I didn't mean to imply that it was wrong - it's your money and nobody was saying that you shouldn't spend it. Employee pricing will help with depreciation but on average you'll pay more in depreciation on any car during the first year than any subsequent years, especially if you didn't get employee pricing to begin with.
It may only be $35/month but did you end up extending the loan for an additional year beyond the original loan? Again I'm not trying to knock your decision - just trying to educate people on things to consider before making their decision.
As an example, if I have a 3 year old car with a 60 month loan and a $500 payment and I trade it in for a new one with a new 60 month loan at the same $500 payment some people think that they're paying the same thing for a newer car. When in fact they went from owing $12K ($500/month for 24 months) to owing $30K ($500/month for 60 months).
That's the danger of only looking at monthly payments. People also tend to ignore down payments in their calculation.