My local dealer has a 21,000 mile S-8 for sale for around $65,000 or so. I
test drove it in February, before buying my Viper. But I'm trolling around
the lot again. Why isn't that car already sold? Anyone have negatives to
report (or positives) on the S-8 ? I think I've liked this car ever since
seeing it in the movie Ronin.

 

You don't say where you're from, but from around here in Canada, a S8 is
sold brand new at that price!

I personally like the car myself.

--
R Green
Tech Support
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"REInvestments" <nospam@email.com> wrote in message
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> My local dealer has a 21,000 mile S-8 for sale for around $65,000 or so.
I
> test drove it in February, before buying my Viper. But I'm trolling
around
> the lot again. Why isn't that car already sold? Anyone have negatives
to
> report (or positives) on the S-8 ? I think I've liked this car ever
since
> seeing it in the movie Ronin.
>
>

 

Sorry. United States, Silicon Valley, California. That's American
dollars.

I remember looking at houses on the ocean in Victoria, and thinking......
hmmmm..... $700,000 seems like a lot of money for that house. And then it
dawned on me that in American dollars, we were talking $450,000 on the water
in a beautiful town.

Still didn't do it, but the dollar differential was very interesting.

Larry


R Green <[news]@wowsat.com> wrote in message
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> You don't say where you're from, but from around here in Canada, a S8 is
> sold brand new at that price!
>
> I personally like the car myself.
>
> --
> R Green
> Tech Support
> ----------------------
> WoWsat.com
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> "REInvestments" <nospam@email.com> wrote in message
> news:Ujilc.24273$Xj6.410900@bgtnsc04-news.ops.worldnet.att.net...
> > My local dealer has a 21,000 mile S-8 for sale for around $65,000 or so.
> I
> > test drove it in February, before buying my Viper. But I'm trolling
> around
> > the lot again. Why isn't that car already sold? Anyone have
negatives
> to
> > report (or positives) on the S-8 ? I think I've liked this car ever
> since
> > seeing it in the movie Ronin.
> >
> >
>
>

 

REInvestments wrote:

> Sorry. United States, Silicon Valley, California. That's American
> dollars.
>
> I remember looking at houses on the ocean in Victoria, and thinking......
> hmmmm..... $700,000 seems like a lot of money for that house. And then it
> dawned on me that in American dollars, we were talking $450,000 on the water
> in a beautiful town.

Not bad. Where I live (Long Island), $450K gets you a so-so house in a
so-so neighborhood on a smallish lot, nowhere near the water.

--
Mike Smith

 

At this price, most people want something new I guess. Anyway, another year
and price will probably come down 20-25K$.

A brand new A8 is almost the same price and the same power.

"REInvestments" <nospam@email.com> wrote in message
news:Ujilc.24273$Xj6.410900@bgtnsc04-news.ops.worldnet.att.net...
> My local dealer has a 21,000 mile S-8 for sale for around $65,000 or so.
I
> test drove it in February, before buying my Viper. But I'm trolling
around
> the lot again. Why isn't that car already sold? Anyone have negatives
to
> report (or positives) on the S-8 ? I think I've liked this car ever
since
> seeing it in the movie Ronin.
>
>

 

Ouch. I wouldn't like to pay the local taxes on it. An ordinary home here
is around 120K$. At 450K$, you have a castle. ))

>
> Not bad. Where I live (Long Island), $450K gets you a so-so house in a
> so-so neighborhood on a smallish lot, nowhere near the water.
>
> --
> Mike Smith
>

 

>Not bad. Where I live (Long Island), $450K gets you a so-so house in a
>> so-so neighborhood on a smallish lot, nowhere near the water.

It's mostly the same here in So. Cal. There are a few exceptions if you shop
around but for the most part, nowadays, $450k will get you into a decent, but
not great neighborhood. The house my parents got for just over $300k in 1985 is
now worth around $700k, although we moved out nearly 5 years ago. People got
real scared during our mess with the governer, because they were talking about
re-assesing property values so the property taxes could be adjusted on homes
that had been owned for a few years or more. There are people who bought in my
current neighborhood in 1979-81 when the first houses were being built who have
now got their homes either paied off, or close to it, and many of them are
retired, middle-class people who couldn't afford the taxes on these homes if
they were being charged according to current value.

 

In message <109fopthk8svl96@news.supernews.com>
Mike Smith <mike_UNDERSCORE_smith@acm.DOT.org> wrote:

> Not bad. Where I live (Long Island), $450K gets you a so-so house in a
> so-so neighborhood on a smallish lot, nowhere near the water.

I wish prices around here (UK, Thames Valley) were that low!

--
Peter Bell (Note Spamtrap - To reply, replace 'invalid' with 'bellfamily')

 

REInvestments" <nospam@email.com> wrote in message
news:Ujilc.24273$Xj6.410900@bgtnsc04-news.ops.worldnet.att.net...
> My local dealer has a 21,000 mile S-8 for sale for around $65,000 or so.
I test drove it in February, before buying my Viper. But I'm trolling
around the lot again. Why isn't that car already sold? Anyone have
negatives
to report (or positives) on the S-8 ? I think I've liked this car ever
since seeing it in the movie Ronin.
>

one word/phrase RS6.

why would you get a S8, when the RS6 has so much more power??