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Buy the Epi's used and let someone else take the "off the lot" depreciation hit. Same strategy works with cars.
With cars, well, it just depends.
When I bought my last car, a new 2006 Hyundai Elantra, I shopped and shopped with my usual sub-clinical OCD fury. What I found is that small, late-model cars were not going for that much less. The off-the-lot + 1-2 year depreciation wasn't as significant for them as it was for, say, a Lexus.
My guess is that people tend to hold on to small cars because they will not get much money from them, and they make great second/third cars.