RE: Sub-£10k super-saloons
Discussion
Parrot of Doom said:
More like our odd fascination with having a newer car than the neighbour.
Indeed. I've been trying to persuade an office gimp here who has a 51 reg corsa on finance that it's a crap idea to buy a new astra sporthatch (1.4 FFS) on credit. Pay off the car you've got, and then put the money you've been spending to finance it in a high interest regular savings account, and then if 5 years time, you'll have the money if you want a new car to buy one with cash.
Only issue is my wife who says "but they just look like old cars" - she has a point. However it's the insurance that can also be the killer - any good brokers do please let me know as I'm drooling over well run-in Alpina 3.3 or V8S five-series too.
Had an '01 540i Touring for a year - wonderfully relaxing with real oomph when needed. Also got me 6 points "just like that" as the man with the fez used to say!
Had an '01 540i Touring for a year - wonderfully relaxing with real oomph when needed. Also got me 6 points "just like that" as the man with the fez used to say!
justayellowbadge said:
new scot said:
Only issue is my wife who says "but they just look like old cars" - she has a point.
A large part of the appeal, tbh. I love the apparent contradiction between the staid, minicab like exterior of the 8.32 and what it has under the bonnet.
Absolutely! I thought this was a site for drivers, not poseurs . . . ?
The old 6 cyl XJR truly is the last of the line before the advent of the V8’s and is a really well screwed together bit of kit and very capable of absorbing big miles.
Yes she will creak and groan in the way a stately home knows how to do but rest assured the rather disconcerting soundtrack is very misleading as I had very few issues with mine
To the true Jagisti these old dames have that special Browns Llane DNA that propelled several generations of British gents with an active right foot and are still a shrewd choicetoday. For me an XJR is far preferable to the various Bosch offerings suggested in this article.
As for the Quatroporte, a truly lovely car and of course has the benefit of that clock but will actually cost you more to run than a stately home
VOTE JAG
Yes she will creak and groan in the way a stately home knows how to do but rest assured the rather disconcerting soundtrack is very misleading as I had very few issues with mine
To the true Jagisti these old dames have that special Browns Llane DNA that propelled several generations of British gents with an active right foot and are still a shrewd choicetoday. For me an XJR is far preferable to the various Bosch offerings suggested in this article.
As for the Quatroporte, a truly lovely car and of course has the benefit of that clock but will actually cost you more to run than a stately home
VOTE JAG
MJK 24 said:
The Bentley looks like a handy tool.
Why's it looking so cheap though? BG can you enlighten me please before I do something silly!
Why's it looking so cheap though? BG can you enlighten me please before I do something silly!
I looked at these a few years back. £600 for a set of shocks (just the parts), Lucas electrics, somewhat average build.... The Silver Shadows and Corniches were the last of the properly built ones until the Germans took over.
Ian
If you are considering one of these old luxy barges, and worried about the running costs, just compare it to a newer car which costs about the same to buy. it's not that stupid of a concept, as although the running costs are high, the depreciation is low, so you could compare running costs of old car to depreciation of new one, and it won't cost that much more.
It always amuses me when people see these old cars and call the owners flash, posh etc, when they go around in a a car which costs the same to buy but is brand new and unequiped.
It always amuses me when people see these old cars and call the owners flash, posh etc, when they go around in a a car which costs the same to buy but is brand new and unequiped.
Worried about parts costs? Well, if've you got the space, for a little more cash, buy a second one. After a couple of years, you can probably sell it for remaining parts for not much less than you paid for it. Of course, the main downside to this is that the misses may not approve turning the garden into an auto wreckers, but heh, explain that it's for the kids to play with 
vario-rob said:
The old 6 cyl XJR truly is the last of the line before the advent of the V8’s and is a really well screwed together bit of kit and very capable of absorbing big miles.
Yes she will creak and groan in the way a stately home knows how to do but rest assured the rather disconcerting soundtrack is very misleading as I had very few issues with mine
To the true Jagisti these old dames have that special Browns Llane DNA that propelled several generations of British gents with an active right foot and are still a shrewd choicetoday. For me an XJR is far preferable to the various Bosch offerings suggested in this article.
As for the Quatroporte, a truly lovely car and of course has the benefit of that clock but will actually cost you more to run than a stately home
VOTE JAG
Yes she will creak and groan in the way a stately home knows how to do but rest assured the rather disconcerting soundtrack is very misleading as I had very few issues with mine
To the true Jagisti these old dames have that special Browns Llane DNA that propelled several generations of British gents with an active right foot and are still a shrewd choicetoday. For me an XJR is far preferable to the various Bosch offerings suggested in this article.
As for the Quatroporte, a truly lovely car and of course has the benefit of that clock but will actually cost you more to run than a stately home
VOTE JAG
my local Jag specialist, charges £35 an hour. There's loads being broken so even serious parts are cheap.
mechsympathy said:
justayellowbadge said:
Newish, but not new. £47,000!!! I genuinely cannot comprehend that.
OTOH that was 35,000 miles, so £1.34 a mile. Which is bad but not mental. Unless you do 35k in a year
I reckon I do quite well to run a '97 scooby at just under 50p a mile. That's better than I worked out - I reckoned on almost £2 a mile on a 6 month old M5, keeping it for 1 year/15,000 miles. I didn't buy one...
mark seeker said:
I almost feel that you need to buy one of these cars and have a 'reserve fund' of at least £2 or £3k for anything that may go wrong.
They are wonderful cars but it needs to be remembered that new they cost £60k+ so it's likely the upkeep is going to be consistent with this.
Just my thoughts, I'm always tempted by a 740i though.
They are wonderful cars but it needs to be remembered that new they cost £60k+ so it's likely the upkeep is going to be consistent with this.
Just my thoughts, I'm always tempted by a 740i though.
Had a 740i for 18 months - fantastic car, and servicing costs at an independent totaled £450 for 35K. It was literally the cheapest car to run I've ever owned. Nothing went wrong, and it was pure luxo-barge
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