B7 RS4 saloon needed by Autocar

[Garlick]

The Autocar chaps are after an early 4.2-litre saloon, 06 or 07 plate, preferably London or south east based, that is worth around £35k ideally.

Date is tbc at the moment. But they will need it just for a day, at some point over the next few weeks and of course they will be reasonably flexible with owner.

Autocar will insure it and will pay for your lunch and petrol too. In addition they’ll provide copies of the pics, and of the mag as a follow-up.

If anyone is interested please drop me a line and I'll forward it on to the relevant person

Cheers

[Soovy]

So they want to borrow your car, rag the ar5e off it, and they'll give you some photos of them doing it?!




While you're at it, can you please put up a thread asking if i can borrow someone's wife this weekend. I'll fill her up and you can have some photos.

[kmm]

Soovy said:

So they want to borrow your car, rag the ar5e off it, and they'll give you some photos of them doing it?!




While you're at it, can you please put up a thread asking if i can borrow someone's wife this weekend. I'll fill her up and you can have some photos.

Absolutley Brilliant!!! Top marks for a good laugh on a Saturday morning.

[LuS1fer]

May be just a buyer's guide?

[chrissyr32]

If they pay for a full detail and two new front tyres for mine...they can have it for the day!!!!

Only thing is i,m based in the north east???

[Stuart]

Soovy said:

So they want to borrow your car, rag the ar5e off it, and they'll give you some photos of them doing it?!




While you're at it, can you please put up a thread asking if i can borrow someone's wife this weekend. I'll fill her up and you can have some photos.

Very good, although they don't want to rag it. They save that for the cars owned by manufacturers...

[Emeye]

I've never understood why anyone would want to lend their car out to a magazine. What so they gain from it?

Why don't they PAY the owner to borrow it? They charge enough for the magazine.

[Stuart]

Emeye said:

I've never understood why anyone would want to lend their car out to a magazine. What so they gain from it?

Why don't they PAY the owner to borrow it? They charge enough for the magazine.

Some people like the publicity of seeing their car in print and getting some good pictures. Anyone who has lent a car to a reputable magazine will tell you that a) The car will have come back as it arrived, and sometimes cleaner 2) That most of the photography you see in print is done at painfully low speeds, with no wear and tear on the vehicle and that 3) That the magazine will fulfil any insurance obligations and cover all costs.

For our classic car magazines we borrow cars from readers all the time (frankly, it makes for a more interesting story to hear from an owner rather than something which sits in a museum or car manufacturer press garage). We always fulfil all of the above and we always take responsibility and make amends in the very rare situations when something goes wrong (usually an inadvertent scratch caused by camera equipment, thankfully extremely rare).

On this basis, I'd happily lend a car to a magazine if it suited me and I was happy to see the story told in print.

[iluvmercs]

Emeye said:

I've never understood why anyone would want to lend their car out to a magazine. What so they gain from it?

Why don't they PAY the owner to borrow it? They charge enough for the magazine.

I had my RS4 featured in a Buyer's Guide for EVO magazine at the end of last year. I received a free 12 month subscription to the magasine in payment.

What did I gain from it? I was rather flattered that one of the guys from the magazine has seen my car on here and thought it good enough to be featured. I also took along a photography-keen friend, so we could see how they take the studio photos.

As for a magazine ragging the crap out of my car, I don't think I would take very kindly to that. But driving "enthusiastically" shouldn't be a problem for a car such as this.
I would offer up my car again, although it's done slightly more miles, gathering a fair few stone chips, since the EVO photos were taken. ALso I'm not too close to London and I don't suppose it's worth £35,000, being an '06 car with 25k miles on the clock!

Darren

Edited by iluvmercs on Sunday 28th March 13:12