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Just saw a black Neon SXT on a Dodge dealers used lot...

the newest it would have to be would be a 2005, that would make it least 7 years old now that it is 2012

I thought the dealer lots dont sell anything over like 3 or 4 years old?

..or does it go by mileage?

(actually had a salesman calling me from this same lot everytime they got an SRT-4 in... but he stopped calling be a couple years ago)

Uh...what?


I saw a Dodge dealer the other day selling a 2001 Passat. They don't care what year/make/mileage it is, as long as they know they can sell it.

agreed, as long as they can make money off it they'll try and sell it.

ThatKevin wrote:agreed, as long as they can make money off it they'll try and sell it.

^^ He's not kidding!
Some (not all) dealerships will sell you whatever they can to make a buck. My current dealerships management have descent, but high mileage vehicles for sale for those with lower credit and can't afford a new vehicle...

We have a black 2005 base model on our lot right now. Nothing odd about that.

haha, um used cars go on used car lots. it doesn't matter what year or how many miles. obviously a dealer isn't gonna buy a pile of shit, but if it's quality is within reason they'll buy it

I was told that a dealer usually will take higher mileage cars to auto auctions rather than hanging on to them.... My car was within 20 miles of their cutoff mark, man, glad that didn't happen!

True, dealers will normally only try and resell lower mileage cars if they are more than 4-5 years old. Your independent lots will offer more older cars than most dealers will.

Danteneon wrote:True, dealers will normally only try and resell lower mileage cars if they are more than 4-5 years old.

That prolly hurt a lot of dealers when things took a turn for the worst a few years ago. They could have sold some of those "less desirable" cars. Wouldn't have saved them from losing their franchise tho. But it would have been money on the books. No one was buying the new ones anyways, so it wouldn't have hurt new car sales one bit.

I bought a lot of my cars when I was younger, from the stock sitting at the back of the lot. The greed wasn't as bad then I guess.

occasional demons wrote:They could have sold some of those "less desirable" cars. Wouldn't have saved them from losing their franchise tho.

Tell me about it. That is exactly where we were a couple of years ago when Dodge yanked themselves from us. While we still had Subaru, we had no money for new cars (our floorplan for both lines was financed through Chrysler Financial). Used cars were all we had for a while. Dark days indeed.

i bought my 05 sxt at a local dealer a year ago... covered by warentee when the shoe lining came apart also.