Anyone got a car for sale?

[Kinky]

Anyone selling anything of any interest?

Up to about £1kish

K

[bmw2002]

Ha, a what car for Kinky thread!

[Kinky]

Bring it on

[Kinky]

And there's a remote chance someone might actually suggest something vaguely sensible.

Actually ... on 2nd thoughts ......

[Robatr0n]

What are the requirements?

The older shaped Omegas go for peanuts and you can even get the manly sized 3.0 V6 for under a grand. Some of the big old volvos are absolute bargains and obviously you can never count out the E34s.

How long are you planning on keeping the car for?

[bmw2002]

Is it just going to be a work runner, or better?

Barge? 5/7 series, Lexus, E/S class?

[HappyS3owner]

First Shape GS300

[bmw2002]

http://search.autotrader.co.uk/es-uk/www/cars/JAGU...

[Kinky]

Let me post up what I've been toying with so far ...

S Class 420SE



BMW 328i



Audi 80 Avant Competition



525I Sport Manual

[bmw2002]

http://www.pistonheads.com/sales/874716.htm

[kiwifraser]

The merc looks like decent bit of kit for the money. Thats my pick so far

[bmw2002]

328 is the wrong colour, the S Class is just slightly too 'played with', the 5 looks nice and so does the Audi, would you want another tourer/avant though?

[Kinky]

Criteria is as follows .....

A 50 mile a day daily driver
Manual (although won't say no to an auto if it's right)
Reliable
Respectable MPG
Fun
Not a convertable
Would prefer a hatchback - but saloon is fine
Big spec.

To last a long time - so will become a high-miler - so must be pretty robust in that repsect.

K

[Kinky]

I've excluded all of the above for a reason .....

Merc - all blinged/chavved up, so unlikely it's been serviced properly
3-Series - wrong colour and wheels
Audi - it's an estate (but still very tempting)
5-Series - the guy selling it gave me very conflicting stories as to why he was selling. Plus he's been 'mucking' about with it (but he's not a mechanic)

K

[HappyS3owner]

Get a Lexus or similar, it'll be dull but great for wafting and will have loads of toys and will sail past 100,000 miles. Or a 7 series David's is totally wafttastic. Neither of those would really be that economical though.

[kiwifraser]

Not the Merc then with its 4.2

5 series looks smart, and the solidly made too for the job you have in mind. Although, are you looking for something different for a change?

[Kinky]

To be honest, I keep coming back to the E34s and 36s as my first point of call.

I saw a lovely C-class Merc - everything was perfect ..... except it was a diesel

[bmw2002]

You, like I, know how good the E34 can be, there will be one somewhere that will fit the bill, just got to hunt the bugger down now!!

[tuscan_al]

http://cgi.ebay.co.uk/VOLVO-V70-T5-ESTATE-51-REG-2...

keep an eye on it?

[Kinky]

tuscan_al said:

http://cgi.ebay.co.uk/VOLVO-V70-T5-ESTATE-51-REG-2...

keep an eye on it?

I can see Nigel and I in convoy somewhere on the motorway :rofl