best recession purchases...

[treetops]

Horrid I know. But what bargain car purchase have you picked up due to the recession?

[daemon]

Bought this off a private customer for £700. 1999, 3.0i V6 SE, 96K miles, no faults.

[dudleybloke]

that jags a bargain!!!
top shedding!

[sturobturbo]

Jesus, he must have been desperate to give away that much car for that little money.

• edit* I think my old car (traded it in last weekend) wasn't a bad recession purchase.

Brand new renaultsport Clio 200. Cost me 500 quid in depreciation in 15 months and that was at trade in price too!

[HeatonNorris]

sturobturbo said:

Jesus, he must have been desperate to give away that much car for that little money.

Pre-2003 facelift S-Types are worth pennies, as they have the awful bodged interior and major issues with the drivetrain.

[TheLordJohn]

HeatonNorris said:

, as they CAN have the awful bodged interior and major issues with the drivetrain.

Corrected for you.

[smartphone hater]

On Thursday I bought a 1978 Rolls Royce silver shadow with reasonably new paint & mechanically sound for £3100 in cash, an electric push bike which is £650 & a 2003 Ford Street KA that I bought for £900 to resell (but the sun didn't come out for long enough so didn't really try selling it). He's a friend & the negotiations took nearly four hours on a hot day in a lovely little country pub. On Friday he phoned me & we needed to discuss it all again because neither of us were sure if we remembered the finer points of the deal or not.

Edited by smartphone hater on Saturday 28th July 14:24

[Davie_GLA]

That jag is some bargain. Just bought a 54 plate Volvo s60 d5 with great spec, 96k for £2800. 800 miles to a tank of fuel and 50mpg. I reckon that's not bad shedding at all.

[soad]

smartphone hater said:

On Thursday I bought a 1978 Rolls Royce silver shadow with reasonably new paint & mechanically sound for £3100 in cash, an electric push bike which is £650 & a 2003 Ford Street KA that I bought for £900 to resell (but the sun didn't come out for long enough so didn't really try selling it). He's a friend & the negotiations took nearly four hours on a hot day in a lovely little country pub. On Friday he phoned me & we needed to discuss it all again because neither of us were sure if we remembered the finer points of the deal or not.

Had one too many a beers then?

[davetibbs]

Funny the S-Type should be posted. I had a Laguna DCi runaround which is now SORN'd as the MOT/Tax have run out and I simply can't be bothered to do the work on it necessary to get it through a new MOT (swapping ABS pump, slight exhaust leak, etc). Planning on sticking it on the 'bay for spares/repairs etc.

However, I'm (hopefully!) being sent to work in the US at the end of September, so I want a car to get me around for a few months. Running costs are *not* an issue as I'm trying to keep up the running/cycling/weightloss regime and just need it for the odd trip around etc - but purchasing costs are. I'd noticed recently that the S-Types really are fetching stupidly low prices and was tempted as I wanted a big engined car that nobody else wants to own long term.

Is the S-Type recommended?

[TwigtheWonderkid]

daemon said:

Bought this off a private customer for £700. 1999, 3.0i V6 SE, 96K miles, no faults.

£700 for a 13 y/o S Type that was a horrible car when in was new imho....he saw you coming!!

[HeatonNorris]

davetibbs said:

Is the S-Type recommended?

From 2003-on, yes.

[falkster]

My ML55, 54 plate bought a year ago for £4001.23

[ClaphamGT3]

2007 E63AMG Estate. Cost the 1st owner £103k. Bought in Sept 2010 for £29950

[JREwing]

Boring, but the recession-busting, penny-saving Corsa I picked up in 2010. It was a good price at the time, and my God am I glad I had it. I'd be even more skint than I am if I had anything more!

[Pesty]

TwigtheWonderkid said:

£700 for a 13 y/o S Type that was a horrible car when in was new imho....he saw you coming!!

Crist its a jag for £700 Ive spent that on a set of tyres.

Looks great to me. Should he have bought a 15 year old micra or something.

[TheLordJohn]

Pesty said:

Crist its a jag for £700 Ive spent that on a set of tyres.

Looks great to me. Should he have bought a 15 year old micra or something.

Ignore him. He is obviously FULL of ideas of ways to get into that level of motoring for 700 nicker.

[carlingofblack]

Absolutely agree. £700 for shed Jagging is not to be missed. I've spent that on a service....

[Pesty]

falkster said:

My ML55, 54 plate bought a year ago for £4001.23

Bargain. but is that a typo or did you pay the extra 23p?

[anonymous-user]

TwigtheWonderkid said:

£700 for a 13 y/o S Type that was a horrible car when in was new imho....he saw you coming!!

And what can you offer up for £700? As for being 'horrible' they didn't have the shove of the V8 but were still a nice place to be, handle ok and can waft along. Usual patchy build quality in that era but no worse than an average BMW.