Re: Catering to used-car buyers?

[bazooka!ti@sgiblab.sgi.com (Ti Kan)]

Benjamin Weste Pearre writes:
> >> But there's little incentive to listen to people who don't buy new 
> >> cars,  which seems to be about 70% of the list.  What's the margin in 
> >> catering to  used-car buyers, when you have to sell the car once 
> >> first?
> > No argument here, I agree with you, I and other used car buyers are
> > not the ones to "cater to". 
> 
> Why not?  If you make a car that a used-car buyer will want, that 
> means that the resale value that a new-car buyer will get when he 
> sells will be high.  My Acura Integra, according to the KBB, is worth 
> _more_ than I paid for it!  That's part of why they're soooo popular.  

I think KBB is a bit optimistic...  I used their web quote facility
yesterday and both my 96 A4q 2.8 and my friend's 96 Jetta GLX came up
being worth more than our original new purchase prices 1.5 years ago.

-Ti
96 A4 2.8 quattro
84 5000S 2.1 turbo
80 4000 2.0
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