Yes that’s right! I just started doing the 3 month thing as my sales people have been there for awhile, and I want to help them out too.
I’m buying my 2026 from the same guy I bought my 2021 from–that’s a rarity I think.
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You’re in NC with a 3% tax rate right? That’s only $6600 in tax on 221k. Not bad at all in the grand scheme of things if you wanted to get out of the tax-trade-in-wheel
NC also has PPT. 
And mainly a one time hit besides the marginal diff on the prices on these kind of perpetual transactions bc you get credit when you re-up on the new car, right
All I wanna say is that you are an awesome member here who is sharing some great knowledge that hopefully a lot of folks can benefit if they put their mind on it.
Now if only, I could do the same as you on 911s 
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He has been practicing what I was trying to preach to our bald-headed Urus driver in his thread. @JMMZKDTH is doing it the right way
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$888 is very lucky. @IAC
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Yep it runs about $1600 a year when plate renewals occur. For context my wife’s 2025 Odyssey was $425.
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Yeah it’s only 3% here which is great. It’s actually a “highway use tax” so people moving to NC have to pay it as well although it’s capped at $250 a car in that instance.
And agree this way is much better than paying $2000 a month for 48 months. 
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Appreciate the post–I love cars but nobody around me does IRL, so this forum lets me find like-minded individuals to talk shop.
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Time for you to set up a TikTok reel and help people get G63.
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To me the obvious and key risk is they depreciate more than anticipated. That’s any asset where capital is tied up though, and they have been holding for many years, so it feels on the lower end of the risk scale.
not sure if that would be possible in CA with whole sale tax and msrp. so your key has been getting it at msrp, only keeping it for a year and pay off most of it? is similar scenario possible with a cpo?
Montanans love visiting California for some reason (and vice versa). 
Don’t get me wrong, it’s a very geographically and climate diverse state but a week at a time is typically about as much as I can take. 
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They’re just checking up on their LLCs man 
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How much are you willing to pay to protect against that risk?
With my initial one the dealer told me to keep it under 1 year and 10,000 miles and I’d get sticker back. It was good for a few years but now that ADM’s have dropped from $25-50k to $5-15k, so have trade-in values.
But yes I am fortunate that most MB dealers around me sell at MSRP, but only to local customers. So I get each at MSRP and by the time it’s traded in again it’s paid off.
Not possible with CPO because they are listed for market price. Local dealer has a 2025 G63 with 5,000 miles for $225k, sticker was $210. My guess is whoever traded it in got $200k for it.
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You should change your @ to thecarhacker
Take notes @Zein
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nice. Good for you man
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