1023 N Broad St
Rome, GA 30161
For a Cobb County buyer in Powder Springs, southeast of the lot, it is 40 miles, so it pays to call first. 42 vehicles are here and we will say honestly whether yours is still one of them.
If you are weighing up car lots near Powder Springs, Cochran Motor Company is a used car dealership on North Broad Street in Rome, a 40 mile drive from Powder Springs, with 42 used cars, trucks and SUVs for sale.
That is a slice of the lot: 9 trucks, 29 SUVs and 4 cars are on the ground in Rome today, and the mix turns over weekly.
The drive from Powder Springs runs about 70 minutes, mainly along GA 101.
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We sell from a single lot on North Broad Street, with no branch in another town. Part of the inventory is parked at holding lots close by, so tell us what you want and it will be waiting on the main lot 40 miles up the road.
Tell us which one you want to see on (706) 237-7207. Some of our stock sits at holding lots nearby, and without notice there is usually a ten minute wait at the end of the drive from Powder Springs.
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Worth doing before you come in. It takes a few minutes and does not commit you to anything. We are not a lender: your application goes to outside lenders, and we tell you where you stand.
Start your credit applicationYou register where you live. Buying 40 miles up the road in Rome does not change that: a Powder Springs vehicle is titled and tagged in Cobb County.
Georgia's title tax is a one-time charge that lands when the title is issued. It replaced the annual ad valorem bill that used to come around every year on newer purchases. The Department of Revenue publishes the current figure and the calculation, and that page is the one to work from, not our arithmetic.
We handle our part of the paperwork, and you register at home in Cobb County. Under Georgia's rules the dealer submits the title application and the tax to the buyer's own county, so a Powder Springs sale goes to Cobb County.
Cobb County is one of the 13 Georgia counties inside the emissions inspection program, 40 miles from the lot. The registration county decides whether a test is due, not the lot you bought from, 40 miles away or not.
Some vehicles are exempt and the rules move over time, so check the program's official site before you register. The lot sits in Floyd County, which the program does not cover, and that has no bearing on what Cobb County asks of a Powder Springs buyer.
We do not put anything out without a clean title and no reported frame damage, and there is a history report on most of them. Over a longer drive that is exactly the thing you want settled in advance. What a branded title costs you ›
Around 40 miles. Powder Springs lies southeast of the lot at 1023 N Broad St in Rome, Georgia. One address, and everything is shown to you there.
The requirement applies in Cobb County, and it follows the county you register in rather than the county you buy in, so a Rome purchase changes nothing. Whether one particular vehicle is due a test depends on the exemptions the program publishes, which are on its official site.
Yes. Georgia has the title application and the title ad valorem tax go to the county where you live, so a Powder Springs purchase is titled in Cobb County rather than in Floyd County. We handle our side of the paperwork here in Rome.
Figure about 70 minutes, mainly along GA 101. A call to (706) 237-7207 first means we have it pulled up rather than ten minutes away.
Yes. Call (706) 237-7207 and we will hold it and have it pulled up front. Stock turns over weekly, so from Powder Springs that is worth doing rather than taking the chance.
Closest other towns we hear from: Austell (4 mi from Powder Springs), Hiram (5 mi from Powder Springs), Lithia Springs (5 mi from Powder Springs), Mableton (6 mi from Powder Springs), Douglasville (8 mi from Powder Springs), Smyrna (10 mi from Powder Springs), Marietta (10 mi from Powder Springs), Dallas (10 mi from Powder Springs).