are performance cars selling

[jonah35]

are the stuff like v8v's, bentley gt's, m6's, m5's, 997's, sl amg's etc selling at the moment quickly or are prices taking a nosedive?

noticed some cheap metal recently but not sure if now is a good time to take the plunge!

there was an article in evo about cars like the cliosport 197 being cheaper than the equivalent clio diesel. is this because the high road tax, credit crunch, recession mark 2 and so on meaning that people really just don't want the hassle of having these cars that cost £10 in fuel to drive for 10 minutes!

or, is now a good time to buy?

[jonah35]

thanks chaps, just seeing if it's worth waiting a year for one not 5 or ten years though.

i personally think waiting till mid next year when the cuts come in and so on may be better.

i know it's not all about cash but if a v8v drops from say 40k to 28k then that's a lot of money for waiting 12 months

[jonah35]

Robbo101 said:

Slightly less exotic machinery than the OP mentioned, but have been keeping a close eye on Nissan 350Z prices for the past few months with a view to upgrading my current snotter. Even as recently as May of this year, was nigh on imposible to locate any 350Z (even an Import or automatic) at less than £7000. Now though, there are at least 40 on Autotrader alone & the Imports from a private seller are routinely on sale at £5000 or so. Was interested in a UK model 2004 plate manual in silver with 115,000 miles which trickled down from £6500 to £5295 over the past few weeks & even then the Trader was taking offers.

Think if you can afford the insurance, petrol & car tax on something a little out of the ordinary, then mow is the time to buy. And as for RX8's - there prices are just plain silly.

true, but ask most people if they'd want an rx8 given for free if they had to pay the 20mpg fuel costs and most normal people would say no. ok all us ph'ers would want one but for most people paying £24 to drive a 40 mile trip to work and back is plain silly. (obviously not for higher earners but for the type of people who buy a car for less than 10k i'd imagine that that kind ofmoney is mortgage money!)