What goes up, must come down.
@Loquat wrote:
Once inventory starts to right size itself the price of used vehicles will start to go down...and in a hurry. My advice is, if you're going to sell...do it now because no one knows when things will turn.
Agreed; my 2006 Acura TL with the relatively rare 6-Speed Manual option has gone up to crazy levels of pricing for a 15 year old car with 175,000 miles on it, and even those stupid high prices aren't enough to entice me to sell. Why? My wife and I joke we've never learned how to drive cars with automatic transmissions, so how many nice 4-door sports sedans with plenty of power and comfort are able to be had new these days? Answer: ZERO.
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@Horseshoez wrote:
@Loquat wrote:
Once inventory starts to right size itself the price of used vehicles will start to go down...and in a hurry. My advice is, if you're going to sell...do it now because no one knows when things will turn.Agreed; my 2006 Acura TL with the relatively rare 6-Speed Manual option has gone up to crazy levels of pricing for a 15 year old car with 175,000 miles on it, and even those stupid high prices aren't enough to entice me to sell. Why? My wife and I joke we've never learned how to drive cars with automatic transmissions, so how many nice 4-door sports sedans with plenty of power and comfort are able to be had new these days? Answer: ZERO.
If you have deep pockets: BMW M3. If you are open to a non-luxury brand that still has a nice interior and ride: VW Jetta GLI w/Autobahn package. The TL is a super nice car, so I wouldn't blame you at all for keeping it. Buuuut, if you want to scratch that new car itch there are a couple of options. It is really sad there are so few manual options these days...
LOL, I can swing an M3, but with a proboscis only a mother could love, that thing ain't going to darken the threshold to my garage. 
At this point, I'm inclined to either get a 2022 Golf R next year and hand my TL down to my son, or keep the TL as my daily driver and pop for a new Caymen S, both with three pedals under the dash.
@Horseshoez wrote:
@Anonymous wrote:
@Horseshoez wrote:
@Loquat wrote:
Once inventory starts to right size itself the price of used vehicles will start to go down...and in a hurry. My advice is, if you're going to sell...do it now because no one knows when things will turn.Agreed; my 2006 Acura TL with the relatively rare 6-Speed Manual option has gone up to crazy levels of pricing for a 15 year old car with 175,000 miles on it, and even those stupid high prices aren't enough to entice me to sell. Why? My wife and I joke we've never learned how to drive cars with automatic transmissions, so how many nice 4-door sports sedans with plenty of power and comfort are able to be had new these days? Answer: ZERO.
If you have deep pockets: BMW M3. If you are open to a non-luxury brand that still has a nice interior and ride: VW Jetta GLI w/Autobahn package. The TL is a super nice car, so I wouldn't blame you at all for keeping it. Buuuut, if you want to scratch that new car itch there are a couple of options. It is really sad there are so few manual options these days...
LOL, I can swing an M3, but with a proboscis only a mother could love, that thing ain't going to darken the threshold to my garage.
At this point, I'm inclined to either get a 2022 Golf R next year and hand my TL down to my son, or keep the TL as my daily driver and pop for a new Caymen S, both with three pedals under the dash.
Very true, I should have mentioned that you must look at the M3 with your eyes closed or from the interior only... 
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@Horseshoez wrote:
@Anonymous wrote:
@Horseshoez wrote:
@Loquat wrote:
Once inventory starts to right size itself the price of used vehicles will start to go down...and in a hurry. My advice is, if you're going to sell...do it now because no one knows when things will turn.Agreed; my 2006 Acura TL with the relatively rare 6-Speed Manual option has gone up to crazy levels of pricing for a 15 year old car with 175,000 miles on it, and even those stupid high prices aren't enough to entice me to sell. Why? My wife and I joke we've never learned how to drive cars with automatic transmissions, so how many nice 4-door sports sedans with plenty of power and comfort are able to be had new these days? Answer: ZERO.
If you have deep pockets: BMW M3. If you are open to a non-luxury brand that still has a nice interior and ride: VW Jetta GLI w/Autobahn package. The TL is a super nice car, so I wouldn't blame you at all for keeping it. Buuuut, if you want to scratch that new car itch there are a couple of options. It is really sad there are so few manual options these days...
LOL, I can swing an M3, but with a proboscis only a mother could love, that thing ain't going to darken the threshold to my garage.
At this point, I'm inclined to either get a 2022 Golf R next year and hand my TL down to my son, or keep the TL as my daily driver and pop for a new Caymen S, both with three pedals under the dash.
Very true, I should have mentioned that you must look at the M3 with your eyes closed or from the interior only...
They haven't re-done the front of the M8 yet, so you can always go that route instead. It's a bit large, but still a decent-looking car
@iced wrote:
@Anonymous wrote:
@Horseshoez wrote:
@Anonymous wrote:
@Horseshoez wrote:
@Loquat wrote:
Once inventory starts to right size itself the price of used vehicles will start to go down...and in a hurry. My advice is, if you're going to sell...do it now because no one knows when things will turn.Agreed; my 2006 Acura TL with the relatively rare 6-Speed Manual option has gone up to crazy levels of pricing for a 15 year old car with 175,000 miles on it, and even those stupid high prices aren't enough to entice me to sell. Why? My wife and I joke we've never learned how to drive cars with automatic transmissions, so how many nice 4-door sports sedans with plenty of power and comfort are able to be had new these days? Answer: ZERO.
If you have deep pockets: BMW M3. If you are open to a non-luxury brand that still has a nice interior and ride: VW Jetta GLI w/Autobahn package. The TL is a super nice car, so I wouldn't blame you at all for keeping it. Buuuut, if you want to scratch that new car itch there are a couple of options. It is really sad there are so few manual options these days...
LOL, I can swing an M3, but with a proboscis only a mother could love, that thing ain't going to darken the threshold to my garage.
At this point, I'm inclined to either get a 2022 Golf R next year and hand my TL down to my son, or keep the TL as my daily driver and pop for a new Caymen S, both with three pedals under the dash.
Very true, I should have mentioned that you must look at the M3 with your eyes closed or from the interior only...
They haven't re-done the front of the M8 yet, so you can always go that route instead. It's a bit large, but still a decent-looking car
The M8 is more car than I want both from a size and price perspective, and maybe I missed it, but I didn't know the M8 could be had with three pedals under the dash. No matter how nice, I literally have no desire to drive a car, any car, with an autotragic transmission.
Quite honestly, if the M5 was still available with a manual transmission, that would be the sweet spot. Speaking of M5s, I recently saw a cherry E28 M5 which really caught my eye, it only had like 36,000 miles on it and was practically showroom clean.