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that a 300ZX is a likely candidate to end up floating around auto auctions for a bit. Used car dealers only want something they can turn around as fast as possible, trucks, accords, camrys, civics, sentras, corollas, camaros, mustangs, etc etc. The vast majority of these cars arent worth after 5 years what a Z is still worth after 11-17 years. So when Joe Used-car-buyer shows up and sees a Z, he finds out his payments are going to be $350-450 minimum a month because almost no lenders want to go beyond 36 months on something that old. That makes Z's incredibly unattractive to used car lots who are simply in the business of making money. Cars like that, when traded in, go right to the auction so that the dealer can get as much money out of it as soon as possible. The cars that can be flipped quicker and are newer (allowing for 60 month loans which in turn = lots of interest) go to the lot and are sold that way. The first sign that the shady-ass owners of my Nissan dealership I worked at were going to sell the place off was that EVERYTHING started going to the auctions no matter how good of a used car it was. Then they doubled the number of salesman they had. That is when you quit your job at a dealership and move on. I wouldn't let the whole auction thing scare you off at all. Typically the worst part about cars ending up in auctions is that they go neglected for a period of time and pick up dings dents, tears in the interior from careless transporters, stuff like that. If you already checked it out and it is in great cosmetic shape and have done all your homework on it mechanically, why not buy it?
 Tsk tsk, some people just don't know when to stfu search said you suck (n/m) - Wilks. 01:38:02 09/06/06 |
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