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best time ever to buy a luxury barge!

  • 06-01-2009 12:40am
    #1
    Closed Accounts Posts: 1,038 ✭✭✭


    Well finally I think the time has come. Forget the credit crunch and the fact gormley has made your car worth nothing. Push it down the end of the garden and cover it with branches. Then go out and buy one of the serious bargain real cars to be had for almost nothing secondhand ( real car definition= rear wheel drive ).

    Then bank the 8 or 9 thousand Euros you have left over to run the car. Bmws and Jaguars and Mercedes are going for nothing secondhand. Don't become depressed by the recession buy a huge car secondhand, enjoy some performance, and handling. Go on you know you want to.

    Smiles per gallon beat miles per gallon.


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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 66,122 ✭✭✭✭unkel
    Chauffe, Marcel, chauffe!


    stratos wrote: »
    Smiles per gallon beat miles per gallon.

    :D


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 23,694 ✭✭✭✭L-M


    unkel wrote: »
    :D

    See this lad, he sits waiting patiently for these types of threads to come up hahaha:D


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 23,694 ✭✭✭✭L-M


    stratos wrote: »
    Smiles per gallon beat miles per gallon.

    Where did i hear that today?


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 66,122 ✭✭✭✭unkel
    Chauffe, Marcel, chauffe!


    See this lad, he sits waiting patiently for these types of threads to come up hahaha:D

    Maybe you're mistaking me for someone who gives a ****? :confused:


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 23,694 ✭✭✭✭L-M


    unkel wrote: »
    Maybe you're mistaking me for someone who gives a ****? :confused:

    It's a joke, no need to get your knickers in a twist.


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  • Closed Accounts Posts: 1,038 ✭✭✭stratos


    well like many others i believe the big car wins. Top gear rammed an s class Mercedes into a some static cars. The first car was vapourised the next 3 suffered cabin destruction. the mercedes cabin had minor damage.
    So its a safety issue too :). Live longer buy a luxury barge !!!!


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 9,366 ✭✭✭ninty9er


    unkel wrote: »
    :D

    I'm waiting for that Beemer in your sig to drop below €5k...possibly by September when me will have me a permanent job:D:D.

    It'd look very nice outside the new house my mother decided she wants to build the other day:pac:


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 51,360 ✭✭✭✭bazz26




  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 4,971 ✭✭✭Holsten


    Post up some examples of these next to nothing luxury barges....


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 66,122 ✭✭✭✭unkel
    Chauffe, Marcel, chauffe!


    It's a joke

    *untwists nickers*

    Yeah, hilarious that ::)


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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 23,694 ✭✭✭✭L-M


    bazz26 wrote: »

    God that's some car for the money.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 23,694 ✭✭✭✭L-M


    unkel wrote: »
    *untwists nickers*

    Yeah, hilarious that ::)

    Sense of humour not in operation at this hour i'm assuming.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 66,122 ✭✭✭✭unkel
    Chauffe, Marcel, chauffe!


    ninty9er wrote: »
    I'm waiting for that Beemer in your sig to drop below €5k...

    There's always a difference between asking price and agreed selling price :)

    Below €5k it will not drop but near enough it might stand a chance if I'd be on a weak moment!


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 1,038 ✭✭✭stratos


    I would love to post up some adds, but look on carzone. I have to go as I need to be up early to fit the service kit tommorow for my new( to me ) 3.2 litre. 73.7 spg. :D


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 66,122 ✭✭✭✭unkel
    Chauffe, Marcel, chauffe!


    Sense of humour not in operation at this hour i'm assuming.

    Did you switch off emoticons so you missed my smiley perchance? ;)


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 23,694 ✭✭✭✭L-M


    unkel wrote: »
    Did you switch off emoticons so you missed my smiley perchance? ;)

    No, i saw it although. It was drowned out by the sarcasm though:P


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 1,038 ✭✭✭stratos


    carsasm ?


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 9,366 ✭✭✭ninty9er


    Indeed on the price, but I'll take my chances and see if it's there when I graduate to the real world:(:(

    Where's Mike65....his A6 has been on its last legs wheels for AAAGES now, he might like this thread.:)


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 14,721 ✭✭✭✭CianRyan


    This thread would be win, if i had a job.:rolleyes:


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 23,694 ✭✭✭✭L-M


    CianRyan wrote: »
    This would be win, if i had a job.:rolleyes:

    You're missing a link there lol


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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 14,721 ✭✭✭✭CianRyan


    You're missing a link there lol

    Before anyone else gets in there...

    img.php


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 14,721 ✭✭✭✭CianRyan


    Its not quite an s class merc, but this would be perfect for me...

    http://www.carzone.ie/search/Mazda/MX-5/1.8-V-SP/200840190225174/advert


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 1,501 ✭✭✭Alfasudcrazy


    I just bought this 1994 E220 Coupe. While luxo barges are cheap now we still have to bear in mind the road tax. So engines much larger than this are just too much grief for me.

    0454217001208200191.jpg


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 8,451 ✭✭✭CharlieCroker


    I just bought this 1994 E220 Coupe. While luxo barges are cheap now we still have to bear in mind the road tax. So engines much larger than this are just too much grief for me.

    0454217001208200191.jpg

    Thats lovely, always wanted one. are they still mad money??

    This would be my choice:
    797830-1.jpg

    stg£7000. yum. :D
    http://www.pistonheads.com/sales/797830.htm


  • Moderators, Politics Moderators Posts: 41,228 Mod ✭✭✭✭Seth Brundle




  • Closed Accounts Posts: 1,501 ✭✭✭Alfasudcrazy


    Thats lovely, always wanted one. are they still mad money??

    Well they might be asking it - but its easy to wear them down. I got that for €3,600 excellent condition and only 79,000 miles. :cool:


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,613 ✭✭✭Lord Nikon


    kbannon wrote: »

    Wow, nice find :)


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,568 ✭✭✭Blue850




  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 81,220 ✭✭✭✭biko


    Road tax is killing barges when >3L = €1566
    You will have paid the entire car price in a few years.

    Although it makes green sense so I'm for it.


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  • Closed Accounts Posts: 5,538 ✭✭✭niceirishfella


    biko wrote: »
    Road tax is killing barges when >3L = €1566
    You will have paid the entire car price in a few years.

    Although it makes green sense so I'm for it.

    well, in that case - go CLASSSIC LUXO BARGE!

    Feck all VRT, Road Tax, NCT exempt,robust residuals and you'll turn some heads too.....:D
    http://www.classiccarsforsale.co.uk/classic-car-page.php/carno/26616


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 22,815 ✭✭✭✭Anan1


    Lovely car, but a W116 Mercedes might be a slightly safer bet.;)


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 21,263 ✭✭✭✭Eoin


    kbannon wrote: »

    Jaysus, I might bring forward my plans by a year or so if they are going for that price. About €5500 VRT, so around 15K landed.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 14,721 ✭✭✭✭CianRyan


    Anan1 wrote: »
    Lovely car, but a W116 Mercedes might be a slightly safer bet.;)

    6.9L v8!!!:D


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 12,822 ✭✭✭✭galwaytt


    biko wrote: »
    Road tax is killing barges when >3L = €1566
    You will have paid the entire car price in a few years.

    Although it makes green sense so I'm for it.

    I know you think that, and, having bought several nice smaller cars over the years, for reasons just like that, I understand where you're coming from.

    Then I got a look at an old 944 turbo a friend bought........and the gears started turning.......mmmm, cheap, cheap insurance, crappy tax......but no depreciation and no car payments.

    So I started looking.........and ended up with this:

    387377977_htgzv-L.jpg

    Without a shadow of a doubt, it is the motoring bargain of the century.

    Goddamn enormous tax, yes, but what other expense is there ? I have no car payments or finance (as I sold an 4-mth old Galaxy Zetec Tdci to finance it). So if servicing costs cancel one another out from one car to another, and instead of paying Eur 600 p.m. finance............I'm not paying anything like what an 'ordinary' car costs. The hit I took on the Galaxy (bad and all as it was), was still the right thing to do. Especially in light of 40-watts VRT loo-lah since........:rolleyes:

    Previously, costs p.a. were:
    Galaxy Tdci / Porsche 968
    Depreciation - 4500 / 900 ?
    Tax - 550 / 1290
    Fuel - 660 6.6l/100km / 1000 12l/100km
    Insurance - 600 / 600

    Total - 6310 (525 p.m.) / 3790 (315 p.m.)

    So, running my 968 costs me 40% less than an 07 Galaxy 1.8Tdci, big tax included.

    I'm glad I worked that out, actually :)

    Now, that's all very well, and then you go mad..............and, er, end up with, er.......2, as you do, like........

    Oops ! :o:o:o

    450594186_6naxb-L.jpg

    Ode To The Motorist

    “And my existence, while grotesque and incomprehensible to you, generates funds to the exchequer. You don't want to acknowledge that as truth because, deep down in places you don't talk about at the Green Party, you want me on that road, you need me on that road. We use words like freedom, enjoyment, sport and community. We use these words as the backbone of a life spent instilling those values in our families and loved ones. You use them as a punch line. I have neither the time nor the inclination to explain myself to a man who rises and sleeps under the tax revenue and the very freedom to spend it that I provide, and then questions the manner in which I provide it. I would rather you just said "thank you" and went on your way. Otherwise I suggest you pick up a bus pass and get the ********* ********* off the road” 



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 21,263 ✭✭✭✭Eoin


    biko wrote: »
    Road tax is killing barges when >3L = €1566
    You will have paid the entire car price in a few years.

    Although it makes green sense so I'm for it.

    Same goes for a 1.4 car selling for €1000 - three years road tax @ €320 and you've pretty much paid it the same amount as well. Road tax is just one part of the equation. It doesn't make green sense either, but that's another debate.


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  • Closed Accounts Posts: 88,972 ✭✭✭✭mike65


    ninty9er wrote: »
    Indeed on the price, but I'll take my chances and see if it's there when I graduate to the real world:(:(

    Where's Mike65....his A6 has been on its last legs wheels for AAAGES now, he might like this thread.:)

    Its still going and as I'm financially embarrassed this weather no change for the forseeable future I'm afraid.

    Alfasudcrazy - its WHITE :eek:


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 23,694 ✭✭✭✭L-M


    galwaytt wrote: »
    I know you think that, and, having bought several nice smaller cars over the year..

    Why are you selling them so lol??

    Gorgeous cars by the way, fair play to ya.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 8,451 ✭✭✭CharlieCroker


    galwaytt wrote: »
    Now, that's all very well, and then you go mad..............and, er, end up with, er.......2, as you do, like........

    Oops ! :o:o:o

    RESPECT TO THAT MAN!!!!!!!!!!!!!


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 12,822 ✭✭✭✭galwaytt


    Why are you selling them so lol??

    Gorgeous cars by the way, fair play to ya.

    sssshhhh......I want to buy a........( :o ) 996 C4 Tip Cabrio.....:o

    Hey, I reckon the formula is a good one !

    Ode To The Motorist

    “And my existence, while grotesque and incomprehensible to you, generates funds to the exchequer. You don't want to acknowledge that as truth because, deep down in places you don't talk about at the Green Party, you want me on that road, you need me on that road. We use words like freedom, enjoyment, sport and community. We use these words as the backbone of a life spent instilling those values in our families and loved ones. You use them as a punch line. I have neither the time nor the inclination to explain myself to a man who rises and sleeps under the tax revenue and the very freedom to spend it that I provide, and then questions the manner in which I provide it. I would rather you just said "thank you" and went on your way. Otherwise I suggest you pick up a bus pass and get the ********* ********* off the road” 



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 23,694 ✭✭✭✭L-M


    galwaytt wrote: »
    sssshhhh......want to buy a........( :o ) 996 C4 Tip Cabrio.....:o

    Hey, I reckon the formula is a good one !

    :eek: Lovely stuff:D


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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 12,822 ✭✭✭✭galwaytt


    :eek: Lovely stuff:D

    Hey, they're cheap, right ? :)

    Ode To The Motorist

    “And my existence, while grotesque and incomprehensible to you, generates funds to the exchequer. You don't want to acknowledge that as truth because, deep down in places you don't talk about at the Green Party, you want me on that road, you need me on that road. We use words like freedom, enjoyment, sport and community. We use these words as the backbone of a life spent instilling those values in our families and loved ones. You use them as a punch line. I have neither the time nor the inclination to explain myself to a man who rises and sleeps under the tax revenue and the very freedom to spend it that I provide, and then questions the manner in which I provide it. I would rather you just said "thank you" and went on your way. Otherwise I suggest you pick up a bus pass and get the ********* ********* off the road” 



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 6,352 ✭✭✭alias no.9


    I was out at the car auctions on the naas road last night and there was a '02 Range Rover V8 4.4 petrol with all the toys and 76k on the clock. It was sold provisionally at €9600 so I don't know if it will actually go for that, worth checking out next weeks catalog. For a laugh I checked out what gems the main dealers of ireland could provide you with for that kind of money, same year, similar miles, here are the alternatives...

    Asthematic 1.4 family hatch
    Economical diesel saloon that's about as desirable as a dose of the clap
    Posers special
    Ultimate Driving Machine - with 4 cylinders, I don't think so

    Sure the running costs would be insane and I have a particular dislike of 4x4's but in terms of bang for your buck, this is insane value.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 23,694 ✭✭✭✭L-M


    alias no.9 wrote: »
    I was out at the car auctions on the naas road last night and there was a '02 Range Rover V8 4.4 petrol with all the toys and 76k on the clock. It was sold provisionally at €9600 so I don't know if it will actually go for that, worth checking out next weeks catalog. For a laugh I checked out what gems the main dealers of ireland could provide you with for that kind of money, same year, similar miles, here are the alternatives...

    Asthematic 1.4 family hatch
    Economical diesel saloon that's about as desirable as a dose of the clap
    Posers special
    Ultimate Driving Machine - with 4 cylinders, I don't think so

    Sure the running costs would be insane and I have a particular dislike of 4x4's but in terms of bang for your buck, this is insane value.

    Supply and demand, supply and demand.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 12,822 ✭✭✭✭galwaytt


    Christ, I thought the Vextra was overpriced........but the Focus - FFS - is he mad ?:eek:

    Ode To The Motorist

    “And my existence, while grotesque and incomprehensible to you, generates funds to the exchequer. You don't want to acknowledge that as truth because, deep down in places you don't talk about at the Green Party, you want me on that road, you need me on that road. We use words like freedom, enjoyment, sport and community. We use these words as the backbone of a life spent instilling those values in our families and loved ones. You use them as a punch line. I have neither the time nor the inclination to explain myself to a man who rises and sleeps under the tax revenue and the very freedom to spend it that I provide, and then questions the manner in which I provide it. I would rather you just said "thank you" and went on your way. Otherwise I suggest you pick up a bus pass and get the ********* ********* off the road” 



  • Closed Accounts Posts: 2,559 ✭✭✭Tipsy Mac


    biko wrote: »
    Road tax is killing barges when >3L = €1566
    You will have paid the entire car price in a few years.

    Although it makes green sense so I'm for it.

    I dont think it does make green sense, keeping a perfectly good 10 year old car off the road because of car tax is insane, the pollution and resource cost in building a 1 litre car would be far greater than having the luxor barge live out its remaining years on the road.

    There should be a special €500 road tax to keep these babies on the road after 10 years, eventually supply will be gone as the €2000 road tax keeps the thirsty beasts off Irish roads.


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