Originally Posted by gmouzith

CudaFan, I too am trying to decide what to do. I purchaed my 2005 Limited Roadster for 42k. My car has never seen the rain, snow or salt on the roads. I don't even know if the wipers work (kidding, they work but never used). I have 13,500 miles on the car. My intentions were to do the smartlease and buy it out in the end for 23k. I never in a million years thought these cars would lose that much value in 3 years. I went to the dealer today to find out my options. They pretty much told me that Chrysler financial owns the car now and they have nothing to do with it. I started to speak with one of the dealers over there who handles the off lease cars. He told me that the car will come in and be picked up by the leasing company. It will then be auctioned off. I asked him how much the car is worth. He told me the book shows 13000. I almost fell off my chair. So now I face the same question as you. I love the car but do I buy it and take a huge loss? Also, they told me that Chrysler is going to re-engineer the Crossfire from the ground up. They said it will be the new Crossfire. I have not been able to find anything on the Internet to back this up.

I feel like I have not even broken this car in yet, so getting rid of it seems like I wasted a ton of cash for nothing. The one thing i thought of doing was to try and extend the lease and drive the snot out of the car. Maybe drive cross country or something. Or sell it to the highest bidder on ebay for what I owe. I just don't want to give the car to the Auction Devil.

If anyone has any other thoughts or knows of any other option, please let us know.