View Poll Results: How did you purchase your HHR?
Purchased new.
177
77.63%
Purchased used from private owner.
11
4.82%
Purchased used as rental.
40
17.54%
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HHRs that were once rentals.
Senior Member
Joined: 09-14-2007
Posts: 1,441
From: xxxxx-xx
Forgot about that tax thing. I was in the army at Fort Braggs NC in 1972 and bought a used car (68 Camaro) and learned that I didn't have to pay sales tax since it was a used car and tax is only paid when it is new. I live in Ohio and you have to pay sale tax on a car no matter how many times it is sold and bought. Comments on this about the States you guys live in?
Senior Member
Joined: 02-19-2006
Posts: 473
From: Kentucky
In Kentucky we pay tax on the differance of the trade each time it is sold. If no trade, we pay the bill of sale price. We also pay tax on it each year when we tag it. Vehicles in KY are taxed to death. May be why we see so many sitting on the side of the road.
Senior Member
Joined: 09-14-2007
Posts: 1,441
From: xxxxx-xx
Should of said that in Ohio the value of our trade in is deducted from the new car price (or used car if we are buying used) and then we get taxed on the remainder. Don't pay any tax like you do in Ky when we get new plates (or renewal stickers that go on the plate).
Last edited by an08HHR; Oct 3, 2007 at 01:01 PM.
New Member
Joined: 05-14-2012
Posts: 20
From: Kentucky - where men are MEN (and sheep are nervous)
It would be interesting to track down the rental that I drove to Hot Springs last summer. I put 3700 miles on it in 10 days. Being a rental I put it through the ringer to make sure I still wanted an HHR. It took the flogging and convinced me these were great cars to own. 29.3 MPG @ 78mph most of the way. Here is a pic standing on a corner in Winslow Arizona
I just had to stop.
I just had to stop.
Senior Member
Joined: 12-02-2010
Posts: 840
From: Roanoke Va
Mine was a rental out of Kentucky with 8040 miles when I test drove it. Wy wife's had 9337 when we drove it. Hers was a GM Certified and didn't thinkto pull a Carfax. I traded in a 93 Corolla with over a 180,000 and it was a Budget rental. Some one left something in the glove box they shgouldn't have. My last new car was a 77 Audi Fox.
Senior Member
Joined: 07-21-2009
Posts: 326
From: GateWay to the West
Mine was a rental and cept for the Throttle Body needing replaced
the first 30 k in just a year have been pretty un eventful.
I had a 99 Cavalier Z24 Vert that was a rental too. No problems out of it
in over 60 k.
the first 30 k in just a year have been pretty un eventful.
I had a 99 Cavalier Z24 Vert that was a rental too. No problems out of it
in over 60 k.
HHR purchase
Senior Member
Joined: 07-21-2009
Posts: 326
From: GateWay to the West