w00h00 new car =D

[Morequick]

hey everyone!

I've been an avid follower of this Forum for a few months now when researching a car purchase, thought I'd finally join now that I have my car.

Bought a 2nd hand black Sportivo SX6 Nov 09 make (facelift model) with 9k km's for $28,500. It came with tinted windows & Doyle's aftermarket leather, excellent condition fairly decent buy I think. Shopped around a few dealerships and decided to do business with this one because the salesman was blunt and to the point. On the test drive, I requested that he drive, so I could focus on checking out the car (rattles, engine noise, interior etc) without being distracted (fall in love with!) driving lol. He wasted no time showing me the Sequential shift drive mode and shifted up right b4 redline, we were going 120km's in a 60 zone lol!!! Then proceeded to show me a test of the brakes, braking from 100km and an emergency brake from 60km. Pretty smart salesman, saw I was a young bloke, would definitely be drawn in by the power, and coming from driving my mums '05 V6 Camry, the acceleration was blistering =D

Soon as I got out of the car, I knew I had to have it, so went and started negotiating price. I lowballed him with a starting price, and he didn't fudge around trying to raise my price, and told me that he couldn't sell it for so low, he even went to get their invoice paper to show me how much they purchased the vehicle for ($29,000) (not incl stamp duty, detailining & servicing), and I thought bloody hell, this is the first "honest" salesman I've come across, so I told him I'd take it off his hands today for $28,500 and he called his boss. Unlike a lot of salesmen who walk out of the room or the desk and go into the managers room to talk about a final price, this guy called his boss and put the phone on loudspeaker so I could hear the whole convo as well. He shook my hand and I picked up the car the next day no hassles, very happy =D

Only downside I can find to the car is that black seems to be a dust magnet, finding myself washing it every few days. I think it's because I park my car at my uni carpark (outside) @ Penrith and its always windy and dusty there =\

anyways, hope to see some of you guys around Sydney!

heres some pics (taken by the dealership, but I will add some personal ones soon):

I saw the same pre-facelift car as mine @ my uni carpark, same colour too, so parked next to it. Was going to leave a note but was in a rush lol.

Edited August 28, 2010 by Morequick

[chicken]

congratulations on the purchase! love the exterior esp the taillights and wheels. post some pics of the interior leather

[Noodle Boy]

geez, that's a good bargain you've got there. oh well, the black one does look good but you have to accept the fact that you have to wash it often to keep it looking at its best(that's why i bought a silver one). congrats on your purchase and may you have the best driving experiences with it.

[Morequick]

Interior pics:

Too bad the previous owner was conservative and went for grey leather, I rekn red leather would go really well with black. I wonder how much the aftermarket leather for the seats would've set back the previous owner, around $1k-$2k?

Fuel consumption is pretty satisfactory, averaging 9.6-9.7 with 60% freeway and 40% urban driving, pretty close to the stated 9.9ltr/100km. Although the first week I got it was closer to 12ltr/100km when every green light was a 0-100km test haha

Edited August 28, 2010 by Morequick

[Steven]

Love to see more facelift Aurions making the rounds. The new SX6 comes with a whole kit of gear and for 28k you have scored a bloody great bargain.

Be sure to make a thread in the My Rides section

[DJKOR]

Love to see more facelift Aurions making the rounds. The new SX6 comes with a whole kit of gear and for 28k you have scored a bloody great bargain.

Yeah mate. As said, you definitely got yourself a bargain. Great stuff.

Be sure to make a thread in the My Rides section

Or better still, ask a mod nicely to move this thread to the 'Members Rides' section and build it up from there.

[mmm_sx6]

Sweet ***** ride mate, where abouts in sydney do u live, id love to get a photo sesh with u.. :P

[TheMirror]

Sexy!

Misa Campo that is :P

..oh and your car :)

[Morequick]

I live in the Hills region of Sydney. In between Parra and Carlingford B)

LOL thnx. Too bad Misa Campo isn't an option on the car

I was eyeing an 09 ZR6 (pre-facelift) before this car, but the salesman was hell dodgy. I gave him an offer price of $28,500 (car was advertised at $31,888) and he looked like his pet dog had just died. This was at Hunter Holden Ryde. He told me he couldn't sell it for so low and that another customer had called in and made an offer of $31k. I was like alright if he made a higher offer I rekn you should go for him, thnx for your time, and I got up to leave, but he tried to drag it lol. Explaining to me how he couldn't sell for so low and if I could go higher. I told him I couldn't take anything higher than my price, and in the end left. The salesman kept calling me soon as I left the dealership! <_<

I had to reiterate 3 times that I would not budge on my price and just ended up not picking up my phone lol, talk about persistent. But it just showed that all his talk about can't go so low on the price was total bs, and a few days later I called him myself to ask how the sale went with the "other guy" who made the $31k offer and he went on about how he's bringing his wife to see the car, what an excuse lmao

Then my dad went to see the car the next day by himself and spoke to a different salesman. Asked what the best price was, and the salesman told him if he wanted to buy the car, the best price was RRP, would not negotiate at all and was a f*kn pr*ck, wouldn't even let my dad check out the interior or take it for a spin , at that stage, even if I had wanted to buy it, my dad pretty much said 'no' lol. Have to say, such terrible customer service from the Used Car department at Hunter Holden Ryde. Wouldn't go there if they were handing out free cars with attitude like that.

I notice that the car is currently advertised on Carsales for $29,888 now haha , still not sold.

[Adamsy]

Congrats mate on your buy, youve done well the SX6 comes pretty well kitted these days. The face lifted model does seem to make series one look a little dated at the rear hay? However Im not a fan of the way the L.E.D's dont actually look like LEDS in the new lamps, in the first model you could clearly the see the distinct circle of LEDS which look pretty wicked. I'm a bigger fan of the Thai HSD Camry with its red section and light blue tinge than the face lifted lamps. Nice choices though enjoy the car and keep us posted on any mods you decide to make :)

Also the leather looks pretty good, looks very close to that of the factory leather in a Presara, Red would of being awesome, i once seen a black ZR6 that had patches like the lumber support area done in red and the steering wheel and gear shifter and the "Sportivo" shadowed in red, looked awesome. I'd love the same done in my car, in blue though Obviously lol.

Edited August 29, 2010 by Adamsy

[Morequick]

Ye! I know which car you're talking about! I saw it on the Members Rides section, the two tone red on black leather, it looked fantastic! Amazing how much a difference the right colour leather can make to accentuate the colour of your car. I think the owner said it costed him around $2k to get it done, not bad at all I rekn.

Two tone, blue on black would look great with your blue Sportivo too!

Currently saving money for future mods, blew my entire savings just to buy the car, haha

[Adamsy]

Oh serious? There’s pictures of it in the my ride section, wouldn’t happen to have a link would you? Will have to suss it out!

yeah it can really set the car off and break up the interior a bit, just for a sh*t giggle i might go price it up and see how much it would be to get done :)

[DJKOR]

Oh serious? There’s pictures of it in the my ride section, wouldn’t happen to have a link would you? Will have to suss it out!

Try this one:

The new and improved FLYZR6

The leather goodness is on the second page.

[Adamsy]

Oh serious? There’s pictures of it in the my ride section, wouldn’t happen to have a link would you? Will have to suss it out!

Try this one:

The new and improved FLYZR6

The leather goodness is on the second page.

Oh oh awwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwww along with Maseratti's exhaust notes that leather is pure sex and fark id love mine to be like that! mummy for xmas can you get my leather re done for me haha :P

[DJKOR]

Oh oh awwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwww along with Maseratti's exhaust notes that leather is pure sex and fark id love mine to be like that! mummy for xmas can you get my leather re done for me haha :P

Just a tip as well if you decide to re-trim your seats. At the same time, see if you can get some extra side bolstering like the TRD. Depending on how hard you like to corner, the extra support is quite comforting.

[Ronnyboy]

Congrats on the purchase and welcome aboard :)

[Morequick]

Thats the one!

The red looks wicked B)

tyty Ronny. hoping to see some members out on the streets, so far all the Aurions I've seen r driven by middle aged men

There was a silver Aurion TRD I saw yesterday with the plates 'MYTRD', slowed down to scope it out and it was a chick driving it , looked to be in her twnties

Prolly driving her bf's car >.>

Edited August 31, 2010 by Morequick

[DJKOR]

There was a silver Aurion TRD I saw yesterday with the plates 'MYTRD', slowed down to scope it out and it a chick driving it , looked to be in her twnties

I've seen quite a few young ladies around here driving Aurions. I wouldn't be so quick on making assumptions. Also seen some lady (who appeared to be in her 30's) driving a white TRD around on two occasions. She looked fitting to the car so I would presume it was hers.

[Morequick]

There was a silver Aurion TRD I saw yesterday with the plates 'MYTRD', slowed down to scope it out and it a chick driving it , looked to be in her twnties

I've seen quite a few young ladies around here driving Aurions. I wouldn't be so quick on making assumptions. Also seen some lady (who appeared to be in her 30's) driving a white TRD around on two occasions. She looked fitting to the car so I would presume it was hers.

Good point. I'm not sure I'd feel safe if I had a TRD and my gf was driving lol

[Adamsy]

Oh oh awwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwww along with Maseratti's exhaust notes that leather is pure sex and fark id love mine to be like that! mummy for xmas can you get my leather re done for me haha :P

Just a tip as well if you decide to re-trim your seats. At the same time, see if you can get some extra side bolstering like the TRD. Depending on how hard you like to corner, the extra support is quite comforting.

HEY Yeah thats a good point, after driving TRD's half a dozen time now every time i settle into the seats i find myself thinking o geez these seats are much better! so some extra support would go down alright lol.

[Joseph]

Thats the one!

The red looks wicked B)

tyty Ronny. hoping to see some members out on the streets, so far all the Aurions I've seen r driven by middle aged men

There was a silver Aurion TRD I saw yesterday with the plates 'MYTRD', slowed down to scope it out and it was a chick driving it , looked to be in her twnties

Prolly driving her bf's car >.>

Oh no!!! Not middle aged men!! how dare they drive around in a young mans car!! sheeesh whats the world coming to, that sort of thing never happened when I was 17, back in 1969!!! hahaha, think Im just going to have to trade my ZR6 in on a Hyundai Getz, on second thoughts, maybe I should get a Gofa!!!

I dream of a chick in her twnties driving around in my ZR6 LOL

[Morequick]

Thats the one!

The red looks wicked B)

tyty Ronny. hoping to see some members out on the streets, so far all the Aurions I've seen r driven by middle aged men

There was a silver Aurion TRD I saw yesterday with the plates 'MYTRD', slowed down to scope it out and it was a chick driving it , looked to be in her twnties

Prolly driving her bf's car >.>

Oh no!!! Not middle aged men!! how dare they drive around in a young mans car!! sheeesh whats the world coming to, that sort of thing never happened when I was 17, back in 1969!!! hahaha, think Im just going to have to trade my ZR6 in on a Hyundai Getz, on second thoughts, maybe I should get a Gofa!!!

I dream of a chick in her twnties driving around in my ZR6 LOL

LOL, I meant I was looking forward to seeing more drivers my age ;)

u kno, the ones that give u eye contact wen u check out their cars

Hyundai Getz ... lol

[Alonso]

omg, i think me and you are the only p-platers in aus with aurions hahaha.... nice choice :)

[mmm_sx6]

Mee three!

Edit: Ive seen plenty in sydney driving aurions

Edited September 7, 2010 by mmm_sx6

[Silver-Aurion]

omg, i think me and you are the only p-platers in aus with aurions hahaha.... nice choice :)

Hardly :P! When I had my P's I had the Aurion and I do also see P-platers driving Aurions in Melbourne too