lhd uk car's to europe.

[pneumothorax]

i recently put a 1993 911 964 lhd up on pistonheads for sale at what i thought was top dollar. i was swamped by callers from germany.it seems any lhd aircooled porsche is attracting massive interest. they are going for circa 20k sterling!! now, i also have a lhd 348 spider, and does the fora think the same would be true for such a car? is it just the strength of the euro? if so..i am in an attractive position to sell on and get back in to something rhd..no?

[Mattymouse33]

There is undoubtedly a market there but for some people, its importamt to try and keep the cars here, in the country. Lambo's for instance, not many around so there is some reluctance at times to sell to abroad.

[andrew.]

sadly a certain enterprise has even been exporting rhd lambos to hong kong
i can't see these cars ever coming back

[SimonSays]

LHD 348 Spiders would fetch 45.000EU on the mainland, so about 39.500 GBP.

[pneumothorax]

really???

[Mattymouse33]

shhhh

[cho]

there is a definite benefit to exporting to Hong Kong if you can get them in without paying too many taxes. Saw 996 GT3's still selling for aroun 1.3 million HK dollars which equates to about £118,000. So a slight profit then.

[F355GTS]

A Dutch friend of mine just secured a LHD 348 Spider for £27,250, he reckons it's worth around €42k and €54k depending on Mileage/ condition on the mainland but I'd doubt you get that for it, I'd probably pitch around the mid to late £30s. Drop me a mail if you are thinking of selling I know of a dealer that might take it in what would be an easy deal

[VanosLoco]

SimonSays said:

LHD 348 Spiders would fetch 45.000EU on the mainland, so about 39.500 GBP.

That is a bit to positive, but fact is that a LHD car will fetch more money on the mainland compared to the UK.
348's will do between 25k - 50k, but overall 30k-35k is normal (remember that a imported car is still seen as undesirable, espacially when service history isn't 100% clear)
Problem is that the difference has to be worth it to take more effort and risk. I am from the netherlands and recently bought a LHD Maserati Ghibli in the UK and when i got there the car didn´t had FSH and there were a couple a of rustspots altough both were supposed to be the opposite. But when you made all that effort and expect to drive the car back home you don´t just walk away without the car, it´s not that easy. Unfortunatey when i got home one head gasket was gone so now with all my trouble i still have a expensive car in the end.

At the other site it´s the same for the seller; i have my rare BMW E30 320iS for sale in Germany (i'm from the Netherlands) for a very reasonable price and from the 20 reactions i got, a 100% was fraud (no joke, literaly 100%).
So when selling to somebody you don't know brings along risks.

But now I am also curious about that 348