HLS30-49788
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- First Name
- Dan
- Joined
- Mar 23, 2021
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- Location
- Carrollton, TX
- Car(s)
- 2009 GT-R, 1997 Nissan pickup
- Occupation
- Looooong retired
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Asking for advice, but I'll decide on Saturday. In the mail today I got an offer from the same local dealer to buy back my first-delivered [29 August 2008] Nissan GT-R, one day only on Saturday 17 July 2021, for $60,950 regardless of condition (!), which is about $18,000 more than a recent online estimate I got.
I see three options:
1] Keep the GT-R and get the $10 Target gift card for showing up.
2] Sell the GT-R and buy a new GT-R, for only about another $62,000 including tax.
3] Sell the GT-R and buy a new 400Z.
#2 isn't really an option. $62k for a slight improvement over what I have? Meh!
I've owned four vehicles since January 1972 and in those 49+ years I've owned the 1972 Datsun 240Z I got then; a 1983 Nissan pickup I bought used in 1988. a 1997 4WD SE Nissan pickup bought new, which I still have, and the GT-R, and I've had almost 13 years of fun from the GT-R.
I'm 80 now, and I still enjoy the hell out of the GT-R every time I drive it, but is it maybe time to avoid increasing maintenance costs as it ages? Maybe I should go back to a stick shift as I have/had in the first three? Maybe be one of the first [well, OK, #49788 on the Z] to drive a new Datsun/Nissan model as I was in 1972 and 2008?
I have until sometime Saturday to decide, and the Z Club of Texas meets on Thursday night...
I'll post whatever happens, after Saturday.
Dan Prall
My 204Z was HLS30-49788
I see three options:
1] Keep the GT-R and get the $10 Target gift card for showing up.
2] Sell the GT-R and buy a new GT-R, for only about another $62,000 including tax.
3] Sell the GT-R and buy a new 400Z.
#2 isn't really an option. $62k for a slight improvement over what I have? Meh!
I've owned four vehicles since January 1972 and in those 49+ years I've owned the 1972 Datsun 240Z I got then; a 1983 Nissan pickup I bought used in 1988. a 1997 4WD SE Nissan pickup bought new, which I still have, and the GT-R, and I've had almost 13 years of fun from the GT-R.
I'm 80 now, and I still enjoy the hell out of the GT-R every time I drive it, but is it maybe time to avoid increasing maintenance costs as it ages? Maybe I should go back to a stick shift as I have/had in the first three? Maybe be one of the first [well, OK, #49788 on the Z] to drive a new Datsun/Nissan model as I was in 1972 and 2008?
I have until sometime Saturday to decide, and the Z Club of Texas meets on Thursday night...
I'll post whatever happens, after Saturday.
Dan Prall
My 204Z was HLS30-49788