biker2035

Hi, new to the forum and seeking advice from owners. Looking at a very low mileage (under 20000) base level vehicle, 2011. Does this year have any quirks I need to know about? Will I miss out on any of the options, nav for instance, not being part of the car? Has leather and updated audio system, but the rest is base. Has been in a minor accident. Will a bike fit inside? I do a lot of biking and would love to throw it in the back. Thanks. Any other advice on what to look for would be great!!

gshadow325

A new one is going for under 300 on lease. That's something to consider.

Regardless, a 2017 with nav or a 2011 without nav...... You'll likely be using Google or Waze anyways for the real-time traffic. If you're into options like radar cruise and auto dipping mirrors when you go into reverse then but a newer one. If you can get this car for under 10,000 then it's a good deal. If you can't there's plenty of other cars with more miles on it that are newer and just as cheap.

Real thing is what's the price of this car.

biker2035

Price is at $16,500. Has been on the lot for a long time, but they do not seem to be too willing to negotiate that down. Seems high for the year, but low for the miles. I drive about 4-500 miles a week, so lease wouldn't be an option.

gshadow325

Just for comparison sake. Bought mine in April 2016 with 37k and $14.5. I'm going to crack 80k by end of the month.

Just imagine you can possibly be only using one tank of gas for your weekly mileage. That's about $20 @ $2 per gallon.
If you get IRS standard milage deduction of 54 cents per mile and get 400 per tank... You make almost $200 per tank.

If you did lease it's 25 cents per mile.
54 IRS mileage standard
-5 cost per mile ($20 per tank)
-25 overage (surcharge for overage)
Net profit is still 24 cents per mile or $96 per tank.

That's if you get reimbursed. I know a lot of traveling sales guys that make tons of money back on mileage and drive Prius and some drive Tesla for the reason. Heck my wife's $40k VW GTI car payment gets paid each month by mileage reimbursement

For $16.5 I'd tell them to suck it and buy another one. What I did notice from reading a study on hybrid/electric car adaptation. California leads the amount of these cars, then comes Georgia. I did notice hybrid sales are much cheaper in my state of GA vs say north Eastern USA. Prices are a lot higher up there. Down here I can find $10 to 12k Lexus ct hybrids all day long.