ok this is the thing:

there is a mazda rx-8 prestige model to buy here in switzerland. its original manufacturing price is set at 49180 SFr.- which is about 39000 USD. the car is first gone on the streets on mai, 2006, its got 2900 kilometers (1800 miles) on it. its a testdrive vehicle, that means, it is used by the mazda swiss company to show around and let the people test drive it...

now i would like to know if the price the dealership wants for it 39900 SFR (32000 USD) is too much or not.

it did never have a wreck or so...

good conditions...

i hope some of u know how to value a rx-8 and im very glad for any answers...

thx,
from switzerland.

 

Those cars are beaten to crap, forget break in period. I would wait

 

Unless they give it to you for well below what a new one would go for, find yourself another car.

 

hmm ok well, it is so hard to wait.... thats what i mean... but i guess i just have to then..

could i recognize if something happened to it (like when it got beaten to crap i.e.) if i testdrove it? if so, how?

 

I'd say that's a fairly significant discount off the new price, 20% less. Price seems fair with what I know about European auto taxes.

Andone, it's tough to tell how it was treated during the break-in. If it was mostly Mazda employees driving it during the first 500 miles then they may have treated it nicely since they knew it would be the "representative" model RX-8 to the customers who came in, and if it ran like crap, you'd have a tough time selling them.

But 1800 miles in 6 months doesn't sound too bad. Take it for some test-drives yourself and see how it feels.

 

kk thanks, i guess i'll have to testdrive it then...