Aurik
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So I went ahead and pulled the trigger today. There was a (used-car) dealer near me with a 2018 Lightning Blue SuperCrew, 802A with Moonroof. The miles were pretty high, but it test drove great, and I didn't hear/see any major issues with it, the CarFax was clean and showed maintenance at the regular intervals. The dealer was asking $53k and offered $2.5k for my well-used 2011 Hyundai Elantra (with 155k miles, way more than I expected for it). I was able to talk him down to $52.5k for the Raptor, and up to $3k for the trade-in. The finance manager put me in a 75 month note at 3.99%, but I'll be paying that off as soon as I get the payment information -- I was going to pay cash for it, but he knocked $1k off to finance through them. My only issue is that it has a soft roll-up tonneau cover that I don't really care for (which I'll end up replacing with a hard folding one), there is quite a bit of wear on the steering wheel at the top, and it's going to be due for tires sooner rather than later. However, these are all addressed easily enough or something I can live with -- my plan is to have a crapton of fun with this, until I trade it in on a Raptor-R which I'm waitlisted on. And for the price I got it at, I shouldn't be looking at much (if any) depreciation.
Here's the mini-me being his usual goofy self in front of it.
We've got a family vacation coming up next month where we're headed to Colorado Springs and southwest Colorado, and I'm thinking we may add a trip to Great Sand Dunes National Park while we're out there.
Here's the mini-me being his usual goofy self in front of it.
We've got a family vacation coming up next month where we're headed to Colorado Springs and southwest Colorado, and I'm thinking we may add a trip to Great Sand Dunes National Park while we're out there.
