Just wanted to add my 2 cents.

I've been driving my car in higher temperature (100 - 110F) high and low humidity lately and can say that the car has never exceeded about 105C. It will generally sit at that temperature in stop and go traffic, once the car has started to move it cools down to about 95C. In cooler temperatures, anything below 80F the car sits right at 90C unless your coming down from a high speed run and then it can climb to 105C.

I have also noticed a slight decrease in power on hot days, seems the car almost retards itself to keep from getting to hot. It may be an adjustment on air/fuel mixture to keep the car cooler.

As far as pricing goes when I was looking 6 months ago I found that KBB pricing was off about $10K on these cars. I good condition car is hard to come by and I can guarantee you that the owner will demand a premium. You might want to check with a few of the forum members, I believe a couple were up for sale recently and were priced very reasonable.

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