A former press car selling for $3,000 more than original sticker is either optimistic or highway robbery.
The car, still bearing an original sticker from Mr. Norm's dealership, is now like new and running strong.
One catch: if an owner decides to sell within two years, Lexus keeps first option to buy back the LFA at fair market value, but not for more than the original sticker price.
A three-year-old Ford Focus (highway mileage: 35 m.p.g). is worth about two-thirds of its original sticker price, according to Kelley Blue Book, another widely used vehicle valuation source; in 2009, a three-year-old Focus retained just a third of its original value, a difference of more than $5,000.
Automotive Lease Guide, a company in Santa Barbara, Calif., that predicts the resale values on which lease payments are calculated, estimates that an Aveo sedan with an original sticker of $12,840 would have a retail value of just $4,320 after three years -- a decline of 66percentt.
Auction prices for used 1996, 1997 and 1998 cars have already risen by hundreds of dollars, with the few used 1998 models on the market now selling for close to the original sticker price even though they have a few thousand miles on them.
First, check the original sticker price, and compare it to the discounted price to see how much of a discount you're receiving.
This year, that seems to be this 23andMe DNA Test kit from Amazon, which is on sale right now for $100 , 50percent off the original sticker price of $200.
By comparison, all of the top-10 models cited by KBB expected to hold onto at least 46.2% of their original sticker prices after half a decade, which amounts to $13,800 or more after five years.
The car was cheap–$3,526, or about $16,000 in 1999 dollars and the demand for the 240Z was so strong that in 1970, less than a year after the car's debut, Kelley Blue Book valued used 240Zs at $4,000, well above the original sticker price.
At the beginning of the 2017 calendar year, both Oculus and HTC were selling their flagship VR headsets and motion controllers for roughly $800, but a pair of deep price cuts and a temporary summer sale has left the price of the Oculus Rift at $399, nearly half of its original sticker price.
