LUXOBARGE (sub5k) of the week/day

Eric Cartman · 01-05-2014 05:20PM

Kaiser D wrote: »

I always wanted a car with a wired phone...

E38 fromt and rear phones

Voodoomelon · 01-05-2014 06:18PM

Nice bus, would that have been a legit Irish plate for 2000 or is it an import?

First thing i'd do is loose the wheels and clean the whole car, looks a little grubby in the engine bay. I reckon you could buy it, tax it, sell it on after a year in the UK and still break even.

Eric Cartman · 01-05-2014 06:59PM

Voodoomelon wrote: »

Nice bus, would that have been a legit Irish plate for 2000 or is it an import?

First thing i'd do is loose the wheels and clean the whole car, looks a little grubby in the engine bay. I reckon you could buy it, tax it, sell it on after a year in the UK and still break even.

If it had the coolbox id buy it just for that, the edc and the rear monitor then sell it on

Supergurrier · 01-05-2014 07:03PM

Beautiful 7 series. If it wasn;t a LWB i would be tempted love them in silver however

Padraig Mor · 01-05-2014 07:18PM

There's something about a wired car phone that says Michael Douglas in Wall Street (in a good way)! One of the ultimate true luxobarge accessories!

Voodoomelon · 01-05-2014 07:23PM

Funnily enough, Michael Douglas had a 750Li in The Game.

Atlantic Dawn · 01-05-2014 07:59PM

I'd love to know what government it was owned by, going by left right hand drive and what appears to be miles on the clock and import plate number it must have been UK. Would be pure fancy if it had bullet proof class, plenty of dodgy characters would be interested.

L-M · 01-05-2014 08:05PM

Isn't that the E38 I linked ages with different wheels on it now?

Edit: Well, it is.

Nforce · 01-05-2014 08:07PM

^^^ I'd prefer those wheels

L-M · 01-05-2014 08:09PM

Nforce wrote: »

^^^ I'd prefer those wheels

I think you speak for everyone.

rovoagho · 01-05-2014 08:10PM

What kind of a moron takes m-paras off an e38?

Big Nasty · 01-05-2014 08:33PM

Was looking a lot better there. Was that in Swords LM?

L-M · 01-05-2014 08:34PM

Big Nasty wrote: »

Was looking a lot better there. Was that in Swords LM?

Possibly! It was at a Car sales show-type event.

Kaiser D · 01-05-2014 08:39PM

I don't even fancy the M-Pars on it tbh.

L-M · 01-05-2014 08:46PM

Kaiser D wrote: »

I always wanted a car with a wired phone...

I had a wired phone in my X type, there was even a simcard in it! Foolishly I thought there was an option to use the phone kit handsfree too.

faral · 01-05-2014 11:44PM

http://cars.donedeal.co.uk/cars-for-sale/lexus-ls430-immaculate-cheap/6873642

looks great tbh, open for bargaining.

Atlantic Dawn · 02-05-2014 12:08AM

faral wrote: »

http://cars.donedeal.co.uk/cars-for-sale/lexus-ls430-immaculate-cheap/6873642

looks great tbh, open for bargaining.

Lovely car, criminal that the motor tax for one year is the price of the car, such a waste of a perfectly good car, the emissions and resources used to create a new fuel efficient diesel poverty spec cancer causing diesel super mini would do far more damage to mother earth if you were lead to believe that man could ever change the climate of earth.

daRobot · 02-05-2014 10:39AM

Black_Knight wrote: »

Air freshener in a fancy luxobarge? Does anyone just immediately think its covering up a smell of something? Damp?

Christ I hate air fresheners. It's the car equivalent of spraying lynx onto a sweaty t-shirt. Nasty.

Valetta · 02-05-2014 10:51AM

faral wrote: »

http://cars.donedeal.co.uk/cars-for-sale/lexus-ls430-immaculate-cheap/6873642

looks great tbh, open for bargaining.

Electric seatbelts.... how does that work?

I know a few years ago I rented a car in the US and when I sat into the drivers seat the seatbelt kind of slid back from the front of the door into its normal position. I thought I was being strangled for a second.

I've never seen that in a car here, though.

bear1 · 02-05-2014 11:09AM

Having an electric seatbelt tells me either:

1) absolute laziness
2) just another electrical item to go wrong.

Can't see the point of them

kupus · 02-05-2014 11:26AM

bear1 wrote: »

Having an electric seatbelt tells me either:

1) absolute laziness
2) just another electrical item to go wrong.

Can't see the point of them

I had a car with electric seatbelts, and in the next one I actually missed them.

Its like driving automatics, you'll miss it when you go manual

Big Nasty · 02-05-2014 11:40AM

A lot of large American coupes had them. In fact given the length of the doors on some of them it would be extremely uncomfortable trying to reach back for the seat belt without them. Old E-Class coupe had them too.

Red Kev · 02-05-2014 11:48AM

Nice well specced newer model A8 with over a years NCT, €5500.

http://cars.donedeal.ie/cars-for-sale/05-audi-a8-3-7-quattro-high-spec/6673797

http://cars.donedeal.ie/vintagecars-for-sale/rolls-royce-silver-shadow/6802744

And a RR with "patina", but €56 tax and NCT free, it leaves plenty of cash for petrol and the servicing bills...nice way to get around, although they are insanely expensive to fix if they start to rust. Tantalisingly cheap at €3250.

Eric Cartman wrote: »

an s class without a v8/v12 makes baby jesus cry

Biggest selling S-Class worldwide is the S320 CDI. 6 cylinders sell far more than 8 or 12 cylinders for the simple reason that overall they make more sense financially.

rovoagho wrote: »

Every time I see a 280, I wince. So Oirish.

Eric Cartman wrote: »

not to mention that some engine parts could be harder to find as i doubt many of them were ever sold outside ireland. the s500 is probably the easiest to look after in terms of replacement parts because of how many there are worldwide.

Mercedes didn't develop the S280 solely for the Irish market, no idea how somebody could think that they'd spend so much on developing one version of a car for such a tiny market. It's a huge seller in Asia and the S280 and S320 petrol sell well in many European countries, including Germany. But the biggest seller for them is the S320 CDI and it outsold the S400 CDI in huge numbers.

The "Oirish" and "Paddy spec" comments here are getting wearysome, have a look at how badly the Germans spec their cars and you might change your mind on it.

pcardin · 02-05-2014 12:01PM

Red Kev wrote: »

The "Oirish" and "Paddy spec" comments here are getting wearysome, have a look at how badly the Germans spec their cars and you might change your mind on it.

yes, I once saw a W140 in Essen that did had a cloth seats and hubcaps and was in nonmetalic green colour. Never seen one again anywhere else in Europe.

mickdw · 02-05-2014 01:06PM

faral wrote: »

http://cars.donedeal.co.uk/cars-for-sale/lexus-ls430-immaculate-cheap/6873642

looks great tbh, open for bargaining.

One of the few cars that turn up here that looks absolutely right & genuine.
I think he is under pricing that if all is well. Thats still a very respectable car, not just a drive it til it breaks type car.

Big Nasty · 02-05-2014 01:08PM

pcardin wrote: »

yes, I once saw a W140 in Essen that did had a cloth seats and hubcaps and was in nonmetalic green colour. Never seen one again anywhere else in Europe.

Irish reg?

dmc17 · 02-05-2014 01:10PM

daRobot wrote: »

Christ I hate air fresheners. It's the car equivalent of spraying lynx onto a sweaty t-shirt. Nasty.

Not necessarily. If you clean the car first then it's the equivalent of having a shower and putting on some aftershave.

Sobanek · 02-05-2014 01:39PM

To cheer you people up on the 'paddy spec' - Germans have to pay extra for Metallic paint on a 7 series - all the way up to the 740Li xDrive.

But then, it's more expensive here, so I'd say it's no surprise that it is included in the price

randy hickey · 02-05-2014 02:12PM

faral wrote: »

http://cars.donedeal.co.uk/cars-for-sale/lexus-ls430-immaculate-cheap/6873642

looks great tbh, open for bargaining.

Just to put into context what a bargain that actually is, here is the same car,same spec, same year, but with higher mileage for sale in the UK, at Stg£2,790 (€3,400) - and that's before you'd even mention VRT:

http://www.autotrader.co.uk/classified/advert/201404283757799/sort/default/usedcars/make/lexus/radius/1501/page/1/onesearchad/used%2Cnearlynew%2Cnew/maximum-age/over_10_years_old/postcode/bt39jp/keywords/2002/model/ls?logcode=p

jimgoose · 02-05-2014 02:15PM

Valetta wrote: »

Electric seatbelts.... how does that work?

I know a few years ago I rented a car in the US and when I sat into the drivers seat the seatbelt kind of slid back from the front of the door into its normal position. I thought I was being strangled for a second.

I've never seen that in a car here, though.

Due to the length of the doors in some two-door cars, some of them have an electric sliding mechanism that "hands" you the top of the seat belt when the ignition is switched on.

Big Nasty wrote: »

...Old E-Class coupe had them too.

Yup. My brother had a 2005 CLK that had 'em.

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