I just went through the same excercise. The autobahn was nice, but not worth $5K more than an SE with the experience package. I was considering just buying an S, found them around $23.5K. The SE with the experience package was less than $3K more. It will be a much easier resale and can probably recover a lot of it when selling. I just paid $26300, plus TTL for one.
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that's basically what I paid for my SE + ExpP back in April ($29.5k OTD--in MD, so my memory is that normal fees and taxes and title come out to about $4k of that)
....would be nice to be able to find a <4k mile or so SE, buy-back for stalling issue, for around 23-26k, OTD right now. maybe cheaper, actually? I dunno, I'm gonna start looking because I'm curious, lol. I'm in DC area, so tons of VW lots out here.
yup,
here's one
Don't think I'd pay $26.5k for that, though, OTD.
This is my exact same car, now, but with 1.3k more miles. Is mine worth 26.5k? no. I think I could get $24k for it, tops. ....maybe I just don't get depreciation? lol, no idea really. But here's what I know about my car, and this is exactly why this person has sold theirs (either to this Toyota dealership, or this one bought it from a VW as a buyback....which they did.) also, that's what the internet prices for all of that was when I bought mine, new, back in April...0 miles. (yes, the baked-seasonal incentives...which never applied to me, so it ends up being the same internet price regardless). What I ended up paying OTD = this current price + TTL+Fs. So, yeah. not worth it.
Owner probably purchased this 1 year ago, maybe 9 months. Ran into the stall issue with that MT. Got the run around from dealers, never got it fixed (honestly luck of the draw at that time), quickly initiated buy-back. VW service then applied the official fix. (I imagine that this could have been done regardless of a CPO tag?).
This toyota dealership bought from auction from any potential VW dealership across the country, had it shipped by truck (though most likely local, right? I just think there are
a lot of these out there at this time, so probably big inventory on the auctions for low mile 2019 GTI 6MT...).
and these are perfectly fine cars. Absolutely no reason to worry about it. It seems the official ECU fix really got the engine humming again, (like mine--well, I still haven't gotten the official fix, but I was one of the lucky ones that got an early ECU fix--back in June--that
did solve the stalling--however, the newest fix also seems to improve the timing across all engines, so I'm definitely going to schedule that in the next couple of months--this is a free fix until 2027 or something--but again, all used 2019 on sale will have had it applied; almost certainly)
Other tells in this listing:
--you see the fender tag in one of the later photos, on that A pillar in the background. Didn't even need to look at specs, so you know this is SE + Ex P, which
means the only thing you have to think about is color at this point, if SE is set for you.
--The color is "Urano Grey" Tha tis not Urano Grey, because only Rabbit gets that. It's obviously an SE, and it's Dark Iron Blue. I know that because that's the color of mine. You expect these little mistakes from non-VW Dealers...but even some VW dealers, tbh. That certainly happens. Anyway, no issue, just common. You know it's DIB, it's an SE + ExP, no wreck title, completely clean. If that's what you want, then offer less, lol.
----further, because it's non-VW, and they listed the color wrong....this might actually be....and autobahn! very hard to tell with pics, so you need to look at specs for anything like ACC, Lane Assist, adaptive climate control, nav...I don't see that, but it still might be the case. Doubt it, but...
I'd look for something like the above listed, if you are looking for SE, at a price ~$23-24k, OTD. That seems reasonable for my area, at least, but it seems that I am in value region for VW, because we have so many lots. So I guess that isn't as reasonable in other parts of the country, heh. ....I do see you are in Kentucky, so consider expanding your search at least into Northern VA or wherever, because that should help a ton in pricing, if you can make it work.