RE: Last-ever registered Peugeot 306 Rallye for sale

[Y Cymro]

KGF often have some lovely cars for sale, but dear God they know how to charge top dollar!
£46k is absolutely ridiculous and rightly deserves to be laughed at.

[Arsecati]

So apparently adding 110,000 miles to this car just lost it £40k.

I'll take this one all day, every day, and still get to enjoy it whenever I want and not have to worry about its 'value'. I no longer bother making comments on mad prices, as nothing seems to make sense in the 'new world' any more, but sorry, nobody with any ounce of logical sense in their body can justify such a premium, for no other reason than mileage.

https://collectingcars.com/for-sale/1999-peugeot-3...

[Arsecati]

s m said:

Obviously not……


It’s almost like those are the prices they sell for occasionally….

Hey, don't be knocking the prices of those Peugeot GTi's! They are worth every single penny, EVERY single penny. In fact, I think those prices are undervalued, and they are worth FAR, FAR MORE!!!!!!





(And not just saying that coz I own one, and am drooling at the thought of what some gobste might pay me for it one day..... I think it cost me £4k when I bought it!!

[Jon_S_Rally]

lb3nson said:

Now who’s being negative
Please explain how i’m being ‘a dick about it’ by lamenting the loss of choice and access to our hobby for the average person that I believe is a result of these kind of sales

Easy - by slating people that collect cars and don't drive them, by calling it pointless, and generally by being narrow-minded and not accepting that some people like different things to you.

996TT02 said:

I actually have absolutely zero interest in finding one, in all honesty. The 306 was very much a cheaply screwed together car of its time, as many European cars were, needing to compete with such turds as the Escort, and now is very far from its time. Sure this must be worth a lot more than any "lawn" resident 306, but 46k,the issue is not the 46k, the issue is that 46k buys you a lot more desirable metal than this, what relevance is 300 miles? A proper 46k car with 80k miles is still much more desirable, in the meantime the Peugeot owner has a Peugeot he can't realistically even drive, and well, if you are going to just look at it, may as well buy a half-million-mile Ferrari, at least that's going to be a lot prettier, inside and out. So even then.

You're rather missing the point. 46k might buy something more desirable but, if you desire the most low-mileage 306 Rallye around, then your choices are limited. You might think it's not worth the money, but someone else might.

[s m]

Arsecati said:

Hey, don't be knocking the prices of those Peugeot GTi's! They are worth every single penny, EVERY single penny. In fact, I think those prices are undervalued, and they are worth FAR, FAR MORE!!!!!!





(And not just saying that coz I own one, and am drooling at the thought of what some gobste might pay me for it one day..... I think it cost me 4k when I bought it!!

I wouldn’t knock the prices at all chap

Rather talk about the car itself rather than fall foul of the first rule of Rich_W

Like you I was lucky to have been able to buy and enjoy some of these cars when they were within my budgets.

In fact it was quite refreshing to read the 964 vs 993 article and note the distinct lack of wailing and moaning about the cost of them and to see car enthusiasts talking about their experiences owning, driving and running them and not whether you could buy 70,000 penny chews for the same money

Edited by s m on Saturday 28th May 11:57

[TobyM5]

What a lovely thing, these are still brilliant to drive now as they were when they originally came out.
I have a black one with 87k miles and it really is a joy to drive, I use it daily for my commute and I don’t miss any of the creature comforts in more modern cars.

It warms up quickly and really comes alive, feels comfortable to drive, rides poor roads better than todays sporty hatches with overly wide tyres to handle all that unnecessary turbo charged power required of course to pull their lardy arse along!

The price is reasonable, you’d pay that for any new hatch like a Golf R and that will only depreciate steadily though it’ll probably get stolen before you lose too much on it……
Sadly this car probably won’t get driven with that low mileage but price wise I think it’s a bargain compared to what you see a lot of cars fetching now.

[s m]

EVO timings

[blade7]

Mikebentley said:

shih tzu faced said:

Nope.

No no no no no no no.

No you don’t

That’s my OCD talking, having eyeballed THAT photo with the mileage stuck forever more on 309.

I want it clocked by 3 miles. I’m not even going to start laughing at the price until that nonsense has been sorted.

Come on KGF get the screwdrivers out.

I was about to say the same. Somebody has moved it 3 miles too many, fools.

Reverse it 3 miles down the road, and stick another couple of grand on the price.

[blue_haddock]

PhillipM said:

blue_haddock said:

That's the one.

I've been in and around the Peugeot sport club for best part of 20+ years now.

That place is full of some weird people

Especially you!

[blue_haddock]

Pommy said:

I'm looking for a newish car that is as close to the feel and chuckabikity of a 306 - any suggestions given you had the lot back then?

Over on the 205 GTi group someone recently asked this and a few people agreed the swift sport was probably the closest recent thing to a 205.

For the 306 though I'm not sure as most cars in that medium car sector have kind of grown, got bloated and put on a lot of weight. My thought would be the I30 N which seems to get great reviews including handling.

[s m]

blue_haddock said:

Pommy said:

I'm looking for a newish car that is as close to the feel and chuckabikity of a 306 - any suggestions given you had the lot back then?

Over on the 205 GTi group someone recently asked this and a few people agreed the swift sport was probably the closest recent thing to a 205.

For the 306 though I'm not sure as most cars in that medium car sector have kind of grown, got bloated and put on a lot of weight. My thought would be the I30 N which seems to get great reviews including handling.

Although some mags said Peugeot’s own 308 GTI was the big entertainer of the three when tested against the i30N and Golf GTI

Plus it has the much lighter weight so more in line with the 306 there too

[MissChief]

s m said:

blue_haddock said:

Pommy said:

I'm looking for a newish car that is as close to the feel and chuckabikity of a 306 - any suggestions given you had the lot back then?

Over on the 205 GTi group someone recently asked this and a few people agreed the swift sport was probably the closest recent thing to a 205.

For the 306 though I'm not sure as most cars in that medium car sector have kind of grown, got bloated and put on a lot of weight. My thought would be the I30 N which seems to get great reviews including handling.

Although some mags said Peugeot’s own 308 GTI was the big entertainer of the three when tested against the i30N and Golf GTI

Plus it has the much lighter weight so more in line with the 306 there too

I looked at a 308gti last year when I was looking for something different. I like the looks (one colour, not the bipolar ones!) and they all got rave reviews, but I kept coming back to horror stories of £600-£800 front discs and £200 pads and decided on something else.

[dhutch]

s m said:

EVO timings

0-60 in 6.9sec is actually really fairly quick all told. About a second faster than the GTI-6?

[Mr Whippy]

Has it had the cambelt done

Definitely not worth buying.

Buy one that needs stripping and rebuilding and then enjoy it, for half the price!

[PHZero]

I attended a 306 promo event with my dad in the early 90's.

Peugeot seemed to have spent a lot of money on the event. Inviting thousands of people.

I got to meet Daley Thompson. I even got his signature. And subsequently lost it.

The car looked pretty bland, but was a slight improvement on my dad's 305 estate.

It's nice to see people still appreciating these old Pugs.

[s m]

dhutch said:

s m said:

EVO timings

0-60 in 6.9sec is actually really fairly quick all told. About a second faster than the GTI-6?

You have to bear in mind the EVO tests of the Rallye and GTI-6 ( they managed 7.2 for the 60 sprint ) were done in dry conditions and the other proper tests with times I’ve seen all just happened to be in the wet/damp. They were about a second down so I imagine in dry conditions there would have been little in real time between a GTI-6 and a Rallye…… probably more discrepancy down to individual car, tester and track surface

[Terminator X]

Had one in yellow early Noughties. Fond memories, fastest car I'd ever owned at that time.

TX.

[Gad-Westy]

Terminator X said:

Had one in yellow early Noughties. Fond memories, fastest car I'd ever owned at that time.

TX.

Had it had a colour change or did they do them in yellow from factory? I think I’ve only ever seen white/red/black

[rotaryjam]

Let's face it the weight difference is like most of these types of lightweight editions is almost entirely marketing and imperceptible differences. Can a human being really tell the difference in a few bhp per tonnes? I very much doubt it, but after being told about it I'm sure they can feel every single one and reviews will enthuse about how 'pure' it feels

[Howard-]

I love these and they're the last of the decent Peugeots, but for that money? Behave.