[larrys]

On a new Porsche 911 (had two of them recently) snow tires cost me $1800 [1] (it actually does a nice job in the snow with them) and the first oil change was something like $400 or so at the dealer. I sold the second one recently (got a Porsche Suv) and it actually retained a fair amount of it's value after 2 years of use. I was surprised.

On a model that I sold I was able to get $450 approx for the snow tires. That said I didn't drive it much if I did I would have hit other maintenance windows.

Personally I would never keep a luxury or high performance car past warranty.

[1] Not only that but they are so large only certain places can even change them because of the width. Since the Porsche dealer is about an hour away I had to go to the BMW dealer to swap the summer tires at the end of the season. (There was a company that had a tire changing service that comes to you but they went out of business that was the best convenience.)

[sliverstorm]

You had to spend a lot on them because they are wide, which is because the 911 is a high-performance car. It would have been the same with any Corvette, Camaro, or Charger.

Complaining about expensive tires on a fast sports car is like complaining about the poor battery life on your 19" 4GHz laptop with discrete graphics.

[larrys]

Where did I say or why did you get the impression that I was "complaining"?

[sliverstorm]

Well, you go on about tires and then you say

Personally I would never keep a luxury or high performance car past warranty.

Which suggests you mean, because of the tires which is an odd thing to say.

Now maybe you didn't mean because of the tires, but then (to me) your post reads like a jumble of unrelated thoughts.