1023 N Broad St
Rome, GA 30161
1023 N Broad St
Rome, GA 30161
For a Whitfield County buyer in Varnell, north of the lot, it is 45 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 Varnell, Cochran Motor Company is a used car dealership on North Broad Street in Rome, a 45 mile drive from Varnell, 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 Varnell runs about 75 minutes, mainly along I 75.
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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 45 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 Varnell.
Drive time and route from OpenStreetMap contributors.
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, so a Varnell purchase from us ends up at the Whitfield County Tax Commissioner in Dalton for its Whitfield County title and tag.
The tax side is Georgia's title ad valorem tax, charged once, at titling. It replaced the annual ad valorem bill that used to come around every year on newer purchases. Read the current figure off the Department of Revenue's page rather than any estimate, ours included, since it is theirs to change.
We handle our part of the paperwork, and you register at home in Whitfield County. Georgia has the selling dealer send the title application and the tax to the county where the buyer lives, which for a Varnell buyer is Whitfield County.
Georgia Department of Revenue: title ad valorem tax ›
Whitfield County Tax Commissioner ›
No emissions test is required to register in Whitfield County: it is not one of the 13 Georgia counties in the state inspection program.
The covered counties are listed on the program's official site, worth a look if you later move out of Whitfield County. Floyd County, where the lot sits, is outside the program too, so nothing about the 45 mile drive changes the answer.
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 ›
Roughly 45 miles. The lot is at 1023 N Broad St in Rome, with Varnell north of it, and it is the only place we sell from.
No. Whitfield County sits outside Georgia's inspection program, so there is no emissions test to pass when you register there, and buying 45 miles away in Rome does not change that.
Yes. Georgia has the title application and the title ad valorem tax go to the county where you live, so a Varnell purchase is titled in Whitfield County, through the Whitfield County Tax Commissioner in Dalton. We handle our side of the paperwork here in Rome.
Figure about 75 minutes, mainly along I 75. A call to (706) 237-7207 first means we have it pulled up rather than ten minutes away.
Yes. A quick call to (706) 237-7207 holds it and gets it pulled up ready, which is worth the minute from Varnell.
Closest other towns we hear from: Ringgold (7 mi from Varnell), Dalton (9 mi from Varnell), Fort Oglethorpe (15 mi from Varnell), Chatsworth (16 mi from Varnell), Chickamauga (17 mi from Varnell), Rossville (18 mi from Varnell), LaFayette (21 mi from Varnell), Calhoun (28 mi from Varnell).