Rover 75 260

[barry monk]

There's always the "NEW" one at Hursley Hill Garage,near Bristol for £29,995.

[paulbailey]

What would a fair price be for the Hursley Hill one?

I'm interested in any views on this?!!

Thanks

Paul

[SCP440]

Probably a lot less than he will take. Being it has been unused for 12 years it will need to be recommissioned. New tyres and fluids all round. Personally if I was in a position to buy it would offer £18 to £20k.

Steve

[David]

What would a fair price be for the Hursley Hill one?

I'm interested in any views on this?!!

Thanks

Paul

OK, so what is "fair" anyway?
Is it worth it?

Well if 'worth' is making a profit, then probably not. The only important factors are the facts that it is "new" and almost no miles on the clock.
6 months down the road it becomes a low mileage car. Period. Worth a lot? Yes, most certainly. 30K? Most certainly not.

If the pleasure of owning one is what you mean, then probably not either; mine cost a bit over 3.5k pounds (OK, I was very lucky!), but I have EXACTLY the same pleasure for 1/10th of that amount. 1/4 or so would give you that same pleasure. OK, maybe some bills on the way, but not 30K!

If the Lotto threw the money into my lap tomorrow, would I consider it? Probably 'yes', even though it makes no sense at all, 'cept it's not a left-hooker, so 'no' on that count too.

David

[paulbailey]

Thanks for the feedback. I am retired and own a P5b and Mk1 ZT 260. The P5b has only 73k on the clock and I am the second owner. The ZT has 116k on the clock and I am first owner (I paid £25k for it in 2004 as the Mk2 had come out and they wanted to get it off stock). I am just worried that something new will go pop on a long journey with the ZT. As Steve says the Rover 75 would need a fair bit of work for it to be treated as a new car, so why are they asking so much money, have they had it in stock for 8 years? so, what is their motivation??

Paul

[David]

... I am just worried that something new will go pop on a long journey with the ZT... l

Don't get paranoid, Paul
Like I say I have twice the mileage and have no problems with setting off to the UK (1600 miles round trip) tomorrow morning, if needs must. Wouldn't think twice.
Always serviced as she should be and runs like a train; twelve years old? What the hell! She has NEVER let me down and I'm sure never will.

Next door neighbour's 6 months old Peugeot (pretty colour ...) died totally and terminally in the middle of a french motorway last week on the way back from holidays (home-sickness?). Not made in Longbridge, see.


David

[paulbailey]

Thanks David, you are right, I'll hang on to vin 41 to her death or mine, I did about 350 miles in her over the weekend. It's just that I can't follow why that dealer should hang on to the Rover for so long, did he think it was an investment..?

Paul

[SteveTD]

I made quite serious enquiries about the £30k 75 v8 earlier in the summer.
The garages attitude is slightly odd - but the upshot is they would sell for around 25k.
I was willing to pay 18k which was much too low for them.
I don't think the car is quite the seized up, frozen mothballed article that some have described. It is regularly started up and taken for short journeys (to the end of the street and back)
I believe the current mileage is circa 200 miles.

David has hit the nail on the head.
If you want to buy it to preserve it and one day hope it's worth £££££......well the entry price of circa £25k makes that possibility an uphill battle.
If you want to buy it and use it, then it almost immediately becomes the same as any other low miler out there - i.e. worth sub £16/17k.....
That's quite a bit to lose in the first 6 months!.....

However, if you are in the position to not give a monkeys about that and you just want one - because let's face it ... try and get another......then it started to make sense.

If it had have been a monogram I'd have probably bought it. But then again as my neighbour has recently described me, I have a 'car illness'.....!!!

[scooter]

You would need to know how the car has been stored its not good to leave a car for a long time without using it. Lent my 208GTB Turbo to a friend for three years so it would be used, kept clean and taken for good runs to keep it in good order. Its amazing how bits go hard, seals start to leak and suspension bushes get torn due to being sitting in the one place for a long time. Short runs cause no end of problems with internal corrosion inside components that are not truly up to temp.

[David]

Still for sale. It has to be worth a punt...

I know Andy Greenhalgh (AndyG) and one or two others have had a crack at talking them down. If I'm to believe what has been posted here, 25K was the last offer I heard that someone tried and was 'told where to go'.

What's a fair price? No way of saying; it's unique with almost no miles. Only thing is if you use it and enjoy it won't stay like that, as neither will the price it could command in the future, in fact pretty quickly. So it all depends if you are into 'stamp-collecting', or owning a car for driving, I suppose!

David