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financial injustice but when it comes to standing together and rejecting it we just can't be bothered. We are not like the French,we just suck it up and accept Rip Off Britain.
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10th November 2019, 19:31 | #12 | |
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Rover 75 cdt club + Rover 2.5 KV6 Conni SE Join Date: May 2008
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I recently tried to sell 2 cars on Autotrader; my recently emigrated daughter's near immaculate 2011 Polo 1.4 Match - a very nice car all around, with, you would think, a wide market appeal (admit it, our 75/ZTs are a bit specialist). At the same time, I advertised my 2003, Mk1 Megane Convertible, again in good condition for its year, nice and easy to drive but definitely a smaller market. In 2weeks, the Polo received only 25 views, the Megane had over 250 views in 4 weeks, and 1 local lady came to see both cars, drove both, which reminded her why she was really looking for another automatic (bad hip). The Polo was on for thousands, the Renault for hundreds of £. Which tells me that people are looking for cheap cars ( or cheap deposits on new cars). Classic cars are a hobby for people with spare cash. Our cars are classics for people with not a lot of cash, and many in this demographic are struggling for money, or worried about the future at present. Those who can afford true classics, on the other hand, are not struggling so much. I bought my CDT for under £1K, as a reliable comfortable, long distance daily commuter. It has not let me down, but it does seem to require more maintenance hours, and parts than any car I have previously owned, many due to bad engineering design, and many jobs on it seem unnecessarily difficult and complex, and aftermarket parts are a gamble. So not really a cheap "get you by" runabout. And only the very best, high spec, and unique examples are likely to find the classic collector for whom cash is not a problem.
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