Buy a used one. IMO they are preferable for many reasons. You can get them all day here for $375-$425, I don't know how they are $$ in Cali. Older ones seem to be more accurate, I have heard theories about tooling being worn in the later years. Anyway, I love mine, but I wouldn't shell out the $$ for a new one unless I heard that the retooling in the new models fixes the accuracy problems that seem to be more inherent in 185- and later models.