I'm aware of the market, remember I bought my truck last year. One of the biggest issues is dealers mixing in cars with issues into the mix of the good cars that don't have issues at the same price level (nothing new, I know). We have to do our due diligence and sort thru that crap and it makes it even harder when the car is 2-3 hours away. My wife found a car yesterday, then about crapped when she reviewed the carfax history on it. Multiple major crashes, hit about every corner of the car. There was another one she wanted, in fact almost bought it, until I looked it over. It was a total POS, had been stolen off the car lot last year, spike strips were deployed and tires had to be replaced along with bumpers not attached properly. And they still wanted top dollar for it. But it was a silver convertible...so there's that. I had to have a serious talk with the wife about looking for red flags and that one had a lot of them. She is more educated and has been scrutinizing everything since then.
In regard to the grey Mustang I was discussing; we were waiting on a purchase agreement from the salesman when he went ghost on us. We were ready to buy and told him we wanted the car. I told him we would get financing worked out and I would pick the car up today. I think some crap went down at the dealer, like previously mentioned. That is not on us and nothing we did wrong. But they're 3 hours away in Michigan, so not like I'm gonna drive over there and have an in-person meeting.
As a side note, all 4 cylinder EcoBoost twin turbo engines seem to leak from the right front upper timing cover area. Seems to normally be an issue with a bolt not getting thread sealant. We looked at a 2018 with only 50k miles and it was leaking. And I looked at a V-6 Mustang with 70k miles and it had a head gasket leaking oil on the driver side.
This morning the wife mentioned looking at Camaros again.....
