I tried getting used evo's for a while, but i couldnt work anything out. It all depends on your situation i guess, but my situation just wasnt good enough. The last evo i went for was an evo 8, and even with 6 grand down (on a $18k car) I was looking at $520 payments and a huge increase in my insurance. Seriously my loan for the evo would have been 18-20% interest rate, and my ralliart loan is 6%. So do I buy the 6 year old car (that could've been beat on for all 40k miles) or a brand new car with lower payments. It was a pretty easy decision for me, especially after I drove it.

 

This is what I've been thinking the past couple of days. I'm still gong to stop by and take the ralliart for a test ride. However, because of where I live, I only pay 4.6% sales tax on vehicles (I don't technically live in a city that is incorporated with the county I live in, so I don't pay city tax). So, I pay about half what others do. The tax deduction is only on local and state sales tax. Therefore, on a 30k ralliart, I get a $1380 deduction (maybe $400 in pocket). Honestly, that's not that much. Although, I guess that pretty much pays for registration fees (maybe not... reg fees for my GTS were $522). Too bad we can't deduct the entire cost of the vehicle, lol. That'd put me in a different tax bracket, lol!