Howmanyleft.com punctures the Q-car dream

[brotherharry]

Thought I'd cracked it in my musings for a Q-car capable of lugging drumkits around by stumbling on the existence of a Volvo V50 T5 variant that comes in all wheel drive. Thought, bingo, Focus ST 5 pot turbo warbler engine, smart but boring to avoid attention + 4 wheel drive for year round usefulness.....Until I plugged it into how many left and found Volvo sold a grand total of 3 in the UK. Talk about needle in a haystack! The non-AWD aren't much better with less than a hundred about.
#backtothedrawingboard

[Greengecko]

Didn't even know they did an AWD version!

[brotherharry]

Greengecko said:

Didn't even know they did an AWD version!

Me neither, until I stumbled on it via evo http://www.evo.co.uk/carreviews/evocarreviews/4551...

[Remagel2507]

Greengecko said:

Didn't even know they did an AWD version!

+1

but have you considered something like an X-Type 3.0 estate? Same amount of power, 4WD, more space and there are actually a few for sale.

http://www.autotrader.co.uk/search/used/cars/jagua...

[long time lurker]

do you believe howmanyleft is anywhere near accurate??
My car is 1 of 600 sold in the UK and according to that site only 239 were ever registered!!

[ging84]

that site is only based on registration certificate, if you are searching for a very specific model it depends on how much detail the dealers put in when they register the car, i suspect most would just put in the minimum amount of detail they need to

[Krikkit]

long time lurker said:

do you believe howmanyleft is anywhere near accurate??
My car is 1 of 600 sold in the UK and according to that site only 239 were ever registered!!

It can be wildly inaccurate, especially for obscure models where the dealers may not have registered them quite right.

[brotherharry]

I tried a couple of variations, e.g the auto version shows about 40
http://www.howmanyleft.co.uk/vehicle/volvo_v50_t5_...

[markmullen]

ging84 said:

that site is only based on registration certificate, if you are searching for a very specific model it depends on how much detail the dealers put in when they register the car, i suspect most would just put in the minimum amount of detail they need to

Dealer registrations are done through AFRL, the dealer doesn't get a say on what it gets registered as, assuming a new car, not an import.

[brotherharry]

Remagel2507 said:

but have you considered something like an X-Type 3.0 estate? Same amount of power, 4WD, more space and there are actually a few for sale.

http://www.autotrader.co.uk/search/used/cars/jagua...

Hadn't considered, and not sure it's anonymous enough for what I'm after (plus not sure I'm quite at "mmm, that's nice walnut trim" stage yet).

A lex said:

If you dont mind 'stepping up' a size, this is a nice looking (and very rare) V70 T6 AWD - 300bhp

http://www.autotrader.co.uk/classified/advert/2013...

http://www.evo.co.uk/carreviews/evocarreviews/2098...

I'll give you nice looking, but I was trying to keep to smaller chuckable sizes then engage full golf clubs and labrador mode.

about the only other thing on the list I had was an E46 before-they-went-weird-looking 330 Touring.

[Toltec]

Not exactly a discreet Q car...

http://www.pistonheads.com/classifieds/used-cars/m...

Edited by Toltec on Monday 8th April 16:45

[brotherharry]

Least I could handbrake turn into my drive...