Which SVX would you buy?

[iizbeastie]

I'd go with the 50k from the dealer, but not based at all on the miles...

In my state, buying a car from a dealer comes with a 30 return policy (lemon law) giving you plenty of time to bring it to your own mechanic and go over it yourself plus research known problems with them (assuming it's your first) and so on.

I personally get suspicious of a private party with a laundry list of new parts and work done on the car. I start wondering what went wrong that they were trying to fix... couldn't and they're now trying to get out from under it while using the new parts as a reason to jack the price as high as possible (dealer vs private seller = NOT the same value usually). With a house, you renovate and update for the sake of inflating the price higher than your investment.... fixing a car before you sell usually doesn't get you your money back.

Lastly, from what I've seen these cars don't sell very quickly, meaning you can possibly buy the one from the dealer, find out it's a covered up POS bring it back and have the money to go get the other one that is quite possibly still sitting there..... and hopefully not have buyers remorse after finding out you were better off with the first one... in which case, buy both and sell one on Ebay