Memory Lane- Best deal you ever came across?

I want to reminisce. Share some of the best deals you’ve ever seen.

I’ll start with a POS but $99/mo $0 Das Compass back in 2016. Sister in law got one. Yes it had crank windows.

And one that I think about a lot was the 991.1 gt3 at Stingray Chevy that they had lowered all the way down to $89k. Fairly low mileage. Summer 2020 of course. Why did I sleep on that?

And no one cares about the bolt that you got paid to drive let’s just leave those out

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Mine was 2017 $1650 equinox ls one pay 24/10k it was actually less cause i got $50 visa for test driving the car :joy:, my biggest regret passing on 2012 Ferrari California under 20k miles for $89k obviously during lockdown!! I still think of that car :disappointed:

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Damn equinox for $66 a month effective.

I’ve been thinking a lot about this black on black 328d wagon that was $230/mo with $4k das 24/12. Not even that great of a deal for the time (2019). But a diesel wagon gets me going

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Mmhm, out of cars past I still reminisce and miss my f82 heritage edition. It was so dumb driving that at 17.

My dirt cheap Volvos at 249/m and 265/m for a 40k and 48k s60 and v60cc respectively are worth contenders.

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The 260 DAS 260/month q50 we had was alright.

$500 Hellcat and $500 F Type days were cool to watch, unfortunately joined the site after both I think. Or I just didnt have any money then.

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$130 per screen is legendary

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1989 Chevy Beretta for $1600 bucks

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2020 Velar. Hennessy LR Atlanta. They had a fire sale then

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19 740 around 550
19 i8 850
18 328d 230
18 x2 225
18 stelvio 400
17 q50 350
Bunch of 18-21 tundras in the low 300s
All sign and drive.

Can’t remember exact prices but they’re pretty close. Miss those days!

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So my $82 a month fiat 500e doesn’t count? Ok…
In 2007 a friend and I flew out to pick up a 1994 3.6 Turbo I suggested he buy. He got it for $47k and drove it back to California… Still has it, worth well north of 300 these days.


Around the same time I picked a couple 1969 912s, one for 5k. I still have both, current value for the one I didn’t modify heavily is in the range of 60k?
And the ones I missed- I was eyeing a Carrera GT in perhaps 2012, going rate was around 250k for a less perfect example. Today probably 1.2M. Or a McLaren F1 GTR (the race versions with history) for maybe 650K in a similar timeframe. Today maybe 20M, and near zero chance I’ll ever get to drive one. Hindsight…

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Love it!! If I get my time machine up and running I’ll convince you to get that CGT.

I almost bought a 912e probably 7 years ago for $20k ish… I lived in LA at the time and was honestly scared it wouldn’t make it up certain hills

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As someone who turned 23 months ago and finally able to make irresponsible purchases, of course everything is priced out my region AGAIN,

Here’s a list of the things I skipped out on due to being young and NOT having money while working at dealers during college.

2020 Range Rover Sport, PIN Car Lease $799/mo 0DAS
Most Flagship BMW M Car Leases Being $1,000 and below (F80, M8, F90 M5)
2010 MB E63 With 32,000 Original Miles For $25k Early 2019 (Worth Double Now)
The Famous $999/mo Aston Martin Lease Deals
2018 Corvette Stingrays $476/mo with $0 Down
2017 Aston Martin V17 Vantage S For $1200/mo 0 Down 20/7.5k

and don’t get me started on 911’s, as someone who’s dreamed of owning one since I was 8, it’s heartbreaking to see the prices becoming more and more unattainable everyday

Some recent misses this past couple of months include:

2010 ONYX Range Rover Autobiography previously owned by Brittany Spears with 52,000 original miles. Really wish I didn’t have work to go buy that thing. Thing is probably 1 of 1 in the USA

2021 C63 For $43K with 30K miles. Some Subaru dealer down in Florida had no-idea what they were selling. Car had $4k in recent service and had one of the highest MSRP’s i’ve ever seen with Designo interior

The E-Tron GT craze, already had my 750i for cheap so

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23 u got time - I want gas deals - not this EV garbage

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You can’t say this is worse than all the other shit posting that comprises 90% of this forum :joy:

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Those Aston deals and Hennessy jaguar deals were fun

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I can’t miss a chance to deploy the best The Sopranos quote of all-time. I agree with you!

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Wait a bit for the hysteria to die down… but yea, I should have included 2016 Porsche GT4, bought at MSRP, sold two years later at MSRP to a dealer in part so I could get a 2018 GT3 Touring, also bought at MSRP, probably up 70k since I bought it? Though does it matter if you’re never going to sell…

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$905/mo with tax.

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2004 Saab 9-3 Convertible, I think it was $44k MSRP, $266 x 39mo, that was a steal at the time, still was a sales manager and it was a demo that one of family owners dogs trashed the back seat, I took advantage of the situation and did a net net deal with write downs and everything, think it was like $14k off,. Never fixed the seat and never got charged :laughing: had some other Saab’s and they were in the $300’s which was still good, but not as good as this one

2016 Jetta S, $150/mo for 36mo and 15k/yr, after diesel gate when they were giving stuff away

2018 320i, $238/mo pretty loaded fart car, MSRP $48350, 24mo, transferred it after a year

2020 Bolt, $135/mo, this eventually turned into a 2022 that ended up GM paying me I think like $3000 all said and done, so -$83ish/mo :laughing:

All first payment at signing

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