I traded in the GTR because I didn't need it. The ride was stiff (understandable, a hi-po sports car) even in comfort mode. The speed limit is still 70 no matter what. You always had to be really careful about parking it. Every "fast and furious" boi racer in a riced out Civic or Nissan Altima wanted to race you. The insurance, even for me, a 35 year old field grade officer with no tickets, was around $1200 every six months. The car was expensive to maintain. My 30,000 mile service was nearly $2,000. ONLY a GTR certified mechanic can work on the car, and where I am stationed, that was nearly 70 miles away. The gas required is 93 octane, and all they sell in Kansas and Missouri is 91 so it doesn't run quite right. The gas mileage is pretty good for a "super exotic" sports car, but 15 MPG is still pretty bad. It cost me about $60 to fill my tank up and drive to work every week, so around $250-275 a month in gas when you throw in the weekends. The warranty was going to run out in about 5,000 miles, which was going to get REALLY expensive should anything go wrong. A friend on the GTR forum had a transmission problem 4,000 miles after his warranty went out and it was nearly $8,000 to fix it. And no chicks really just LOVED the car. If I had a bunch of hot redheads who were always coming up to me and saying "dude, can I take off all my clothes and ride around in your car with you?" I might have kept the car. But that never happened.
So, by trading mine in, I got a really cool car IMHO, a check for $32,000, a car that cost me $350 every six months in insurance (a savings of $1700 a year) and $70 a month in gas versus, $270 (a savings of $2400 a year) and at least maintenance cost savings of ( $3000 a year or more at least. So add it up, I save around $7,500 dollars a year with the CRZ. In three years, I could buy ANOTHER CRZ with the savings, really trick out my old 65' GTO, or just put the $23,000 into investments/savings.