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Must be silly season M800GUL T-5R on Autotrader for £25000Views : 5727 Replies : 70Users Viewing This Thread : |
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Jul 27th, 2021, 15:16 | #1 |
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Must be silly season M800GUL T-5R on Autotrader for £25000
Further to thread below about N555GUL, here's another one popped up on Autotrader at stellar money at a Volvo dealer! 10 owners, 143K miles, £25,000
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Jul 27th, 2021, 15:18 | #2 |
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Worth far more.
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Wish you were right - I'd make a killing with mine
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Jul 27th, 2021, 15:25 | #4 |
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That one (it has AP brakes) was on eBay for £15K a few months ago
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Yes I saw this one too, dismissed it when it was on eBay due to the mismatched colour of the front bumper! In hindsight should have bought it and spent the money on a bumper respray Sad thing is this plus the Kent car are setting the bar artificially high for these Gul estates. Great if you own one, not so for those that are looking to buy |
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It's in a quandary really. It's not a museum piece with near 200,000 miles and worn interior, and the 15k on maintenance and respray in last 3 years to bring it up to scratch suggests it hasn't led a mollycoddled life.
Yet it's not really special enough to 'only use on weekends'. Not exactly a b road blaster or particularly quick. So that leaves using it as a daily and telling everyone frequently "yeah mate, this was in the british touring championships, whooped everyone mate".
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Of course, a car is worth an individual is willing to pay based on their preferences. But, to try and be helpful here, that two yellow T-5Rs have gone up for sale with ambitious pricing, suggests that the market is moving. Of course, the dealers won't get these prices, but we know that the Autotrader one was bought somewhere near £15K since it was advertised for that a few months back.
The problem is, unlike other cars, if you really want a yellow T-5R, there aren't loads to choose from, so if you want to pay significantly less than £25K and don't fancy your bargaining skills with optimistic dealers, you'll need to patient. If your preferences for condition, number of owners, choice of gearbox, service history etc are quite specific, and you don't want to pay ambitious prices, patience might not deliver your requirements. Many years ago, I decided I wanted a ratty Porsche 964 to leave on the street and use every day. At that time, values were between £10 - 20K, but climbing. I spent 6 months looking at various cars, and found myself having to adjust my requirements — but not quick enough — to match the changing market. Partly out of impatience on my part, I settled on a low-mileage, pristine example for £17.5K, which was the total opposite of what I set out to buy. Frightened that the mileage I was probably going to put on it (I did more miles in the first week of ownership than the previous owner had added in two years) was going to torpedo its value, I sold it for what I paid for it. Such was the market at that time, the phone never stopped ringing. That car would be worth £55- 60K now. The question is (as discussed elsewhere) whether yellow Volvos have the capacity to rise to stratospheric prices, like old Porsches — who knows? There were (and are) many more 964s than yellow T-5Rs, but patience didn't deliver. I'm not a fan of patience. Last edited by Timmilne; Jul 29th, 2021 at 13:18. |
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