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Wanting this car is so wrong but so right...

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  • #2
    EPM
    Closed Accounts Posts: 13,822 ✭✭✭✭EPM


    Bodykit and colour dont suit it.

    I know someone that sold a 1 owner, FSH one for about €2k a couple of months back. It was navy with grey leather. Had a full engine rebuild and everything. Body was rough in parts but would still have been a lot cheaper than that particular one. Lovely cars


  • #3
    samsemtex
    Closed Accounts Posts: 935 ✭✭✭samsemtex


    EPM wrote: »
    Bodykit and colour dont suit it.

    I know someone that sold a 1 owner, FSH one for about €2k a couple of months back. It was navy with grey leather. Had a full engine rebuild and everything. Body was rough in parts but would still have been a lot cheaper than that particular one. Lovely cars

    Maybe i'm tacky but I think the body kit and colour suit it very well. It makes it a lot sleeker looking. I think the standard car has a tendancy to look clunky and the wheels sometimes look too small under it. This one looks very well imo.

    Totally over priced though.


  • #4
    L-M
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 23,694 ✭✭✭✭L-M


    There's a fella around Limerick driving a 156 GTA recently with the 3.2 V6. He puts petrol in it every day nearly.

    I think those wheels, kit and colour suit the lines of the 156 more than the 166. The 166 looks much nicer standard with a genuine set of multispoke wheels. If you're buying anything buy the GTA 156, that might actually be sellable in years to come :P


  • #5
    Saab Ed
    Closed Accounts Posts: 5,374 ✭✭✭Saab Ed


    samsemtex wrote: »

    Totally over priced though.


    Yeah but I still would love to too..... :D


  • #6
    unkel
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 66,132 ✭✭✭✭unkel
    Chauffe, Marcel, chauffe!


    Great car and can be had for very little. Know how to treat an Alfa and you'll be laughing (most of the time) :D

    Best mate has an auto 3l V6 and for the summer he has a GTV 3l V6 too (no not in this country)

    Lotus Elan turbo for sale:

    https://www.donedeal.ie/vintagecars-for-sale/lotus-elan-turbo/38336785

    My ads on adverts.ie:

    https://www.adverts.ie/member/5856/ads



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  • #7
    samsemtex
    Closed Accounts Posts: 935 ✭✭✭samsemtex


    Limerick man wrote: »
    There's a fella around Limerick driving a 156 GTA recently with the 3.2 V6. He puts petrol in it every day nearly.

    I think those wheels, kit and colour suit the lines of the 156 more than the 166. The 166 looks much nicer standard with a genuine set of multispoke wheels. If you're buying anything buy the GTA 156, that might actually be sellable in years to come :P

    Ive been looking for a GTA for quite some time now. You wouldnt get one for anywhere near that kind of money though. Some lad in Dublin had a 2003 one with 30k on it for €9,000 about two weeks ago. I called about it but it didnt hang around for long. He was claiming 30mpg on the motorway which is the kind of driving i do.

    I may have to settle for a 2.0litre :(


  • #8
    L-M
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 23,694 ✭✭✭✭L-M


    samsemtex wrote: »
    Ive been looking for a GTA for quite some time now. You wouldnt get one for anywhere near that kind of money though. Some lad in Dublin had a 2003 one with 30k on it for €9,000 about two weeks ago. I called about it but it didnt hang around for long. He was claiming 30mpg on the motorway which is the kind of driving i do.

    I may have to settle for a 2.0litre :(

    That may be the one down this way so, because it's only around the last three weeks... It's 03 with an SO reg IIRC, although it has a different style front and rear number plate so you'd wonder was it tipped at some point recently. I'm not lying when I saw he's in there every second day at least filling up. Maybe he only puts in a few euro at a time :P

    Edit: And I assume they'd still be making up around the 10k mark, if would have to be in the red though.


  • #9
    galwaytt
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 12,823 ✭✭✭✭galwaytt


    yum. +1 on the red - love it.

    And it's auto, too, so ++1 imho.

    mmmm.........

    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” 



  • #10
    zilog_jones
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 6,638 ✭✭✭zilog_jones


    On the subject of 156 GTAs, this is still for sale unregistered: http://www.carzone.ie/search/Alfa-Romeo/156/3.2-V6-2/200840190271451/advert?channel=CARS


  • #11
    Alanstrainor
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 23,157 ✭✭✭✭Alanstrainor


    zilog_jones wrote: »
    On the subject of 156 GTAs, this is still for sale unregistered: http://www.carzone.ie/search/Alfa-Romeo/156/3.2-V6-2/200840190271451/advert?channel=CARS

    VAT and VRT extra...he's having a laugh. The ad hasn't been updated in 178 days.


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  • #12
    mickdw
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 23,688 ✭✭✭✭mickdw


    I had a 166, it was the 2.0. Lovely car to drive, comfortable too but costly to keep on the road.


  • #13
    samsemtex
    Closed Accounts Posts: 935 ✭✭✭samsemtex


    Alanstrainor wrote: »
    VAT and VRT extra...he's having a laugh. The ad hasn't been updated in 178 days.

    that lad is an idiot. I called one day and they have no interest in selling it. Its a modern classic just sitting there seizing up as we speak. Why on earth would anyone buy it like? You could have a run in one from england with 30k miles for way way less and you wouldnt have to pay €2000 a year road tax.

    a 7 year old engine with only 600miles on it cannot be healthy.


  • #14
    qz
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 8,753 ✭✭✭qz


    That 166 is lovely, but a 156 GTA is saloon perfection.


  • #15
    samsemtex
    Closed Accounts Posts: 935 ✭✭✭samsemtex


    zilog_jones wrote: »
    On the subject of 156 GTAs, this is still for sale unregistered: http://www.carzone.ie/search/Alfa-Romeo/156/3.2-V6-2/200840190271451/advert?channel=CARS

    I just called about this again actually as I would be genuinely interested and my brother almost certainly would. I asked what the story was with it and I asked was it run regularly. I also pointed out that the price is a bit off. I didnt say it in a narky way or anything.

    Asshole on the phone just said "okay, thats fine. No bother" while I was talking. He just hung up on me. I called back and asked why he did this and he said "thats the price and Im not answering any more questions about it. It'll be a collectors item".

    What a complete asshole. When i buy my next car the only thing that is almost a certainty is that it will be an alfa of some sort and very likely a GTA. The new certainty I have is that it will NOT be from this shower of idiots.

    that car will be there in a year. Guaranteed.


  • #16
    veetwin
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,005 ✭✭✭veetwin


    Alanstrainor wrote: »
    VAT and VRT extra...he's having a laugh. The ad hasn't been updated in 178 days.

    I wouldn't say he's laughing. It looks like from one of the photos that he was looking for over €52K at one stage! Think the 166 is slightly better value but not with that poxy bodykit.


  • #17
    samsemtex
    Closed Accounts Posts: 935 ✭✭✭samsemtex


    veetwin wrote: »
    I wouldn't say he's laughing. It looks like from one of the photos that he was looking for over €52K at one stage! Think the 166 is slightly better value but not with that poxy bodykit.

    Im delighted they are taking such a massive wallop on that car. They are a despicable shower in there. You would want to be clinically insane to buy that car for that much money. It will never move, not even as a collecters item. He was looking for 49,000 up until the ad was last updated.


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