Seriously Overpriced Cars

[Roger Stone]

"Any car for sale in Aberdeen..... " - I can give you contact details for a nice 1950 Triumph Renown around £6,000 if you want. Renowns are the same mechanicals as the Roadster which sells for twice the price.

[PhantomPH]

Krikkit said:

PhantomPH said:

Came VERY close to picking up a TDF 360 last year. I opted for being diagnosed with cancer instead. Ha ha Good news is I should be in a position to start shopping again later this year, so assuming the market hasn't moved too much, I will be looking out for TDF or one of the silvers. Black at a push. :thumbsup:

Fingers crossed for you on 2 fronts!

Cheers dude. The one that matters, has been dealt with via a swift transplant - just there recovery now. And what better way to spend that time than making plans for spending money on silly cars, eh?

[AstonZagato]

PhantomPH said:

Came VERY close to picking up a TDF 360 last year. I opted for being diagnosed with cancer instead. Ha ha Good news is I should be in a position to start shopping again later this year, so assuming the market hasn't moved too much, I will be looking out for TDF or one of the silvers. Black at a push. :thumbsup:

Well, at the risk of using a PH cliché, I hope you enjoy it in good health. The 360 is quite astonishingly good. It is hilariously quick and makes an outrageously good sound. My wife didn't like it at all - too noisy and it is not a GT by any stretch of the imagination. Also, it is quite dangerous for your license. Any other car seems to be going slowly, so you snick down a couple of gears and roar by them. You then look down to find yourself deep into immediate speeding ban territory unless you are very careful.

[Jimmy No Hands]

I mean I love this era of VAG. I've had many, too many to count. I even recently sold this exact same car. They're great. But 2 GRAND? For a 22 year old saloon with 116,000 miles and not the most desirable PD unit. A knackered dash cluster, dogged and st stained seats and lacquer peel.

https://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/1999-B5-Audi-A4-1-9-TDI...

I get it, COVID. Supply, demand. This car is £895 private on a good day.

World's gone mad.

[ChocolateFrog]

Jimmy No Hands said:

I mean I love this era of VAG. I've had many, too many to count. I even recently sold this exact same car. They're great. But 2 GRAND? For a 22 year old saloon with 116,000 miles and not the most desirable PD unit. A knackered dash cluster, dogged and st stained seats and lacquer peel.

https://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/1999-B5-Audi-A4-1-9-TDI...

I get it, COVID. Supply, demand. This car is £895 private on a good day.

World's gone mad.

I'm not saying it isn't overpriced but there's a lot to be said for pre-DPF cars. And 116k is low miles for a PD engine, has to be one of the most reliable sub 2l engines ever made.

A couple of quid and 15 mins work to blank off the EGR and you're good for another 200000 miles.

And it'll do over 50mpg all day long.

[aaron_2000]

Jimmy No Hands said:

I mean I love this era of VAG. I've had many, too many to count. I even recently sold this exact same car. They're great. But 2 GRAND? For a 22 year old saloon with 116,000 miles and not the most desirable PD unit. A knackered dash cluster, dogged and st stained seats and lacquer peel.

https://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/1999-B5-Audi-A4-1-9-TDI...

I get it, COVID. Supply, demand. This car is £895 private on a good day.

World's gone mad.

Doesn't seem overpriced to me at all. I reckon you could get it close to £1500, looks straight enough and it's being sold by a long term owner. Looks a great buy to me

[PhantomPH]

aaron_2000 said:

Jimmy No Hands said:

I mean I love this era of VAG. I've had many, too many to count. I even recently sold this exact same car. They're great. But 2 GRAND? For a 22 year old saloon with 116,000 miles and not the most desirable PD unit. A knackered dash cluster, dogged and st stained seats and lacquer peel.

https://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/1999-B5-Audi-A4-1-9-TDI...

I get it, COVID. Supply, demand. This car is £895 private on a good day.

World's gone mad.

Doesn't seem overpriced to me at all. I reckon you could get it close to £1500, looks straight enough and it's being sold by a long term owner. Looks a great buy to me

Receipts and docs are always a sign of someone who takes a bit of extra care, IMHO.

Not that I would every buy that, but if I did I'd be considering getting the seat bolsters tidied up and judging by the pics it doesn't seem too bad.

Jimmy No Hands - I find myself doing this a lot...judging cars by what I used to see similar for sale at. I hate to say it, but things are not priced like they used to be anymore. £1900 is probably what £900 used to be... :weeps gently:

[aaron_2000]

PhantomPH said:

Jimmy No Hands - I find myself doing this a lot...judging cars by what I used to see similar for sale at. I hate to say it, but things are not priced like they used to be anymore. £1900 is probably what £900 used to be... :weeps gently:

Only a couple of weeks ago I posted a Subaru in here that I was sure was 2x the price it should be. That car sold in 3 days and the prices all seem to have doubled pretty much in 6 months. Same with E46's

[VSKeith]

This one's slowly coming down from the £5.5k it was initially listed for.

"Extremely Rare Hard to Find Limited Edition" though, so form an orderly queue......

[PhantomPH]

aaron_2000 said:

PhantomPH said:

Jimmy No Hands - I find myself doing this a lot...judging cars by what I used to see similar for sale at. I hate to say it, but things are not priced like they used to be anymore. £1900 is probably what £900 used to be... :weeps gently:

Only a couple of weeks ago I posted a Subaru in here that I was sure was 2x the price it should be. That car sold in 3 days and the prices all seem to have doubled pretty much in 6 months. Same with E46's

That's why I keep coming back to this thread - it's a genuine education. Rather than being 'seriously overpriced', it's kinda morphed into a 'this is how nuts the market is' thread.

I know this has been said before, but I really don't see how it's in any way sustainable. I wouldn't be so clichéd as to say a bubble will burst because I don't think it's a bubble - I think it's just how things are now. However I do think we will hit a natural ceiling at some point soon.

[mike74]

aaron_2000 said:

Only a couple of weeks ago I posted a Subaru in here that I was sure was 2x the price it should be. That car sold in 3 days and the prices all seem to have doubled pretty much in 6 months. Same with E46's

Imprezas and evos have gone utterly mental.

Can't believe I struggled to sell an 05 widetrack sti ppp, 45k miles, with lots of other Prodrive goodies on for £8k only 5 years ago, same car with that mileage would be comfortably double that now.

[Jimmy No Hands]

ChocolateFrog said:

I'm not saying it isn't overpriced but there's a lot to be said for pre-DPF cars. And 116k is low miles for a PD engine, has to be one of the most reliable sub 2l engines ever made.

A couple of quid and 15 mins work to blank off the EGR and you're good for another 200000 miles.

And it'll do over 50mpg all day long.

I know the merits of a PD more than most on here. I've ran and maintained them for years and had several approaching 200,000 miles. I just (personally) couldn't part with that amount of cash. I'm sure many would (and probably will).

Whomever said this is now normal, yes, you're probably right to be honest. Certainly makes shedding for reasonable sums more challenging than it used to be.

[d_a_n1979]

As big as a JDM Honda fan I am, and an ex-owner of an immaculate EK9...

This guys dreaming:

https://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/Honda-Civic-Type-R-EK9-...

[mike74]

PhantomPH said:

That's why I keep coming back to this thread - it's a genuine education. Rather than being 'seriously overpriced', it's kinda morphed into a 'this is how nuts the market is' thread.

I know this has been said before, but I really don't see how it's in any way sustainable. I wouldn't be so clichéd as to say a bubble will burst because I don't think it's a bubble - I think it's just how things are now. However I do think we will hit a natural ceiling at some point soon.

The current bubble on top of a bubble prices are all thanks to covid and the insane amounts of helicopter money that Dishi Rishi has pumped into what was already a failed economy even before covid came along.

[Squirrelofwoe]

d_a_n1979 said:

As big as a JDM Honda fan I am, and an ex-owner of an immaculate EK9...

This guys dreaming:

https://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/Honda-Civic-Type-R-EK9-...

This was discussed a few pages back- but well worth posting again!

[andburg]

£2500 for a 20 year old rover 400 1.4 in almost base spec

https://www.autotrader.co.uk/car-details/202104020...

[SWoll]

Squirrelofwoe said:

d_a_n1979 said:

As big as a JDM Honda fan I am, and an ex-owner of an immaculate EK9...

This guys dreaming:

https://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/Honda-Civic-Type-R-EK9-...

This was discussed a few pages back- but well worth posting again!

Indeed. "Only" 93k miles and unmolested other than the large number of modifications to the suspension, engine and interior.

[Genuine Barn Find]

“we know what these cars are worth”

No poppet, one of us clearly does ‘not’ know what these cars are worth.

[d_a_n1979]

E38 730i:

https://www.carandclassic.co.uk/car/C1327432

Am I missing something here?

Bloody expensive for what is the least wanted engine and poverty spec car

[W00DY]

As replicas go this one at least looks pretty good on the outside, but £38k buys a serisuly nice car where you don't have to either lie to everyone or tell them you spent almost 40k on an old MR2 wearing a whole lot of fibreglass.



The interior looks a mess.


https://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/Incredible-Lamborghini-...