Sellers remorse :(

[AC43]

turboteeth said:

Driving to part exchange my old E55 AMG I popped into a service station, looked back at the car and my heart just sank...what have I done? This was such an amazing car - subtle yet amazingly fast. Over three years I spent almost £7,000 keeping everything in tip top condition and it was better this day than ever before.

I part exchanged for £6,500 at a main dealer.

It then popped up in a garage in wales for £10,995 a few weeks later...was tempted to buy it!

I'm trying very hard to find a decent 212 350 CGI

But they're like hens' teeth. Especially with a decent spec.

Then noticed that I can get an E63 for the same money.

And now I fund myself looking longingly at 55K's.........

That's the mutt's.

[trando]

Despite trading it in for a C63, I still regret selling my C55 AMG. Low mileage in Cavansite Blue, it was my first AMG and there are very very few around...

[Welshbeef]

AC43 said:

I'm trying very hard to find a decent 212 350 CGI

But they're like hens' teeth. Especially with a decent spec.

Then noticed that I can get an E63 for the same money.

And now I fund myself looking longingly at 55K's.........

That's the mutt's.

I so so nearly bought a S211 E55 K fully loaded 3 years ago £12k at the time 7 seat option too, heated air cooled massaging and dynamic front seats. Instead I bought a C5 RS6 instead - as much as I enjoyed it I wager I'd still have it now had I gone S211 E55 k.

I think the E63 has a lot more power than the E55 K and on the drag strip appears faster but I'd say that is more down to the gearbox advances than the power plant.

[Guffy]

Welshbeef said:

Guffy said:

I traded-in my R8 V10 Plus on Saturday for a brand new M4 that was in the BMW showroom, however by Tuesday I couldn't go through with it, so had to cancel, gonna have to let go one day though.

That's a big call.

Downgrading from a supercar V10 Plus to an M4.

This is true, but it's not always easy to justify such a car and I always plan to move back to something more sensible after a couple of years, but I still have 6 months of that two years left

[neil1jnr]

KarlMac said:

neil1jnr said:

KarlMac said:

I still dearly miss my Evo V. It wasn't special but I've never driven anything like it before or since.

At the same time I was saving for a GTR and panicking about how quick valued were increasing, I was also in the middle of a messy house sale.

Edited by KarlMac on Wednesday 22 February 16:12

How does the R33 GTR compare with the Evo as an experience, it's a car (any Skyline GTR) I want to own at some point. I feel the same way about my VI I had as you did your V, nothing else drives like them.

Chalk and cheese. The GTR is biblically fast and eats up A roads and motorways. It doesn't feel anywhere near as chuckable as my Evo though. It also feels like if you take liberties with it then you'll end up in a mess, where the Evo felt like it'd limits were far in excess of mine.

It depends what you enjoy most, you can fling the GTR around but it doesn't enjoy it like the Evo does. However the GTR is much nicer to life with on long journeys.

Thanks for the insight. It's the B roads and track days I use my Evo for primarily and even the A roads up here are just like wider B roads, I suspect I'd have the most enjoyment out of the Evo. But, and it's a big one, I still think I need some RB26DETT at some point in my life, even if it's just for the sound of if the thing! I was young when Gran Turismo came about so naturally I lust over the likes of the Skyline GTR and the rest of the 90's Jap machines.

[PorkRind]

neil1jnr said:

Thanks for the insight. It's the B roads and track days I use my Evo for primarily and even the A roads up here are just like wider B roads, I suspect I'd have the most enjoyment out of the Evo. But, and it's a big one, I still think I need some RB26DETT at some point in my life, even if it's just for the sound of if the thing! I was young when Gran Turismo came about so naturally I lust over the likes of the Skyline GTR and the rest of the 90's Jap machines.

Ah, I miss my EVO VI too, nothing else has accelerated, stopped, cornered or complimented my ability quite like the EVO ! I'd get another but at 35 I'm having image crisis and thinking something more AMG related might be in order next and if that doesn't fit the bill, back to an IX I reckon !

[m444ttb]

I keep thinking of selling my Porsche 996 C4 and using 2/3 of the money on a sensibly shaped 'daily driver' (a C63 AMG estate if they were a little cheaper!) and going back to one car. I could use the garage for cycling stuff and not worry about the 911 all the time. But then I drive it and remember it's the best car I've ever owned despite some bits feeling a little tired. I'd definitely be on this thread full of regret.

[Joe5y]

To cure the sellers remorse a little I've been buying things left right and centre for the Mx5.











I may have said, I had an Mx5 years ago. Hence wanting another.

Old Vs New

[mike150]

The only car I think I regret selling was my Caterham R400d a couple of years ago, I left it up to dealer to sell over the winter and wanted it back but the weather was bad for a few weeks, thinking that no one would buy it just before Christmas I never let the dealer know. On Christmas eve he called to say it was sold.

I wasn't happy. I regretted it so much I just bought a new 420R to get over it!

Edited by mike150 on Thursday 23 February 12:08

[flyingscot68]

Sold my Evora to help fund a house move, only car I've ever sold that I want to replace with the same car. One day.......

[pete]

I sold my museum-condition 997.1 GT3 after 10 months to fund an unmissable house purchase opportunity. I still miss almost everything about it, except perhaps the way it used to ground the front splitter on anything more than a 1 degree change of gradient!



Before that I sold a TVR Tuscan I'd owned for 6 years. It was mechanically brilliant, with a 4.3 litre TVR Power engine conversion, but the cosmetic work needed on a 7 year-old TVR with expensive spectraflair paint was about to tip the ownership costs over the edge. Nothing before or since has come close to the character or theatre of this car though:



Sadly both of those, and the Griff 500 that preceded them, are worth more now than I sold them for!

[Steve Maund]

VXR220, Last one made and the only blue one, still pine for it's and it going up in value by the day.....

[screanz]

fatboy69 said:

Bitterly regret letting my E36 318is escape.

Want it back. New owner will not let me have it.

How I now hate Stoke on Trent!!!

Funny there's 2 mentions of a E36 318iS.

I had an E46 330Ci Clubsport (Estoril Blue of course) but when the credit crunch hit I handed it back half way through the HP (owed £3k more than it was worth as it's value had plummeted so I saw it as making money). I was gutted to see it go and picked up a cheap E36 318iS, which needed some TLC so I brought it back to stock and it wanted for nothing besides cosmetic stuff - wish I still had it. Not the quickest but so much character and great around town.

I traded the E36 against another 330Ci being a manual was far better than the Clubsport (auto). Low mileage, Charcoal Grey, wine red leather I loved it. I then moved job and no longer needed a 2nd car so traded it in against an E70 X5 which I only kept for 18 months as it was a money pit and I hated it for that and that it was undewhelming to say the least (08 so had the awful auto box).

So many instances of seller's remorse here.

[frp0092]

Feel for you OP.....I have a Ford Racing Puma that I hardly use, but the very thought of it being driven by someone else off down the road is incentive enough for me to keep it.

[g7jhp]

Sold my 1st Porsche 3.2 Carrera after 18 months to buy a Porsche 993 C4.



Regretted it instantly and never bonded with the 993 C4, so it went and I picked up an Audi S3 and Caterham 7 HPC.

But the pull was strong, so after a while the Audi S3 made way for my 2nd 3.2 Carrera which was my daily keeping the Caterham for the weekends!



The 1st 3.2 was such a lovely spec in Zermatt Silver with black leather piped white.

[CaptainRAVE]

SLK55 R171. Quite a special little car.

[TTOBES]

I can imagine a few users won't understand this, but I regret not holding on to my Lupo GTI.

[squirdan]

hmm let me see...

had an M3 CSL that went for £28k whoops
sold a 30k miles 996 GT3 for £52k 2 years ago
sold my immaculate 968 CS through Hairpin company for I think £28k...saw one adv the other day for £40k +

the one that really hurt though was my bespoke Tuthill built 1972 2.7 mfi hotrod
it was 2 years in the making...2.7 twinplug 911/83...exe t c suspension...recaro CS seats retrimmed in basketweave - basically a labour of love and cash, kind of a less lairy version of Chris Harris's Kermit.

saying that, I bought myself an R26.R to cheer myself up and not convinced thats any less fun to drive

totally agree with the better to have loved and lost sentiment - it would be a very boring life without madcap purchases and irrational love affairs with hunks of metal

[JMF894]

When my wife and I separated I sold my Mk1 Octavia vRS and my TVR 450 se wedge. As hard as I tried from every man maths angle I knew I couldn't keep the wedge, but selling the Octy was a BIG mistake.

Here it is on the Stelvio Pass.



And the 450





Thought I'd save a few quid on running costs. How wrong I was. 4 years of unreliable diesel drudgery later I at least have this now running stage 3+

[michaelg1001]

Sold my B5 S4 Avant back in April, and although I wasn't forced to, it was the sensible thing to do with having had my wedding in August and extensive house renovations underway. If I hadn't sold it then I'd probably be selling it now I've got a baby on the way too!

I had it 4 years, longer than any other car I've had (16 months the next longest).

The only thing I don't miss is the fuel bill, but even so I adored it!



The Passat TDi Estate I've replaced it with doesn't quite hit the spot somehow...