Considering to sell or keep my 2007 @ 200K

With rust crooked hoods and all the plastic missing I doubt it but then again I'm old school and everything now is supposedly five times worth what it was 3 years ago etc I'll wait all that out I bought a car in better shape than this at the beginning of the pandemic for $2,000 It's the ugliest Prius in class an '09 gold with the tan velor interior Pure ugly junk. But it's a work vehicle everything on the car works gets 45 to 47 one miles to the gallon I don't think I'd ever seen it go over that for longer than a few seconds I've run thousands of gallons of gas to this thing. I've never seen any of this 50 51 miles to the gallon nonsense. So I'm thinking that's driving style or something that's making that happen there's no way we will ever see that our Gen 3 same thing people claiming they're getting 55 never seen much more than 48 49 and driving like it so I don't know maybe it's the heat North Carolina or something I have no idea.

 

Here ya go Tom, just so you can see what it looks like!

 

The used car market is always strange, easy to make or lose money depending on things. I still wince about my first upgrade in 74 from a vega to a firebird. 3 months later the gas crisis hit and the vega was worth more than what I paid for the 'bird. And the 400 cubic inch pontiac was worth less then trade in on the POS vega.

You obviously have developed a relationship with this car, so I have to ask what will you replace it with? But enough of that gen2 pricing is whatever you can get right now. All 3 of ours are worth more than the purchase price but the problem is the jump to a replacement is pretty big. But if you do want to sell try 4K, and if you want to get the highest price wait until gas spikes again and/or June when all the school grads are looking for their first car. Yours would be an excellent candidate.

 

put it in kbb with a cali zip and see what comes up

 

you should post photos so others can chime in as to what they would pay if they were looking to buy

 

beauty is in the eye of the beholder so id say general photos each side and interior and that should say enough. I personally just bought a 08 in excellent cond with 217k and clean title very well taken care of for under 3k...of course it needed the abs accum replaced which I did myself and saved the $3k repair bill.

 

OP - I'd be very interested in your car and I'm relatively local. Please DM me if you're interested in selling. Thanks!