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Originally Posted by Steve Carlton

I suspect if someone's talking about getting a 2021, they would consider a new car as well. I believe in benchmarking a 1-3 year old used car against a new one. Oftentimes, the new one will be the better deal on price, warranty, choice of color and options, financing, and lack of adverse history, especially if a car with high resale value.

This review isn't glowing: https://www.caranddriver.com/mitsubishi/mirage-2021

Look at the resale value projections of a Mirage vs a Corolla. At 10 years, the Mirage shows 42.5% vs 69% for the Corolla:

https://caredge.com/mitsubishi/mirage/depreciation

https://caredge.com/toyota/corolla/depreciation

That’s not a bad review at all. I thought it was actually a good review.

Great safety rating, impressive gas mileage, ample cargo room, some nice features like CarPlay and that 10/100,000 warranty is tough to beat.

They ding it on power but that’s what you’ll get with any car in this class and you are not buying it for that anyway.

It’s an appliance vehicle.

If OP’s daughter lives in a city or dense population center then cars like this make a lot of sense.

I wouldn’t regularly take one on hours long drives but again, that’s not what you buy these for.

The car is what it is and doesn’t pretend to be anything more so why knock it?