New car talk (finance) - worth it?

[Niall]

Tbh Ginge I know the car you are thinking of buying and whilst it's quite special, I wouldn't bother. I would never ever buy a brand new car unless I had so much money that I could bin the car and not be worried about loosing that investment. Id be looking at cars that are a few years old and have already depreciated a lot.
To give you an idea, my old Octavia was 17k brand new, 3 years on it went to auction for 6k. I'd take a 3 year old car over new for that sort of price difference! Then if you were worried about work on the car, you could take out an extended manufacturers warranty. They really aren't that expensive.