smart value decrease of 45% w/i year????

[rawlus®]

agree with slowpoke - WGAF what it's worth when you drive it off the lot? if it's worth something to you, then that should be enough.

i tend to drive my vehicles to their eventual death - i don't look at them as investments and i don't expect to get my money back on them.

my jeep with 150K miles on it probably has more money into it in modifications than i originally spent on it. on the open market it's probably worth next to nothing, a few thousand perhaps - to me, i wouldn't part with it, i've invested too much $ and time and love into it, it's responsible for too many great memories, and it's taken me to too many remote places... none of that is worth a hill of beans to anyone else. so i'm gonna keep it.

[yick yack]

Well, the smart has been out overseas for a long time and still is a top seller there... and the government is making billions a day on gas sooooo why would they give that up to make electric cars and more fuel efficient cars...they wont.... so i believe the smart will be here to stay and + if you have to wait almost a year why would they be worth nadda in a few years...