I've had it, dumped my ride and bought a fancy 4X4...

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08-01-08, 10:30 AM

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$50K loss? Holy cow! I thought AMG's had bad resale.

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08-01-08, 11:08 AM

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Congratulations Barnaby! What an incredible deal! Considering, it does not have the executive seat package (from what I remember from your test drive post), I bet you did not pay more than about $60K for this awesome vehicle.

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08-01-08, 11:38 AM

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Nice Title.

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08-01-08, 12:18 PM

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Oh well, the previous owner's loss is your gain, and hey maybe he had money to throw around, so didn't mind trying an LSh and then the GS.

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08-01-08, 12:19 PM

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Congratulations!!! Use it in good health!

I guess the next question would be "How much did you loose on your car?"

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08-01-08, 02:08 PM

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I had about 30K miles on my LS. In Canada, the 2008 is priced at $80K; my net loss is $20K which is not bad for a 16-month old car high end vehicle. And of course, with the tax recovery on the trade-in, it didn't take me long to make up my mind. Dealers are also a little nervous carrying big cars with big price tags, especially trade-ins as their line of credit interest for used stock is much higher that Toyota's rate for their new inventory. I was going to finance the difference, but they wanted me to pick up half of their lower interest finance charge ($1500) from Toyota. Rather than eat the $750, I bought it out.

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08-01-08, 02:09 PM

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actually i have a question, do you still have the ls460? i guess it depends on how much you sold that one for, if you did

edit: never mind, you just answeerd

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08-01-08, 02:09 PM

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Much less than that...

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08-01-08, 02:12 PM

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actually i have a question, do you still have the ls460? i guess it depends on how much you sold that one for, if you did

Traded it in, got an excellent price for it. They came up $8K from book value in the negotiation. They think it'll sell quick as used SWBs are in demand, and in shortage.

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08-01-08, 02:15 PM

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Congrats

The most beautiful colors combo

Are you going to seal the paint.

The former owner (poor guy) got the paint seal option, so that was a throw-in.

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08-01-08, 02:27 PM

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Traded it in, got an excellent price for it. They came up $8K from book value in the negotiation. They think it'll sell quick as used SWBs are in demand, and in shortage.

wow, time has changed.... months ago swb were everywhere and lwb were in demand

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08-01-08, 02:47 PM

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wow my goodness, congrats on the car man! 50k hit, gosh maybe i should go look around at dealership and see what kind of deals i can get these days

gorgeous car!

Yeah!!!!

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08-01-08, 04:25 PM

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Congratulations and enjoy your new car...

Craig

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08-01-08, 05:28 PM

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Welcome to a very select club!

But your bargain got me a little worried... I also scored a very good deal from our dealer. Is it our clever negotiating skills

or something else we don't know about?

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