One of his reasons:
"2. It's better on gas."
Lets say between taxes, registration, depreciation, etc, he loses $10,000 jumping cars (ignoring the cost of the car itself, just the money lost of buying a new car and trading it in 2 years later). Lets also assume he saves ~10% on gas mileage, his decision will pay off in 100 years!!!! ***
***unless you give money value as invested, but who does that??
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