Cars, I've bought something like 3% of them new:
2001 Jeep Wrangler
2002 Subaru Impreza WRX
2005 Honda Civic Si
2005 Pontiac GTO
2005 Scion xB
2015 Fiat 500 Abarth
If we're counting motorcycles, roughly 11% bought new:
2008 Royal Enfield Bullet
2015 KTM RC390
2016 Harley-Davidson Sportster Roadster
1990 Miata
2002 Protege
2013 FRS
Pretty predictable time constant.
I try to amortize (rationalize?) the purchase price over ten years such that the annual cost matches the beer budget. The FRS was made possible only because I moved up to Stella Artois from domestic swill.
Me:
1996 Acura Integra GS-R
2013 Nissan Leaf (lease)
I won't count the 2 company cars that were given to me as new, I didn't buy them or chose them
Wife:
2001 Acura TL
2004 Infinity G35
2006 Kia Sedona
Underwear
Bought new:
2009 Subaru WRX
2012 Mazda 3
Leased new (thankfully I didn't buy this POS):
2002 VW Jetta
The closest to new was about 11 months old and 20k miles new 2014 Grand Cherokee. Knocked $6-7k off the price.
80 Monza Spyder
88 Nova Twin Cam
The only things with an engine that I've bought new have been two cheap push-type lawnmowers.
1997 Civic, kept until 190,000 miles
2012 Mazda 3, planning on 150,000 miles but that could change
Only two
I must have been a Dodge fan for new vehicles.
Parents:
'00 Civic Si
'00 Legacy L Wagon manual
after almost 20 years of them driving automatic beaters. Great way to spend the tech-boom easy money - both of them reeled off 200,000 miles of reliable fun.
Me:
'01 Cannondale R300 - still my good road bicycle and ridden in preference to the Trek 5500 I built later.
'13 Abarth 500 - leased while working for FCA. Shockingly unreliable and returned early with major mechanical problems and a disappointing amount of rust.
Bought new:
1992 Dodge Caravan (first car I ever bought completely by myself; DW was 8 months pregnant with DD#1)
1995 Dodge Neon
2004 Acura TSX
That's it. All 8 other cars have been bought used, ranging from 2-1/2 years / 25,000 miles up to 16 years / 145,000 miles.
Just my Mazda 2, and I kind of regret it now.
Don't get me wrong, it's been a great car. I just ended up letting emotions rule the day because I was tired of my used dailies nickel and diming me to death.
It has been great to only have to worry about providing routine maintenance and not the random breakdown and tow that would occasionally happen with my used stuff.
Me - none. Just before we got married my wife to be leased a 91 Toyota Celica ST. I figured out that at the end of the lease she would have been able to buy an All-Track for what she was going to pay if she bought it at the end so she took it back and got a used 90 Celica GT, both sticks. We sold that car with over 300K miles on it.
Lugnut wrote: 2016 Harley-Davidson Sportster Roadster
Can we get a review on that one?
2005 Subaru 2.5RS
2012 Mazda5
Regretted both because I had to sell them early. My life changes too often to keep a vehicle for long.
between SWMBO and I:
SWMBO is next up for the new car purchase, and we are thinking, either another Terrain, or maybe a Cherokee. We are both fairly insistent on having something AWD, with good storage and passenger capacity, and be able to tow.
Im really worried about what options will be available for a daily with 3 pedals and a turbo when Im up to bat again - it will probably be another8 years or so till then. Cars potentially wont even need people anymore by then 
1988 Civic
1991 CRX-si
1994 Integra GSR
2007 Accord EXL V6 Coupe
2007 Solstice GXP
2006 Subaru STI. Ended up selling it in less than a year. Hated (!!) the interior in it. Had super uncomfortable seats and was really cheaply made, with tons of rattles by 5k miles.
Everything else I've gotten used...
Keith Tanner wrote: You need to ride bikes with GOOD suspension. Crap suspension does indeed feel like crapAnd I bought my Rocky Mountain used.
This year was the first time in almost 20 years that I bought a complete used bike: a 2012 Intense Tazer FS (I did buy a used hardtail frame a few years ago to build up). Partly because Intense doesn't offer that frame right now. All of my other bikes I've built over the past few years have been new. Between team endorsement deals and my general pickiness, I usually end up spending so much money "fixing" a used bike, that it doesn't save me much over buying new in the first place.
Hell... even the complete new bikes I've bought recently tend get torn down and half the parts swapped out... My current DH bike (Intense M16C) was the worst. Only the bare frame (even the shock was replaced), crank-set and seat post are original to the complete bike I bought back in April.
1989 Civic Si 2017 Hyundai Santa Fe
I bought the Civic right out of school. I had my first full time job, I was living at home rent free and I paid it off in under six months. I had no idea how good life was, if you ignore the mullet.
The Santa Fe is SWMBOs new car. Looked at used first but everything seemed to be plated in gold.
2016 Cx-5 For SWMBO!
OK, I have bought mtn bikes new. Just picked up a 2016 Ghost Riot from REI on end of season blow out sale. That replaced a 2003 Jamis XLT2 that I broke the lower swing arm pivot on this past fall.
I was rather blown away by how much more expensive bikes have gotten in that 12 year span of time. Even with getting the Ghost at practically 50% off it was still almost twice as expensive as the Jamis was. Very similarly specc'ed bikes too, only real difference is the Ghost is carbon fiber...
Nick (Bo) Comstock wrote:Lugnut wrote: 2016 Harley-Davidson Sportster RoadsterCan we get a review on that one?
Sure. It was rideable for 10 days, then I guess I grabbed just a hair too much front brake and locked up the front wheel and went down at 12mph or so. Broke my shoulder, demolished the left handlebar controls/levers and bent the frame. I've been riding for 23 years and I've never had a not-panic-stop on a summer day on clean, dry pavement lock up a front wheel. Could have been just tires - I felt the back end start to step out during some acceleration out of hard corners. But I don't feel like the suspension is well-tuned and it has too much front brake for that suspension and those tires. Plus, a pretty slow crash resulting in frame damage... Didn't like it. The single electronic gauge is stupid and hard to read, and can't display more than one thing at once despite each of those one things only taking up half the width of the display on the gauge. The neutral light only lights up when the clutch is not engaged. The turn signal switches are dumb and it didn't always auto-cancel, leading to either it staying on because it didn't cancel or coming back on because I clicked it again when I thought it wasn't going to go off to begin with. I'm glad enough that it's gone that I am fine with swallowing the losing half the value of the bike in 10 days thing. It was an awful experience from start to finish, starting and ending with the dealership, with the bike in the middle.
Sorry for the threadjack.
Tactical Penguin wrote: Just my Mazda 2, and I kind of regret it now. Don't get me wrong, it's been a great car. I just ended up letting emotions rule the day because I was tired of my used dailies nickel and diming me to death. It has been great to only have to worry about providing routine maintenance and not the random breakdown and tow that would occasionally happen with my used stuff.
This was how I ended up with a 2017 Tacoma. I have had a string of nuisance issues with the last couple used cars. Silly stuff that really grinds on you when you need them. The driver's window motor on my truck died so it wouldn't open and as soon as I fixed it one of the heater valves got stuck so I couldn't defog the windshield. As soon as I fixed that the wipers wouldn't shut off. As soon as I fixed that it was time for ball joints. All small stuff but a constant stream of it. Plus squeaks and rattles. Plus the car had 150k on it and was hinting at the same sort of pesky non-critical failures ... I just said berkeley it and, frankly, do not regret it at all. I might do it again when the Tacoma has it's first out of warranty niggle.
The '08 Mazdaspeed3 and the '16 Spark were both new. Does the '99 Miata count once it becomes a '17 or '18 Exocet?
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