Originally Posted by N2UK
I am patiently waiting for my 2005 SSB SRT6 Roadster with 22,000 miles to arrive in Kentucky from Virginia. I bought it this weekend (technically when it arrives I’ll buy it) for a shade under $21,000. I’m comfortable I paid a fair price for the vehicle considering the condition. I bought my 2005 AB Limited Roadster with 19,000 miles three years ago for $17,000, so I think the values are holding steady now. Today that car has 80,000 miles, and is going to my wife when the new one arrives. We love these cars!
I had about five near miss purchases of an SRT6 Roadster in the past year. The earlier buys fell apart either because I couldn’t find flights that made any monetary sense, or because as happened on a couple of occasions the salesman tried to get cute with the deal at the last minute. I have purchased many out of state vehicles in my job, and the last thing I’m going to do is get on a one way flight while someone is trying to muck up the deal. Its hard to get firm when you have a 500 mile walk to get home.
In any case I firmly believe the SRT6 Roadsters are going to eventually become a collector’s car, with the 2006 models pulling big money. I’m admittedly biased towards convertibles, and please don’t hate me for this, but I just don’t see the coupes ever going up in value. There are just too many out there.
I do look for Crossfire’s in general to become scare relatively quickly now that the purchase costs have dropped so far. There are people who can now afford to buy the car, but they have no idea the type of routine expenses they are going to get into in trying to maintain these cars. It not like you can go to Walmart and buy an air filter for $5, or even find the right oil there. These cars in the hands of people without assets are going to start falling apart from neglect, and get parted out at a high rate in about five more years. Again, just my opinion.
I pretty much agree with you on the Roadsters.
When I bought mine, two years ago I had only recently learned SRT Crossfires existed. A co-worker who bought a Crossfire back in '04( her production number is in the 1st 30 something cars) got me interested in knowing more about these cars.
When it all came together for me,...Mercedes, Karmann, AMG and limited number of 925 or so SRT Roadsters, I began checking prices. They turned out to be a lot of car for the money!
My car was at a Chrysler dealer in Minnesota where it was sold new to a female oncologist who traded it back on an Audi convertible. It was on Ebay with a $16,500 "Buy It Now" , had 52k miles and all records from day one in '05. The auction ran its course with not a single bid.
I had been in touch with the used car manager during the auction but held off from bidding.
I bought the car after the auction ended for $15,600. Since it was February, the dealer kept it in his showroom until April, when my wife and I flew out and drove it back to Massachusetts.
One of the cool things was, I would log onto the dealers site and see my car still in the showroom over the next couple months.
I've owned a lot of cars over the years and this one gives me the most satisfaction when it comes to value. I could have spent $15,600 on many lesser cars........
Good Luck with your potential purchase....