NB Values & Discussion Thread MX5 Miata Roadster

[JamieH]

Man, dealerships need to go. Just useless middlemen and scalpers.

We've been searching for a great Miata for a friend of ours and a couple weeks back, we thought we found the perfect one. A 2002 Blazing Yellow SE w/o tupperware with 67,956 miles for $8k on craigslist in Charlotte. Blazing Yellow is our friend's favorite color for a NB and he prefers no tupperware. Sweet, we thought, lets contact these people and talk to them about the car. We had just been looking at the ad, I mean literally seconds ago, so surely the ad is still up. Nope. Sonofabitch! And neither of us thought to screencap the listing with the contact info. Damn! At that point we sucked it up and let it go.

Well, today we found that same car, still in Charlotte, but now at a dealership. It now has 67,977 miles on it. A whopping 21 mile increase. Now guess how much they're asking for it. If you guessed $12k, you win the no prize. Are you shitting me? That's a disgusting mark up. There's buying and flipping and then there's out right retarded greed. $12k is a number they pulled out of their collective asses. NADA clean retail is $7,625. I ain't one to praise NADA or call it accurate, but it's usually a good ballpark figure. What the hell are they thinking with that number? Do they hope someone will buy it and finance it through them at that price? Just so they can rape someone even worse with more of their bullshit?

Just one more reason why it's difficult to find a good, clean car at a fair price.

[tsingson]

So I assume no offer was made on it?

You should have had the 8K in cash and just made it rain with the offer.

http://media.tumblr.com/tumblr_lprzw61pgr1qc382p.gif

[Demon I Am]

You could buy a "well-modded" MSM for that kind of money :blaugh2:

[tsingson]

We all know what that money can get you.

[Martin]

We all know what that money can get you.

Several hookers?

[tsingson]

Or lots of Waffle House.

[JamieH]

We found a better example of a Blazing Yellow w/o tupperware yesterday. Now it's a matter of our friend going after it. Has a 1/6 of the mileage of the car in Charlotte... and less is being asked. But, he's being apprehensive because it's so nice and so much up front. But it's so worth it. It's nearly a 14 year old new car it's so good. He said it best himself, the thing is a unicorn.

[Phatmiata]

Man, dealerships need to go. Just useless middlemen and scalpers.

We've been searching for a great Miata for a friend of ours and a couple weeks back, we thought we found the perfect one. A 2002 Blazing Yellow SE w/o tupperware with 67,956 miles for $8k on craigslist in Charlotte. Blazing Yellow is our friend's favorite color for a NB and he prefers no tupperware. Sweet, we thought, lets contact these people and talk to them about the car. We had just been looking at the ad, I mean literally seconds ago, so surely the ad is still up. Nope. Sonofabitch! And neither of us thought to screencap the listing with the contact info. Damn! At that point we sucked it up and let it go.

Well, today we found that same car, still in Charlotte, but now at a dealership. It now has 67,977 miles on it. A whopping 21 mile increase. Now guess how much they're asking for it. If you guessed $12k, you win the no prize. Are you shitting me? That's a disgusting mark up. There's buying and flipping and then there's out right retarded greed. $12k is a number they pulled out of their collective asses. NADA clean retail is $7,625. I ain't one to praise NADA or call it accurate, but it's usually a good ballpark figure. What the hell are they thinking with that number? Do they hope someone will buy it and finance it through them at that price? Just so they can rape someone even worse with more of their bullshit?

Just one more reason why it's difficult to find a good, clean car at a fair price.

2002 mazda miata S E - $10900 (MEQUON)

2002 MAZDA MIATA S E RUNS GREART, LIKE NEW, 30,000 MILES ASKING 10,900, female owned, garage kept, parting with this car from a car collection, absolute mint condition, never driven in the snow.

http://i.imgur.com/oi2Ukxn.jpg

http://i.imgur.com/p8mR1iJ.jpg

http://i.imgur.com/L7yBl5B.jpg

http://i.imgur.com/zUAWWhg.jpg

http://milwaukee.craigslist.org/cto/5151772523.html

[Phatmiata]

This one with 22K miles just sold today for $11,900 within only a week of posting it.

http://www.autohausfl.com/vehicle-details/2002-mazda-mx-5-miata-ls-49a9f5633ef76f46b2c9df46ddf9b7cb/



https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lsAPL4dZ9v8

[JamieH]

This one with 22K miles just sold today for $11,900 within only a week of posting it.

http://www.autohausfl.com/vehicle-details/2002-mazda-mx-5-miata-ls-49a9f5633ef76f46b2c9df46ddf9b7cb/


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lsAPL4dZ9v8

Actually, that car has 13k miles. It's a Canadian car, so the odo reads 22k kilometers. And was the one my friend was looking at it. He didn't get it, sadly, so his dilemma is solved.

[Phatmiata]

I did not even think about it being in KPH :fp: easy to swap out the cluster with a USDM version too.

[HarryB]

Or grab the chance and get Adam (revlimiter) to do his magic!

[Demon I Am]

you'd still need to swap the cluster for the odometer, and the actual speedo gearing is wound differently between kpm and mph. This is why I have not re-installed my KGW panel with AWD gauges. That, and there's been no time to do the work.