Does anyone buy their cars brand new?

We buy the current year model at the end of the year when the new model comes out....it’s new enough to have most of the bells and whistles but better discounts are available. On my Tahoe, we actually bought a demo that had 3k miles on it and got even more of a discount. It had only been driven a few months by one of the salesmen. We paid to add a sunroof and there was a scratch in the paint on the bumper that they repaired/repainted, free to us, so we were happy overall.

I should add, we drive our cars until it makes no sense to put more $$ into them for repairs....I had my 4Runner for 14 years.

The only car that I have ever bought used was my first one.  After that, I was more knowledgeable about what I wanted out of a car and purchased new so that I could get it exactly like I wanted it.  My current car is 15 years old, but has less than 80,000 miles.  It is a Subaru, which is typically a 300,000 mile car.  I no longer work, so it isn’t being driven every day now which is why the mileage is so low.  I realize it is not supposed to be a good financial move to purchase new, but I wouldn’t do it any other way.  

I hate smoking smells in cars, and when I was helping my son look for his first car as a used one, they all smelled of cigarettes and that never goes away.  For that reason alone, I won’t buy used.  I am still totally happy with my car.  And for some reason, everyone wants to buy it.  I get notes left on my car all the time from people wanting to buy it.  This happens in my driveway at home and in parking lots.  It feels weird that people are seeking them out but it happens a few times every month.  At least I know there is a market for selling it should I ever choose to do so.

We mostly buy used (dh is a Toyota/Honda guy and knows how to keep them going 300k+ miles), but in 30 years have bought new 4 times. First two were totaled in accidents. Third I had to let go when I lost my job and couldn't continue the car payments (my dh was not involved with the purchase and didn't like the car and wasn't willing to pay for it.) The fourth we have now. I was expecting a used car. He was looking at used cars. But Toyota was offering too good pricing and extras for dh to pass up. I think the big thing for him was the lifetime oil changes and transmission replacement (something he has done twice and it is the one thing he hates doing on a car.) So we currently have an almost 3 yr old car with less than 5000 miles on it, because I haven't been able to drive for a long time, and he has his own car (but they're old and stinky and no A/C, so he truly bought this car to drive me around in.)

New and to me it is not a bad investment

We have always bought new cars and ran them until we could not get parts anymore. We have 19 year old mustang in the driveway along with a 14 year old truck and the SIL is driving our 17 year old truck. My car was pruchased for me new two years ago and we are hoping it will be the last car we ever buy. Hubby is a great mechanie and can fix just about anything wrong with a car. Though we take body work to the experts to do. Two years ago he put in a new rear end in the 19 year old truck and it still rides so smooth that I call it our cruiser. Its a F150 with a camper and great for long trips.

One of our trucks sits up on the family property and is being used as a storage unit. It gets cranked up now and then to make sure it can be moved, but it would not do to drive it on the public roads.

We would not buy used cars as you never know how they were treated and how much life they have left in them.

Interesting story - we had a 1970 Ford pick up that was on its last legs. Hubby traded it in on another vehicle and three months later it was found alongside the road with a rod through the engine. It used regular gas, not unleaded gas and this was a common problem for cars and trucks when you could no longer get plain gas. We managed to unload that one just in time.

It is a bad financial decision to buy a new car. You are much better off buying a car a year or two old since the highest percentage of depreciation happens the first few years.

I have bought several new cars over the years. I bought them because I wanted to and I justified them as needs (safety, reliability) but truth is I could have found a safe, reliable used car if I had just looked.

Guess it just depends on how you look at it. We've always bought new, we prefer something new off the lot. We just bought something a year ago, we feel like we got a good deal and we were happy with the value we got out of our trade. We felt it held the value pretty well (it was around 5 years old.) Sometimes we keep them a long time, sometimes not.

Yes, always. I don't want to buy someone else's trouble. I drove my first new car 13 years and only sold it then because I needed a different vehicle for work. I spent less than $1000 on things that weren't regular maintenance like tires.

The next one I wrecked unfortunately but got a good payment from the insurance so the total cost of the 2 years I had it was reasonable. Next one was 12 years and I wish I'd kept it. I traded because I wanted to and not because I really had to. This last one I've had 7 years and don't love it so much. It has several features I do like though, it doesn't have the miles on it the others have had and plan to keep it several more years.

We have done both depending on the circumstances. We bought new a couple of times when we knew it was a car we would keep a long time and we don’t mind having car payments for a couple of years. We bought used a couple of times when we wanted an inexpensive vehicle. I don’t prefer one over the other, it just depends on the circumstances.

We only buy new.  Neither one of us is able to do any car repair.  I want the warranty.  I also don't want anybody else's problems.

My mom and stepdad always buy brand new cars and drive them for 5 years. Then they trade it in and buy a new one. They add very frugal and spend their money wisely. They buy with cash and look for a long time to get the best deal. I think they have a GM credit card and use points earned from that, so maybe you can only use those points for new vehicles? But lately they have had an Acadia and a Honda (not both GM cars). I’m sure there is some reason that they have decided that getting brand new cars is best for them.