Metro XFi sells on eBay for $7k. Are efficient used car prices going up?

[MetroMPG]

Via ABG: Nerd Alert! Geo Metro: the new "it" car?

It's a post about how the gas misers of old are commanding higher and higher prices.

The example car is a '93 XFi with low miles (22k) - a little old lady car that sold on eBay for $7k. Wow. That's got to be close to what it cost new!

My '98 has less than half that many miles on it. Think I could sell it for 7 big ones?

See similar post of the eBay barn find: '89 CRX all original with 34k miles.

[Lazarus]

Originally Posted by MetroMPG

[/B][/B]My '98 has less than half that many miles on it. Think I could sell it for 7 big ones?

That would be a fun exercise to list it and see what you could get. You don't need a car anywho. Take the monies and get the insight you alway wanted.

You would have to put the alternator belt back on and get rid of the duct tape.

[RH77]

There was that 4x4 truck ad (in a post somewhere here) that was like $5000 for the old truck, or would trade even for a Civic or Integra.

I definitely see a trend in other areas -- just check the used car ads or classifieds.

Either of you could get at least 7-large for your cars, I know it!

Metro's Firefly is cult icon -- it's a classic

And the 'Woo is a "hard to find original".

RH77

[TheDon]

ha! Last year it was Diesel cars(man it sucked.. I wanted a wagon so bad but jeeze the prices were insane). Now, its small econo boxes that get like 50 mpg even if you flog them.

[ihatejoefitz]

The reason I got into Datsuns was because you could build a really fast car for little money; I think the same applies to hypermiling. For 7k I could build a car that would get insane mileage. Poor investment on somebody's part.

[Peakster]

The Geo metro is definitely a 90s pop-culture icon. Sort of like how the "K" car is for the 80s and the Pinto is for the 70s.

[Arminius]

Hhhhmm....If things keep going the way they are, I'll have to rip the Civic tags off my car and replace them with Geo Metro tags.

Sexy!

[XFi]

Wow, I was ecstatic when my low mileage XFi brought $4k the other year. Only on Ebay

[Johnny Mullet]

I would not want to sell my Metro even if the offer was huge.

[Peakster]

Wow, Geo Metros must be in sudden demand. I had a random person message me on my cardomain.com page looking to buy my no-longer-owned car!

"it is a sharp little car" - umm what?!? I never have heard anyone say that about my Metro... or any Metro!