Originally Posted by spearfish25

It's a pretty simple tradeoff really:

Buy a car early in it's model production if you want to be the cool kid on the block with the newest model car...but you also buy the wrinkles that still need ironing out.

Buy a late model car just before redesign and you buy the 'dated' version but you'll have a solid, time-tested vehicle at the end of its cycle.

You decide where you fall.