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LUXOBARGE (sub5k) of the week/day

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  • #8282
    L-M
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 23,536 ✭✭✭✭L-M


    bazz26 wrote: »
    That 550i has definitely been on here a few times so it's passing through the trade regularly. And I do remember twice that being asked for it too, most likely an ex embassy car. Need to ditch those horrible aftermarket wheels though.

    You're probably right.

    It was reg'd to a company for the first 6 years and has been exempt from tax for those 6. It's only been tax privately twice, 3 months at a time and they were back in 2017, out since.

    NCT is out since 2018.

    Sounds like a pig, tax is :eek:


  • #8283
    mullingar
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 5,338 ✭✭✭mullingar


    Cheaper to pull the running rear out of it and put it into a 520d with a fecked engine.


  • #8284
    bazz26
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 51,769 ✭✭✭✭bazz26


    Yeah, consulate staff get to drive some nice unusual metal.


  • #8285
    I Was VB
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,911 ✭✭✭I Was VB


    €2350 tax, that’s some money.


  • #8286
    Idbatterim
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 18,691 ✭✭✭✭Idbatterim


    I Was VB wrote: »
    €2350 tax, that’s some money.

    obscene, can only justify it on exotics etc or bentley , maybach IMO


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  • #8287
    I Was VB
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,911 ✭✭✭I Was VB


    Idbatterim wrote: »
    obscene, can only justify it on exotics etc or bentley , maybach IMO

    Paying that kind of tax you’d rationalize it.

    It’s about €46 per week over a year, some lads spend that on smokes, pissing it again a wall, or snorting it.

    What some lads might see as wasteful some might see as their hobby and release, hopping into a car they like.

    I previously Paid a quarter for €300 and it pained me after I paid it as every pothole I wafted over in my 2.4 V6 was mocking me and saying “€300 for 3 months”


  • #8288
    Idbatterim
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 18,691 ✭✭✭✭Idbatterim


    I Was VB wrote: »
    Paying that kind of tax you’d rationalize it.

    It’s about €46 per week over a year, some lads spend that on smokes, pissing it again a wall, or snorting it.

    What some lads might see as wasteful some might see as their hobby and release, hopping into a car they like.

    I previously Paid a quarter for €300 and it pained me after I paid it as every pothole I wafted over in my 2.4 V6 was mocking me and saying “€300 for 3 months”

    the power is good, but there are SE E60 bm's for 1 or 2k, the only thing this has going for it, is the engine


  • #8289
    Top Dog
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 4,180 ✭✭✭Top Dog


    I Was VB wrote: »
    Paying that kind of tax you’d rationalize it.
    No doubt you could rationalise it if you really wanted the car - but there's no escaping the fact that 2350 for motor tax is extortionate.


  • #8290
    Rows Grower
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 8,575 ✭✭✭Rows Grower


    Top Dog wrote: »
    No doubt you could rationalise it if you really wanted the car - but there's no escaping the fact that 2350 for motor tax is extortionate.

    And nowhere near 300 a quarter.

    "Very soon we are going to Mars. You wouldn't have been going to Mars if my opponent won, that I can tell you. You wouldn't even be thinking about it."

    Donald Trump, March 13th 2018.



  • #8291
    I Was VB
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,911 ✭✭✭I Was VB


    Top Dog wrote: »
    No doubt you could rationalise it if you really wanted the car - but there's no escaping the fact that 2350 for motor tax is extortionate.

    Agreed.


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  • #8292
    Eric Cartman
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 26,242 ✭✭✭✭Eric Cartman


    mullingar wrote: »
    Cheaper to pull the running rear out of it and put it into a 520d with a fecked engine.

    Or just make it a drift car or something. its also really poorly spec'd inside. No doubt owned by a former soviet state embassy, black car, big engine for getaways but bog spec interior.


  • #8293
    ELM327
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2, Paid Member Posts: 19,517 ✭✭✭✭ELM327


    Top Dog wrote: »
    No doubt you could rationalise it if you really wanted the car - but there's no escaping the fact that 2350 for motor tax is extortionate.


    It is, but you could whack on double the asking onto most cars with that tax rate if it wasnt there.

    I've had my share of 1494 and 1803 etc tax but I'm happy now paying 120 per annum for >400hp and 0-60 in 4 seconds. I wouldnt call the S a luxobarge but it is quite bargy.


  • #8294
    Top Dog
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 4,180 ✭✭✭Top Dog


    ELM327 wrote: »
    I've had my share of 1494 and 1803 etc tax but I'm happy now paying 120 per annum for >400hp and 0-60 in 4 seconds. I wouldnt call the S a luxobarge but it is quite bargy.
    Typo surely?


  • #8295
    [Deleted User]
    Posts: 17,925 ✭✭✭✭ [Deleted User]


    Top Dog wrote: »
    Typo surely?

    EV


  • #8296
    CoBo55
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 10,377 ✭✭✭✭CoBo55


    Top Dog wrote: »
    Typo surely?

    Eco dude...


  • #8297
    Idbatterim
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 18,691 ✭✭✭✭Idbatterim


    https://www.donedeal.ie/cars-for-sale/mercedes-s350-beautiful-condition/23992811

    4k for a 07 s350 150m miles


  • #8298
    bazz26
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 51,769 ✭✭✭✭bazz26


    Clean looking low mileage Phaeton for around 3k:

    ZmFkMTZiZThlNDkxNjhjNzBkYmY0MDYwOGRiOTIwMTYblS1a1SRB53YgOn-gqpXqaHR0cDovL3MzLWV1LXdlc3QtMS5hbWF6b25hd3MuY29tL2RvbmVkZWFsLmllLXBob3Rvcy9waG90b18xNDU4MDk4ODR8fHwxMjAweDEyMDB8fHx8fHx8fA==.jpeg

    https://www.donedeal.ie/cars-for-sale/vw-phaeton/24668674


  • #8299
    Esel
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 24,490 ✭✭✭✭Esel
    Not Your Ornery Onager


    bazz26 wrote: »
    Clean looking low mileage Phaeton for around 3k:

    [https://www.donedeal.ie/cars-for-sale/vw-phaeton/24668674

    Tax 12/20 - but it's PSV...

    Not your ornery onager



  • #8300
    bazz26
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 51,769 ✭✭✭✭bazz26


    Yep, PSV tax becomes void as soon as ownership to a private owner changes.


  • #8301
    jmreire
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 9,208 ✭✭✭jmreire


    Esel wrote: »
    Tax 12/20 - but it's PSV...

    Yes, and it's €1'494 "normal" tax...so say 3 years tax ( or 2 if you like) say €4'500 tax plus €3'000 price, €7'500 for 3 years motoring in a Phaeton. Not bad at all for that style of motoring.:cool:


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  • #8302
    I Was VB
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,911 ✭✭✭I Was VB


    There no record of that phaeton having a SPSV Licence attached to it. It’s private tax on it.


  • #8303
    Duke O Smiley
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 12,086 ✭✭✭✭Duke O Smiley


    I posted that very same Phaeton in the bangernomics thread last September when it was being sold by its first (Irish) owner, with long NCT and a bit of tax, it was €1950 then.

    They're a lovely car but nobody is paying 3k for them these days


  • #8304
    mullingar
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 5,338 ✭✭✭mullingar


    Esel wrote: »
    Tax 12/20 - but it's PSV...

    No,

    Tax for a psv is €95.

    Thats €102, possibly an offshore island vehicle


  • #8305
    [Deleted User]
    Posts: 17,925 ✭✭✭✭ [Deleted User]


    mullingar wrote: »
    No,

    Tax for a psv is €95.

    Thats €102, possibly an offshore island vehicle

    Indeed, island tax, I thought island yokes were NCT exempt ?
    Maybe current island owner bought it with an NCT on it..........


  • #8306
    Eric Cartman
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 26,242 ✭✭✭✭Eric Cartman


    Augeo wrote: »
    Indeed, island tax, I thought island yokes were NCT exempt ?
    Maybe current island owner bought it with an NCT on it..........

    low miles might be explained by it being on an island ?


  • #8307
    bazz26
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 51,769 ✭✭✭✭bazz26


    Duke O Smiley wrote: »
    I posted that very same Phaeton in the bangernomics thread last September when it was being sold by its first (Irish) owner, with long NCT and a bit of tax, it was €1950 then.

    They're a lovely car but nobody is paying 3k for them these days

    That's a nice mark up for 7 months driving. There are only 2 for sale on donedeal at present and the other one is a same year lhd asking 4,500. Obviously that seller is trying to take advantage of the lhd appeal to export to a Eastern European buyer no doubt.


  • #8308
    marcos_94
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 343 ✭✭marcos_94


    https://www.donedeal.ie/cars-for-sale/mercedes-cl-55/24606690

    Slightly different type of luxobarge. I reckon it can be got for 5k. Does anyone have any experience with the 55 AMG engine? What are the CLs like to live with?

    Yzk2NDRjOWY5NGE2MzhlYjAzNDBjODYzYjRmZDg3MDcvTUaF_SWE84TSLSz9QlrwaHR0cDovL3MzLWV1LXdlc3QtMS5hbWF6b25hd3MuY29tL2RvbmVkZWFsLmllLXBob3Rvcy9waG90b18xNDUzODc0NDd8fHw2MDB4NjAwfHx8fHx8fHw=.jpeg


  • #8309
    Rows Grower
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 8,575 ✭✭✭Rows Grower


    marcos_94 wrote: »
    https://www.donedeal.ie/cars-for-sale/mercedes-cl-55/24606690

    Slightly different type of luxobarge. I reckon it can be got for 5k. Does anyone have any experience with the 55 AMG engine? What are the CLs like to live with?

    Yzk2NDRjOWY5NGE2MzhlYjAzNDBjODYzYjRmZDg3MDcvTUaF_SWE84TSLSz9QlrwaHR0cDovL3MzLWV1LXdlc3QtMS5hbWF6b25hd3MuY29tL2RvbmVkZWFsLmllLXBob3Rvcy9waG90b18xNDUzODc0NDd8fHw2MDB4NjAwfHx8fHx8fHw=.jpeg

    Jaysus, that's way overpriced at 5k.

    "Very soon we are going to Mars. You wouldn't have been going to Mars if my opponent won, that I can tell you. You wouldn't even be thinking about it."

    Donald Trump, March 13th 2018.



  • #8310
    marcos_94
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 343 ✭✭marcos_94


    Rows Grower wrote: »
    Jaysus, that's way overpriced at 5k.

    Did a little digging and motorcheck is saying its 4996 engine capacity so its actually a CL500?


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  • #8311
    marcos_94
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 343 ✭✭marcos_94


    Rows Grower wrote: »
    Jaysus, that's way overpriced at 5k.

    Heres a genuine CL55 for 5.2k:

    https://www.donedeal.ie/vintagecars-for-sale/mercedes-cl55-amg/24182399


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