The dealer wants my car back

[mrbigstuff]

what I paid for it in 2016, and I put 175 thousand miles on it since then

wait, what? 29k miles per year?

[rgG]

I just sold my husband's 2014 Audi A4, to Carvana, for about half of what it cost in 2014, not bad, IMHO
It had right at 70K.

[Racer X]

mrbigstuff wrote:
what I paid for it in 2016, and I put 175 thousand miles on it since then

wait, what? 29k miles per year?

high 70s something in 2018 and low 70s in 2019.

[testcase]

“ What's the point of selling if I can't trade up?”


My situation too. I’d consider trading in my low mileage 2018 high end Prius BUT, only if I could get the 2022 (or later) Sienna hybrid. NO high end Siennas are available.

[mattkime]

jonny wrote:
Why do people want diesel? Even the modern cars are dirtier than gas.

I don't understand it either. Maybe they're people who drive 30k miles a year?

[Racer X]

mattkime wrote:
[quote=jonny]
Why do people want diesel? Even the modern cars are dirtier than gas.

I don't understand it either. Maybe they're people who drive 30k miles a year?
My partner's older brother commutes about 200 miles a day for work. He and 2 others carpool, and work construction. Makes really good money. Those not driving sleep.

And I had a co-worker 2 decades ago who did that as well. Same commute actually. He usually worked 4 10s though, so not quite as bad.

[mstudio]

The other car is a Gulf TDI. When we bought them, diesel was the same or cheaper than regular gas. The Touareg gets around 30mpg and the Gulf gets 50mpg. The engines last pretty much forever (there was a guy in the dealership at the time that had one with over 600,000 miles on it and he had no intention to get rid of it). I wanted it mostly for the torque and towing capacity, 7700# and a 660# tongue weight. It is probably the best car I've ever owned and I've owned many over the years.

[mrbigstuff]

mstudio wrote:
The other car is a Gulf TDI. When we bought them, diesel was the same or cheaper than regular gas. The Touareg gets around 30mpg and the Gulf gets 50mpg. The engines last pretty much forever (there was a guy in the dealership at the time that had one with over 600,000 miles on it and he had no intention to get rid of it). I wanted it mostly for the torque and towing capacity, 7700# and a 660# tongue weight. It is probably the best car I've ever owned and I've owned many over the years.

Wow,n that's unreal towing weight for the size of car! Is it the V10 diesel? That thing was insanity.

[Racer X]

The reason for the diesel price skyrocketing here in the US is that Europe will pay far more for it, and even with transportation costs overseas, the oil companies make more money.

Global Economy bites us in the end again.

[mstudio]

mrbigstuff wrote:
Wow, that's unreal towing weight for the size of car! Is it the V10 diesel? That thing was insanity.

Believe or not, it's a V6. I saw a video of the V10 towing a 747! I recently towed a 1500# trailer with a 4500# van on it and didn't even feel it back there (except on the bumps).