Seriously Overpriced Cars

[bertie]

carlove said:

raceboy said:

Anyone fancy a £17k Toyota IQ......That hasn't even got any Aston Martin badges on it.

https://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/Toyota-IQ3-1-33-Black-T...

Since the best IQ’s seem to be about £7k, you’d basically be paying £10k for some seats and fancy stitching (they do admittedly look nice, but not that nice)
The lack of exterior pictures is interesting, probably looks like every other IQ outside so hasn’t bothered apart from one from a distance.

I can remember going to the Aston factory when they were doing the Cygnet.

Toyota would only sell them complete cars, so there was a long temporary building out the back where they went in as iQ and came out as Cygnet a a colossal pile of Toyota bumpers sat outside.

[PhantomPH]

Driver101 said:

carlove said:

epom said:

mattyowen5 said:

https://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/Audi-A4-RS4-replica-sho...

Many questions to be asked on this

£30k spent !!

Who would spend £30k making a car look like a more expensive model, which can be bought for much less than £30k? Don't know how long ago this rebuild was but right now £30k can get the newer (but not current) model RS4, also I'll assume £5k was spent buying the base car. Each to their own but I just can't understand the logic.

The donor car wouldn't have been bought. It would have been stolen.

On reading the advert, I think the advertiser has used the phrase "donor car" incorrectly - I think they are referring to the 'base car', since he then goes on to mention the spend including lots of genuine RS parts. To answer the question, "How do you spend £30k?" - by buying all those parts off the shelf.

Just a guess - I have genuinely no idea (or interest, if I was honest! Ha ha)

[anonymous-user]

And after all that money, it still doesn’t look like a real RS4.

[raceboy]

PhantomPH said:

On reading the advert, I think the advertiser has used the phrase "donor car" incorrectly - I think they are referring to the 'base car', since he then goes on to mention the spend including lots of genuine RS parts.

ebay advert said:

A Full genuine RS4 was used to build this.

I think that’s the key phrase....where did that ‘full’ car come from? Could have been a car with a borked engine.

[Greg the Fish]

I think the article on the new M5 CS has to be up there for this thread.

£140k plus options for a 5 Series. World has gone mad.

[Fun Bus]

If I had the means, I’d have one. It’s a lot of money, yes but it’s also a lot of car. Limited editions are never cheap as the R&D costs are spread over less cars made.

[Greg the Fish]

Fun Bus said:

If I had the means, I’d have one. It’s a lot of money, yes but it’s also a lot of car. Limited editions are never cheap as the R&D costs are spread over less cars made.

Seriously??

(Oh, 'fewer'.)

[Fun Bus]

Yes, seriously.

Thanks for the correction.

[texaxile]

£65 Grand for a non-standard mucked around M4 comp? I may be wrong but I think that mapping and mucking about with the turbo's invalidates any BMW warranty or goodwill contribution if ever it decides to lunch itself.

https://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/2018-BMW-M4-M4-2dr-DCT-...

That colour, and those seats...

As an extra kick in the nuts, these clowns want a £192 Admin fee on top.

Edited by texaxile on Wednesday 27th January 19:45

Edited by texaxile on Wednesday 27th January 19:51

[aaron_2000]

texaxile said:

£65 Grand for a non-standard mucked around M4 comp? I may be wrong but I think that mapping and mucking about with the turbo's invalidates any BMW warranty or goodwill contribution if ever it decides to lunch itself.

https://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/2018-BMW-M4-M4-2dr-DCT-...

That colour, and those seats...

As an extra kick in the nuts, these clowns want a £192 Admin fee on top.

Edited by texaxile on Wednesday 27th January 19:45

Edited by texaxile on Wednesday 27th January 19:51

The leather on those seats looks extremely cheap. It's what I always notice in those big luxury conversion vans

[carlove]

texaxile said:

£65 Grand for a non-standard mucked around M4 comp? I may be wrong but I think that mapping and mucking about with the turbo's invalidates any BMW warranty or goodwill contribution if ever it decides to lunch itself.

https://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/2018-BMW-M4-M4-2dr-DCT-...

That colour, and those seats...

As an extra kick in the nuts, these clowns want a £192 Admin fee on top.

Edited by texaxile on Wednesday 27th January 19:45

Edited by texaxile on Wednesday 27th January 19:51

Belonged to a YouTuber, Living Life Fast, not sure if that adds any value, probably the opposite from the videos on how he drove it.

[Driver101]

It's been on sale since June.

[irocfan]

texaxile said:

As an extra kick in the nuts, these clowns want a £192 Admin fee on top.

yeah - I've seen that on other adverts does puzzle me. If I'm paying £x,000 pounds for a car (well anything TBH) then they can FRO with some bks payment like that

[aaron_2000]

Absolute dreamer, 170k on the clock and no mot

https://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/subaru-impreza-turbo-20...

[LetsTryAgain]

irocfan said:

texaxile said:

As an extra kick in the nuts, these clowns want a £192 Admin fee on top.

yeah - I've seen that on other adverts does puzzle me. If I'm paying £x,000 pounds for a car (well anything TBH) then they can FRO with some bks payment like that

Didn't think the interior was too bad.
Then I saw the headrests...

[FRA53R]

https://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/Ford-focus-st170-estate...

I know fast fords attract a premium but this seems mad. Over 5K with 4 days to go, plus the seller admits it needs the sills done and the driver's seat replaced. Must be a wind up surely.

[Fun Bus]

If it's attracted 50 bids to get to over £5k. Then it's clearly worth that to some?

[trickywoo]

FRA53R said:

https://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/Ford-focus-st170-estate...

I know fast fords attract a premium but this seems mad. Over 5K with 4 days to go, plus the seller admits it needs the sills done and the driver's seat replaced. Must be a wind up surely.

Sale includes a 'quarter tank of petrol'.

If that isn't a wind up there are some strange people about to bid it up to that.

[LetsTryAgain]

trickywoo said:

Sale includes a 'quarter tank of petrol'.

If that isn't a wind up there are some strange people about to bid it up to that.

Said it before and I’ll say it again; the amount of money some people will spend on a stey old Ford is beyond me.
There’s a Mk1 Mexico shell for £15k on Retro Rides.
I owned an S1 Escort RS Turbo, and aside from an Allroad 2.7T, it was comfortably the worst car I’ve ever owned.
Replaced it with a £400 Mk2 MR2 which was objectively better in every single way.

[epom]

aaron_2000 said:

Absolute dreamer, 170k on the clock and no mot

https://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/subaru-impreza-turbo-20...

It does have all colour coded privacy glass though.