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LUXOBARGE (sub5k) of the week/day

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  • #32
    ShadowHearth
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 22,911 ✭✭✭✭ShadowHearth


    I have to admit, checking this thread after each bump makes me a happy panda. :o

    I REALLY want my next car as a luxo barge.


  • #33
    Sobanek
    Closed Accounts Posts: 3,350 ✭✭✭Sobanek


    ShadowHearth wrote: »
    I have to admit, checking this thread after each bump makes me a happy panda. :o

    I REALLY want my next car as a luxo barge.

    I'm honestly having second thoughts about the 645ci :D
    I've always been a fan of the 7 Series :D


  • #34
    rocky
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,785 ✭✭✭rocky


    Top Dog wrote: »
    Ah heyor! This is only page 2 of the thread and already its getting like bangernomics where a money limit is set, and people insist on blowing that out of the water :rolleyes:

    Someone asking €5400 is not going to drop below €4k in a hurry!

    Ah I was under the impression it's 5k

    E320 for 2.5k:

    http://cars.donedeal.ie/for-sale/cars/5168918


  • #35
    Max Power1
    Closed Accounts Posts: 10,179 ✭✭✭✭Max Power1


    I'm thinking that my next car (having just bought my current e60, it will be a few years :P) will have to be an e39 m5.

    It is one of those cars that I just cant not own at one point in my life. Kind of like the man-love that the top gear brigade have for Alfa's, I have for m5's. (And a few other cars but that's another story).

    To think, they might be in the "luxonomics" thread in a couple of years time:eek:


  • #36
    rocky
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,785 ✭✭✭rocky


    I thought the same about the e39 M5, then I got to look at a few e39s (not M5s) and just couldn't warm up to the interior. I ended up with an E60 which I think is miles ahead interior wise and still looks fresh in MSport.

    01 S-Type 1100
    http://cars.donedeal.ie/for-sale/cars/5147074


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  • #37
    rovoagho
    Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 1,151 ✭✭✭rovoagho


    rocky wrote: »
    I thought the same about the e39 M5, then I got to look at a few e39s (not M5s) and just couldn't warm up to the interior. I ended up with an E60 which I think is miles ahead interior wise and still looks fresh in MSport.

    If interiors is all you're into then fair enough, but comparing an E39 M5 and an E60 MSport is like comparing a duck to a shed.


  • #38
    Nforce
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,924 ✭✭✭Nforce


    Yet another Jaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaagggggg..

    View2-19652768.jpeg



    http://cars.donedeal.ie/for-sale/cars/4978545

    Barely run in,new timing chain but NCT almost due


  • #39
    serious3
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,012 ✭✭✭serious3


    i've just bought a luxobarge, 2003 S-type jaaaag! tested till april next year, 105,000 on the clock with a wallet full of reciepts, all for the princely sum of €1400, its the way to go in my opinion


  • #40
    Sobanek
    Closed Accounts Posts: 3,350 ✭✭✭Sobanek


    serious3 wrote: »
    i've just bought a luxobarge, 2003 S-type jaaaag! tested till april next year, 105,000 on the clock with a wallet full of reciepts, all for the princely sum of €1400, its the way to go in my opinion

    Congrats! Any pics?


  • #41
    mike65
    Closed Accounts Posts: 88,968 ✭✭✭✭mike65


    Trouble with a Jaaaaaaaaaaaaaaag is that you then have to buy some golf clubs! Not to mention a white cloth cap with tartan trim.


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  • #42
    serious3
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,012 ✭✭✭serious3


    Sobanek wrote: »
    Congrats! Any pics?


    when the boss gets in i'll take a couple and throw them up


  • #43
    rocky
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,785 ✭✭✭rocky


    rovoagho wrote: »
    If interiors is all you're into then fair enough, but comparing an E39 M5 and an E60 MSport is like comparing a duck to a shed.

    If you say so... they both have M badges tho...


  • #44
    Matt Simis
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 8,574 ✭✭✭Matt Simis


    rocky wrote: »
    If you say so... they both have M badges tho...

    So whats your E60 M5 like then, good sound out of the 10pot? :p


  • #45
    rocky
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,785 ✭✭✭rocky


    Nah, couldn't live with the range... only getting 18 mpg as it is ...


  • #46
    Sobanek
    Closed Accounts Posts: 3,350 ✭✭✭Sobanek


    18 mpg out of 507hp is 28hp per mpg :D
    Compare that to 30mpg and 218hp = 7hp per mpg.

    What the hell am I on about?


  • #47
    rovoagho
    Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 1,151 ✭✭✭rovoagho


    rocky wrote: »
    If you say so... they both have M badges tho...

    There's a fairly hefty difference between an M badge and an M5 badge.

    There's nothing wrong with MSport cars, I would've bought an MSport E39 525i if I could have found one when I downgraded because of the recession. But again, it's not in the same class as an M5. It's not even in the ballpark.


  • #48
    Matt Simis
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 8,574 ✭✭✭Matt Simis


    rocky wrote: »
    Nah, couldn't live with the range... only getting 18 mpg as it is ...
    Did you buy the 545i in the end? Even so, you must be doing short urban trips, thats abnormally low MPG otherwise (on Combined or what have you).


  • #49
    rocky
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,785 ✭✭✭rocky


    I got a 530i, economy improved with the higher temperatures (getting 22.6mpg if I'm very gentle on the go pedal), but it was around 18 mpg over winter. Short trips, 5 miles in the morning, 1 mile in the evening... :) Not too bothered about mpg though... but they should have a bigger tank, especially the M5.


  • #50
    rovoagho
    Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 1,151 ✭✭✭rovoagho


    I agree with Matt, that seems very low. I used to get low to mid 20s on my early noughties 4.4l V8, mixed. Even urban I rarely went that low.


  • #51
    serious3
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,012 ✭✭✭serious3


    Sobanek wrote: »
    Congrats! Any pics?


    here you go


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  • #52
    Sobanek
    Closed Accounts Posts: 3,350 ✭✭✭Sobanek


    serious3 wrote: »
    here you go

    Looks lovely! Enjoy it!


  • #53
    ofcork
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 5,500 ✭✭✭ofcork


    That s class is for nothing but some repairs would probably cost more than the car is worth.


  • #54
    Nforce
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,924 ✭✭✭Nforce


    V12 goodness..for € 3,950

    http://cars.donedeal.ie/for-sale/cars/3744894

    View2-14605029.jpeg


  • #55
    Top Dog
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 4,180 ✭✭✭Top Dog


    serious3 wrote: »
    here you go
    Looks very very well without the chrome :cool:


  • #56
    serious3
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,012 ✭✭✭serious3


    Top Dog wrote: »
    Looks very very well without the chrome :cool:

    thanks rob! i was thinking of getting some of that tailight tint and tinting the repeaters and reflectors, you can't get clear reflectors for them unfortunately


  • #57
    Layinghen
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,546 ✭✭✭Layinghen


    serious3 wrote: »
    i've just bought a luxobarge, 2003 S-type jaaaag! tested till april next year, 105,000 on the clock with a wallet full of reciepts, all for the princely sum of €1400, its the way to go in my opinion

    Enjoy every second of motoring in your S Type. Have one myself and love it (love all Jags really :D) I have 175000 miles on my car and once it is regularly serviced and treated kindly you will have very few problems. Champagne driving on a lemonade budget!!!


  • #58
    tom_k
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,076 ✭✭✭tom_k


    Here's one you don't see too often. Maybe with good reason...

    http://cars.donedeal.ie/for-sale/cars/5167924

    [IMG][/img]DAVPYpa.png


  • #59
    skyhighflyer
    Closed Accounts Posts: 1,147 ✭✭✭skyhighflyer


    tom_k wrote: »
    Here's one you don't see too often. Maybe with good reason...

    http://cars.donedeal.ie/for-sale/cars/5167924

    [IMG][/img]DAVPYpa.png

    That's damn cool.


  • #60
    tom_k
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,076 ✭✭✭tom_k


    skyhighflyer wrote: »
    That's damn cool.

    I thought so too, I love the rarity factor. However, like so many Italian motors of this era, they look really bland from the rear in my opinion.


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  • #61
    JohnC83
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 36 ✭JohnC83


    S Type Jag
    http://cars.donedeal.ie/for-sale/cars/4730163


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