Since when did the VW Bora become a collectable classic?

[Emeye]

For sale locally to me - is this guy smoking crack or will people really pay this for a 14 year old VW saloon?

https://www.autotrader.co.uk/classified/advert/201...

https://www.autotrader.co.uk/classified/advert/201...

Edited by Emeye on Wednesday 21st March 15:58

[PistonBroker]

Blimey, I hope not as I should have tucked away our W-reg 2.0 SE back in '09 rather than simply selling it!

[PurpleTurtle]

Six grand for a 54 plate 1.6 Bora!

Admittedly this looks like it has had the ubiquitous one careful retired vicar owner (in that trim and spec it probably has!) but I'd be gobsmacked if they found a taker for it at that price.

[Shiv_P]

brb going to advertise my 55 plate fiesta for £10k

[Emeye]

PurpleTurtle said:

Six grand for a 54 plate 1.6 Bora!

Admittedly this looks like it has had the ubiquitous one careful retired vicar owner (in that trim and spec it probably has!) but I'd be gobsmacked if they found a taker for it at that price.

What about the £8k diesel one?

[kieranblenk]

Similar to the 9 grand 1999 Mondeo on a recent thread, I've never understood the logic behind this kind of selling - who is gonna pay that much for a mid spec Bora? My nana has a bright red 04 plate Micra SE auto; 42k from new she's had it 11 years now and done 18k of those miles (second lady owner bought on 24k).

It is genuinely immaculate, regularly valeted, serviced every year almost to the day and has never been a spot of bother. Looking on auto trader, there's a gold one same age, spec and mileage for £2275 at an independent dealer. My nana was gonna trade it in last year for a 15 plate Micra and was offered £500 "top book" trade in by a Nissan dealer. Fortunately I convinced her to keep it. I bet this bloke with the Bora paid maximum £1500 for it.

[SonicShadow]

Trader trying it on. Some dopey will buy it.

[eldar]

It is Sort After. Obviously worth every penny.

[budgie smuggler]

eldar said:

It is Sort After. Obviously worth every penny.

cracking speck though

Edited by budgie smuggler on Wednesday 21st March 16:30

[PositronicRay]

budgie smuggler said:

eldar said:

It is Sort After. Obviously worth every penny.

cracking speck though

Edited by budgie smuggler on Wednesday 21st March 16:30

[Integroo]

It's not even photographed in some shiny white dealership to make it look like you're buying from a specialist. It's on someone's drive and looks like a 1.5k car at absolute best.

[paulshears]

My Golf VR6 is a far more desirable than that Bora, it also has less miles on the clock (29k). IF I put that up for sale I wouldn't put it up for anywhere near as much as that Bora

[anonymous-user]

This is getting silly now.

The term 'modern classic' does not and will not - ever - include a TDI VW Bora.

In some ways I'd love to live in the delusion world of the seller it seems fun.

[FredClogs]

Sold mine 6 weeks ago for £700... So any day now they'll be entering them at Pebble Beach.

And it was a highline!

[daemon]

P R N D said:

This is getting silly now.

The term 'modern classic' does not and will not - ever - include a TDI VW Bora.

In some ways I'd love to live in the delusion world of the seller it seems fun.

Its the logic for the price that i find bemusing "THE FASTEST GROWING MONEY MAKING MARKET IN THE WORLD IS THE CLASSIC CAR MARKET" therefore because these cars are old and low mileage they must be worth a fortune.

AND hes sure they "CAN ONLY INCREASE IN VALUE"

Maybe hes the one laughing at us as hes cornered a very niche market? I'd have thought though finding one person dumb enough to pay a fortune for a Bora was going to be tricky enough, but he needs to find two... OR one person dumb enough to buy both

[Emeye]

I put the registration into Autotrader - unfortunately they do not seem to agree on the price.....

[Nickp82]

Emeye said:

I put the registration into Autotrader - unfortunately they do not seem to agree on the price.....

Thing is, his ad will be pushing up the average market value on AT so normally that would be even lower!

[Plug Life]

It's a Bora ...but a speshul one.

[TurboHatchback]

Perhaps it's a 'scene' thing. I've certainly seen quite a few TDI Boras around with ridiculous wheels, ruined suspension and bangin sound systems and I'm perenially amazed at what people will pay for mundane old VWs.

[Alex_225]

TurboHatchback said:

Perhaps it's a 'scene' thing. I've certainly seen quite a few TDI Boras around with ridiculous wheels, ruined suspension and bangin sound systems and I'm perenially amazed at what people will pay for mundane old VWs.

I was going to say the same. A friend of mine who is in his mid 20s had a Bora, on air ride and some interesting wheels. I think the Bora became a bit of a scene car as they were different from a Golf and very cheap to buy in base form.

Seeing adverts like those two just highlights the delusion some car sellers have. If it's old, low mileage and good condition it must be worth double what it's actually worth. Which we all know is usually a load of nonsense unless it's something a bit more special.