How on earth is this worth £75k
How on earth is this worth £75k
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Cheib

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25,477 posts

206 months

Friday 3rd May 2013
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Just saw this car on 4star classics website

http://www.4starclassics.com/Honda-Z-Micro-For-Sal...

A very low mileage Z600 for £75k?!?!?! If that was a mint/ultra low mileage average 80's car surely it would be worth maybe £20k at the very best?!

Pothole

34,367 posts

313 months

Friday 3rd May 2013
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Must be a typo. I just e-mailed them to ask.

ecurie

388 posts

233 months

Friday 3rd May 2013
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If it's not a typo I guess they're hoping on the same madmen bidding on the Bruce Weiner microcar collection.

http://www.rmauctions.com/results/result.cfm?featu...

MarkwG

5,960 posts

220 months

Friday 3rd May 2013
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They'll be trying to jump that bandwagon - I guess there may be a collector in Japan who'd pay that for it.

mikey77

707 posts

219 months

Friday 3rd May 2013
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There's a dealer near me is SW France who has a Messerschmitt in the showroom with €37,000 on it. He's had it more than a year now...

Pistom

6,430 posts

190 months

Friday 3rd May 2013
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It goes back to a car being worth what someone will pay nd you can ask what you wnt but will get what someone will pay.

Who pays £20k for a dirty Spitfire, there are plenty who will
Who pays £100k for a rusty E type
Who pays $1000000 for an old Toyota?

These are all cars at prices many would have scoffed at but in real terms, it's not a lot of money if that's what you want.


Cheib

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25,477 posts

206 months

Friday 3rd May 2013
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I suppose these might be highly sort after in Japan....that has to be the angle. What would a 1,000 mile bog standard Mini of the same era be worth ?

ClassicMotorNut

2,438 posts

169 months

Friday 3rd May 2013
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I don't think the microcar buyers were mad at all, but £75,000 for this Honda? Nice as it is, £7500 would be more like it.

Lowtimer

4,293 posts

199 months

Saturday 4th May 2013
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They have surely put the decimal point in the wrong place on that one.

Furyblade_Lee

4,114 posts

255 months

Saturday 4th May 2013
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Easy, it's "JDM"....

birdcage

2,935 posts

236 months

Saturday 4th May 2013
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The prices for most of their cars seem to be insane to be fair. All on SOR too I would venture

80quattro

1,822 posts

226 months

Saturday 4th May 2013
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birdcage said:
The prices for most of their cars seem to be insane to be fair. All on SOR too I would venture
It HAS to be on SOR. A dealer would have to have exceptionally big spuds to sink their own money into that and hope to retail it at that price.

Maybe the typo is with the currency ? Should be Yen instead of £ hehe

Upatdawn

2,202 posts

179 months

Sunday 5th May 2013
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mikey77 said:
There's a dealer near me is SW France who has a Messerschmitt in the showroom with €37,000 on it. He's had it more than a year now...
is it still airworthy?

Motown Junk

2,041 posts

248 months

Sunday 5th May 2013
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Potential huge profit here. Well it's 25% bigger so must be worth £100k of anyone's money....


http://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/HONDA-S800-/130902516212...