Well we are moving to Europe in the spring and are only allowed to bring one car. This seems like our best option at this point because in today's economy I doubt we would be able to sell the van for more than $6k to a private seller anyway.
Thanks for the input! My husband is calling up one of his coworkers to go in with me when it comes down to negotiating the price for my van trade in and negotiating the price of the new Cobalt 32 mpg sounds GREAT. We plan on doing lots of driving while we live in Europe and have been told that we will have our gas rationed. Our van is rated at 20 combined mpg.