Got mine at a dealer auction in August. I had been looking for one for a while and nothing locally was to my liking. Ideally I wanted a red 5 speed with air, no other options necessary as I knew I was changing the stereo the moment I got it. I had been watching the online listings for the local area for a month and low and behold a red 2002 Insight 5 speed with 2700 miles showed up late, but I cought it. I hadn't even driven one ever so I showed up early and drove it around the lot some and looked it over. Fine by me, it was exactly what I wanted, but by that time if I could have found an automatic if I could have found one, and deffinitely an older one with some miles, but they were just hard to come by.
I sat there at the lane and waited and waited for the car to come through as sometimes they run em through early. At the time, the Insight had no blue book value so there was a bunch of people standing around sccratching their heads know quite knowing what to think when the car went in to auto stop on the auction block. It was great, we got bidd against twice and they were done. Got the car for cheap as it was a lease return and they just wanted rid of it.
Check in hand and a dealer plate ready I took it home. I later did a car fax which revealed some interesting notes. The car's first entry was here in Phoenix at 800 miles, so I'm assuming it was probably a demo vehcile.. all well. Then someone bought it, registered it, and it was back up for sale at a dealership the next day. It sat around for a while and was leased, not a whole lot more than 1000 miles later it came back to the dealership and sat some more. A dealership in Yuma bought it and had to have trailered it down there and back because only 31 miles had been put on it in this time period. So it came back through the auction and then to me. An odd tale for a car, but thats how it ended up in my hands. The question is where along the line did the other two keys dissappear?
Ahh memories. I now have 17,000 miles on the car and have risen the lifetime from 51 when I got it to 63.9, so I'm pretty happy with it.
