Purchase Price 2003 Accent Good???

[jim (archive)]

My adult daughter had a huge financial disaster a few years back and just recovered from it recently. Her car died and we had to find a cheap means of transportation immediately. She is broke but debt free.

We decided to buy a Silver Mist 2003 Hyundai Accent, 4 door, automatic with floor mats as the only option! It came with some nice standard features such as airconditioning.

The car is quite nice for the low price but it was the awesome warranty that sold us.

The dealers "sale" price was about $10,500 which included a $1000 rebate. I could only get him down another $300 for a final purchase price of $10,200.

I don't konw if $10,200 is a good price or not! How badly did we get taken??

 

[Steve G (archive)]

Funny you mentioned. My son is looking at that car too. I ran it through www.edmunds.com to get an idea of price. It provided the price for my zip code, yours might be a tad different. Anyway, with only the basic standard features, and floor mats, they came back with 10,945 after rebate. Looks like you did okay. You have to remember.......No matter how good a car buyer is at haggling, and doing his homework, the boys at the dealer do this stuff all day, every day. I doubt anyone really beats a car dealer at their own game. The dealer has to make money, and if he can't, he won't sell, at least not for a reasonably popular car. Go to Edmunds and run it through with your zip, and double check the features. kelly blue book has a similar feature too www.kbb.com

 

[TR7 Driver]

In May I bought a black '03 Accent GL. It has the Preferred Package (PW, PL, CD, etc.) After rebate I paid $10,600 (plus $540 freight.)

I love this car! The more I drive it the more I like it. This little car appears to be very well made; everything works and nothing says "cheap."