Seriously Overpriced Cars

[Adam.]

W00DY said:

https://www.autotrader.co.uk/car-details/202106254...

Such a rare chance to own a 520i estate with 118k miles.

Ad said:

............So the story is very nice for this car...................... it belonged to my ex-boss who used the car to travel back and forth to Germany and the UK in the good old days of the EU. Brexit and COVID has changed a lot and I bought the car of my boss as he is now moved back to Germany permanently. I have known this car for at least 6 years. I have SOME EUROs LEFT BEHIND AS A SOUVENIR...these were used at the crossings to and from France & the UK.......

Surely potential for a film adaptation.

Does it have 5,000 Euros left behind as a souvenir that could drop this from the thread?

[RJH777]

http://www.autotrader.co.uk/car-details/2019061690...

£111k for a 2012 V8 Continental with 30k on the clock?

[d_a_n1979]

Adam. said:

W00DY said:

https://www.autotrader.co.uk/car-details/202106254...

Such a rare chance to own a 520i estate with 118k miles.

Ad said:

............So the story is very nice for this car...................... it belonged to my ex-boss who used the car to travel back and forth to Germany and the UK in the good old days of the EU. Brexit and COVID has changed a lot and I bought the car of my boss as he is now moved back to Germany permanently. I have known this car for at least 6 years. I have SOME EUROs LEFT BEHIND AS A SOUVENIR...these were used at the crossings to and from France & the UK.......

Surely potential for a film adaptation.

Does it have 5,000 Euros left behind as a souvenir that could drop this from the thread?

The feck?! £7995...



More like £1995 and then expect another £500 off

[aaron_2000]

d_a_n1979 said:

Adam. said:

W00DY said:

https://www.autotrader.co.uk/car-details/202106254...

Such a rare chance to own a 520i estate with 118k miles.

Ad said:

............So the story is very nice for this car...................... it belonged to my ex-boss who used the car to travel back and forth to Germany and the UK in the good old days of the EU. Brexit and COVID has changed a lot and I bought the car of my boss as he is now moved back to Germany permanently. I have known this car for at least 6 years. I have SOME EUROs LEFT BEHIND AS A SOUVENIR...these were used at the crossings to and from France & the UK.......

Surely potential for a film adaptation.

Does it have 5,000 Euros left behind as a souvenir that could drop this from the thread?

The feck?! £7995...



More like £1995 and then expect another £500 off

It's the kind of thing I'd see at £1995 on FB and think "someone will buy it for £1500 maybe", even at that money I still wouldn't be interested.

[Leftfootwonder]

Dapster said:

I get that some people would want to stick a cheap body kit on an old, mechanically untouched 911, but to claim it is a "959 Recreation" and charge more than a concourse 3.0 SC is properly mental

https://www.carandclassic.co.uk/car/C1321319

The boys and girls over on the Poverty Pork thread will get a kick out of that! Poverty for a 959

[epom]

https://www.pistonheads.com/buy/listing/11794586

It’s a Ford I suppose.

[W00DY]

epom said:

https://www.pistonheads.com/buy/listing/11794586

It’s a Ford I suppose.

Headlight intake adds at least 0.2bhp though.


It looks like a well built car, but all that money spent to fool other people whilst you get to enjoy a 1.4 mk5 Escort.

[aaron_2000]

epom said:

https://www.pistonheads.com/buy/listing/11794586

It’s a Ford I suppose.

Is it just me or do the wheels look too small?

[123DWA]

aaron_2000 said:

Is it just me or do the wheels look too small?

I imagine they're the Mondeo wheels which look very similar but are a fair bit narrower hence them not filling the arches out properly

[10126 Torino]

123DWA said:

aaron_2000 said:

Is it just me or do the wheels look too small?

I imagine they're the Mondeo wheels which look very similar but are a fair bit narrower hence them not filling the arches out properly

They look like the correct wheels to me but they are in the wrong position as a Cosworth has different wheelbase to a normal MK5

being it's a Sierra floor .

This happens when you fit genuine Cosworth panels to a front wheel drive Escort and is an easy way to spot a fake ....

LOL..1.4 engine with 73 horses , about 1/3 power of a Cos .

Edited by 10126 Torino on Thursday 8th July 15:52

[B'stard Child]

10126 Torino said:

They look like the correct wheels to me but they are in the wrong position as a Cosworth has different wheelbase to a normal MK5

being it's a Sierra floor .

This happens when you fit genuine Cosworth panels to a front wheel drive Escort and is an easy way to spot a fake ....

Great bearding

[10126 Torino]

Thank you.....

At least they did a good job with the rest of it and a genuine Cos colour and also not some random spoilers that are nothing like a Cos .

[ambuletz]

£25,000 for an ek9 civic type R

Not bothered by how mint/original it might be, its the kind of crazy price I'd expect from a dealer taking photos with a DSLR.

[Fiedka]

Immaculate car and 93000 miles.
Those are the statements that wind me up.
No car can be immaculate having covered 93000 miles, not even travelling on a trailer.

[carlove]

I do like this, in fact I like it a lot. But £25,000 for a 26 year old Volvo with 143,000? Seems about £20k overpriced to me. It's for sale at a main dealer too which seems odd, but it is in Bradford, anything goes in Bradford.

https://www.autotrader.co.uk/car-details/202106173...



There's a red one for sale with 79k miles, just under £11k, still expensive, but more than half the price of this one.

[PGN]

carlove said:

I do like this, in fact I like it a lot. But £25,000 for a 26 year old Volvo with 143,000? Seems about £20k overpriced to me. It's for sale at a main dealer too which seems odd, but it is in Bradford, anything goes in Bradford.

https://www.autotrader.co.uk/car-details/202106173...



There's a red one for sale with 79k miles, just under £11k, still expensive, but more than half the price of this one.

I may be wrong but I think that one's on here somewhere. The plate looks a bit familiar.

[Driver101]

carlove said:

I do like this, in fact I like it a lot. But £25,000 for a 26 year old Volvo with 143,000? Seems about £20k overpriced to me. It's for sale at a main dealer too which seems odd, but it is in Bradford, anything goes in Bradford.

https://www.autotrader.co.uk/car-details/202106173...



There's a red one for sale with 79k miles, just under £11k, still expensive, but more than half the price of this one.

I know it's an old car, but it's hardly well looked after. It's had an oil leak for 11 years on the MOT history.

[georgeyboy12345]

epom said:

https://www.pistonheads.com/buy/listing/11794586

It’s a Ford I suppose.

At school someone once told me a story that someone had a 1.4 Escort and put a bodykit like that on it, then swapped in a Cosworth motor so they basically had a cut price (albeit FWD) cossie.

Then they got caught doing 120 in a 30, so swapped the 1.4 back in, and when it went to court they got away with it because there was no way a 1.4 Escort could do those speeds.

This guy told lots of stories though, kind of like Jay from the Inbetweeners.

[10126 Torino]

georgeyboy12345 said:

epom said:

https://www.pistonheads.com/buy/listing/11794586

It’s a Ford I suppose.

At school someone once told me a story that someone had a 1.4 Escort and put a bodykit like that on it, then swapped in a Cosworth motor so they basically had a cut price (albeit FWD) cossie.

Then they got caught doing 120 in a 30, so swapped the 1.4 back in, and when it went to court they got away with it because there was no way a 1.4 Escort could do those speeds.

This guy told lots of stories though, kind of like Jay from the Inbetweeners.

Tell he how the inline Cosworth engine worked with a Front wheel drive gearbox .
Clue.....impossible .

The engine was probably a Zetec or CVH tuned up with a turbo or something .

[BrabusMog]

10126 Torino said:

georgeyboy12345 said:

epom said:

https://www.pistonheads.com/buy/listing/11794586

It’s a Ford I suppose.

At school someone once told me a story that someone had a 1.4 Escort and put a bodykit like that on it, then swapped in a Cosworth motor so they basically had a cut price (albeit FWD) cossie.

Then they got caught doing 120 in a 30, so swapped the 1.4 back in, and when it went to court they got away with it because there was no way a 1.4 Escort could do those speeds.

This guy told lots of stories though, kind of like Jay from the Inbetweeners.

Tell he how the inline Cosworth engine worked with a Front wheel drive gearbox .
Clue.....impossible .

The engine was probably a Zetec or CVH tuned up with a turbo or something .

18g’s for that