I honestly don't see much issue with this car. Emissions in IL and IN are pretty simple, if your check engine light is on, you fail. Could of been something simple. It's not that uncommon to have issues pop up with cars this age, even with low mileage. Parts have limited life spans too. To me it sounds like the original dealer had the car listed wrong and for too cheap, and that is why they painted you this story of how it is unsafe to drive, when in reality they realized they could sell it for more money. They wholesaled it instead to another dealer that probably paid around $10-12k I would guess. Honestly, that price isn't too crazy when you see that it was a 1-owner car with very low miles. The only reason I would hesitate to buy is because it is an automatic, otherwise it looks like a nice car.

PS I work in the car industry.

I see what ya'll are saying with the dealer messing up. I just wanted to advise caution about it. And it was originally listed with a manual transmission which was in line with the VIN, if I remember correctly, so either one of the dealers messed up a listing or it is a red flag.

Agreed. I had a plane ticket out to Chicago to buy it, when it was listed at the previous dealer. The day after I bought the ticket I found out they were no longer going to sell it. Welp, not a lot lost tickets are cheap right now and looks like I just wound have flown out for an automatic anyway.

saabe1 wrote:

Thank "carsandbids" for 15k prices..
https://carsandbids.com/auctions/3pm7bq … -9-2x-aero
Mind you that car is 2006 manual, but it does have higher miles.

Actually COVID is more to blame it seems, as all used car prices have gone through the roof.

More about low availability of new cars due to supply chain disruptions as well as people who would potentially 'normally' be looking for new cars now trying to save a little money and going with used instead. So, much higher demand in the used car market.

I can be persuaded, Starbucks cards please.

I’m no unicorn fan, 2L ftw.