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The price accessibility of older BMW and Audi cars is convenient, because both brands are still perceived as higher-end, allowing a highschool or college student to buy one for relatively cheap and people will still think "expensive."

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I can't tell if you're trolling at this point because this conversation has spun to some irrelevant cost vs brand appearance logic. First of all, we've been talking about new cars and 15 year old models are being brought into the discussion. Secondly, I can buy a 25 year old used Rolls Royce for $20k. Does that mean that Rolls Royce as a brand is not viewed as exclusive and not in the upper echelon of the auto industry?

No, just an off-topic aside directed solely at burgerbrain's comment. I bought a BMW in college for cheap (though a bit more than burgerbrain's).

"allowing a highschool or college student to buy one for relatively cheap and people will still think "expensive."

Indeed, I got mine for 2.5k so that I could pick up "classy chicks". ;)

Surprisingly it worked, to some degree.

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