@Future-Next-Gen-S2000-Owner said in Isn't this kinda obvious?:
You're right if cost though. New cars depreciate and buying any car as an investment is dumb.
This was my take on the hysterical stories about the Cybertruck market "crashing" - its a new vehicle that's still actively in production on an assembly line, Tesla would ideally like to build as many as people want to buy, there shouldn't be a "market" for them, really, they're worth MSRP or slightly less than MSRP, the fact that some people were able to quickly resell for more than that was a temporary fluke that relied on the availability of gullible idiots with too much money, it obviously wasn't sustainable and shouldn't be.
But, depreciation also shouldn't mean value absolutely crashes off a cliff, either. Cars aren't investments, but they are still durable assets, and you should be able to rely on them holding a decent percentage of their original value after x years and x miles, otherwise the increasingly exorbitant original MSRPs, and the increasingly exorbitant loans required to cover them, become harder to justify. And, if automakers want repeat business from existing customers trading in on new cars, its in their interest to hold residuals up and a concern for them if used values are collapsing