Remember the old saying, "Buy a new car and it loses $x-thousand when you drive it out the door?" Not so much anymore. Thanks to the pandemic / chip shortage / supply chain / etc. etc. the game has changed. So much so that some new car sales contracts bar new car buyers from reselling the vehicle for one year.

Time to sell? Some used cars go for more than new models
Jamie L. LaReau
Detroit Free Press USA TODAY NETWORK
Call it nearly unbelievable, but for the first time in recent history, many mainstream vehicles are now appreciating assets. That's right. There are late model year used cars that are selling for prices higher than when they were new and - in some cases - the used vehicle is more expensive than its new counterpart.
For example.
in January Ford warned dealers not to upsell reservations for the popular Lightning EV pickup. It also wanted customers to sign a contract preventing them from reselling it within a year.

The average sticker price for a 2022 Lightning is $75,139, Drury said after he studied recent dealer listings. But he found that the list price for a 'used' Lightning with an average of 354 miles was a whopping $123,844.
and..
a 3-year-old Chevrolet Silverado is selling very close to its original sticker price. Were these normal times, the Silverado would have depreciated by 45% at least, but demand remains high for the pickup, especially among small fleet customers