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[Lord E38]

https://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/406889223311?_skw=jagua...

This has been for sale at least since before I got my XJR, which was nearly 5 years ago. Base trim, manual gearbox. Only options I can see are leather seats (£1,060), metallic paint (£720), passenger seat electric height adjust (£225) and heated windscreen (£235).

Seems to have been a press car. Maybe they needed a cheapskate X300 to show poor people.

[SpeckledJim]

Stripped out and watered down to be priced towards Granada/Scorpio and Carlton/Senator/Omega when new.

Still a great drive.

[Krikkit]

Assuming it's not crusty that'd be a sweet thing to run, and be way more economical than the automatic.

[GeniusOfLove]

If a dealer hasn't put an MOT on that, even to give potential buyers the fail sheet for information, they know it's catastrophically bad.

Shame, it's a very rare car now with the manual.

ETA - it's not had an MOT for almost 7 years! If I was nearby I'd go and have a good poke about, if it's not rusty everything else is easy enough to sort out on them.

[Lord E38]

SpeckledJim said:

Stripped out and watered down to be priced towards Granada/Scorpio and Carlton/Senator/Omega when new.

Still a great drive.

I know which one I'd rather have, but then again, I'm biased.

Hopefully the dealer isn't the idiot 'I know what I have' type and someone can pay a sensible price for it.

[GeniusOfLove]

Lord E38 said:

SpeckledJim said:

Stripped out and watered down to be priced towards Granada/Scorpio and Carlton/Senator/Omega when new.

Still a great drive.

I know which one I'd rather have, but then again, I'm biased.

Hopefully the dealer isn't the idiot 'I know what I have' type and someone can pay a sensible price for it.

If you spent 30 seconds driving both the decision would be very very easy, but I imagine only penny numbers of Granadas were sold to private buyers of any sort by then and your fleet manager was getting them for 60p in the pound against the RRP.

Anyone who bought the Dagenham dustbin when an X300 was a real option deserved the turd they got

[MattsCar]

BMW 550i touring with 160k miles and CAT N due to vandalism....

....seems very tempting when the price is £3500.

https://www.facebook.com/share/1CY1Ar4uxF/



I think an afternoon spent with a touch up pen and some wet and grit would have them scratch marks barely visible from 5 metres away.

[AnonSA]

Japanese import 2008 E60 530i Sport within thread budget

https://www.carandclassic.com/l/C2060286



I think that looks pretty nice.

Edited by AnonSA on Thursday 7th May 22:04

[macron]

MattsCar said:

BMW 550i touring with 160k miles and CAT N due to vandalism....

....seems very tempting when the price is £3500.

https://www.facebook.com/share/1CY1Ar4uxF/



I think an afternoon spent with a touch up pen and some wet and grit would have them scratch marks barely visible from 5 metres away.

Why tf would you claim on the insurance for that??

[Mr Tidy]

SpeckledJim said:

Stripped out and watered down to be priced towards Granada/Scorpio and Carlton/Senator/Omega when new.

Still a great drive.

That might explain the heated screen - my 1985 Scorpio had one (and heated seats).

But I would much rather have had a manual Jaguar. I'm sure someone on here just bought a manual 3.2, which is quite a coincidence as there can't have been many!

[bolidemichael]

Mr Tidy said:

SpeckledJim said:

Stripped out and watered down to be priced towards Granada/Scorpio and Carlton/Senator/Omega when new.

Still a great drive.

That might explain the heated screen - my 1985 Scorpio had one (and heated seats).

But I would much rather have had a manual Jaguar. I'm sure someone on here just bought a manual 3.2, which is quite a coincidence as there can't have been many!

Yeah, LordE38. He commented above and has an RC thread for it in which he confesses his music preferences delivered by the medium of CD.

[BlueMR2]

AnonSA said:

Japanese import 2008 E60 530i Sport within thread budget

https://www.carandclassic.com/l/C2060286



I think that looks pretty nice.

Edited by AnonSA on Thursday 7th May 22:04

Seems they have done 42,000ish miles in the last 3ish years, so hopefully should have fixed any teething problems from doing low milage in Japan for 15 years.

Cheaper(400ish) tax as well being an import it would seem.

Could be a nice car ready for a good few years of normal service.

Edited by BlueMR2 on Thursday 7th May 23:37

[macron]

GoLs auction win/ DB7 thread had me looking at SWVA, it's not the best engine, those alloys are gash, but it's brown, and could be yours for 3.5k. presumably plus the bits. But it's brown.

https://www.swva.co.uk/vehicle/krofwr4cb9sjrnj18o1...

[bolidemichael]

macron said:

GoLs auction win/ DB7 thread had me looking at SWVA, it's not the best engine, those alloys are gash, but it's brown, and could be yours for 3.5k. presumably plus the bits. But it's brown.

https://www.swva.co.uk/vehicle/krofwr4cb9sjrnj18o1...

Pre-barried for the gregarious bargeiste

[smoke sliver]

That's an M103 300 SL, not a M104 300 SL-24v

[Venisonpie]

macron said:

Why tf would you claim on the insurance for that??

He's selling it because he can't afford to keep it, suspect he couldn't self fund. Not sure I'd want to own a car after someone who was skint but that's perhaps a bit unkind.

[_Rodders_]

Another Quattroporte, this time one with the ZF. How cheap do you reckon it would have to be to be worth a punt? Off the road since atleast 2019 by the looks of it.

https://ebay.us/m/YuRU7p

[anotherswifty]

Venisonpie said:

He's selling it because he can't afford to keep it, suspect he couldn't self fund. Not sure I'd want to own a car after someone who was skint but that's perhaps a bit unkind.

Ad does say not had it long and job loss. Whether that s true or not, who knows.

[Krikkit]

_Rodders_ said:

Another Quattroporte, this time one with the ZF. How cheap do you reckon it would have to be to be worth a punt? Off the road since atleast 2019 by the looks of it.

https://ebay.us/m/YuRU7p

Depends if you're prepared to tinker with it yourself, I wouldn't want to throw it at a specialist to get them to sort it out. I'd say that's cheap enough as it is if the condition is good in person.

[PenultimateSpiderman]

730i with some lovely photos, Friday budget creep etc. Velourrrrrr.

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