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Model specific boards => Golf mk7 => Topic started by: AGB on 02 October 2022, 17:15
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I'm not sure what's crazier, the number of low mile, single owner cars or the prices that are being asked at the moment.
At £51,995 in white or £47,995 if you prefer your delivery miles car in black.
I love mine but I doubt some of the delivery miles cars are ever going to be driven which is a great sadness.
I'd love to be proven wrong. Any takers on the forum? :cool:
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I was reading an advert of a black Clubsport S the other day and it said "We purchased this car brand new and put it into storage where it's been ever since", HowManyLeft is saying 60 of them are currently SORN and 75 actively being used, so 15 are unaccounted for so are probably for sale.
Just car speculators got hold of them and that was that, much like any model with heritage and something special about it. If it helps looks at what they want for Focus RS' both £80k-£85k, although these are extremes.
https://www.autotrader.co.uk/car-details/202106234134660?include-delivery-option=on&radius=1500&make=Ford&onesearchad=New&onesearchad=Nearly%20New&onesearchad=Used&model=Focus&advertising-location=at_cars&sort=price-desc&aggregatedTrim=RS&postcode=bt275pr&page=1&percentVehiclePriceDeposit=true
https://www.autotrader.co.uk/car-details/202208309267893?include-delivery-option=on&radius=1500&make=Ford&onesearchad=New&onesearchad=Nearly%20New&onesearchad=Used&model=Focus&advertising-location=at_cars&sort=price-desc&aggregatedTrim=RS&postcode=bt275pr&page=1&percentVehiclePriceDeposit=true
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Would you use it though with only 26 miles on the clock if you were lucky enough to be in a position to purchase it??
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I was reading an advert of a black Clubsport S the other day and it said "We purchased this car brand new and put it into storage where it's been ever since", HowManyLeft is saying 60 of them are currently SORN and 75 actively being used, so 15 are unaccounted for so are probably for sale.
Just car speculators got hold of them and that was that, much like any model with heritage and something special about it. If it helps looks at what they want for Focus RS' both £80k-£85k, although these are extremes.
I know the very ad. I actually called about that car as I have been toying with the idea of doing a go round. It supplies on the original tyres at that price. Six year old PCS2 tyres will grip a treat! Yeah, speculators tend to treat specials as an alternate asset class but these cars can develop problems, particularly if left fuelled and not 'exercised'. They're resolvable of course but there is no mechanical sympathy, just park and profit.
I keep an eye on prices as I have an agreed value policy on mine and the insurer mumbled something about needing a tracker if the market goes over £50k.
The asking prices for a Focus RS are utterly insane. Can't say I keep up with fast Fords but I know they have a following but that much money is nuts. You're in modern Porsche GT cars and McLarens at that point.
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Would you use it though with only 26 miles on the clock if you were lucky enough to be in a position to purchase it??
I'd drive it but I'd only use it on journeys where I knew I could enjoy some of what the car offers. I'd have pangs of conscience hacking up and down a motorway doing dull miles. That'd be a pointless use of a car that is capable of so much more.
Mileage at some point in the life of this model will cease to be a consideration. Interesting to see how many emerge due to the state of economy - that's two speculator cars in the last month now.
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Once sold on Collecting Cars just recently, 3218 miles for just over 40k with the fees added.
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Once sold on Collecting Cars just recently, 3218 miles for just over 40k with the fees added.
That was a Northern Irish car, they had it up for sale for 6 months asking £45k.
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My CSS has covered 35,000 miles or so. It is my daily driver. No intention to ever sell so for me the miles don't matter.
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Once sold on Collecting Cars just recently, 3218 miles for just over 40k with the fees added.
I suspect the 3,200 mile car from CC is the one above.
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My CSS has covered 35,000 miles or so. It is my daily driver. No intention to ever sell so for me the miles don't matter.
Same here. You must have one of the highest mileage cars. Here's to the next 35,000! :evil:
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My CSS has covered 35,000 miles or so. It is my daily driver. No intention to ever sell so for me the miles don't matter.
Same here. You must have one of the highest mileage cars. Here's to the next 35,000! :evil:
Congratulations. Wise man.
I’ve sold so many cars I wish I didn’t. Triumph spitfire. 72 Land Rover. Z3 M coupe. GT3 GT4. V6 Clio. Clio trophies. R26 R. Focus RS. VX220’s.
Don’t start me on motorbikes.
The CSS is never going. I love driving it. Every time I start it up I’m happy.
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My CSS has covered 35,000 miles or so. It is my daily driver. No intention to ever sell so for me the miles don't matter.
Same here. You must have one of the highest mileage cars. Here's to the next 35,000! :evil:
Congratulations. Wise man.
I’ve sold so many cars I wish I didn’t. Triumph spitfire. 72 Land Rover. Z3 M coupe. GT3 GT4. V6 Clio. Clio trophies. R26 R. Focus RS. VX220’s.
Don’t start me on motorbikes.
The CSS is never going. I love driving it. Every time I start it up I’m happy.
It's a car that is better than it should be for what it is. If that makes sense. Enjoy in good health.
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Would you use it though with only 26 miles on the clock if you were lucky enough to be in a position to purchase it??
Somethings are just bought as something nice to have, whether it be a car, a painting or a grandfather clock. Forget that it's a car and think of it as something nice to look at. As an investment, it should never be driven. These things are only original/new once.
Diana's Black RS Turbo sold recently for £722,500 with less that 25,000 miles on it. That should never be driven. In fact, I wouldn't even sit in it as I'd want to keep the fragrance in the drivers seat for as long as possible.
https://www.silverstoneauctions.com/sa080-lot-18728-the-diana-princess-of-wales-1985-ford-escort-rs-turbo-s1?el=18728&pn=1&pp=100
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Would you use it though with only 26 miles on the clock if you were lucky enough to be in a position to purchase it??
Somethings are just bought as something nice to have, whether it be a car, a painting or a grandfather clock. Forget that it's a car and think of it as something nice to look at. As an investment, it should never be driven. These things are only original/new once.
Diana's Black RS Turbo sold recently for £722,500 with less that 25,000 miles on it. That should never be driven. In fact, I wouldn't even sit in it as I'd want to keep the fragrance in the drivers seat for as long as possible.
https://www.silverstoneauctions.com/sa080-lot-18728-the-diana-princess-of-wales-1985-ford-escort-rs-turbo-s1?el=18728&pn=1&pp=100
The only black mk1 RS Turbo that was ever built (all the others were white), so even without the royalty connection, it is a very rare car.
Seeing it makes me reminisce about the mk3 Escort XR3 and XR3i that I owned back in the 1980’s ………. :smiley:
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Seeing it makes me reminisce about the mk3 Escort XR3 and XR3i that I owned back in the 1980’s ………. :smiley:
A lad in the next village had an RS1600i in about 1986. I always wanted one of them. He's recently bought another through Mathewsons. It's a lovely car. In fact one that I would let my Mk2 16V make room for.
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Diana's Black RS Turbo sold recently for £722,500 with less that 25,000 miles on it. That should never be driven. In fact, I wouldn't even sit in it as I'd want to keep the fragrance in the drivers seat for as long as possible.
Bit of a long winded way to say you want the car to still smell of her farts :grin:
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Diana's Black RS Turbo sold recently for £722,500 with less that 25,000 miles on it. That should never be driven. In fact, I wouldn't even sit in it as I'd want to keep the fragrance in the drivers seat for as long as possible.
Bit of a long winded way to say you want the car to still smell of her farts :grin:
Long winded? I see what you did there...
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Would you use it though with only 26 miles on the clock if you were lucky enough to be in a position to purchase it??
Somethings are just bought as something nice to have, whether it be a car, a painting or a grandfather clock. Forget that it's a car and think of it as something nice to look at. As an investment, it should never be driven. These things are only original/new once.
Diana's Black RS Turbo sold recently for £722,500 with less that 25,000 miles on it. That should never be driven. In fact, I wouldn't even sit in it as I'd want to keep the fragrance in the drivers seat for as long as possible.
https://www.silverstoneauctions.com/sa080-lot-18728-the-diana-princess-of-wales-1985-ford-escort-rs-turbo-s1?el=18728&pn=1&pp=100
Oh, I get the appeal and the thinking. Every niche has collectors and in a way, it's great to preserve examples as cultural artefacts for their importance at a point in time but I'd rather be the guy who can tell you stories of what it was like to drive. How it handled on a deserted B-road on a warm summer evening. The childish glee from the exhaust. The feedback through the steering wheel.
I remember seeing a Porsche 959 that had done 8 miles. It was bought as an investment and put into a bonded warehouse. Fuel had jellified and had to be recommissioned but when I saw it, it still had the unmistakeable new car smell, all the manufacturing seals were in place. My benchmark for a time warp car. It went to a collector in HK who would have had to pay the value of the car in import taxes and duty again so there is zero chance that it'll ever turn a wheel on the road. The agent who had done the deal told me the new owner was building a plinth in his home for it in anticipation. But I'd sit there looking at it wondering what it'd be like on that quiet b-road on a warm summer evening...