4C - Where are we with prices right now?

4C - Where are we with prices right now?

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MellowshipSlinky

14,696 posts

189 months

Wednesday 29th August 2018
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I agree, but can't see the logic of a car that hasn't sold at £40k...

'I know, let's put the price up by 17 grand - that'll get the punters flocking...'

When similar cars are currently £17k less for newer!

Armitage.Shanks

2,275 posts

85 months

Wednesday 29th August 2018
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Has that GT Two coupe finally gone @£38k? Looked good, low miles but no rear sensors that seemed to put buyers off.

KYong

3 posts

71 months

Wednesday 29th August 2018
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MellowshipSlinky said:
Is that means we just made £20k? 🤣

pdavison

1,637 posts

277 months

Wednesday 29th August 2018
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Been looking at these on and off for a little while and there’s clearly some increased interest and therefore prices being seen.

My challenge is I’d be at the lower end of the market at circa £35k so it’s starting to sound like I could be out of luck!

I’ll keep my eye open as won’t be in a position to buy for a few weeks.

MellowshipSlinky

14,696 posts

189 months

Wednesday 29th August 2018
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There's a white spider up for £31k

As long as you can live with a complete DKR interior...

DeejRC

5,791 posts

82 months

Wednesday 29th August 2018
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Hehe, not sure I’ve seen a DKR reference since the early days on The Thread! I didn’t think anyone used the phrase anymore!

MellowshipSlinky

14,696 posts

189 months

Wednesday 29th August 2018
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Sorry - ex Porsche owner...
Think it's still mentioned 'over there'.... hehe

pdavison

1,637 posts

277 months

Wednesday 29th August 2018
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Sorry not quite up to speed ... what does it mean?

MellowshipSlinky

14,696 posts

189 months

Wednesday 29th August 2018
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Dog knob red

It's actually not that bad in real life, but anything more than the seats in red is overkill.
Porsche tended to do it often..

pdavison

1,637 posts

277 months

Thursday 30th August 2018
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Ah I see, thanks.

_Superleggera_

2,004 posts

197 months

Monday 3rd September 2018
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Apologies to those waiting on my market report. My wife broke her wrist and it's put a massive strain on our business.

I've been following numbers of sales etc and its amazing how quickly the cars are moving.

The market is moving rather rapidly at the moment and its hard to keep up.

As such first market report will come out on Friday. Thank you all for your patience.

T5GRF

1,976 posts

264 months

Monday 3rd September 2018
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Sorry to hear about your wife Joe, hope she's better soon.

I had a late evening "spirited drive" yesterday, it's just amazing how quickly it tackles the regular local roads that I use. The punch in second and third gear is pretty addictive!

MellowshipSlinky

14,696 posts

189 months

Monday 3rd September 2018
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Looks like the Sturgess spider has gone from Autotrader

rudester

658 posts

152 months

Tuesday 4th September 2018
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T5GRF said:
I had a late evening "spirited drive" yesterday, it's just amazing how quickly it tackles the regular local roads that I use. The punch in second and third gear is pretty addictive!
I've had a few of those. I'm just back from a 1,400 mile fortnight trip to the South East with my 6 year old in the passenger seat.
The punch is there in the higher gears too. Small throttle movements at motorway speeds can get you into silly speeds very easily.
The car seems to just get up and go regardless of speed and gear. I come from a string of Porsche's which were great to rev but had frustratingly long gearing which would mean that often you'd be out of the power band coming out of a corner. In the 4C you really have to be concentrating at there's so much torque mid corner you need to be feeding the throttle in smoothly.



T5GRF

1,976 posts

264 months

Tuesday 4th September 2018
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rudester said:
I've had a few of those. I'm just back from a 1,400 mile fortnight trip to the South East with my 6 year old in the passenger seat.
The punch is there in the higher gears too. Small throttle movements at motorway speeds can get you into silly speeds very easily.
The car seems to just get up and go regardless of speed and gear. I come from a string of Porsche's which were great to rev but had frustratingly long gearing which would mean that often you'd be out of the power band coming out of a corner. In the 4C you really have to be concentrating at there's so much torque mid corner you need to be feeding the throttle in smoothly.


It certainly has plenty of power
That's a great picture-lovely looking machine!

BlackPorker

378 posts

175 months

Wednesday 5th September 2018
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A couple coming up here:
http://www.hwm.co.uk/used-cars/search/?make%5B%5D=...

Both will be ex-FCA cars so should be high spec.

Stuart J

1,301 posts

257 months

Wednesday 5th September 2018
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BlackPorker said:
A couple coming up here:
http://www.hwm.co.uk/used-cars/search/?make%5B%5D=...

Both will be ex-FCA cars so should be high spec.
Nice company to deal with

_Superleggera_

2,004 posts

197 months

Thursday 6th September 2018
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I'm really curious as to what happened to the 5 Spiders that Europcar had as part of their fun collection.

One was WO16 NJU, Rosso Competizione with Silver 18-19 Teledials.

Armitage.Shanks

2,275 posts

85 months

Thursday 6th September 2018
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_Superleggera_ said:
I'm really curious as to what happened to the 5 Spiders that Europcar had as part of their fun collection.

One was WO16 NJU, Rosso Competizione with Silver 18-19 Teledials.
WO16 NSU (if one of the batch) Comp Red Spider is currently touring France

Flat6

588 posts

255 months

Sunday 9th September 2018
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I've been watching the 17 plate (7k mile) coupe at Mangoletsi for the past week..

Phoned today to try and arrange a test drive (I've not driven one yet) and the Salesman told me the price had just been reduced to 38k as they'd had it a while with little interest.. Happy days I thought, he then told me they've just taken a deposit on it today! rolleyes Anyway, not to worry, really wanted full leather if possible although the rest of the spec was to my liking.

It will be interesting to see what happens to prices over the winter months, if these are anything like Lotuses then I might do better hanging on?