As of Oct. 16th I turned 18 and now finally with some money saved I am the hunt for my first car. After months of looking on craigslist and having unsuccessful meetings with quite a few people I decided check locally to see what else there might be. Still nothing that had quite what was looking for (euro, turbo, low miles, manual, decent mpg).
After talking to my extended family at thankgiving I had one uncle tell me that his brother happened to have a 2001 9-3 SE 4 door hatchback that he hadn't really drove since he had gotten his Porshe in 2003-04.
Since that fateful day I have been pressuring my uncle's brother for his pretty little Saab.
After weeks of convincing him to sell it, he finally caved and gave me a date to come and test drive/check it out. The date, was this past Tuesday, so I went down to NYC (about an hour drive for myself) to take a look at it, but when going to get it out of the garage it turned out that the battery was dead. Although I did get a chance to look at it, I sadly was not able to test drive it.
Now we are already trying to find a dollar amount that's agreeable with the both of us.
More details about the car,
2001 93 SE 4 Door:
14,200k Miles :cheesy:
Manual
Dealer service since day one
Perfect interior
80% Tred left on the tires
Roof rack (like i'll ever use it )
His asking price is $10k. Blue book is telling me between $9,700 all the way down to $8,300, I would like to get him down to atleast $8,500 due to my limited budget.
Sadly I am new to the car world in general and my main purpose for this post was to ask for any sort of advice I could find. Should I be asking him any other specific things about the car, should I be making sure of anything?
Thanks in advance!
Taylor
After talking to my extended family at thankgiving I had one uncle tell me that his brother happened to have a 2001 9-3 SE 4 door hatchback that he hadn't really drove since he had gotten his Porshe in 2003-04.
Since that fateful day I have been pressuring my uncle's brother for his pretty little Saab.
After weeks of convincing him to sell it, he finally caved and gave me a date to come and test drive/check it out. The date, was this past Tuesday, so I went down to NYC (about an hour drive for myself) to take a look at it, but when going to get it out of the garage it turned out that the battery was dead. Although I did get a chance to look at it, I sadly was not able to test drive it.
Now we are already trying to find a dollar amount that's agreeable with the both of us.
More details about the car,
2001 93 SE 4 Door:
14,200k Miles :cheesy:
Manual
Dealer service since day one
Perfect interior
80% Tred left on the tires
Roof rack (like i'll ever use it )
His asking price is $10k. Blue book is telling me between $9,700 all the way down to $8,300, I would like to get him down to atleast $8,500 due to my limited budget.
Sadly I am new to the car world in general and my main purpose for this post was to ask for any sort of advice I could find. Should I be asking him any other specific things about the car, should I be making sure of anything?
Thanks in advance!
Taylor