I may advertise mine for £500k so even wider price band now.....

The only difference between a US and a EUR car is the front bumper...everything else is the same.

Despite that, US cars are always trading at a discount vs. EUR cars and usually EUR cars trades at a discount vs. UK cars. I guess it's all a question of traceability of the car's history...

My suggestion is to look for a EUR car, perhaps in Italy where prices are still a little depressed on these cars and there are few examples available here and there. I would look at cars with a clean ownership history (1 max 2 previous owners) and reasonable low mileage (around 7-8k miles)

You can get one for around 300k eur/260k gbp.

If you look well you might even find something below that price.

If you need help with cars in Italy let me know, I know them all...almost!

Thanks for the offer.

I'm currently in Switzerland but moving back to the UK next year and was thinking about buying one here and bringing it back with me.

Italy wouldn't work at the moment as would cost too much to register in Switzerland (around 12%).

At first sight I thought prices here might be better here in Switzerland but they seem about the same (also seems to be a big discount for US cars). I am currently looking at a 2004 US car with 5'500 km in grey/brown advertised for GBP 260'000. At that price I'm not sure it is worth the hassle of buying here and bringing it back so might wait until we are UK resident.

Ideally I'd want a higher mileage (but still excellent condition) car at a lower price so that I could drive it and not worry so much about depreciation.

Ok. Sorry. I didn't understand your original comment.

Ok perfect, then it's not the same car for sure. When you look at US cars run a Carfax check with the VIN number...it's really the first check you could do but I would still dig deeper in the history of any US car (tracing old owner/dealer etc), just for added peace of mind.

Cheers,
Max

If you don't mind me asking, what would your best guess of trading prices for say the average 5-6k mile UK car be?

The Romans car you mentioned was listed at 305k for quite a long time before it was sold and had come down from 325 even further back and had 2.5k miles. Per your post that it sold at high 200s and Maxige's post above where he mentioned euro cars at 6-7k were ~260k GBP so can I assume UK cars would be in the 265-270 area as they carry a small premium over europe ones?

thanks

Sorry and yes miles make a difference to value.

A good place to start looking for a car is the guys at Reading. They know most of the cars.

First one was via dick Lovett - really wanted one so bought the best I could find. Like new 1k miles, previous owner also on here. Paid £315k which was possibly the most expensive at the time. Had it a short while and the same dealer called and offered to buy the car back ( for more) so I sold it back.

Missed it so started looking for another but looked in Europe for a cheaper car. Found a car for approx £260k in Germany. Car was actually a UK car which was taken to Germany when the owner moves there for business. Sold on to a work colleague at the time, again was planning to sell but got hounded into it.

3. Picking up a new 997 GTS from opc Bristol and they had a stock 2k mile UK CGT in. Been in for close to what I guess is a 90 stocking plan??? Anyway ended up buying it, wasnt really ready for one again so sold it via DK engineering to someone on here I think. That car really was lovely.

At the 918 spyder day last week two of my ex cars were there which is always good to see.

4. Currently in discussions to buy it, its actually buying back the car sourced from Germany but is a UK supplied car, GT silver and can't make up my kind if a full colour change would be the way to make me keep it for a very long time.

The cars are incredible

That is interesting thanks. Have to admit I still find it a bit tough to get around in my head the premium of UK cars over European ones as it seems to be pretty significant. US to Europe I can still understand but UK to Europe is a bit more difficult for me to understand as it is going to always rely on UK based buyers alone to maintain and so it's a very limited market. Still the market is what the market is I suppose!

Unfortnately.. not quite what I am finding! If the Romans car you mentioned that was sold recently was a UK car (ad wasn't 100% clear if I remember, stated UK reg rather than explicitly UK supplied or UK CAR), then it might just be a matter of waiting for the other UK cars to come that way though.....