Well, the car for the wife was picked up this morning :)

[Doward]

2002 Mazda Miata, black leather interior, Nordic Green Mica paint, 43k miles, PRISTINE condition inside and out.

They wanted $14k

They got $11.6K

Quick pics - gonna claybar/wax it tomorrow!

Dunno why #2 came out so fuzzy. Eh, better pics tomorrow

 

[Reign_Maker]

Nice... When I first saw that, I thought you were sayin you traded your wife for the car, lol...

 

[Doward]

LOL.

Yeah, we decided against the Z3 after hearing the stories about the damn differential RIPPING OUT of the cars. Rear subframe just goes to shit on 'em.

Only thing I ever hear bad about the 1.8L Miata, is that is spins high rpms on the highway - but it does it happily!

 

[Fuzz420]

Oooh looks good, I like that color green. :bigthumb:

 

[IJ.]

Dow: Does she like it?

 

[Doward]

She freakin' LOVES it - here, I'll let her reply -

Okay, randomness from Doward's wife here...I LOVE THIS CAR!!! This is my reward for dealing with all of his car parts in the house...especially the engine block instead of a dining room table. He tried to take the car sideways this afternoon...no success. I, however, got it squirrely coming out of our community. Great, fun little car...what else needs to be said??

 

[IJ.]

Dow's Wife: <Golf clap> For showing him how it's done!

Starting to see a trend here with the Wives being better drivers!

 

[Doward]

LMAO! THAT IS NOT TRUE. I didn't side step the clutch... I wanted to see if it would break loose on power alone

 

[theKnifeArtist]

you mean you still gotta claybar/wax that car? i wish my car looked like that when it was waxed..

 

[da89soup]

Nice car Doward!!!!:icon_bigg

 

[Doward]

This is the first new(er) car I've ever bought, and I got it for her I can't wait to see how it looks after really cleaning her up (and less fuzzy pics, lol!)

 

[van1684]

so how did you bring the price down that much? i need to learn how to haggle. was it a private seller or dealer?

 

[Doward]

From a Dealership... Mazda stealership, no less.

How did I get it down that much? I brought in autotrader ads that I had printed, showing that the same year/mileage Miatas were going for 10.9-12.0.

They had this particular Miata on the lot for 52 days before I picked it up (they had it priced simply too high)

They had 11.8k in the car, so they say... I personally doubt that, but I wasn't paying over 12.5 out the door - and 11.5 was really my 'can't walk away' point, considering this Miata was *PRISTINE* (I do mean that. 10/10. It is perfect in almost every way!)

So I spent 5 hours haggling them down to 11.6k out the door

 

[SP 7M]

Nice, clean, probably relatively fun car to drive you've got there.

The clay bar works wonders, man. It's surprising for something so simple.

 

[SupraJDS]

Nice Miata, the new hardtop/Convert. one looks sick!