Why are WRX's so hard to sell?
 

Hey dudes,

As some people may have noticed there is a string of MY05-MY07 WRX's on the market that have been on carsales for months. I asked some of the people on Perth-WRX that are selling MY06/07 WRX's or STI's and they reckon that after weeks of having their cars on sale no one sensible enough to actually organise money for a car comes and has a look at it.

Is it the fact that no one can get a carloan for a car over 5 years old (not 100% sure if this is true) or because people assume they're trashed to death once they've hit that age? Even completely stock MY06 WRX's on carsales stick around for ages.

The guy who I purchased my MY06 WRX of said he had all sorts of fools come and try get a loan of him (pay the car of over 6 months or so) or just put in completely stupid offers.

I myself am looking to sell my WRX to upgrade to a newer model or switch up to something completely different later on in the year. Except at this point I'm wondering if I'll be selling the WRX before next year.

Has the market always been this bad or has something happened in recent times that has put everyone off Subarus ?

cheers

All depends on the asking price mate, if your asking crack prices then it'll sit there forever and if your selling it at the market price or slightly lower you'll sell the car no probs.

Consider the price of older STi's (02 $18-22k) and aim for around that price or lower as that what you'll be competing against.

No one is buying anything at the moment.

There is 1000000000 WRX's on the market.

It either needs to stand out for

- mods
- kms
- condition
- price

Or it just gets lost in the sea of WRX's for sale.

People are always going to want to buy the cheapest car they can get so if its over priced it wont sell.

[QUOTE=ImPreSiV;550132]No one is buying anything at the moment.[/QUOTE]

My 100 sold to the first person to look at it.

Good condition, honest ad, one of the best priced in the state.

I had my WRP10 on the market for quite a while and had pretty much zero interest.. but in my case I don't think many people have heard of a WRP10 so there isn't a huge market for them. Mine was the cheapest on Carsales in Aus, but still just had a few calls, some promises to come and look but no-one actually had the cash - and some didn't even bother turning up.

However, I have just been offered a very cheap Version 5 STI which is probably going to force me to trade my car in and take a big loss on the remaining finance :( The things we do for cars!

[QUOTE=ImPreSiV;550132]No one is buying anything at the moment.[/QUOTE]

Financing is still very hard to get as banks don't want to lend.

I want to buy a WRX, not really sure what type yet but GC8's are my favourite.

The prices in Perth shit me to be honest, but the prices are what the prices are.
I'm not buying right now as I want to take a trip back to Japan around July and I'm saving up my dosh for it. Then I'm going to save up more dosh so that when the time finally comes I will have enough for a deposit on a loan, any stamp duty I cop and hopefully money in the bank for any mechanical eventualities that decide to bite me in the arse.

In the mean time I'm watching the market and learning what I can about these cars.

I made so many stupid mistakes when I bought my first one.....that it still hurts now, years later.

But yeah, seems like no ones buying right now.

if my credit rating wasnt shot id be smashing down 30k for ISPYSTI in a heartbeat... :D

Is it back up for sale??