Hmm I just got this letter from the dealership.. opinons?
 

Letter came in wanting to buy back my car because of "used car" demands... I know it's a gimmick, I get the same letters for my previous Tiberon.

Anyway, it states they will give 20,855 (clean).. which is stock aside from aftermarket exhaust and intake.

I'm actually considering it, got 29K miles.. and I'd like to get what the new cars (scion) or even BRZ have... HED headlight/fog lights/nav..

Funny though, wonder if I could sell the car higher... does 20,855 sound good for a '13 and 29K miles?

* note after all taxes and everything.. the original car was around 30k.. of course I bought that stupid 1K warranty...

Yeah its a sales gimmick. Depending on how hard you can haggle though... you never know.

I bought mine used 2013 asphalt 6spd in Dec 2013 for $20,500 + tax, tag, title. 4 months of ownership with 7,500 miles. With 5 axis spoiler, trunk mat, mudflaps, bespoke audio, factory tint, and N1 catback. So I would say ~21k is not a bad price for 30k miles imo.

Ya it seam fair... How you like the N1 catback? (invidia?) It's a bit loud for me at startup, but sounds good after it settles in :)

It's a trap! I still get a lot of those for a car I ALREADY sold.

Someone at Toyota/Subaru is a genius, and has taken a page from the Apple marketing manual. Sell the same f-ing car, over and over again.

I sold my 2005 Civic Si 6 years ago and I still get letters from Honda saying they want to buy it from me since it's a car "We're looking for"...

I'd say go to your dealer, low ball the hell out of a new one and then ask premium dollar for yours and see how serious they are.

The idea is to have you buy another used car. It's a good deal for them. They keep you with payments longer, more money in their pocket.

Seems great on the surface but its no different from leasing a brand new car every 2-3 years, they want to hook you on payments forever.

You took the hit of buying one new car with the depreciation, do you really want to toss another 2-3k out the window just for the latest model?

Also: do people actually like the touch screens that come in these cars? Most reviewers complain about small hard to hit buttons and awkward interfaces, most owners have their minds somewhere else. I love the physical buttons on mine.

I've learned to live with it.
The only thing I really hate is, they'll let you fuck around with the EQ, bar by bar, but not let you put an address in to the GPS while driving.

1 week after buying I went on a 400 mile trip, the drone killed me. It wasn't that bad on the weekends, when I could be aggressive, but my daily commute is 100% city, so all I could do was make noise and draw the wrong kind of attention. He didn't have silencers, but they did give me the factory exhaust with the car, I ended up selling the n1 and putting the factory stuff back on.

I knew I didn't want the touch screen, but the option was on the car, so I had to take it as is. I honestly despise this head unit. The touchscreen is bad enough, having to look down to do anything when I used to be able to do it all by feel. But the shuffle algorithm is so bad, I have to look down after just about every song, spend time switching from random/random folder/normal just so it won't repeat the same list it played the last time I got in the car, then FF to next song after next song, while watching the song list so I can jump ahead when I see it is a repeat. Basically I spend more time looking at that screen than I do the road. I am hesitant to spend $150 and splice in a single din aftermarket radio because I don't know how it will work with our 6?/8? speaker setup, just to fix this +$1000 pos! /rant.

First they screw you over when you buy a new car. Now they want to screw you over for buying the said car from you.

I get these in my name for my BOYFRIEND'S GTI that he traded in four years ago. :iono:

http://www.beatsonicusa.com/nav-dvd-...us/nt6122.html

Don't know how well that works, but at least it exists.

lol OP getting played like a fool

You can buy the new BeSpoke with nav on the forums for about 400. Winjet HID lights (not as good as OEM but still look great) cost about 450 or so. Foglights cost about 150, Kneepads cost about 300 from JPM coachworks and are better quality than the OEM vinyl stuff. It might just be easier to add those things in than spend another 5k+.

I had a similar problem with mine though not as loud as the Nvidia N1. I added a Vibrant Resonator (sold on amazon), took it to a muffler shop and had it welded in for 40 bucks. Drone completely killed.

SALES GIMMICK YES, also a chance for me to get the brz instead of the FRS!! lol
I failed when getting my frs I wanted silver GOT ASPHALT, I wanted a BRZ got a FRS lol. I still love my FRS dont get me wrong but if yours has 29k mi and theyre going to give you 20k $! mine only has 5600mi~ about to own it for a year, Ill break even most likely and be able to start over! so i wouldnt mind this at all ;)

Yes I know i failed! I love how both cars look, and in the end it is only looks and name. I think the biggest fail I Did was not getting argento like I wanted I listened to the gf when she said "silver is so boring, get the dark grey one thats a sexy color!" (In my defense, I was on the fence with argento and asphalt, only because I told myself I need to try and stay away from getting another black car which is my favorite color.)LOL I agree with her asphalt is sexy but its not the argento I wanted AND NOT even A BRZ!

end fail-

@Annahra

ill trade you cars! lol

I got one of these the other day for my GTI. Was offered $15k for a car that I bought new 3 years ago for $27k + TTL. Just a sales gimmick.

Hahahaha you can have the silver one for about $22K! The dealership finished rebuilding the engine and it's for sale ;).

rebuilt engine!? I'll have to pass lol ): what happened?

If you traded it to my dealership you'd probably get $18k, so by that metric it's a good deal. If you do decide to do it, cancel the extended warranty and get a pro-rated refund. I don't think you should do it though; even at $20,855 and getting a refund on the warranty you're taking a bath financially.

Depends on who you ask. The new one is going strong at 4K :).

http://www.ft86club.com/forums/showthread.php?t=61452

I was also looking for argento, but ended up with asphalt. I figured the argento would reflect a bit more of this GA heat. I have thought about doing a light silver vinyl on hood, trunk, roof.. would also want matching light sliver louvers, But the prices are too damn high, and It would probably look ricy unless it was a high quality paint fade from light on top to dark at the bottom.

If you can actually get that much from them, and you really want to trade out to a BRZ, I'd say go for it. I'm picking up a 2013 FR-S used from a dealer tomorrow. It has 4k miles and was listed for $21,995. Talked them down a little and got it out the door for $23.5k. Nearly $21k for a car with 29k miles seems pretty good. It is totally a sales gimmick though, and you will be hard pressed to actually get that much out of them on the trade in.

Only if you have fat fingers. In which case, weight reduction should be more of an issue for the individual to address. If people can type on iPhone keyboards then our screens shouldn't be an issue.