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i'm not worried about new cars' , anyone who buy's a new car is crazy ! how could you accept losing so much money in the first 3yr's of ownership ! ( not to mention all the taxes )



When people buy new cars, they tend to sell their old car. More used cars on the market = lower prices. This is a time of year that people buy new more often than normal, therefore used prices will probably go down. A lot of compelling cars are coming onto the market at really affordable prices.

Also, each year diminishes the SVT further as a contemporary sports sedan -- on paper the SVT Contour is not as impressive as it used to be, now that we're in the era of $30k 250-330hp ranged sports sedans.

The SVT's on lespac are all over 100k km's. Mileage isn't everything, though. As someone shopping for a SVT, I can say that five to eight Ontario/Quebec winters is certainly not a selling point, no matter how many km's are on it. Western cars are reputed to be much cleaner which has something to do with the higher resale value.

As someone who has watched a lot of SVT's sell this summer, I think that the $10k purchasers around here are looking for something in pristine condition that has not been a daily driver and has preferably not been winter driven very much.