Top Selling Used Cars in Southern California
by JACKSON JACK
New Car Dealers of California want to sell cars whenever possible, but they won't offer full Blue Book value at this time. A dealer in Seattle gave this pricing information recently - About six months ago, a 2006 Ford Expedition sold at auction for about $26,000. Today, it goes for about $16,000.
Some people buy very old cars for parades or for sentimental reasons or for personal interests. For instance - Gary Bursey, a semi-retired construction worker and manager in California, has a regular looking sedan equipped for racing, and a Legends car, a car with a 30s style body and a motorcycle engine. Dan Murphy, a retired neurosurgeon, owns 10 cars and has a special affinity for Packards. Murphy is the founder and curator of Murphy Auto Museum. The museum houses about 70 cars bought from 38 collectors, almost all from Southern California residents.
The impressive features of old cars still trigger some people to buy them. Some also prefer to buy old cars as they can own a car at comparatively cheap price. Packards were one of the finest U.S. luxury cars until 1958. The gorgeous butterscotch-and-tan 1928 Packard features a straight-eight engine, a 143-inch wheel base, big running boards, a rumble seat in the back, a golf club storage compartment back right, and a "Goddess of Speed" hood ornament with engine thermometer visible from the outside. The burgundy 1934 Packard V-12 Club Sedan has soft-touch wool broadcloth upholstery and a stylish cormorant hood ornament. The burgundy, seven-passenger 1927 Packard 343 has quaint fold-out open-air kiddies�� seats with adjustable windshields.
Oldsmobile Curved Dash Runabout and 1917 Marmon Model Cloverleaf Roadster show how society made the transition from buggy to car. Corvettes, Jags and Porsches, 1961 Cadilla, 1948 and 1951 Ford Woodys are also some of the preferred cars. The black, stark 1927 Ford Model T, was the Everyman's car of its time.
Today, there are more F-Series pickups on the road with 250,000 miles than any other brand. Besides being America's favorite car, it has also been its best-selling vehicle. Customers have made F-Series Ford cars as America's best-selling cars for 31 years. This is also the reason for most people preferring for F-series ford cars when they decide to buy a second-hand car.
Some of the Fontana used cars that are getting selled in California are new/old models with very low mileage. You might find out that it makes more economic sense to keep your low-mileage car with you and feel the pain each time you fill-up the tank, rather than taking up a huge loss by selling the unpopular vehicle.
If you're buying a smaller car, see if it requires premium gasoline, which is averaging about 40 cents a gallon more than regular right now. The Mini Cooper, Volkswagen Passat, Mazda3 Grand Touring hatchback, Nissan Maxima and Nissan Altima V6 all take premium. Even Smart's little Fortwo is recommended to run on premium.
The Ford Employee Pricing Plan on 2008 model F-Series offer customers the eligibility to receive the highly prized employee discount pricing in more than 3,600 Ford showrooms across the U.S. You can look at Daily Automobile & Mobile Industry News - Reviews, Reports, Articles, Research, Shows & Events, Industry Announcements to find the sale trend of cars.
