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Old 02-12-2018, 03:52 PM
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Originally Posted by Skyline View Post

Face it, it's an $80,000 car you're driving, and as crazy as it seems to dump all this money in, it's still a fraction of the cost of driving a new one. Someone else has already paid the price for the $70k of depreciation. Do I wish it would be as reliable as a Toyota? Absolutely. But there's really nothing close to the combined performance and utility in the market except a newer and more expensive X5.

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THIS. And I'm only at 95K on my '08. I fully anticipate dropping some cash on future repairs but a fully loaded new one at $1K/month finance for 60 months or whatever vs. a couple thousand a year in repairs is a pretty easy decision.
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