what's ya'lls opinion on this for a first time purchase?

Make your mistakes with a cheap one, so the mistakes don't cost you much. You'll need to decide early on how much you want to limit your budget, and how deep you want to get involved to limit your losses if you are anticipating on trading up in a few years. 3 or 4 months and you should have a pretty good sense of what direction you want to go and how long you want to keep it or how far upside down you want to get. Anyone who has an older coach is upside down in it, so you just have to keep that in mind if you intend to bail. Otherwise, being upside down is OK if you intend to keep it and use it. We recoop our expenses by using our coaches, not by reselling them.