like smoke from a gun
like a brand new sun I rise up
I rise up I rise up like smoke from a gun
you may be completely confused on why I sold my s3 for the Jetta GLI so there's
three main reasons that I did that and they are the depreciation on the s3 the
value for the money and then the last one I'm actually gonna save to the very
end of the video because it's pretty interesting and it's actually not
related to the cars at all so be sure to stick around to the end of video to see
what that last reason is but anyway before we get into all that be sure to
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here every weekend on Saturday mornings so be sure to look out for those and
those will be coming very shortly so be sure to make sure you get those
notifications for that so is it just me or do outies depreciate like crazy it's
absolutely unbelievable to me how quickly they depreciate so I bought my
s3 was a 2017 model prestige you know top line whatever here in the United
States and I bought it for I think was like fifty three thousand dollars out
the door I had the car for about three years and over that time period it
actually dropped down to when I saw it for so I sold it to carvanha for $33,000
so it actually lost what I was 40 to 50 percent of its value in that short time
frame and I know this is a problem with a lot Audi's I'm not really sure why
that happens I think it has something to do with all the leases that they put out
there so they depreciate it really fast and I really wanted to get rid of the
car before it depreciated too much and I really couldn't get anything out of it
to get into another car so I went ahead and sold it to carvana I'm sure you
guys have seen that video if not I'll post a little link to it up here or over
here where the hook is so you guys can see that buying experience it's actually
really good so be sure to check that out so I'm
really interested to see if you guys have experienced the same thing with
your Audi's have yours depreciated like crazy as well if they have I'm really
interested to see how much value they've lost and say like the first three years
so if you can drop a comment down below I really want to see what's going on
with the depreciation on these Audi's it's pretty ridiculous but go ahead and
do that because I'm really interested to see so the second reason that I got rid
of the Audi for the GLI comes down to value for the money so one of the things
that I've noticed over I guess the three years I had the outie
was that you could get a lot of other features in I guess cheaper cars then
with Audi had so a perfect example of that would be like home link so that's
one of the things that you could not get in an Audi unless you had I believe it
was a Premium Plus model and then you had to pay extra for it
so the GLI comes with that from factory so why does a fifty three thousand
dollar $50,000 car not come with that it's absolutely ridiculous to me that
they don't include that in a premium luxury car so another one of those
things is you actually had to pay extra to bump up to the prestige model to get
folding mirrors here in the United States I hope that was absolutely crazy
yeah the mirrors don't fold on the GLI whatever but in the Audi you kind of
feel like you're getting nickel and dime for everything that you get on the car
so if you wanna have the folding mirrors you know you had to get to bump up to a
procedure model so it's kind of annoying to have that you know yeah the GLI is
not as good-looking as the Audi it doesn't have all wheel drive or Quattro
in it it does have the DSG gearbox which is fairly similar to what's in the s3 so
I feel like with this GLI I'm actually getting a lot of the same features that
I had with the Audi for a lot less money you know I have car play
it's got bi-xenon headlights yeah they're not as nice as LED but they're
still very functional I have Homelink in it so there's a lot
of things right what I like to call value for your money that you're getting
in these GLIs compared to Audi's
so anyway I'm not trying to bash howdy at all don't get me wrong I absolutely
love Audi's but when it came to me personally and the value for the money I
felt like I was getting a lot more value when it came to this GLI so that's why I
decided to go with the GLI you know moving over from the Audi so anyway the
biggest factor that came down to is completely unrelated to cars and this is
this is the thing that might kind of confuse some of you guys me personally
coming from a finance background I understand how important it is to get
out of debt as early as possible so what I did was like a lot of you guys
I had a ton of student loan debt from my undergrad years so what I did was I sold
the Audi to carvana bought this GLI and then I took the extra cash that had
leftover paid off my student loans and all the other debt that I had aside from
my mortgage so the only debt that I have right now is my mortgage and let me tell
you it feels absolutely incredible to have that situation especially with
things going on now with this coronavirus and all that there's a lot
of uncertainty in the markets I'm a lot of people are losing their jobs getting
laid off which really sucks luckily I believe that'll be ok through all this
but it's still nice to not have to worry about having to owe people money you
know during times like this and also having like an emergency fund set up to
cover anything that comes up over the next couple months so really it comes
down to that that's the main reason for me getting rid of the s3 and getting
into this gli which I absolutely love so I keep saying that you guys probably
tired of hearing me say that I love to do you live but I absolutely love it
it's fun car it's great so there you guys have it that's the reason I guess
the three reasons that I sold the s3 for the GLI there will definitely be another
Audi here in the future it's probably going to be an older one
with a little more character you brought guys can probably kind of guess what
that might be especially if you follow me on Instagram stuff like that you
probably have seen things I've been posting a little comment on pictures
that I've posted like whatever you can see all that so yeah if you guys think
you know what it is drop a comment down below I'm interested to see what you
guys think is on my mind when it comes to the next
Audi here in the near future probably won't be the end of this year early next
year is what I'm thinking we'll see how that plays out obviously
with my whole no debt thing it kind of makes things a little bit interesting
but anyway be sure to stick around like I said before there are a bunch of
videos lined up here in the next couple weekends Saturday mornings as when I'm
going to be posting them so yeah that's it thanks guys for watching and I'll see
you in the next one