Dealer selling MP3 for $$$$!

[norouzi]

I was at Browns Fairfax Mazda about a month ago, and I spot a tinted out mp3 on their lot.

So I mosey on along it and check out the window sticker - they were selling it for either $18500 or $19500!!

I was like what the hell! The car had ~30K on it. The window sticker broke down the price like so:

~12K Blue Book Value
~2K or ~3K for modifications made to the car
---------> 4K Market surcharge <----------

I asked someone who worked there about it, and he said that they got it at an auction, and it seemed like the guy who last owned it didn't know what an MP3 was and just thought it was a regulal protege - -- - this story doesn't hold too much water in my opinion - but that's besides the point - they were selling it for more that I paid for mine, brand new.

Has anyone else seen a dealer selling an mp3 for this much?!

[MP3-Owner]

Did it have a spool turbo that was added by the dealer and warrentied? I wish MP3's were worth that much right now, I would sell mine.

[SKY]

If the price is in Canadian dollar, that seems right....hehe
I hope MP3 worth more too, but I see that MP3's price are dropping... :(

[MrMp3]

I dont think I will ever sell mine I am getting equity loan and paying it off.

It has problems but I love the looks I still get to this day in my mp3

[funnylittlman]

Originally posted by norouzi
I was at Browns Fairfax Mazda about a month ago, and I spot a tinted out mp3 on their lot.

So I mosey on along it and check out the window sticker - they were selling it for either $18500 or $19500!!

I was like what the hell! The car had ~30K on it. The window sticker broke down the price like so:

~12K Blue Book Value
~2K or ~3K for modifications made to the car
---------> 4K Market surcharge <----------

I asked someone who worked there about it, and he said that they got it at an auction, and it seemed like the guy who last owned it didn't know what an MP3 was and just thought it was a regulal protege - -- - this story doesn't hold too much water in my opinion - but that's besides the point - they were selling it for more that I paid for mine, brand new.

Has anyone else seen a dealer selling an mp3 for this much?!

Dude,

I checked out that car when I went over to browns... it looked pretty stock to me, and at 19.5K, F that...

But it's gone now....

[ghetto waggon]

Whoever bought it works at fair oaks mall...parks in the back of the back, just like the MSP :)

I left a little note on their car....maybe they'll come around

[scott42]

I just did the equity thing on mine...not selling now for a wile...got my payments down to around 150 though...and 4% lower rate..

[dragonbabe79]

well hell, now isnt that mp3 over priced??


makes me wonder if it was gotten from an auction in VA if it once belonged to my ex...
after all his was repoed by mazda american credit and it had no mods....

won't it be a small world if it was?

[Kooldino]

Originally posted by scott42
I just did the equity thing on mine...not selling now for a wile...got my payments down to around 150 though...and 4% lower rate..

What's this equity business? Like a 30 year house loan but you add your car into the mix or something?

[APEXistud]

If I remember right, you refinance your house or something in that nature. I guess since I don't own my house, I'm out of the loop on this one.

[funnylittlman]

Originally posted by dragonbabe79
well hell, now isnt that mp3 over priced??


makes me wonder if it was gotten from an auction in VA if it once belonged to my ex...
after all his was repoed by mazda american credit and it had no mods....

won't it be a small world if it was?

Dragonbabe,

The only "mod" on there was lightly tinted windows... Everything else looked stock to me! :D

[MP3-Owner]

Anybody pop the hood?

[PaulMP3]

my dealer had on for 18000 last year and it had 20k miles on it, also had a no haggle price sticker on it. i just laughed, wonder if it ever sold.

[donz]

you think any of that is bad??? there is a high school kid in my town that paid 22 grand for his blue mp3 like 5 months ago...idiot

[LinuxRacr]

Damn, homedude got stuck rough with no vasaline. :eek: $22K? :wtf:

[Pants McGregor]

Originally posted by donz
you think any of that is bad??? there is a high school kid in my town that paid 22 grand for his blue mp3 like 5 months ago...idiot

I am quite happy to hear things like that. Keep the price up! More people should be like that kid :)

PM

[nocar]

lol i say everybody with a mp3 not let it sell for less then 19g, like everyone on the board and then tell other pple with mp3s about it ;]

[dragonbabe79]

I would try to go for 20k only because of all of the extras on mine.....

but Im never selling my car...NEVER!!!

[SSQ B.O.V]

i bleed gas and fart boost lol