OrientExpress said:
Cars bought back by a manufacturer can be resold in all 50 states, but the title of the car is marked as "salvage".
It wasn't marked as salvage, since it wasn't officially bought back under the lemon law. Wouldn't be worth 18K as salvage.
I don't think it's unethical to sell these cars, but I do feel it's unethical not to explain the situation the car was in and what the new buyer can reasonably expect. I would imagine in Nashville that this car won't lose its third bar for a long while, but no one can be certain. I do know the car wasn't driven much in the past four months, and at least in photos it's been sitting with 100% SOC at the dealer. Not good.
The Carfax does show that Nissan repurchased the car, so a new buyer isn't completely blind here, but how would they know what questions to ask unless they had dopne a lot of research on this site? I'm definitely a more cautious, educated consumer than I was two years ago.