Why so many C7's for sale???
05-22-2016, 05:02 PM
#41
Burning Brakes
I'm over here browsing around and saw your thread. I own a C6, but I'll share a few thoughts.
You mentioned bucket list. If you are retired, move to Missouri and buy a condo with garage and a Corvette for what an apartment costs in New York, and you can enjoy our open roads. Just an invitation to experience something different.
To minimize your risk of an early sell, make sure you buy the car you want, and not just the one that is available at a special price.
All of us have limited time to use them, so drive it like a car when you have somewhere to go. Every time I start mine up, I remember why I still have it. Too long between rides, and I sometimes think it is time to let it go. When you are driving it one day and decide you are bored with it and the appeal is gone, it MAY be time to let it go. I sold a C5 thinking I was done. A few months later I bought my C6.
When I was young, I loved to drive a manual. It gives control that I think is still missing from the auto. I do have an auto and use the paddle shifters some. That is pretty cool but not the same as a manual. With that said, I would again buy an auto. It is easy to drive on the streets and in traffic, and I probably would not be as good on a clutch pedal as I once was. I sometime yearn for the manual, but I also know that I have the correct transmission for most of my driving.
Go test drive some Corvettes with the manual and some with the auto. Drive in the traffic you expect to encounter and determine which transmission you want to drive for years. Wrong choice could cost you $5K or more to switch cars just to get the transmission you want.
Good luck with your decisions and your search for the car that best meets your expectations.
You mentioned bucket list. If you are retired, move to Missouri and buy a condo with garage and a Corvette for what an apartment costs in New York, and you can enjoy our open roads. Just an invitation to experience something different.
To minimize your risk of an early sell, make sure you buy the car you want, and not just the one that is available at a special price.
All of us have limited time to use them, so drive it like a car when you have somewhere to go. Every time I start mine up, I remember why I still have it. Too long between rides, and I sometimes think it is time to let it go. When you are driving it one day and decide you are bored with it and the appeal is gone, it MAY be time to let it go. I sold a C5 thinking I was done. A few months later I bought my C6.
When I was young, I loved to drive a manual. It gives control that I think is still missing from the auto. I do have an auto and use the paddle shifters some. That is pretty cool but not the same as a manual. With that said, I would again buy an auto. It is easy to drive on the streets and in traffic, and I probably would not be as good on a clutch pedal as I once was. I sometime yearn for the manual, but I also know that I have the correct transmission for most of my driving.
Go test drive some Corvettes with the manual and some with the auto. Drive in the traffic you expect to encounter and determine which transmission you want to drive for years. Wrong choice could cost you $5K or more to switch cars just to get the transmission you want.
Good luck with your decisions and your search for the car that best meets your expectations.
And then there will be driver-LESS cars.. no manuals to be found then
05-22-2016, 09:05 PM
#42
Safety Car
About those true manuals. Getting more and more and more rare these days w/ all the electronic stuff. I'd get one even if I ran into some traffic M-F. Not that socal traffic of course but most members here don't face that type of traffic.
And then there will be driver-LESS cars.. no manuals to be found then
And then there will be driver-LESS cars.. no manuals to be found then
05-23-2016, 05:28 PM
#43
5th Gear
I have yet to see one for 39k, the only low 40s I've seen had 60,000+ miles and there is no way I'm touching that... Lol
05-24-2016, 11:38 PM
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I am about to put mine up for sale. Why? simply because I have a boat and sold my old one and got a new one this year. Then I have a bike. So my 14 has only 3k miles because I just don't have time for it and refuse to drive it as a daily. I love the car it's just kind of a waste for me because I have so many other things I do as well in the summer. Really the only reason, I've been wrestling with the decision for a while but it just isn't getting driven as much as I'd like because I'm so busy. Honestly I don't think there's any one overiding reason for people selling them.
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05-26-2016, 10:49 PM
#45
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I am about to put mine up for sale. Why? simply because I have a boat and sold my old one and got a new one this year. Then I have a bike. So my 14 has only 3k miles because I just don't have time for it and refuse to drive it as a daily. I love the car it's just kind of a waste for me because I have so many other things I do as well in the summer. Really the only reason, I've been wrestling with the decision for a while but it just isn't getting driven as much as I'd like because I'm so busy. Honestly I don't think there's any one overiding reason for people selling them.
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05-28-2016, 04:55 PM
#46
Thanks again for all the replies.
I am convinced it's time to get a C7.
All the stars will never line up perfectly.
My biggest challenge is I have no garage at my condo, which will make it a bit of a pain to own.
The storage place closest to me is 325 per month to rent a garage. I think that is nuts.
I have my name on a waiting list at another place that is 225 per month, but is at least 15 min away.
I prefer used but MacMulkin has some Z51 2LT's with mag ride for 62/63k, before the 2k loyalty discount.
I am happy with a base, but they have few 2LT's base with mag ride.
So to me it makes a lot of sense to buy new vs used. Not saving much and prefer to have longer warranty.
Also I am very uncomfortable with handing over a check for 50k to a stranger. Not sure how you guys do this. I have bought used cars in the past but not over 27k.
I will keep my eye out for a good deal on used, but as soon as my garage is available, I will head up to MacMulkin.
I am convinced it's time to get a C7.
All the stars will never line up perfectly.
My biggest challenge is I have no garage at my condo, which will make it a bit of a pain to own.
The storage place closest to me is 325 per month to rent a garage. I think that is nuts.
I have my name on a waiting list at another place that is 225 per month, but is at least 15 min away.
I prefer used but MacMulkin has some Z51 2LT's with mag ride for 62/63k, before the 2k loyalty discount.
I am happy with a base, but they have few 2LT's base with mag ride.
So to me it makes a lot of sense to buy new vs used. Not saving much and prefer to have longer warranty.
Also I am very uncomfortable with handing over a check for 50k to a stranger. Not sure how you guys do this. I have bought used cars in the past but not over 27k.
I will keep my eye out for a good deal on used, but as soon as my garage is available, I will head up to MacMulkin.
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05-28-2016, 05:17 PM
#47
I'm over here browsing around and saw your thread. I own a C6, but I'll share a few thoughts.
You mentioned bucket list. If you are retired, move to Missouri and buy a condo with garage and a Corvette for what an apartment costs in New York, and you can enjoy our open roads. Just an invitation to experience something different.
To minimize your risk of an early sell, make sure you buy the car you want, and not just the one that is available at a special price.
All of us have limited time to use them, so drive it like a car when you have somewhere to go. Every time I start mine up, I remember why I still have it. Too long between rides, and I sometimes think it is time to let it go. When you are driving it one day and decide you are bored with it and the appeal is gone, it MAY be time to let it go. I sold a C5 thinking I was done. A few months later I bought my C6.
When I was young, I loved to drive a manual. It gives control that I think is still missing from the auto. I do have an auto and use the paddle shifters some. That is pretty cool but not the same as a manual. With that said, I would again buy an auto. It is easy to drive on the streets and in traffic, and I probably would not be as good on a clutch pedal as I once was. I sometime yearn for the manual, but I also know that I have the correct transmission for most of my driving.
Go test drive some Corvettes with the manual and some with the auto. Drive in the traffic you expect to encounter and determine which transmission you want to drive for years. Wrong choice could cost you $5K or more to switch cars just to get the transmission you want.
Good luck with your decisions and your search for the car that best meets your expectations.
You mentioned bucket list. If you are retired, move to Missouri and buy a condo with garage and a Corvette for what an apartment costs in New York, and you can enjoy our open roads. Just an invitation to experience something different.
To minimize your risk of an early sell, make sure you buy the car you want, and not just the one that is available at a special price.
All of us have limited time to use them, so drive it like a car when you have somewhere to go. Every time I start mine up, I remember why I still have it. Too long between rides, and I sometimes think it is time to let it go. When you are driving it one day and decide you are bored with it and the appeal is gone, it MAY be time to let it go. I sold a C5 thinking I was done. A few months later I bought my C6.
When I was young, I loved to drive a manual. It gives control that I think is still missing from the auto. I do have an auto and use the paddle shifters some. That is pretty cool but not the same as a manual. With that said, I would again buy an auto. It is easy to drive on the streets and in traffic, and I probably would not be as good on a clutch pedal as I once was. I sometime yearn for the manual, but I also know that I have the correct transmission for most of my driving.
Go test drive some Corvettes with the manual and some with the auto. Drive in the traffic you expect to encounter and determine which transmission you want to drive for years. Wrong choice could cost you $5K or more to switch cars just to get the transmission you want.
Good luck with your decisions and your search for the car that best meets your expectations.
I am in my early 50's so hopefully working on my bucket list early.
Family and friends pretty much keeps me in the NY area at least for a few more years. It is tough up here with cost of living expenses.
I sure do envy you guys in other parts of the country sometimes.
05-30-2016, 12:45 AM
#48
Team Owner
They had to have all the options and the extended warranty and then some even buy GAP insurance. Only to sell in a few months and lose their butts.
Some even add 1000's in mods to throw out the window as well.
They bought all the sizzle then it fizzled next to the costs.
05-30-2016, 09:52 AM
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C7's and C7 Z06's
They had to have all the options and the extended warranty and then some even buy GAP insurance. Only to sell in a few months and lose their butts.
Some even add 1000's in mods to throw out the window as well.
They bought all the sizzle then it fizzled next to the costs.
They had to have all the options and the extended warranty and then some even buy GAP insurance. Only to sell in a few months and lose their butts.
Some even add 1000's in mods to throw out the window as well.
They bought all the sizzle then it fizzled next to the costs.
exactly lol
05-31-2016, 10:18 PM
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The last manual transmission car I drove in Los Angeles freeway stop and go traffic sealed the deal for me. I started reading performance statistics when I was car shopping and saw the automatics got faster zero to sixty and quarter mile times. No More manual transmissions for me.
06-01-2016, 02:06 AM
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The last manual transmission car I drove in Los Angeles freeway stop and go traffic sealed the deal for me. I started reading performance statistics when I was car shopping and saw the automatics got faster zero to sixty and quarter mile times. No More manual transmissions for me.
with what he said
06-05-2016, 09:04 PM
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If you're going to sell privately, now is the time to sell. The time to buy is very late fall, or early winter. Dealers want to turn inventory, especially used Vettes where they have some room to lower the price without taking a loss. To make out the best financially, you'd have to be Vetteless for about 6 months.
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06-06-2016, 02:08 AM
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Burning Brakes
If a C7 is right at the low 50k mark now what would you guys expect the price to be in the fall? A big enough drop to wait..?
Can you expect remaining older lot models to get reduced even more?
Can you expect remaining older lot models to get reduced even more?
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06-07-2016, 02:42 PM
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The used 2014s you see in low $50's have been through the first 2+ years of depreciation, which is when cars depreciate the most. The depreciation rate will decline from here on out.
