Today I went to my dealer and discussed the option of doing a straight trade of my SS for an Equinox.
First, I love my car. It's all paid for, and I continually have permagrin. Hell ya'll know I post here all the time about how much I love my car. Recently, because of 3 tickets in 2 years and getting rid of my Impala (which gave me multi-car discount), my insurance has gotten pretty expensive. I have a $100 deductible and pretty high coverage as well.
So I have been wanting to explore options. Prior to my getting the Camaro, I had been looking at Audi's and other AWD cars. I wouldn't mind having AWD for the occasional snow and mountain trek. My Camaro is a DD, and I do go out in some snowy conditions, but there are times I would have gone in an AWD that I wouldn't in the Camaro.
Mainly, I wanted to know how much I'd get in trade, and it really isn't a whole lot. My car has been hit twice, both times in the front and for $11,000 damage each time. So I knew I was going to take a hit if I did want to sell it.
After having the dealer look at the car (all the while saying how much he loved the cars color, and how awesome it was), I got offered the low end of the scale I was expecting...essentially $22,000. I might be able to sell it privately for $26-27k privately if I included the second set of wheels/tires.
Essentially, where I was thinking I might be able to trade straight across for a Equinox 1LT, I'm about $3700 short. I would sell my extended warranty, which would get me about $1500 of that. They were even offerning me a loan for that, which I could cover...but I hate car loans because I hate paying interest.
Upshot of this is...I'm going to hang on to the Camaro. I love it too much. If I get a huge bonus sometime, I'll consider getting a AWD daily driver and sell the Camaro...and get a ZL1 as a race/garage queen car
Oh, and I did like the Equinox. I got to test drive one, and it was nice for what it is. I liked the backup camera and larger screen for the radio.