I am thinking of buying a pontiac grand prix 1997 with 189,000 miles on it. Asking price is 17,000....
$17,000 for a 10 year old car with almost 200k on it? Don't walk, RUN away from this one.
You could buy a brand new Pontiac G6 and still have change left over for what they are asking.
I concur 110%. When I bought my last car (in 2001) I looked at consumer reports for 1997 Pontiac Grand Prix's and they were not the most reliable cars then, never mind now. The only cars that I would consider buying-- if I was broke and incredibly desperate -- with 200k miles would a a Toyota or a Honda for maybe around $1k.
Why don't you go buy a used Scion TC or something like that for that much? There are a lot of halfway decent modern vehicles that you can buy with that sort of money. If you wanted to be completely impractical you could even buy a used Porsche for that much.
That is ridiculously overpriced at the absolute most it should be like $5k and that is at a dealer!!! I am sorry but if you were even considering buying that car you are an idiot and should really look at prices of cars and try to educate yourself and understand how much they are really worth. Look at kbb.com.
as a owner of the same make and model... i can tell you that ya the price is a little high, i would talk them down to 12.000 and for the one reason they are cheep to fix and the engine goes like stink... so much power i have 450.000 kms on mine and it still drives like a champ...
people will talk shit about this car but its a great investment... and if you don't i will... infact give me thie phone number
I'm an employee of GM and I can safely say that is way overpriced.If you really want the Grand Prix though you can get one for about $22K. You can see prices for the various Pontiac models at Pontiac.com. Run away from this deal for 1997 now. The engine may be good, but $17K for a car with 189,000 miles is ridiculous.
Ok, i hope thats a typo cause that is insane. If you want a grand prix and you want to pay 17,000 then look around for a newer one thats 2006 or newer. Even if this is a typo and its only 7,000 i still would advise against it, if its 1,700 then yeah buy it, they are pretty good cars and the engines are very reliable. I have a buick lesabre with the same engine and it runs awesome, except it dont have a supercharger but oh well. Seriously tho dont buy this car at 17,000. If you want to spend that much buy a new car thats gets good gas mileage and comes with a waranty. Good luck
I have a 1997 four door GPT and love it to death. It has been a great car and has over 200,000 k on it. Of course I've had to do some work on it but it is an older car and really what car don't you have to work on. That price is way way too much I got mine for $7000. I would recommend with confidence this car to anyone, but buyer beware with any used car. If you do get this car be for warned that you need to pit premium gas it it for the supercharger. The high grade gas will keep it running great. My husband is a mechanic and also owns the same car as I.