Saying goodbye to an Evo is hard!!
I would say it really depends on your area on how easy it will be to sell. Sometimes you just get lucky though.
I know there is (or was) a E. Blue Evo 9 on a lot around here with like 36k miles in a little bit of beat up condition and they wanted $28k for it. They know some ignorant Marine will buy it at some point so they can sell cars for whatever around here.
In other areas I'm not too sure that you can get away with the same kind of selling practices.
I know there is (or was) a E. Blue Evo 9 on a lot around here with like 36k miles in a little bit of beat up condition and they wanted $28k for it. They know some ignorant Marine will buy it at some point so they can sell cars for whatever around here.
In other areas I'm not too sure that you can get away with the same kind of selling practices.
wow, I've had my Evo for about 9 months, and put more miles (17k) than you and your brother did combined, in over 5 years of ownership between the two of you.
How can it be hard to say goodbye to something you barely used?
How can it be hard to say goodbye to something you barely used?
I don't want to sound like a downer but that car isn't worth a dime over $25k, even with those miles. It's not the economy that's killing resale values, it's the EVO X and depreciation. No matter how many miles on the car, as time goes on cars WILL lose value.
If he got $30k then he got lucky & found an uneducated buyer. I wouldn't expect anyone else to assume they'll get the same for thiers.
If he got $30k then he got lucky & found an uneducated buyer. I wouldn't expect anyone else to assume they'll get the same for thiers.
why anyone would drop $30k on a IX is beyond me, when an Evo X GSR can be had brand NEW for LESS!
It's a pride of ownership thing. Like my Evo may have only had 6K miles, but I enjoyed every mile of it. Even though it sat most of the time I was still meticulous with washing it every 2 weeks, changing the fluids and cleaning up anything that had the slightest bit of dirt on it. I just loved owning an Evo.
I also raced my Evo MANY times while my brother pretty much never did. I definitely enjoyed my car a lot more than he did his.
And he was also planning on keeping his as a collector car. If he didn't sell it it was eventually going to be put into a storage place in a bubble as to preserve the last of the CT9A platform!
I think things would have been different had I picked up a an older used Evo. But buying it brand new with aspirations to keep it looking as new as possible for the life of it was successful for me.
And it also sounds to me that a couple people are a bit jealous that he got so much. I sold my Evo July 2008 for the same price. Even then I don't think a lot of Evo's were going for that price.
So maybe both him and I got very lucky. But I'm willing to bet if I had the same (or similar) car again I could get right around the same price for it. It's not being "uneducated" either. People don't have to spend a certain amount of time browsing Evo forums to realize what price the car SHOULD be worth. But if you advertise the car right and say the right things you can possibly get what you think the car is worth.
It also very much helped out the buyer having the car checked out at a Mitsubishi dealership. The buyer set up an appt to have the car checked out the day he was flying here.
Luckily the Mitsubishi Tech's exact words were:
"This car is perfect! Whoever is buying it is getting a hell of a car."
So that sealed the deal and I don't think the buyer had a second thought about dropping $30k on the car.
I'm in a similar dilema, Evos have always been my dream cars, and I finally bought one not too long ago but times are tuff now and itsa money pit like they say never the less a phenomenal machine but with the family and all I might be selling it... It hurts just thinking about it.
