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Old Mar 6, 2012 | 06:14 PM
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Always wait for exactly what you want. Btw the way you type reminds me of juvenile the rapper, he had a song called "ha". After almost everything you type there is a "ha" thrown in there. Lol
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Old Mar 6, 2012 | 06:18 PM
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over priced
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Old Mar 6, 2012 | 06:37 PM
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Originally Posted by silverSS08
Always wait for exactly what you want. Btw the way you type reminds me of juvenile the rapper, he had a song called "ha". After almost everything you type there is a "ha" thrown in there. Lol
haha y dont u lick my *****. its better than LOL. and ya i want to wait for exactly wat i want but they just arent showing up
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Old Mar 6, 2012 | 06:40 PM
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i got mine for that price in 2009 with 5k miles on it haha.
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Old Mar 6, 2012 | 06:40 PM
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looks slow
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Old Mar 6, 2012 | 06:47 PM
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would you consider a Sedan? there is a Sport red sedan in manchester NH. 40K miles 14K
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Old Mar 6, 2012 | 06:50 PM
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Originally Posted by LS6Rally
would you consider a Sedan? there is a Sport red sedan in manchester NH. 40K miles 14K
i just really dont want anything less than 25k for miles. i feel like i would just be trading my car in for the slight power upgrade which i dont want to be the only reason i trade cars. i want a pretty damn close to new car to make this worth it in my eyes.
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Old Mar 6, 2012 | 06:57 PM
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just showing that u can find a much better deal

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Old Mar 6, 2012 | 07:00 PM
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Originally Posted by kikal8
haha y dont u lick my *****. its better than LOL. and ya i want to wait for exactly wat i want but they just arent showing up
The one your looking for will show up eventually. U have a car now so why rush it? I got my 08 with 30k for 13. Ha may be better than lol but its the amount you use it that matters. I know your not sitting in your chair laughing after everything you or someone else says. If you are that's a whole other issue
that I can't help you with. Just
saying ....
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Old Mar 6, 2012 | 07:02 PM
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Originally Posted by BPacak
just showing that u can find a much better deal

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i actually saw that Cobalt, and yea i also just looked at the KBB value for the black cobalt i posted before and its only worth 17k exactly in EXCELLENT condition. so i obviously have to do some haggling
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Old Mar 6, 2012 | 07:06 PM
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Originally Posted by silverSS08
The one your looking for will show up eventually. U have a car now so why rush it? I got my 08 with 30k for 13. Ha may be better than lol but its the amount you use it that matters. I know your not sitting in your chair laughing after everything you or someone else says. If you are that's a whole other issue
that I can't help you with. Just
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i do it because im very sarcastic and if i dont say ha it gives the wrong idea. so wat i just said to u. i told u to suck my **** or something like that because u made fun of my HA, now i wasnt affended so i wanted u to know im jokin about saying suck my dick, not legit pissed. so i say ha at the end. idk. its a bad habit i know.

but anyway... yea, im just getting a little anxious here. its just that i have been looking for the last, i wanna say 5 months at tc cobalts just for the f of it and i havent found any that have the things i want. i feel like if itll never happen and i should just comprimise a little bit. although i do agree that settling on an exterior color of the car might be dumb.
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Old Mar 6, 2012 | 07:29 PM
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Originally Posted by kikal8
i do it because im very sarcastic and if i dont say ha it gives the wrong idea. so wat i just said to u. i told u to suck my **** or something like that because u made fun of my HA, now i wasnt affended so i wanted u to know im jokin about saying suck my dick, not legit pissed. so i say ha at the end. idk. its a bad habit i know.

but anyway... yea, im just getting a little anxious here. its just that i have been looking for the last, i wanna say 5 months at tc
cobalts just for the f of it and i havent found any that have the things i want. i feel like if itll never happen and i should just comprimise a little bit. although i do agree that settling on an exterior color of the car might be dumb.
No offense taken. If you can't take a little ribbing you will never make it on this site or in the cobalt world. There is always gonna be something about you or your car that someone else doesn't like. As for waiting fornthe right car ... ill just say this I got really lucky when my car became available because my civic had just **** the bed and I was staying with a friend until I could find something. I was close to throwing money at another civic or rsx or wrx and then this beauty just popped up on Craigslist and was right in the next town over. So my point is "good will come to those who wait" the reason you don't see many of them are that they were only produced for a short period of time 08-10 and most people that bought them still have there's because they love
them and they are still "new"
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Old Mar 6, 2012 | 09:58 PM
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Looks nice but I would pay that much, especially with mods...always sketchy to me. Got my 09 with 28k miles for 16K, private seller though. So hard to deal with car dealerships. **** 'em, looked at a black one in cincinnati and they wanted 18k and carfax showed it was repo'ed after a month (didn't understand that) and then bought by them. So definitely look over carfax is you go take a look at it also.

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Old Mar 6, 2012 | 10:05 PM
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Looks really clean. Low miles.

Got a Hahn Upper charge pipe and looks like a Hahn intake.

Good choice, although I'm not a fan of black.
Plus it would be a bish to keep clean
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Old Mar 6, 2012 | 10:12 PM
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No pics online, but it's not all that horribly far away. Low mileage, decent price....

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Old Mar 6, 2012 | 10:41 PM
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Originally Posted by soundjunky
a small correction;


Go to your car;
lift the trunk mat;
affixed to the trunk floor somewhere infront of your sub is a silver sticker;
that silver sticker shows all the (standard or selected) option codes that the car has;
if the car had limited slip from the factory, the code 'G85' will be printed on that sticker.

Son of a bitch! I just looked at my car and G85s not on there, they lied to me :l
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Old Mar 6, 2012 | 11:21 PM
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Son of a bitch! I just looked at my car and G85s not on there, they lied to me :l
Might still have it just not factory installed
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Old Mar 6, 2012 | 11:32 PM
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I just paid 14.4k for my 09 with 31k miles on it. Saw a lot of people throwing numbers out there. I got it about 4 months ago.
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Old Mar 7, 2012 | 01:01 AM
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ya. maybe i should just wait.. =/ i just need to make sure im gonna do this because i need to part the car out and sell it for that matter. aha
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Old Mar 7, 2012 | 12:58 PM
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The best prices you will find on cars will be on this site, because the members here won't let anyone get away with trying to make any money.

I bought mine in '09, it had 3K miles on it, and it was at Carmax. I payed 15.8K for it. Got if for a steal. That was back when they were still making them, though. I'm hoping the value starts going up a little, instead of the other way around.
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Old Mar 7, 2012 | 01:11 PM
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Originally Posted by SSlobalt
... I'm hoping the value starts going up a little, instead of the other way around.
won't happen.

regardless of make/model, cars values plummet till about he ten of twelve year mark, at which time they plateau;
if the car has a following typically the value will start to climb back up at around the fifteen to twenty year mark (otherwise it just stays at the low level)...
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Old Mar 7, 2012 | 01:18 PM
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Originally Posted by soundjunky
won't happen.

regardless of make/model, cars values plummet till about he ten of twelve year mark, at which time they plateau;
if the car has a following typically the value will start to climb back up at around the fifteen to twenty year mark (otherwise it just stays at the low level)...
Didn't happen like that with the '03-'04 Cobras. Those things are still worth quite a bit.
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Old Mar 7, 2012 | 01:22 PM
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Originally Posted by SSlobalt
Didn't happen like that with the '03-'04 Cobras. Those things are still worth quite a bit.
are they worth more than new?

probably not.

not all cars become worthless ~ but the trend is that it takes about 10-12 years for their values to bottom out.
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Old Mar 7, 2012 | 01:35 PM
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are they worth more than new?

probably not.

not all cars become worthless ~ but the trend is that it takes about 10-12 years for their values to bottom out.
Nah, they're not worth more than new. My Father's 1987 Grand National is, but that thing is a classic, now.

I'm not saying I want this thing to be worth more than new. I just want it to hold it's value a little better. Selling new for 25K, then plummeting down to 14-15K in one year is ridiculous, especially when there is demand for them.
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Old Mar 7, 2012 | 02:32 PM
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Originally Posted by SSlobalt
Nah, they're not worth more than new. My Father's 1987 Grand National is, but that thing is a classic, now.

I'm not saying I want this thing to be worth more than new. I just want it to hold it's value a little better. Selling new for 25K, then plummeting down to 14-15K in one year is ridiculous, especially when there is demand for them.
unfortunately that's the nature of used cars.

It's been said that the single worst investment (or use of money) is to buy a new car;
as it drops a couple grand in value from simply driving it off the dealers lot.
This is precisely why I advocate putting alot of thought into car purchases ~ especially if your contemplating buying new...

some brands hold their value better because of perception/demand;
My brothers C-SRT4 had about the same MSRP as my Cobalt, and is now worth more than mine.

Both myself, and my brother (both bought new, both were our first new cars) have not suffered from a single moment of buyers remorse;
We bought with the intent of having something that didn't have any questionable past - and having something new for once - In essence, we paid a premium to not have to deal with any abuse/damage/lack of maintenance inflicted from a previous owner....

About the GN;

2012 - 1987 = 25 years old


There has been a strong following from the Grand National's from day #1 ~ which is why you pretty much will NEVER find one in the scrapyard...
It probably helps that the car targeted a more mature buyer ~ as opposed to our cars targeting a youth market...
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