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Bangernomics car of the week/day part III

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    #8912
    Quazzie
    Registered Users Posts: 28,873 ✭✭✭✭Quazzie


    Its a 26 year old clapped out rusty Toyota with a very tired interior and he's asking €1650 for it. Am I missing something? How is that pile of junk Bangernomics?


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    #8913
    GvidoR
    Registered Users Posts: 5,925 ✭✭✭GvidoR


    Quazzie wrote: »
    Its a 26 year old clapped out rusty Toyota with a very tired interior and he's asking €1650 for it. Am I missing something? How is that pile of junk Bangernomics?

    Would you rather buy a boring 14 year old Micra with 1.0 engine for the same price? :rolleyes:


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    #8914
    Kaiser D
    Closed Accounts Posts: 2,880 ✭✭✭Kaiser D


    GvidoR wrote: »
    Would you rather buy a boring 14 year old Micra with 1.0 engine for the same price? :rolleyes:

    I probably would, that MR2 doesn't look the best.


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    #8915
    Quazzie
    Registered Users Posts: 28,873 ✭✭✭✭Quazzie


    GvidoR wrote: »
    Would you rather buy a boring 14 year old Micra with 1.0 engine for the same price? :rolleyes:

    A ten second search on Donedeal has this for the same money. I know where I'd rather put my money.


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    #8916
    Ded_Zebra
    Registered Users Posts: 4,792 ✭✭✭Ded_Zebra


    Quazzie wrote: »
    Its a 26 year old clapped out rusty Toyota with a very tired interior and he's asking €1650 for it. Am I missing something? How is that pile of junk Bangernomics?

    It's a mid engined sports car… I think most car enthusiasts would like one.


    You get yourself a Mk4 golf TDI if you prefer :rolleyes:


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    #8917
    Quazzie
    Registered Users Posts: 28,873 ✭✭✭✭Quazzie


    Ded_Zebra wrote: »
    It's a mid engined sports car… I think most car enthusiasts would like one.

    Yes they would.

    That abomination though was a pile of rot. It'd need to be bought by someone very handy with a spanner and at a third of the price.


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    #8918
    TheHappyChappy
    Registered Users Posts: 305 ✭✭TheHappyChappy


    Quazzie wrote: »
    A ten second search on Donedeal has this for the same money. I know where I'd rather put my money.

    No Thanks

    Grandad next-door has one for the 'dawgs'

    i'd rather start cycling!


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    #8919
    TheHappyChappy
    Registered Users Posts: 305 ✭✭TheHappyChappy


    Actually.....with that big tow-bar it could be his


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    #8920
    mickdw
    Registered Users Posts: 23,293 ✭✭✭✭mickdw


    Ded_Zebra wrote: »
    It's a mid engined sports car… I think most car enthusiasts would like one.

    They look like sh1t though.


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    #8921
    Ded_Zebra
    Registered Users Posts: 4,792 ✭✭✭Ded_Zebra


    Quazzie wrote: »
    Yes they would.

    That abomination though was a pile of rot. It'd need to be bought by someone very handy with a spanner and at a third of the price.

    Where's the rust though:confused::confused:

    The first place they always go is the front wings where the bumper attaches… Looks fine there to me.

    The next place they go is the rear wheel arches, again they look fine. The front bumper isn't perfectly aligned so it might have had a bit of a prang.

    The interior isn't the best but it's mostly the steering wheel letting it down and I have a new one of those sitting in the garage.


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    #8922
    Ded_Zebra
    Registered Users Posts: 4,792 ✭✭✭Ded_Zebra


    mickdw wrote: »
    They look like sh1t though.

    Well that's your opinion, I quite like them. The main reason for buying one is about the way they drive not the way they look;)


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    #8923
    GvidoR
    Registered Users Posts: 5,925 ✭✭✭GvidoR


    It looks pretty damn good. Much better than an Insignia, for example.


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    #8924
    CianRyan
    Registered Users Posts: 14,721 ✭✭✭✭CianRyan


    "I like cars so I'll buy a slow estate instead of a mid engines sports car."

    This forum sometimes...


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    #8925
    rizzee
    Registered Users Posts: 3,789 ✭✭✭rizzee


    http://cars.donedeal.ie/cars-for-sale/06-punto-grande/6406618

    2006 Grande Punto
    Tested March 2016
    143k km
    €1995


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    #8926
    Kaiser D
    Closed Accounts Posts: 2,880 ✭✭✭Kaiser D


    CianRyan wrote: »
    "I like cars so I'll buy a slow estate instead of a mid engines sports car."

    This forum sometimes...

    A Saab 95 Turbo is hardly slow


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    #8927
    unkel
    Registered Users Posts: 65,053 ✭✭✭✭unkel


    Some people just get a horn for Jap Scrap. Leave them be :)


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    #8928
    Toyotafanboi
    Registered Users Posts: 12,917 ✭✭✭✭Toyotafanboi


    Quazzie wrote: »
    Its a 26 year old clapped out rusty Toyota with a very tired interior and he's asking €1650 for it. Am I missing something? How is that pile of junk Bangernomics?
    Quazzie wrote: »
    A ten second search on Donedeal has this for the same money. I know where I'd rather put my money.

    you have to laugh at this forum sometimes... it may not be the prettiest mk1 mr2 out there but ffs if it had a European badge on the bonnet, everybody on here would get a case of the spurts!!

    it's borderline ignorance to compare it to a Saab estate. chalk and cheese, apples and oranges. compare it to another mr2, compare it to another 80's rear engined sports car, but to compare it to a 15 years newer European estate because it can be purchased for the same price is thick.

    the main reason i post so little here any more is not so much for the forums disliking to Toyota, but it's disliking to anything other than a BM trouble you or a ****ing Saab 95... you think people who like toyotas are foolish for liking such dull cars, that Saab is hardly any banter with it's spurious hub caps, cloth seats, absolute poverty spec, my idea of hell on wheels.
    Ded_Zebra wrote: »
    It's a mid engined sports car… I think most car enthusiasts would like one.

    i think when they are spruced up, they can look nice. an appreciating classic, mid engined, rear wheel drive, the iconic 1600 4age engine... won't be up to much by modern standards but a fun little car to own i'd have to say. i'd love to give something like that a little tlc.


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    #8929
    Top Dog
    Registered Users Posts: 4,160 ✭✭✭Top Dog


    CianRyan wrote: »
    "I like cars so I'll buy a slow estate instead of a mid engines sports car."

    This forum sometimes...
    To be fair - I'd expect the estate he linked to to pi$$ all over the MR2 ;)

    I know which one I'd prefer to take on a track though :)


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    #8930
    Toyotafanboi
    Registered Users Posts: 12,917 ✭✭✭✭Toyotafanboi


    unkel wrote: »
    Some people just get a horn for Jap Scrap. Leave them be :)

    you say that in a very condescending fashion, as if there is something foolish about it.

    it's totally a cliché statement that your mammy would tell you, but, wouldn't it be a boring place if we all liked the same things.

    i know the image is a bit poncey but some boardsies could learn a lot from the words around it. it's ok to broaden your mind and not even understand why, but just appreciate that different people like different things and just because you don't like it doesn't make it wrong.

    Real-Car-Guys-Meme-655x368.jpg


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    #8931
    JohnBoy26
    Registered Users Posts: 8,532 ✭✭✭JohnBoy26


    Quazzie wrote: »
    Its a 26 year old clapped out rusty Toyota with a very tired interior and he's asking €1650 for it. Am I missing something? How is that pile of junk Bangernomics?

    It doesn't look rusty to me. Could you please point out where the rust is? Also what has its age got to do with its asking price? Just because its 26 years old doesn't mean it's not worth its asking price.

    Its age also doesn't mean it's a "pile of junk" or have you viewed it and found it was in bad condition?

    The Saab you posted above is a good car in its own right but it's a bad example to prove your point. The mr2 was posted because it is a well built, reliable, rwd mid engined, fun little sports car. The saab will make a great comfy cruiser but being vectra based it will never match the mr2 in the bends, nor is it as well built or as good mechanically as an mr2 which are pretty much indestructible to be fair.


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    #8932
    Moneymaker
    Registered Users Posts: 9,846 ✭✭✭Moneymaker


    Id have that mr2 in a heartbeat.

    Some people have some seriously weird opinions on cars.


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    #8933
    JohnBoy26
    Registered Users Posts: 8,532 ✭✭✭JohnBoy26


    unkel wrote: »
    Some people just get a horn for Jap Scrap. Leave them be :)

    Does your eyes ever get strained from looking down on "some people"?

    eyestrain.jpg


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    #8934
    CianRyan
    Registered Users Posts: 14,721 ✭✭✭✭CianRyan


    The 2.0 turbo 95 is by no means fast, the 2.3 I faster and that only got 170bhp. That's enough for the size.

    The MR2 was never built to e a rocket ship, it's ment to be light and nimble and Toyota got it spot on.

    I can not take seriously anyone that uses the term 'Jap Scrap".
    Stinks of unjustified snobbery, it's putrid.


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    #8935
    Kaiser D
    Closed Accounts Posts: 2,880 ✭✭✭Kaiser D


    Don't get me wrong, I like Jap stuff, sure everything I own is Jap and 3.0 or above bar one. If I didn't I would have European cars...

    I just don't particularly like that MR2. It fits all the bangernomics criteria plus its different, so it does belong here!


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    #8936
    Interslice
    Registered Users Posts: 3,506 ✭✭✭Interslice


    http://cars.donedeal.ie/cars-for-sale/04-mitsubishi-carisma-1-3-nct-05-15/6775496

    28661667.jpeg

    NCT - may 15
    1.3 125k miles
    1950 euro


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    #8937
    Interslice
    Registered Users Posts: 3,506 ✭✭✭Interslice


    http://cars.donedeal.ie/cars-for-sale/fiat-punto-nct-d-and-taxed/6775143

    28660028.jpeg

    long nct
    1350 "Willl do good cash deal for quick sale as i have a new car bought and need space"


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    #8938
    JohnBoy26
    Registered Users Posts: 8,532 ✭✭✭JohnBoy26


    Is the money not a bit strong on that charisma? They don't seem to fetch good money at all.

    Also the seller says it's the same 1.3 engine that's in the lancer. While this engine is very reliable, its gutless in the lancer so it must be woeful in the charisma. Also in the lancer it's mated to a lovely smooth Mitsubishi gearbox, you would think Mitsubishi would use the same box in the charisma but oh no in their wisdom they only had to go and use a renualt gearbox in the charisma, a gearbox which can only be described as awful.


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    #8939
    Ded_Zebra
    Registered Users Posts: 4,792 ✭✭✭Ded_Zebra


    Top Dog wrote: »
    To be fair - I'd expect the estate he linked to to pi$$ all over the MR2 ;)

    I know which one I'd prefer to take on a track though :)

    Potentially in a straight line but anywhere with any kind of bends the Saab wouldn't even see it, even the fastest 9-5 wouldn't ;)


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    #8940
    Old diesel
    Registered Users Posts: 5,788 ✭✭✭Old diesel


    To be honest chaps - everyone has their own taste in cars - and that is a great thing really.


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    #8941
    Guy:Incognito
    Registered Users Posts: 38,247 ✭✭✭✭Guy:Incognito


    Toyotafanboi wrote: »
    you have to laugh at this forum sometimes... it may not be the prettiest mk1 mr2 out there but ffs if it had a European badge on the bonnet, everybody on here would get a case of the spurts!!

    it's borderline ignorance to compare it to a Saab estate. chalk and cheese, apples and oranges. compare it to another mr2, compare it to another 80's rear engined sports car, but to compare it to a 15 years newer European estate because it can be purchased for the same price is thick.

    the main reason i post so little here any more is not so much for the forums disliking to Toyota, but it's disliking to anything other than a BM trouble you or a ****ing Saab 95... you think people who like toyotas are foolish for liking such dull cars, that Saab is hardly any banter with it's spurious hub caps, cloth seats, absolute poverty spec, my idea of hell on wheels.


    i think when they are spruced up, they can look nice. an appreciating classic, mid engined, rear wheel drive, the iconic 1600 4age engine... won't be up to much by modern standards but a fun little car to own i'd have to say. i'd love to give something like that a little tlc.

    This isn't a thread about "sports cars " and how everyone thatvliles and wants a car shoild be trying to get one though. It's about value under 2k.its not a I'm looking for an Mr2 thread and someone recommends an octavia, anything under 2k is a valid alternative here.


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