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Offline AGB

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Re: After a Clubsport S.
« Reply #30 on: 07 April 2019, 23:34 »
Everyone to their own, but there's no way I would buy a car that was under 2 years old with more than one owner, limited edition or not and if that I meant I had to wait for months or longer to find one, so be it.  Maybe it's because I'm an old fogey and it's the way I've always approached car buying.  I have noticed that younger generations to me don't seem to be bothered by the number of owners.  When I ask friends sons/daughters how many owners their "new" car has had, they never seem to know.

It wasn't a criticism, just an observation and I'm interested in a different perspective.

With 150 UK cars, I've heard that Tornado Red was the least popular colour and that there are around 20-30 cars in red. This is entirely unqualified as a figure but I've heard it a few times from different people so either the same rumour recycled or maybe some truth in it. If you assume a few of those have been flipped, multiple owners, some have higher mileage because they've been used as intended which rules them out for this buyer, you're not left with a huge pond to fish when you get down to those who are selling of those 20-30 cars.

The fact that previous owners doesn't appear on documentation anymore probably accounts for why you've noticed younger generations not taking this into account.

A car could have 1 previous owner who treated the car terribly - thrashed it from cold and had no mechanical sympathy whereas a car with 3 owners (first owner flipper, second owner dealer, third owner enthusiast) may have lived a far better life.
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Re: After a Clubsport S.
« Reply #31 on: 08 April 2019, 07:18 »
I think everyone holds an opinion when it comes to owners, we’d all love a 1 careful Dr owner who used it on a weekend to drive to church and garaged it over night. Thing is what’s to say the one owner isn’t a plum like sideways Sid? Surely then you’d want to dilute it with none reckless people?
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Offline Jim_mk7.5

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Re: After a Clubsport S.
« Reply #32 on: 08 April 2019, 07:57 »
Unless you know the previous owner, 1, 2 or 3 owners makes FA difference in reality. Apart from people are still put off my multiple owners on a 2-3 year car.

My Ducati Hyperstrada was 2 years old when I purchased it last year with 10k on. It's been used, properly. But it's mint, with a warranty and I've only managed to put 800 miles on it since July so not looks low mileage for 3 years old!  :grin:
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Re: After a Clubsport S.
« Reply #33 on: 08 April 2019, 15:21 »
behaviour such as accelerating over a hump back bridge in a Fiesta ST and becoming airborne with all four wheels off the ground is downright irresponsible on public roads, 

Even back when we were boys, we would have a spotter making sure the road was clear before seeing who could jump over a hump back bridge the furthest. Kids today eh!!!
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Re: After a Clubsport S.
« Reply #34 on: 09 April 2019, 07:26 »
behaviour such as accelerating over a hump back bridge in a Fiesta ST and becoming airborne with all four wheels off the ground is downright irresponsible on public roads, 

Even back when we were boys, we would have a spotter making sure the road was clear before seeing who could jump over a hump back bridge the furthest. Kids today eh!!!

Rite of passage to have a bit of fun and muck about in cars if you're a teenage boy and I think it made me a better driver for it.
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Re: After a Clubsport S.
« Reply #35 on: 09 April 2019, 08:53 »
We learned to drive as kids on the village farm. I was 9, taught by a 12 year old in the old Bedford pickup with column change. We got up to all sorts of antics down the farm tracks and around the fields. But d'ya know what, by the time we got our licenses, there was very little "watch this" as driving was no big deal.

It's a bit like letting your kids have a little drink at home. If something is forbidden, when the shackles are broke free of, all hell is often let loose. (apart from the Gates Lane railway bridge. Have a look on Google Maps SY7 8DL)
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Re: After a Clubsport S.
« Reply #38 on: 28 April 2019, 19:27 »
I think everyone holds an opinion when it comes to owners, we’d all love a 1 careful Dr owner who used it on a weekend to drive to church and garaged it over night. Thing is what’s to say the one owner isn’t a plum like sideways Sid? Surely then you’d want to dilute it with none reckless people?

My Mrs is a Doctor, I can assure you all her previous cars, and that of her colleagues are absolute sh!t tips inside and parked by Braille.
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