Is our lancer really not worth that much?

he's just being a dick....trying to make himself more money by getting you to take less for your ride. Everyone and their mother does research by going to KBB and seeing what their 2008 Kia with 105k miles on it is worth...then being hell bent on getting that number. One thing you have to do when buying a new car...negotiate. don't just jump in and tell them what you want. for instance, if your trade was worth 10k...and the purchase car was 21k, start off with adjusting both numbers. say somthing like "if you can get me 11,500 for my trade and take the car to 18k, i'll do it." when you do this, the dealership will do whatever the can to get your 11,500 but may only drop the price of the car to 19,800. you still win either way. just play mind games with them. i could go on and on about this...but i don't want to take up the whole thread...lol. PM me if you need more advice.

 

o fuck that stealer ship, right their with that guy talking like that i would have been like fuck you, you don't knoe what ur talking about, lancer's are seriously seling like hot cakes. In NJ for the GTS model they charge 1000+ fee cause the sells so much.

 

yeah, mitsu have not really held a ton of value but that figure seems pretty low, i used the NADA values yesterday for my gts with navi and 27,xxx miles and it was still worth 16,250 for trade in, thats with the manual trans to.

according to this, a manual ES with no options (like sun n sound) with 16,000 miles is still worth 13,500 for trade in. that dealer was total BS.

 

dealers don't use KBB prices, they all use galves

https://www.galves.com/galves/gal_sub_p ... start=true

for 5 bones you can see how much bs the dealership is telling you if in fact they aren't using the exact numbers from galves.

my wrangler was 13,500 on kbb and 10,200 on galves

Mitsu and other econ cars like honda don't have good resale value because there isn't a uniqueness about them that sets them apart from other cars. econ cars are meant to be bought and ran till they die.

 

AGREE and the dealer also needs to make some money off the car when they try to sell it again. thats y they give you crap for your car when you trade it in. its always best to sell it yourself then trade it in

 

The dealerships will do just about anything to sell you a car. I was inquiring about a RA at my dealership and they said they had the only one in CT. That was total bullshit. And them saying your car is only worth 7k you're better off selling it by yourself.