A guy was asking about 0% financing on Mazda 3 on another thread, funnily enough, I'm looking at Mazda 3 hatch (GS models, but GX will also work) with 0% financing as well. Wanted to ask some questions as well haha. I posted there and created my own thread here so I can get some answers.
1. Are there good discounts to be had on brand new Mazda 3?
2. I was looking at the pre-owned sections, looks like you can save ~$7000-8000 buying a 2014-2016 year model GS hatchback which runs between $16k to 17k, assuming you get brand new one at MSRP price at $24.5k.
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Yea you do get quite a bit of saving from the first 2-5 years depreciation, but then I was thinking you have to change tires, brakes on a 50000km car too, if not right away, probably pretty soon after buying. then saving on a lightly used model dips to $5500 to $6500, asumming tires + brakes cost you $1500.
Is my math correct? Is that how much you can save buying a 2-5 years old Mazda 3 with around 50k clicks on it? If you can get a brand new car less than MSRP, then you save even less on depreciation probably more like $4000 to $5000.
I thought that depreciation amount isn't that great given it's a 2 to 5 years old car?