranny longevity in cars wizard..

 

 

you know what.. i am feeling froggy.. so i am going to jump..

i am also going to post links on electrical problems in cars on the vortex site..

then i am going to various honda boards and post links on cars and how torque is important and how more torque is good..

then i am going to the 2nd Gen Eclipse site and tell them about the longevity of the crank of engines in turbo cars with high boost..

 

LOL Torque is nice, but isnt everything. As per shings answers on the other topic.

 

It's good to know Sprint is an equal opportunity flamer......that must be a Jamaican thing.....

 

 

Want a Wailing Souls DVD Sprint?

 

I see you edited your post Russ

In any case the Maximas low resale value is good news for those of us who buy used and one of the reasons I chose the Maxima.

On the other hand if you buy new and trade in often Maxima =

 

i like the new pic of your car.. the red X sums it up nicely..


get your site back up...

 

It is all meaningless if you keep a car and drive it 10 years. If you buy new and change every 3 or 4 years, though, the Hondas, Acuras, Lexus and Toyota are probably a better way to go then Nissan.

OTOH, resale can be a double edged sword. I almost never buy new and I will drive until a car becomes unreliable. In that case, NISSAN is the best deal going. Big depreciation means you can buy em low mileage at a steep discount with 150,000+ miles still to go in them.

I bought my 2K Max with 22500 miles for $17K last Aug. There is no car in its class for that price. With 30% off original cost, someone else has paid the steep depreciation and now I will reap the benefit of the remaining miles at a discount for a fine performance vehicle.

 

lol, it's interesting how in every time Russ posts Bill is one of the first to respond with something brilliant...

 

 

36% in 5 years seems to be decent among the other cars. Same as the Toyota Camry

 

does this thing really work?

i checked cars like bmw and benz ,forexample slk is 54% after 36 month?

err if thats the case i woulda bought one long time ago, the dealer definitely do not sell their cars at that range.

 

So, what's your point?

I looked up my 2002 SE and compared it to a 2002 CL-S.

Not only did it show an initial $3000 price difference between the two, it does not list leather interior, moonroof, or cd-changer for the Maxima. It does include these items on the CL-S however. Add these items to the Max, and the residual value comes out to about the same. Thanks for proving that the Maxima is a better buy the the Acura's.

 

I don't believe it cares what options the cars have, they are going by the actual model. The CL-S only comes with leather, thats the standard options. Leather is not a standard option on the Maxima.

CL-S worth 27-28k, Maxima worth 26-28k without nav. about 30k with nav, cl-s about 30k with nav, not really any price difference that I see. TL-S now is about 30k without and 32k with nav.

But after 1 year at least my CL-S is still worth 3/4 of its value, unlike my Maxima loosing 10+k in just a year.

 

Your max lost $10K in trade in value? If you sold it privately it would have been better right? The 2K2's defintatly hurt the older max's value, I can't wait until the 2004 makes my car worthless

 

If I sold it out right, I could only get about 19k at the most since 2k2 23k~. I got 17k for mine, other places were offering 15-16k.

 

BMW's are amazing, aren't they? They simply blow away the manuevers most on this forum try to pull. Let's let the 1st owner take the hit and buy the car when it's 2 years-old.

Those guys bash BMWs and then scratch their heads when 1998 528i's have lost less value than a 2001 Maxima. Penny-wise and very # foolish is the Maxima way, unless you keep it.

 

If you use the 'compare to other car' feature, it shows price and options, listing them side by side. The difference in price and options makes up for the difference in resale value.

 

I think your car, the 2K2 6 speed, will kindof go down as a classic. You can't make a sports sedan too big, then it won't really be the same. Look the BMW 7 series or the Mersedes S class. Not quite the 5 series or E class. The next maxima will really big. Nissan is passing the torch to the Altima. Not as the flagship, but as premier sports sedan.

DW

 

Classic I like the sound of that.