Good Deal on 2010 370z?
 

Hey guys, I've been in the market for a 350/370z for a few months now and have been taking my time trying to find the right one. There is a local 370z 2010 base WITH sport package Platinum graphite with 25,000 miles on it at a dealer. I went and test drove it (love it), it was listed for 28,900, and the dealer said he could do 27,300 with 2.99 interest WAC. I think I can get it down lower, but do you think this is a decent deal? Just for reference, NADA is 31,000, and edmunds TMV is 26,000. Car is in excellent condition. Clean carfax but has had three owners. What do you think?! Jump on this or keep shopping?

sounds like a slut. skip.

Not a fan of the 3 owner thing... did you research who the owners were? Sometimes the dealers register them as demos... 3 individual people is sort of odd for a 2.5 year old car.

Monetarily that doesn't sound like a bad deal or an exceedingly great deal either. Pretty middle of the road at this point.

If I'm not mistaken NADA doesn't really detail the options to come up with the value which means you are going to be lumped in with cars that have more options (Nismo/touring) which might show an inflated price.

Talk them down more and throw an extended warranty on it to hedge against the 3 owner worry.

Should go with the TMV. But 3 owners? See if the car was in the same state, city or county during that period.

I paid 25k for my 10 with 11.5k miles and an extended warranty.. private party though

I was going through the same thing recently in my search. Even if the price was good, I would not give a second look to one with three owners. Something has to be up. Just because the Carfax is clean does not mean it has not been in a minor accident or had some sort of other issues that caused previous owners to unload it.

While I prefer to buy someone's garage queen (and i did), three owners would not bother me on a car like this if all else checked out. lots of peeps buy sporty cars then decide to switch gears,

another kid
bought a boat and need a truck to tow
want a V8
rough ride
wont fit 2x golf clubs

lots of reasons people move on. Oh, and my car was two owner and pretty damn cherry

off topic but what kind of boat did you pick up?

Three Kids?
 

Three owners in two years is odd. Possibly bought by people who could not afford the car, so drove the blazes out of it while they could. You ought to have the car looked at by a knowledgeable shop. The money spent there (what, $50 maybe?) is cheap piece of mind, lemme tell ya.

As others posted, talk the seller down a bit more (maybe offer $24K, expect to pay $25,000?) and get a good extended waranty. About that, do your research...some "warranties" don't cover much at all, especially if they can claim that a prior owner raced the car and therefore invalidated the warranty!

If the dealer won't budge, it wasn't meant to be. Good luck.

I think that price is very high. If I'm not mistaken, I think I paid a hair over 27,500 for my 2009 brand new when I purchased it in March of 2010. Yeah It's a 2009 but it's no different than a 2010 considering everything. I'd entertain a low mileage 2009 if you're looking for a deal. You can find plenty of 09s with equal or less mileage.

Seems a little high to me especially for a base model even with sport package. I'm not a big fan of it having 2 previous owners either. I think you could do better. My fiancee would always give me the best advice when I was shopping for mine. "IF NOT THIS ONE, THERE'S ANOTHER ONE RIGHT AROUND THE CORNER". How true! I got my dream 370Z at a price that met MY demands. Tell them the price is too high and walk out. There's an excellent chance that they'll call you back. And if they don't, it wasn't met to be! Hang in there and don't settle!

my 11th boat:tup:

I've had tooooo many but usually one at a time. Latest boat is a 2011 Yamaha AR240, good all around recreational boat. excels at almost nothing but pretty darn good at a lot of things.

I've had sailing cats, fast cats, fast v bottoms, runabouts and inboard ski boats.

hijack over

Thanks for the advice, guys. Yeah, I think that unless he let it go for 25,000, it's not worth it. Three previous owners is alot and would hurt resale if I ever wanted to get rid of it. With the 2013's coming out, I could probably get into a nice 2012 for not much more than what they want for this one.

There ya go! Good luck :tup: