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Replying to: british_rover (Jul 06, 2009 5:38 pm) |
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Replying to: jmonroe (Jul 06, 2009 6:14 pm) You oughta know there ain't no such thing as a "free lunch". You probably know more than you should already. Stick around, jmonroe Been selling more used cars then new of course but I think that trend is starting to turn around. Prices on used cars are still creeping up and the programs for new cars keep cramming the prices down closer to the used ones. More Volvos then Saabs the past few months and almost no Land Rovers. LRguy44 BR - good to hear from you. I dropped out for awhile but came back. Are you still at the same store? Many things have changed at our place - not all for the better. If you still have my e-mail, let's catch up! Still with the same company Cliff but I moved to our Volvo Saab store one town over. Traffic at the Land Rover store just fell off a cliff and they kept trying to add another salesperson to make three total. That store only needs two salesperson and I think after the last three they hired had left they finally figured that out. Three people can't make money there. deltheking Hi British Rover ,,Nice to see u back..read quite a lot of your previous posts. I have a question...Are you originally from Midland,Texas? I think I read that somewhere. Thanks.... Yup originally from Midland, Texas though I haven't lived there in 15ish years. We moved when my dad went active duty again and we moved to Virginia. hey qbrozen what is going on. Still have that G35X? Just crazy prices on new cars right now. I am usually the only flipping people from a new car to a used car as the deals on used cars were just so much better. I have had three people in the last couple of weeks that I flipped the other way. They came in looking for used cars, usually one year old 2008 models, but once I showed them they could buy a new 2009 model for just a couple of thousand more after all the incentives they went with new. What would you rather buy a 2008 S60 for 22,000-23,000 or a 2009 S60 with free maintenance for five years 60,000 miles at about $26,000? Kind of a new brainer really. |
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Replying to: british_rover (Jul 07, 2009 8:19 am) It is kind of false alternative. If a new S60 can be had for 26K (wow - is that a real price? How much cash is in that car? That sounds like S40, not S60 to me), then a used one is not worth $22K. Plain and simple. So - I would say I would go for new, or perhaps I'd rather have a used one for $19K   
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Replying to: richard64 (Jul 06, 2009 7:04 pm) Thanks for sharing your "house" story. It sounds like something from the movies but I bet it happens on a regular basis. I wouldn't be able to put on this "front" of having a well furnished main floor area of a huge house, only to have the rest of my family sleep in sleeping bags. That's just really really wrong. Basically you're putting on a show for others yet living in discomfort because of it. I don't get people sometimes. 
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Replying to: british_rover (Jul 07, 2009 8:19 am) |
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Replying to: british_rover (Jul 07, 2009 8:19 am) Yup. Been over a year now. Amazing I still have it, huh? ;b I've been spending alot of time with an '85 300zx I picked up in Feb, so I think that's been keeping the bug away. Although all these deals I've been seeing do tempt me. I'm way too buried in the G35x, though. Just don't email me any great '06 S60R GT buys and I think I'll be OK. Hmmm... seems more like a CCBA board post. Oh well. |
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Replying to: british_rover (Jul 07, 2009 8:19 am) |
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Replying to: richard64 (Jul 06, 2009 7:04 pm) |
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Replying to: jmonroe (Jul 06, 2009 5:07 pm)
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Replying to: dino001 (Jul 07, 2009 8:47 am) That is how you can buy a S60 for less then you can buy a S40 with less equipment. A S40 with less equipment is going to be in the $28,000 dollar range but a S60 SE will be around 26,000 and a regular S60 will be $27,000 to $28,000. These are all for FWD models an AWD S60 would of course be more. Volvo just came out with these extra incentives and the special priced S60 SEs this month so used car prices our out of sync for right now. They won't line up for a while as the prices being paid for 2008 cars coming off rental fleets and/or one year leases or 2007 models coming off lease are still the same. It will take a while for used car prices to fall and by the time though do the sell down of 2009 S60s will probably be over.
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