SUV's have dropped a lot in value the past 2 years due to higher gas prices and people actually wanting high MPG cars. After paying off my previous 5 year loan on my car, I had been wanting to add a SUV to my garage (mine actually leaves the pavement unlike 80% of them). I picked up a 27 month old 2005 Chevy Trailblazer with 26K miles from a nohaggle lot about a year ago that had been marked down 3 seperate times by a $1k each time (I worked near the lot) over a period of 3 months. If I had waited another 6months, I think I could have found something similar for even less money. I certainly could have bought new for a huge discount. It's been a great time to buy SUVs, but a terrible time to sell them.
If you are going to buy a car and dump it within 2 years, you should be looking at leasing it rather then buying anyway since cars take a huge resell hit as soon as you leave the lot. Buying only works if you plan on keeping the car awhile and taking a 6yr loan is just asking for negative equitty for most of the life of the loan. I personally tend to buy cars to keep and almost run them into the ground first (or until someone wrecks them) before replacing and often end up with two seperate vehicles.
