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LUXOBARGE (sub5k) of the week/day

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  • #3392
    aaakev
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,064 ✭✭✭aaakev


    Roger Mellie Man on the Telly wrote: »
    Under 2k for that v12 b@stard. That's pretty incredible.

    Iv driven that car, its a serious machine! If I had space it would be mine


  • #3393
    colm_mcm
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 73,327 ✭✭✭✭colm_mcm


    Duke O Smiley wrote: »
    http://cars.donedeal.ie/cars-for-sale/mercedes-benz-600-s-600-v12/9017268?offset=8
    39656445.jpeg

    Good christ

    Notice anything odd about that sign?


  • #3394
    CianRyan
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 14,730 ✭✭✭✭CianRyan


    They couldn't afford the R.


  • #3395
    mickdw
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 23,906 ✭✭✭✭mickdw


    aaakev wrote: »
    Iv driven that car, its a serious machine! If I had space it would be mine

    So it's not a bucket of sh1t?
    I would have had my doubts given the long lack of test.
    I don't think it's paticularly cheap though.


  • #3396
    jacksie66
    Closed Accounts Posts: 2,986 ✭✭✭jacksie66


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  • #3397
    filbert the fox
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 809 ✭✭✭filbert the fox


    jacksie66 wrote: »
    http://www.trademe.co.nz/862387529

    The same car here in New Zealand. That's the minimum price..

    i'm led to believe that the antipodoeans know how to operate a tax/insurance collection system - they hook it up to the price of fuel.....soooooo sensible!:o


  • #3398
    commited
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,274 ✭✭✭commited


    Duke O Smiley wrote: »
    http://cars.donedeal.ie/cars-for-sale/mercedes-benz-600-s-600-v12/9017268?offset=8
    39656445.jpeg

    Good christ

    Holy ****, I'm tempted to take a risk on that. Perfect.


  • #3399
    Marcusm
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 11,009 ✭✭✭✭Marcusm


    Did one of you but it? It's sold per their website.


  • #3400
    aaakev
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,064 ✭✭✭aaakev


    mickdw wrote: »
    So it's not a bucket of sh1t?
    I would have had my doubts given the long lack of test.
    I don't think it's paticularly cheap though.

    I drove it about 5 years ago and it wasn't then, the guy who had it always had something like that as his daily driver


  • #3401
    v240gltse
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 659 ✭✭✭v240gltse


    oh keep me away !!!!

    http://cars.donedeal.ie/cars-for-sale/stunning-s-500-just-passed-nct/9026439?offset=2

    though i would be looking closely at the disks as from the pictures of the wheel i think i see a very shiny/worn disk and also check out the air suspension and it looks like it has adjustable rear seats .


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  • #3402
    PurvesGrundy
    Closed Accounts Posts: 532 ✭✭✭PurvesGrundy


    Duke O Smiley wrote: »
    I might be wrong but those wheels only came on the pre-button handbrake S type

    You are. It's the other way around.

    Those wheels were only available after the 2002 update with the new interior, which incorporated the 'button handbrake'.


  • #3403
    Voodoomelon
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 9,653 ✭✭✭Voodoomelon


    The more I look at this thread, the more i'm amazed I got €4500 for my 728i. :D


  • #3404
    Duke O Smiley
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 12,086 ✭✭✭✭Duke O Smiley


    Voodoomelon wrote: »
    The more I look at this thread, the more i'm amazed I got €4500 for my 728i. :D

    Jesus! That was only recently(ish) enough too was it not?


  • #3405
    Foxhole Norman
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 5,872 ✭✭✭Foxhole Norman


    Voodoomelon wrote: »
    The more I look at this thread, the more i'm amazed I got €4500 for my 728i. :D

    There's feck all of them in that kind of condition though to be fair :p Plus, enthusiasts will always pay more.


  • #3406
    Voodoomelon
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 9,653 ✭✭✭Voodoomelon


    Was 14 months ago and was in good nick, but still at the higher end of things. It's incredible what these luxobarges on here are going for, absolute madness.

    I could count on two hands how many big engined yokes are driving about the entire Dundalk area, you just don't see them.


  • #3407
    unkel
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 60,192 ✭✭✭✭unkel


    Your car was well worth the premium over are cars! I'd say chances are it was the best 728i E38 in the country :)

    "Make no mistake. The days of the internal combustion engine are definitely numbered" - Quentin Willson, 1997



  • #3408
    daRobot
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,378 ✭✭✭daRobot


    Voodoomelon wrote: »
    Was 14 months ago and was in good nick, but still at the higher end of things. It's incredible what these luxobarges on here are going for, absolute madness.

    I could count on two hands how many big engined yokes are driving about the entire Dundalk area, you just don't see them.

    Unfortunately, the price indicates the overall desire. Everyone is being taxed into 1.4, low tax, depression boxes and it's only getting worse.


  • #3409
    mickdw
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 23,906 ✭✭✭✭mickdw


    v240gltse wrote: »
    oh keep me away !!!!

    http://cars.donedeal.ie/cars-for-sale/stunning-s-500-just-passed-nct/9026439?offset=2

    though i would be looking closely at the disks as from the pictures of the wheel i think i see a very shiny/worn disk and also check out the air suspension and it looks like it has adjustable rear seats .

    Nct website doesn't confirm the new nct


  • #3410
    Roger Mellie Man on the Telly
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,113 ✭✭✭Roger Mellie Man on the Telly


    Does anyone know if these beasts have massaging seats?


  • #3411
    MadYaker
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 12,341 ✭✭✭✭MadYaker


    Its mad to think that a 15 yr old S500 is worth around the same as a C180 from the same year.


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  • #3412
    aaakev
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,064 ✭✭✭aaakev


    MadYaker wrote: »
    Its mad to think that a 15 yr old S500 is worth around the same as a C180 from the same year.

    Thays ireland for ya! Great for the lad who doesn't mind the high tax!


  • #3413
    Atlantic Dawn
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 86,596 ✭✭✭✭Atlantic Dawn
    GDY151


    2001 LS430 €850, can't see the reg but the rear of the car looks like it might be a UK yellow reg can't really make it out. Rubbish ad, no mention of NCT or mileage so car could likely be similarly rubbish...

    39677115.jpeg

    http://cars.donedeal.ie/cars-for-sale/01-lexus-ls-430/9021267?offset=3


  • #3414
    filbert the fox
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 809 ✭✭✭filbert the fox


    Atlantic Dawn wrote: »
    2001 LS430 €850, can't see the reg but the rear of the car looks like it might be a UK yellow reg can't really make it out. Rubbish ad, no mention of NCT or mileage so car could likely be similarly rubbish...

    39677115.jpeg

    http://cars.donedeal.ie/cars-for-sale/01-lexus-ls-430/9021267?offset=3

    good timing, rubbish ads are rife

    http://www.boards.ie/vbulletin/showthread.php?t=2057404699


  • #3415
    mullingar
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 5,338 ✭✭✭mullingar


    Atlantic Dawn wrote: »
    2001 LS430 €850, can't see the reg but the rear of the car looks like it might be a UK yellow reg can't really make it out. Rubbish ad, no mention of NCT or mileage so car could likely be similarly rubbish...

    39677115.jpeg

    http://cars.donedeal.ie/cars-for-sale/01-lexus-ls-430/9021267?offset=3

    +1, looks like a UK reg.

    That car has the rare sliding rear seat with message function and rear audio controls in the arm rest. Yet not one picture of it. It's only the rear seat memory buttons on the rear door that gave it away.

    Vrt is probably around €1k


  • #3416
    cadaliac
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,904 ✭✭✭cadaliac


    mullingar wrote: »
    +1, looks like a UK reg.

    That car has the rare sliding rear seat with message function and rear audio controls in the arm rest. Yet not one picture of it. It's only the rear seat memory buttons on the rear door that gave it away.

    Vrt is probably around €1k
    Even so, too much wear on the seats, unclean drivers footwell when you can clearly see the hoover marks on the rear carpet picture, meaning that they obviously tried to clean it but we're unable to do it correctly. Sh1t ad is an understament understament. No mileage listed pisses me off too.
    /Rant.


  • #3417
    Capri
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 4,499 ✭✭✭Capri


    http://www.autocar.co.uk/blogs/motoring/buy-or-not-buy-1997-jaguar-xjr-1495


    Autocar 5 parter about buying a 'cheap' luxobarge

    http://www.autocar.co.uk/blogs/anything-goes/life-%C2%A3500-luxury-barge

    http://www.autocar.co.uk/blogs/anything-goes/life-%C2%A3500-luxury-barge-part-two

    http://www.autocar.co.uk/blogs/anything-goes/life-%C2%A3500-luxury-barge-part-three

    http://www.autocar.co.uk/blogs/anything-goes/life-%C2%A3500-luxury-barge-part-four

    http://www.autocar.co.uk/blogs/anything-goes/life-%C2%A3500-luxury-barge-part-five


  • #3418
    draiochtanois
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,632 ✭✭✭draiochtanois


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  • #3419
    daRobot
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,378 ✭✭✭daRobot


    draiochtanois wrote: »
    It's not mad.

    An S500 is going to be costly to tax, maintain, repair and fuel than a C180

    Going by your logic, a 911 would similarly depreciate as it fits all the same criteria. But it doesn't.

    The s500 was 130k new, the c class about 35k new. It is indeed a mad situation that the former is worth less than the latter after 10 years or so.


  • #3420
    cadaliac
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,904 ✭✭✭cadaliac


    daRobot wrote: »
    Going by your logic, a 911 would similarly depreciate as it fits all the same criteria. But it doesn't.

    The s500 was 130k new, the c class about 35k new. It is indeed a mad situation that the former is worth less than the latter after 10 years or so.
    Yes, but for the reasons outlined above.
    Its not as apparent in other countries as their tax is reasonable but it is exaggerated here for the tax reasons.
    Who the fcuk wants to pay €1800 to €2000 tax on a car per year? All 3.0l and above fall into this category, obviously, but its a huge part of the running costs of an already wallet shrinking luxobarge (fuel and maintenance) running cost.
    if they can afford to pay that on tax, they can probably afford a newer car.


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  • #3421
    filbert the fox
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 809 ✭✭✭filbert the fox


    cadaliac wrote: »
    Yes, but for the reasons outlined above.
    Its not as apparent in other countries as their tax is reasonable but it is exaggerated here for the tax reasons.
    Who the fcuk wants to pay €1800 to €2000 tax on a car per year? All 3.0l and above fall into this category, obviously, but its a huge part of the running costs of an already wallet shrinking luxobarge (fuel and maintenance) running cost.
    if they can afford to pay that on tax, they can probably afford a newer car.


    Do motoring organisations in this State have any lobbying power ?
    Apologies in advance if this has been mentioned before ...

    Government policy dictates that there's an archaeic system of taxes relating to engine size of motorised vehicles and this forces the concept of scrapping of larger older cars. These older vehicles, in the main, have been engineered to high standards, many with desirable high specifications
    .
    It's a shame that the philosophy of newness being superior is so ingrained in the psyche of the West (France perhaps, being the exception). It is well known that even with metal recycling the environmental impact of new car production is more damaging the maintaining what is already here.

    Can someone enlighten me on whether the motoring organisation have teeth in this area?


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