so i went to go stop by my local mitsu dealership to ask about a paint chip that I have and how i can get it fixed but i saw they had two new ralliarts and i asked if i can take a quick look inside.. i didnt take a test drive or anything but i just sat inside.. but the lady that was helpin me out asked what i was drivin now and i showed her my lancer with all my mods and stuff and she saw i got the sun and sound package and the navi package and i asked her if it would be really worth it to trade in my GTS and go and get the ralliart and she said no.. she even went ahead and told me that if i asked her to sell me the ralliart that she would talk me out of it.. weird??? so i dunno what to think??.. is the ralliart really not that big of an improvement to the GTS if u got a few mods in it?? any comments??
No.... it's not that the ralliart isn't a better car. I think the lady was just kind enough that she didn'T want to bend you over. Even though our lancer is a GTS...it is still considered a base model lancer. You would be getting a major buttfucking if you traded in your GTS and bought a ralliart.
ya i mean i had no intention of trading it in but i could tell like the lady wasnt satisfied with the ralliarts.. she made it seem like the ralliart wasnt anything special.. as if mitsu shouldve never mad it especially since they jacked the price that high...???
holy crap batman...a car salesman that didn't want to sell you a car!! makes the world seem like a better place now. haha
i know! thats what suprised me!.. i looked at her funny but all she said was theres no point.. and i asked what she thought of me just buying and replacing my hood with the ralliart hood and she said that if i did that and anyone found out i would have a much harder time getting my car appraised for a good price?? maybe cuz ive been messin with the hood hinges? thats the only thing i could think of
i dont think hood hinges would have anything to do with this, it should be a direct fit anyway. As for that lady. 2 things i am thinking, she rich and has that job for shit and giggles. 2 she really dint want you to be screwed over. I dont know what really to think of that. you should go back and ask her
I was lookin' into trading my GTS for the R/A and was also told no by the sales manager at my dealership. He basically just said that I wouldn't get near what I'd expect for my car, and for all the work I've put into it, just not worth it to upgrade. He says to keep the car another couple of years, then trade it in if I still want something better.
did you ask the lady what drugs was she using? In my opinion, she didnt know crap about the car, and for all she cares [or knows] they are 2 similar cars with a huge difference in price tags... the car is putting our 200 WHEEL HP stock!... there is absolutely NO mod [turbo aside] that you can do to a base model to even get it close to that, unless you spend thousands in bulding it as an NA beast...... its proven already that with less than 1000 you can have the car doing 265whp easily... thats not even close to the evos price tag, and its already more powerful than a stock evo.... again, the lady didnt have a clue, or she didnt feel like dealing with you lol.. but the RA is WAY worth... right now [sad but true] lancers are getting anywhere from 10k to 14k in dealershits [trade in value] so lets say you get 10k for your lancer, you are financing about 15k, so you would be paying base lancer payments on a RA........ again, the lady was smoking some cheap sh!t or something.
hahahaha that would be true if he already has his car payed off. lol you always make me laugh ektor. so wait if he doesnt have it payed off? it would be 25k plus whatever he owes on his lancer. thats not base lancer payments thats Evo payments for a ralliart.
That is very true... i was in the train of thought that his car is payed off like a lot of us... thanks for being an asshole, as always.
lol actually im proud to say at 19 years old i only have like 3K more to pay off and i did it all by myself lol.. but ya the whole time i was lookin at the lady like she was crazy.. and i dont think its cuz she didnt wanna deal with me cuz i had her laughin and stuff the whole time but ur right with a lil help the R/A would be close to an evo.. im not gonna get it dont get me wrong but still cant get over the fact that she didnt try to sell her heart out to me especially since there prob hasnt been anyone at that dealership for like a week.. i drive by there everyday and those cars never move and theres never any missing anymore lol
i dont think the R/A is worth it... not when you can get an MS3 that puts out more HP stock for $22k-$25kand ralli art is costing $26-$30k. at least where i'm at. the only main difference is the 3 is a hatchback and is fwd only. i don't think they should have come out with the ralli art in the first place. not in the form it's in anyway. they should have used the 2.4 platform with better internals maybe. bring it up tp the likes of a civic si or sentra se-r. then add an aftermarket turbo to that and i'd bet you'd be smokin some stock evo's easy.
/\ +1.. or bring the damn price of it down.. if ima spend that much i would just rather get the evo...
reverse psychology? I think the trade in just isn't worth it. That and the fact it would be harder to take your car after it has been modded because of the warranty?
well see i talked to the lady and she said no matter what anyone says my warranty cant be messed with... and she said that even she recommends for me to take all the mods off and put the stock ones back on.. i mean i was gonna do that anyways lol but ya no warranty voided and it came from a saleslady mouth
Sounds to me like she didn't know what she was talking about. Women and cars :roll: . Except a select few. Every female saleswoman I have ever delt with didn't know the important stuff. They would always point out the cup holders and visor mirrors......
im pretty sure it was mcginnis mitsu... right off of i-10 a lil past hwy 6.. but haha thats funny.. she didnt say anything about cup holders but did tell me that if i changed my hood for the ralliart one that the value of my car would derease and that i would have a harder time selling it??
