Would you sell or keep.....

[JSP214]

Would you sell or keep - can't make my mind up no Ferrari sounds like it but I find it too slow these days!!! first world problems with a small 460bhp.....

View attachment 77386

Beautiful, absolutely stunning!!!!

 

[hashluck]

I like the 190E 2.6

Absolute peach and amazing paint - flew through the MOT last week. Getting very rare now especially with the 2.6 engine.

 

[hashluck]

I have been through this very same decision making process recently but found the only cars I wanted were close to £100k.
In the end I decided to move on to a Strad - so watch this space

Very wise

 

[hashluck]

How much for those Boxsters? Wow, they were about £4k not long ago... Not even the 3.2S... I'm sure knowing John they are the best examples out there right now!

Thanks Phil for your kind comments. You can still pick up a 986 Boxster at that your stated price point but you would be wise to pay the extra and choose a 987. You will struggle to find a 987 under £10K but it is much the better car over a 986. You still have to find a good one though, the cheapest will be mega miles. Ours are looking very good value having checked the current market which seems to be correcting upwards all the time.

 

[Andyk]

Very wise

That E30 3 series looks a ******* as well. Such an iconic BMW for me as the car that for typified sporting saloons back then. Out of interests what is a car of that age an miles worth these days. I only ask as I gave one away price wise around two years ago.....Although mine was a 325i 2001 with I thick 76k on her. Always thought I should have kept her and restored her.

 

[philw696]

That E30 3 series looks a *** as well. Such an iconic BMW for me as the car that for typified sporting saloons back then. Out of interests what is a car of that age an miles worth these days. I only ask as I gave one away price wise around two years ago.....Although mine was a 325i 2001 with I thick 76k on her. Always thought I should have kept her and restored her.

Atleast you know she is in Good company mate and being looked after.
I reckon you should have kept the E46 M3 as she was a Stunner.

 

[hashluck]

That E30 3 series looks a *** as well. Such an iconic BMW for me as the car that for typified sporting saloons back then. Out of interests what is a car of that age an miles worth these days. I only ask as I gave one away price wise around two years ago.....Although mine was a 325i 2001 with I thick 76k on her. Always thought I should have kept her and restored her.

We have not had an E30 (the good ones are too expensive and the cheap ones are too rusty) but we have had a number of E36 and E46. The E46 is by far the better car but the market thinks it wants the E36 (manual; though strangely auto is fine on the E46 I guess as it works so well). Ignoring the M3 and Alpina versions an E46 can be anywhere from £1K to £7K or more. E36 starts and ends higher as just so rare to find a good one. We just sold a 2001 323i Manual E46 with 76K miles, one owner and full history for £3K which is a huge amount of car for the money.

 

[gb-gta]

E30’s are pricey now, wish I’d kept mine and not sold it, a 325i sport. Worth loads now.
(Plus, to get back on track, I reckon the OP should definitely keep the blue granturismo!)

 

[Andyk]

We have not had an E30 (the good ones are too expensive and the cheap ones are too rusty) but we have had a number of E36 and E46. The E46 is by far the better car but the market thinks it wants the E36 (manual; though strangely auto is fine on the E46 I guess as it works so well). Ignoring the M3 and Alpina versions an E46 can be anywhere from £1K to £7K or more. E36 starts and ends higher as just so rare to find a good one. We just sold a 2001 323i Manual E46 with 76K miles, one owner and full history for £3K which is a huge amount of car for the money.

Sorry my mistake as I meant E46.......I sold my 2001 E46 325 for £900.......I was a pretty good car and I think had 76k or was it 80k on the clock.........Small amount of rust under one arch.....

Andy, you def got a bargain my friend. Get the rust sorted and you could make a killing.

 

[Andyk]

E30’s are pricey now, wish I’d kept mine and not sold it, a 325i sport. Worth loads now.
(Plus, to get back on track, I reckon the OP should definitely keep the blue granturismo!)

Me two....Always yearn for a 325i Sport and finally got one in 1994.

 

[Ryandoc]

I haven’t read all this but I’ll be 6 years next April.

I do anywhere 6k to 8k a year in the GTS. It’s the longest I’ve ever had one car. I look at others, Aston’s mostly. I peruse the classifieds.

Then I get the GTS out the garage, clean it, stare at it, start it up and drive it and I just can’t make the break. And for me personally I’ve said before it’s party piece is my 5 and 8 year olds jump in the back quite comfortably.

I can’t see me parting ways anytime soon. And she’s driving like a dream (kiss of death no doubt)

 

[zagatoes30]

Sorry my mistake as I meant E46.......I sold my 2001 E46 325 for £900.......I was a pretty good car and I think had 76k or was it 80k on the clock.........Small amount of rust under one arch.....

Andy, you def got a bargain my friend. Get the rust sorted and you could make a killing.

£950 with 82k I think but agree it was a bargain, arches have got no worse and its now on about 103k, I was offered €2k for it about 12 mths ago based on the fact it needed to be registered here and that was about €800 to the buyer. I registered it for free as an import so might be worth €2.5k . Regardless I can't see it going anywhere other than the scrapyard when something big finally fails but until then its my daily driver.

 

[bigbob]

I haven’t read all this but I’ll be 6 years next April.

I do anywhere 6k to 8k a year in the GTS. It’s the longest I’ve ever had one car. I look at others, Aston’s mostly. I peruse the classifieds.

Then I get the GTS out the garage, clean it, stare at it, start it up and drive it and I just can’t make the break. And for me personally I’ve said before it’s party piece is my 5 and 8 year olds jump in the back quite comfortably.

I can’t see me parting ways anytime soon. And she’s driving like a dream (kiss of death no doubt)

Well said. I regularly look at a range of other cars - don't we all? - and all the interesting ones require a lot more cash. I can't find anything that isn't my car+£40k that interests me and for my nice day car especially as we are now going into winter I don't see the point. Will SORN it at the end of the month and let it have three months off for good behaviour. It will be worth sub £20k come the spring but that's ok as it has given so much value over nearly 60,000 miles.

 

[hashluck]

View attachment 77466View attachment 77467View attachment 77468

Me two....Always yearn for a 325i Sport and finally got one in 1994.

That or an Audi was the business back then. Look at the Sierra in the background. Why would you? Other than the fact the German cars were very expensive and options added up on top of that.

 

[philw696]

Well said. I regularly look at a range of other cars - don't we all? - and all the interesting ones require a lot more cash. I can't find anything that isn't my car+£40k that interests me and for my nice day car especially as we are now going into winter I don't see the point. Will SORN it at the end of the month and let it have three months off for good behaviour. It will be worth sub £20k come the spring but that's ok as it has given so much value over nearly 60,000 miles.

Out of interest how's the underside of your car fairing especially up in Scotland ?
Have you seen the underside and carried out any preventive treatments ?

 

[safrane]

If you keep chasing the latest and fastest thing all tou do is burn through money... unless its a hyper car.

Being content with what you have and enjoying the moment will give you more satisfaction and enjoyment.

 

[philw696]

Totally agree with that Peter.

 

[bigbob]

Out of interest how's the underside of your car fairing especially up in Scotland ?
Have you seen the underside and carried out any preventive treatments ?

That is a good question Phil. I have not used the car in winter for a few years now but for the first four or so years did put winters on it and had some great times overtaking X5s etc that were on summer tyres in the snow. That said I did not take it out much which is why I have now given in and just SORN it. The underside looks ok and the car was in Graypaul recently and nothing was mentioned. Probably worth getting it treated though.

 

[philw696]

That is a good question Phil. I have not used the car in winter for a few years now but for the first four or so years did put winters on it and had some great times overtaking X5s etc that were on summer tyres in the snow. That said I did not take it out much which is why I have now given in and just SORN it. The underside looks ok and the car was in Graypaul recently and nothing was mentioned. Probably worth getting it treated though.

Can't recommend getting the underside treated enough Bob as changing a front subframe isn't really fun and a major expense.
I'm a lover of Waxoyl and old engine oil too.

 

[Ryandoc]

Well said. I regularly look at a range of other cars - don't we all? - and all the interesting ones require a lot more cash. I can't find anything that isn't my car+£40k that interests me and for my nice day car especially as we are now going into winter I don't see the point. Will SORN it at the end of the month and let it have three months off for good behaviour. It will be worth sub £20k come the spring but that's ok as it has given so much value over nearly 60,000 miles.

Im on 62k ish now and the car has wanted for nothing. Used regularly and kept in garage.

I had the wheel alignment done about 3 weeks ago and the guy was very impressed with its condition he took convincing that it was an 11 year old car lol

And as you say what’s the value now? But who cares. I mean it’d be nice for it to be worth 40k-50k but when have any of us not taken hits on cars it the norm.

The GT really is a bargain buy right now. It is actually a bit strange how they haven’t held a bit of value given the looks, noise, drive Ferrari V8 engine etx etx