Vehicles in motion

[rmd]

Well, it's time. My beloved MINI is getting a bit long in the tooth and it seems like it's getting ready to go live on a farm in the country where it can frolic with the other parts cars. So I figured that I'd stay ahead of the game and start figuring out what to replace it with. I opted for a Honda Fit, and then the July 4th sale incentives hit, so I'm going to be picking up a new Fit next week.

They offered me kind of crap value for trade-in on the mini (to be fair, they think they'll just send it to auction), so I'll probably swing by one of the used car places in Somerville and see if they'll do better. If not, I'll see if the dealership will go for slightly less cash and throw in a bunch of accessories. I'm trying to figure out if it's worth the annoyance and work to do a private sale via CL or ebay or something. I suspect not.

Since the Fit is more spacious than the MINI, I figure if I get a set of roof racks for that, it'll cover 95% of what I do with the truck, so I can get rid of the truck as well.

Comments

[deguspice.livejournal.com]

One advantage of trading-in your old MINI when you purchase a new car is that the Sales Tax is based upon what you gave the dealer after the trade-in.

[irilyth]

If long-distance (more than 60 mi/day) driving isn't an issue, I *love* my 2013 Leaf.

[whitebird.livejournal.com]

Why not another MINI?

[bex77]

Best of luck!

When I was trying to sell my Mom's 10 year old car, I had good luck with John's Auto Sales on the corner of Somerville Ave. and McGrath Hwy, next to Burger King and across from Target. When no one else would give me anything, he offered half the Blue Book value.