Bugsy Posted January 26, 2009 Share Posted January 26, 2009 ...............to buy a second-hand car from today if you can live with RHD. Audi A8 - 4.2Quattro LWB SE model for £16k. On an 05 plate, with 32k miles Froman Audi dealer with Full Audi Service History and the original invoice for, waitfor it, £72K!!!!! £56k depreciation in 3 and a half years [:-))]. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Frederick Posted January 26, 2009 Share Posted January 26, 2009 I have just changed mine ..now got Rover 75 Club CTD tourer. as I need a diesel estate ..midnight blue immaculate with all the chrome handles and bits ...looks like its just came out of the showroom.One owner 2004 just over 30.000 on the clock .....£3.700...BMW parts so no problems there ....If I had been prepared to travel further i may have got a cheaper one ... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
cooperlola Posted January 26, 2009 Share Posted January 26, 2009 Have a decco at the prices for 2nd hand Bentleys. Beginning to look vaguely tempting.[:D] Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
just john Posted January 26, 2009 Share Posted January 26, 2009 Being sensible[:)] how about an 07 Jaguar 2.7TDVi , 50k mls £(€)17K, £43,995 new207PS 2.7 V6 Twin Turbo diesel . 0 to 60mph in 7.8 seconds. 435Nm Torque. all-aluminium body construction, 35mpg (8.1l/100km) combined and low 214 g/km CO2 emissions, (just to ease it at the bar drop in the fact that its really the latest Peugeot turbo diesel[:-))]), I believe this is the model that got Jeremy 750mile from Basel to Blackpool on a tankful beating a VW polo[8-|] Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
M Posted January 26, 2009 Share Posted January 26, 2009 Wow! Where did you find that?M Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
AnOther Posted January 26, 2009 Share Posted January 26, 2009 [quote user="Bugbear"]...............to buy a second-hand car from today if you can live with RHD. Audi A8 - 4.2Quattro LWB SE model for £16k. On an 05 plate, with 32k miles Froman Audi dealer with Full Audi Service History and the original invoice for, waitfor it, £72K!!!!! £56k depreciation in 3 and a half years [:-))][/quote]If there is any justice let's hope it belonged to one of the city spivs responsible for getting us into the mess we're in and now trying to stave off repossesion, or better still, bankruptcy..........[Www] [:P] Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
tegwini Posted January 27, 2009 Share Posted January 27, 2009 I learned to drive in a Sunbeam Tiger, drove an MGB GT, Alfa Sprint, and now have a Polo !Always promised myself a Merc 250 or 280 SL with removeable hard top. Trouble is these days, I would have to keep it in the garage and use the Polo - just in case. And, they're a lot more than when I first lusted after one in the late 70s.Tegwini Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
just john Posted January 27, 2009 Share Posted January 27, 2009 For anybody looking to update their wheels in UK try www.autotrader.co.uk you may need to insert a postcode, (any postcode seems to work), Cars change all the time, BENTLEY Continental/ £33K Bargain!, JAGUARXJ 2.7tdvi/ from £15950 AUDI 4.2 LWB from £12,495The right car is always the right money though, MERCEDES-BENZ+280SL £27995 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dog Posted January 27, 2009 Share Posted January 27, 2009 Do you think the price of Jensens will drop I lust after a Jensen CV8 my uncle had some - crazy kit. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
~ Posted January 27, 2009 Share Posted January 27, 2009 You can get a convertible beetle in the UK for as little as £5000!!! Double that in Ireland. You lucky gits. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
cooperlola2 Posted January 28, 2009 Share Posted January 28, 2009 [quote user="tegwini"]I learned to drive in a Sunbeam Tiger, [/quote]tegwini! Wot a car to learn in! 260 or 289? That's 4.2.or 4.7 litres in old money. All those sticking valves! Hardtop or open? Jealous, or wot! My first lessons were in a Hillman Blimp, later Vauxhall Viva HC. How the other half do live! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
tegwini Posted January 28, 2009 Share Posted January 28, 2009 Brand new out of the box ( and it was in a box exported from the UK to SA). And I thought there was only one engine size, but it was 4.2 litres. Removable hardtop and soft top. Pale blue & black. Got slides somewhere if I only knew how to post them here. Which I don't!Silly times - did Johannesburg- Bulawayo in under 6 hours including frontier crossing time, the days when you saw the odd giraffe on the side of the road, and a bit of street racing (not me) now and then. The odd Etype often used to try it on...Took driving test in it - the cop/inspector was more keen to see under the bonnet- and I did pass - somehow. Also pranged it - but not seriously. Toured around SA - Cape Garden route, Northern Transvaal, all of Natal etc. Lovely for that, but as I was a young hippie then we would often sleep in it - grim... 'back seats', really a little platform thingy, designed for legless midgets.Trouble is OH then was seriously silly, replaced engine with fully race-tuned 4.7 litre engine, and it needed a lower diff ratio of something, as it didn't like to use its first gear. He's still out there, and now into rally driving - in his 60s - what a wally!It got traded in for a Merc and the company attempting to sell it said that it was a lemon although it was still quite new.This was in the mid 1960s - happy days ...RegardsTegwini Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
cooperlola2 Posted January 28, 2009 Share Posted January 28, 2009 Sounds like a lovely time! The 4.2 engine was in the original Tiger, then it increased to 4.7 some time later. Both were from Ford. Not really an expert on these, but they were so much more interesting than the Alpine on which they were based! The chrome strip along the waist told you it was the Real Deal, not the ordinary Alpine.Your OH's decision to change the engine made the car a special, which always reduces value - the dealership can't apply all the usual platitudinous values of one careful driver, low mileage etc! The risk for older men in rallying is that, like older men who can now afford big motorbikes, their reactions ain't what they used to be, and more than one very respected ex-driver has lost his life in an accident on a classic event. Of course I hope this doesn't happen to him.Cooperlola and I have never had a car in that league for performance, although we've had a few hot hatches, one of which - Citroen BX16 valve - would do 130, and we each tested that, I think..... Now I'm 60, sensible-shoes cars seem more us, although when Cooperlola starts mentioning Bentleys, rather than the Modus or Note we had idly discussed, I do wonder! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
tegwini Posted January 28, 2009 Share Posted January 28, 2009 Thanks Coops2Must say I can still remember the 'growl' of the V8 engine.The rallying OH is an 'ex', I fired him eventually when it seemed as if I was being forced to drive a massive Trans Am or something similar super huge & fast to school, as he had a company Merc by then. I refused and traded my Alfa with a cracked head (aluminium) which I was feeding water to constantly, for an Alfasud- too tame for him by half. I didn't ditch him in them, but soon after, but husband now for nearly 30 yrs very different. So whether he is taking chances in car rallying I don't really know. He seems to have been placed in a few rallies- rough & ready ones in SA. As it was he also had an off-road bike then and did that too, as well as a racing dinghy. Bit of a brat I fear. I still think that he spoiled the Tiger by changing its engine.I agree with you about sensible shoes & cars, but one should have those little dreams now and then!RegardsTegwini Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
pachapapa Posted January 29, 2009 Share Posted January 29, 2009 [quote user="tegwini"]Brand new out of the box ( and it was in a box exported from the UK to SA). And I thought there was only one engine size, but it was 4.2 litres. Removable hardtop and soft top. Pale blue & black. Got slides somewhere if I only knew how to post them here. Which I don't!Silly times - did Johannesburg- Bulawayo in under 6 hours including frontier crossing time, the days when you saw the odd giraffe on the side of the road, and a bit of street racing (not me) now and then. The odd Etype often used to try it on...Took driving test in it - the cop/inspector was more keen to see under the bonnet- and I did pass - somehow. Also pranged it - but not seriously. Toured around SA - Cape Garden route, Northern Transvaal, all of Natal etc. Lovely for that, but as I was a young hippie then we would often sleep in it - grim... 'back seats', really a little platform thingy, designed for legless midgets.Trouble is OH then was seriously silly, replaced engine with fully race-tuned 4.7 litre engine, and it needed a lower diff ratio of something, as it didn't like to use its first gear. He's still out there, and now into rally driving - in his 60s - what a wally!It got traded in for a Merc and the company attempting to sell it said that it was a lemon although it was still quite new.This was in the mid 1960s - happy days ...RegardsTegwini [/quote]My Twin Cam MGA only met ONE E Type in the Republic, on the beach front at Durban, that one had come off a Union Castle boat in order to avoid the english winter. A useful tool for dragging the schmo birds that frequented Camps Bay and Clifton beaches.[:)] But for trips north to Katanga, etc an ex SAP tuned Studebaker Lark was comfortable on the strip roads. For the drive-in only one choice a Chevvy Impala. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sparkapuss Posted January 29, 2009 Share Posted January 29, 2009 Going back next week to pick mine up Volvo V50 D5 180 bhp every conceivable extra, 10 months old , new price £26k saved myself £12k off that for 10 months ex volvo demo car. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
~ Posted January 29, 2009 Share Posted January 29, 2009 You can buy a 5 bed detached house with heated swimming pool in Stoke on Trent for that kind of money. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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