Hi! My husband and I own two larger Hondas and love them. However, we’re looking for something with better gas mileage and found a 2000 Toyota Echo manual transmission with 255k miles on it, asking less than $4000. We have two house payments currently, as the housing market was great for buying bu…

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I, too, have a 2000 Toyota Echo and want to chime in with the other Echo owner. This has been a GREAT car. Sure, there are repairs, but what car doesn’t have to have maintainance/repairs? It passed 200,000 a couple of weeks ago and runs great. However, i agree w/everyone else who say 4,000 is waaaaa…

Old cars with high mileage generally go for $750-$1000. That is if they run well. Paying anything more is foolish; the seller may still love the car and think it is worth more.

Just look at what a Volvo or BMW of that age and mileage would cost. That puts it in perspective.

@mherman is that a private party sale? If so, that guy is smoking rock all night long! http://www.kbb.com/toyota/echo/2000-toyota-echo/sedan-4d/?condition=good&vehicleid=7063&intent=buy-used&mileage=255000&category=sedan&pricetype=private-party#survey

Edmunds says the car is worth about $1600 in a private sale.

Cars with that kind of mileage are usually just given away, donated, or sold for under $500. No way is it worth $4000. My Riviera had 350,000 on it and I sold it for $50. I had agreed to $100 but the light switch went out on it. And that was with a new $70 battery and a full tank of gas. The on…

I bought a car that old for $200. The other one I got for free. One cost $1200 to get semi-right; the free one cost only $650 to be as good as it could be, which was nice. Both interiors were kind of bad. I would never pay $4000 for one that looked and ran great. Oh, a third car was free but I owned…

Should I buy a 2000 Toyota Echo with 255k on it?

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Caddyman February 2, 2013, 6:08am 28

Never buy ANY car with 225K on the meter…$4000?? How about $900 The Echo was an Econo-Box with a capital “E”

You can buy a clean Crown Vic with under 125K miles for that money…get to ride in a real car…

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