Been roped in to helping step son get a decent car
Discussion
If he wants interesting barges there is a good market, the deprieciate like stones xD.
Jaguar S-type R
Jaguar XJ R
Both of these will handle monster miles with a supercharged V8, Might cost a bit when something does go wrong though. The newer S-type might be slightly difficult sub 5k but easily possible.
Lexus LS400/430, I bought an older 400 on behalf of my barge loving cousin to replace his 530i and drove it for a bit myself. Interesting car, my cousin currently has his blacked out with black /chrome enkei dishes. It looks like something the local yakuza would turn up in so they have a bit of street cred. Go on forever too, his has done 20k since we got it and it was at 190k when purchased nothings broke yet, couple of services (he does his every 10k). Not as thirsty as you would expect either, never seen it much below 20mpg unless it was getting ragged, will touch 30mpg on motorways (the newer 430 is probably better). Drives like a bit of a bus on small roads though, fantastic for the motorway it just never dies if looked after.
530/540i Loads of these in your price range with ~100k on the clock. No less reliable than an A6 3.2.
Chrysler 300c, marmite car. Depeciates like a stone so a lot of cheap examples.
VW Pheaton, Depreciates like a stone, a cheap A8. Unique car.
Alfa Romeo 159/GT/Brera, Bit of a left of field suggestion, they have a bad rep for reliability HOWEVER they depreciate like stones, so you can get a MUCH newer car within price range, they look lovely, they sound fantastic & the reliability issues are greatly exaggerated especially when considering you can get a car ~5 years newer than the others your looking at. 3.0/3.2 Busso V6 is probably one of the best sounding engines you will get for sub 30k.
Saab 9-5, same as Alfa. Depreciate like a bat out of hell. You can nearly buy a 2010+ model within budget. The 2.3T is no slouch
Jaguar S-type R
Jaguar XJ R
Both of these will handle monster miles with a supercharged V8, Might cost a bit when something does go wrong though. The newer S-type might be slightly difficult sub 5k but easily possible.
Lexus LS400/430, I bought an older 400 on behalf of my barge loving cousin to replace his 530i and drove it for a bit myself. Interesting car, my cousin currently has his blacked out with black /chrome enkei dishes. It looks like something the local yakuza would turn up in so they have a bit of street cred. Go on forever too, his has done 20k since we got it and it was at 190k when purchased nothings broke yet, couple of services (he does his every 10k). Not as thirsty as you would expect either, never seen it much below 20mpg unless it was getting ragged, will touch 30mpg on motorways (the newer 430 is probably better). Drives like a bit of a bus on small roads though, fantastic for the motorway it just never dies if looked after.
530/540i Loads of these in your price range with ~100k on the clock. No less reliable than an A6 3.2.
Chrysler 300c, marmite car. Depeciates like a stone so a lot of cheap examples.
VW Pheaton, Depreciates like a stone, a cheap A8. Unique car.
Alfa Romeo 159/GT/Brera, Bit of a left of field suggestion, they have a bad rep for reliability HOWEVER they depreciate like stones, so you can get a MUCH newer car within price range, they look lovely, they sound fantastic & the reliability issues are greatly exaggerated especially when considering you can get a car ~5 years newer than the others your looking at. 3.0/3.2 Busso V6 is probably one of the best sounding engines you will get for sub 30k.
Saab 9-5, same as Alfa. Depreciate like a bat out of hell. You can nearly buy a 2010+ model within budget. The 2.3T is no slouch
Skyedriver said:
Pretend to be ill, leave home or something
I stopped helping people years and years ago
What I saw as a decent car would be laughed at
What they thought was decent was usually a POS, which I would tell them
They would ignore me, buy the POS then 3 months late blame me or expect me to fix it.....
So very very true of some folks. I stopped helping people years and years ago
What I saw as a decent car would be laughed at
What they thought was decent was usually a POS, which I would tell them
They would ignore me, buy the POS then 3 months late blame me or expect me to fix it.....
Some folks eh ...
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