Yeah... it is really nice, and I have done the math (they made me in the finance office). The Civic feels more solid, sporty, and I LOVE Honda/Acura's Navigation systems.

On a side note, the Blue Book on my particular HHR was $11,8xx. CarMax offered me $10,500 without even looking at it, and Honda offered me $11,500 without even negotiating, so I got pretty close to KBB with minimal hassle.

 

As long as you're happy, and obviously you are, then you've done the right thing.
But I wouldn't trade my HHR for a Civic even if they gave me $7500 extra than my HHR is worth.

 

I`am 110% with you on that 2 Grandfather`s,1 Uncle ,my Father and myself now with 28 years working for GM.That name as well as the rest of the asian car makers are never brought up with anything but negativety.

My Dad was such a GM man that when I was 17 I wanted this 66 T-Bird and he said where are you going to park it.I said in the driveway and he said you aren`t parking any Ford in my driveway.So I setteled for a 70 Pontiac Le Mans and had a parking spot.

 

Tough trading a 1 year old car...almost no matter what kind and make it is you are going to take a bath. If I decide to trade my Matrix if I get an HHR I'll be in the hole a bit (not 7500!) but that is due to the high miles (62k) If I had normal miles on it I'd probably be up about 3 grand on a trade in.


Enjoy the Civic, it is a great car and will last you forever with routine maintenance. In the end it is what makes you happy, not someone else.


Goose

 

The trade-in value on HHRs is really ridiculous. Just because they were inexpensive to start with doesn't mean they should depreciate so quickly. I guess this will just convince people to keep their HHRs. I plan to, unless I find a serious problem the dealer can't fix.

 

Which CarMax buyer made you an offer without even looking at it? I'm just wondering because I used to work for them and that's a big no-no. They can get in pretty big trouble for pulling something like that. As in getting-fired-and-escorted-out-the-door-by-the-senior-buyer trouble.

As far as the value is concerned, an HHR is a lot lizard on the used market. Civics last a week, at most, whether or not they have decent mileage and good options. You can have a loaded HHR 2LT priced 5k off blue book and it'll take a month or two to sell it. Supply and demand.

I really hope you paid off the negative equity with cash because there's no way the value of even a Civic is going to be worth that much.

 

Congrats on your new ride.
Sorry to hear about the lost of your HHR, may be the next owner will keep for a while longer.
Congrats again!

 

CarMax Nissan of White Marsh. And I ended up having $4500 in negative equity; I wrote a check to help lessen that blow. It will be paid off in two years anyway.

Thanks! I left one of our cards in the operator's manual. Hopefully they'll check us out! I'd like to see where it ends up. I'll have to run a CarFax on it in a few weeks and see if it's sold yet...

 

Well up until this year I would have said, Honda Civic=BORING! But the new Civic's look fantastic...for a sedan...If you got the coupe it's even more studly. But let's not forget hey are two different vehicle classes...a Sedan vs. a MPV (yeah that's what the door sticker classifies it as, tho my AAA insurance calls it a Sport Truck) and not even comparable in category terms. PerryHallHHR must've NOT needed the HHR benefits any longer. And you know what they say about apples and oranges. BTW it's pretty common knowledge that ALL vehicles depreciate dramatically after 24 hrs. off the lot. In fact in the 3 hours of the mysteriously convoluted experience of buying my PE HHR I was told something to that effect...but I don't remember much after the first hour.

Wilson

 

Have to agree with crafty, about the Lot Lizard, and the reason I see, is the retail price of the used HHR's. Most are the same if not more than the new ones. At least that's what I've seen here. I haven't checked to see what is being given for trade in. I'm sure it's not near what they are asking. An 06 LS with 25,000 miles for $16,000? It's still sitting there after 3 months.....wonder why?