Used car prices

[stevefreestyle]

Originally Posted by Franco Cozzo

Same here, about to have no licence for 12 months was a pretty good shove in the back to make it happen a bit faster

I'm considering exiting the industry all together so I'm not surrounded by it at work as well, its difficult when in your 'professional life' having this experience and interest is the thing that sets you apart from the others, I virtually live in constant exposure to modified cars and the industry.

Sad to hear Franco, I hope you have a change of heart, and stay where you are in the Industry. 12 Months will go quicker than you realize. Cheers

[CAT600]

Originally Posted by Franco Cozzo

Once they picked up popularity in the USA it was game over the moment those cars turn 25 and become eligible for import into the USA and can be driven RHD. Particularly R32/R33/R34 GTR.

I feel that those generations of GTR have much more soul than the R35 GTR.

The R35 went down the path of taking away the raw experience of driving a performance car.

Respectfully I disagree

The R35 was viewed this way when it came out because it was so far ahead of its time… the R32-34 was no different in the 1990’s with the affordable and cutting edge tech it wielded.

An R35 today is both as raw and soulful as one can get in a car thesedays, especially if you are lucky enough to own a CBA (2008-2010) they feel like a race car with plates

While everything went crazy on price during Covid the R35 stayed a relative performance bargain… now they are discontinued due to ADR85/00 it’s a totally different story.

What is crazy expensive tho is the Miami stuff… I just bought a used GS Ute

Holy Moley they are pricey now

[FTE217]

Nice to see you drop in CAT600.

[Franco Cozzo]

Originally Posted by CAT600

Respectfully I disagree

The R35 was viewed this way when it came out because it was so far ahead of its time… the R32-34 was no different in the 1990’s with the affordable and cutting edge tech it wielded.

An R35 today is both as raw and soulful as one can get in a car thesedays, especially if you are lucky enough to own a CBA (2008-2010) they feel like a race car with plates

While everything went crazy on price during Covid the R35 stayed a relative performance bargain… now they are discontinued due to ADR85/00 it’s a totally different story.

What is crazy expensive tho is the Miami stuff… I just bought a used GS Ute

Holy Moley they are pricey now

Don't worry, I have a friend who owns a Lotus who tells me cars with power steering aren't real drivers cars because it takes away too much steering feel, so I guess there's many differing views on the topic.

I sound like an old bastard though, yelling at the clouds complaining something along the lines of BACK IN MY DAY REAL MEN WITH THEIR REAL CARS ONLY HAD HICAS LOCKOUT BARS AND A MANUAL GEARBOX! NONE OF THIS DSG AND ELECTRONICS

Then someone else comes along:

BACK IN MY DAY REAL MEN WITH THEIR REAL CARS ONLY HAD 460+ CUBIC INCHES, 4 GEARS AND CARBS! NONE OF THIS TURBOS AND FUEL INJECTION

Hopefully I'm dead and buried long before I start having this conversation about real men having electric vehicles that sound like Melbourne trams and drive themselves

[Burnout]

I find it interesting that Car buyers are paying electric optioned up car prices for Aussie built ICE vehicles.
Does this show the REAL, rather than perceived interest in the EV in Aust.

[CAT600]

Originally Posted by Franco Cozzo

Don't worry, I have a friend who owns a Lotus who tells me cars with power steering aren't real drivers cars because it takes away too much steering feel, so I guess there's many differing views on the topic.

I sound like an old bastard though, yelling at the clouds complaining something along the lines of BACK IN MY DAY REAL MEN WITH THEIR REAL CARS ONLY HAD HICAS LOCKOUT BARS AND A MANUAL GEARBOX! NONE OF THIS DSG AND ELECTRONICS

Then someone else comes along:

BACK IN MY DAY REAL MEN WITH THEIR REAL CARS ONLY HAD 460+ CUBIC INCHES, 4 GEARS AND CARBS! NONE OF THIS TURBOS AND FUEL INJECTION

Hopefully I'm dead and buried long before I start having this conversation about real men having electric vehicles that sound like Melbourne trams and drive themselves

It’s true, if you haven’t had to use ammunition to start an engine are you even really living?

[Franco Cozzo]

Originally Posted by Burnout

I find it interesting that Car buyers are paying electric optioned up car prices for Aussie built ICE vehicles.
Does this show the REAL, rather than perceived interest in the EV in Aust.

That's why they keep squealing for tax payer subsidies for EVs, because no one would buy them at their ridiculous prices otherwise.

Awaiting Kypez and KMav24

[M&Ms]

Originally Posted by Burnout

I find it interesting that Car buyers are paying electric optioned up car prices for Aussie built ICE vehicles.
Does this show the REAL, rather than perceived interest in the EV in Aust.

Yes, 100%!!!

EV's are being rammed down our throats world-wide. The market is not left to decide as it should. Governments are changing laws so EV's can get the foothold they need. They know they need the cars to penetrate the market then they follow with the investment in infrastructure.

We'll look back one day and realise how cunning this all was.

All the while, they keep silent on the environmental impact EV's cause, focussed purely on carbon emissions from exhaust pipes alone. Nevermind the 100,000km you need to drive an EV just to make up for the carbon footprint in developing the battery, or the quarter million tonnes worth of mining to produce said-battery. That's all irrelevant to the greenies apparently. What about battery disposal? Maybe we just ignore the problem, like the disposal of wind turbines, out of site out of mind. Yet the same mob will jump up and down about why we should never go nuclear because there's a waste problem to deal with....

I think I'll stop there....

[hackney]

Originally Posted by M&Ms

Yes, 100%!!!

EV's are being rammed down our throats world-wide. The market is not left to decide as it should. Governments are changing laws so EV's can get the foothold they need. They know they need the cars to penetrate the market then they follow with the investment in infrastructure.

We'll look back one day and realise how cunning this all was.

All the while, they keep silent on the environmental impact EV's cause, focussed purely on carbon emissions from exhaust pipes alone. Nevermind the 100,000km you need to drive an EV just to make up for the carbon footprint in developing the battery, or the quarter million tonnes worth of mining to produce said-battery. That's all irrelevant to the greenies apparently. What about battery disposal? Maybe we just ignore the problem, like the disposal of wind turbines, out of site out of mind. Yet the same mob will jump up and down about why we should never go nuclear because there's a waste problem to deal with....

I think I'll stop there....

I have a ‘EV’ lawn mower!Does that count?

[mick taylor]

Originally Posted by M&Ms

Yes, 100%!!!

EV's are being rammed down our throats world-wide. The market is not left to decide as it should. Governments are changing laws so EV's can get the foothold they need. They know they need the cars to penetrate the market then they follow with the investment in infrastructure.

We'll look back one day and realise how cunning this all was.

All the while, they keep silent on the environmental impact EV's cause, focussed purely on carbon emissions from exhaust pipes alone. Nevermind the 100,000km you need to drive an EV just to make up for the carbon footprint in developing the battery, or the quarter million tonnes worth of mining to produce said-battery. That's all irrelevant to the greenies apparently. What about battery disposal? Maybe we just ignore the problem, like the disposal of wind turbines, out of site out of mind. Yet the same mob will jump up and down about why we should never go nuclear because there's a waste problem to deal with....

I think I'll stop there....

Your right ! where do all the dead battery's and all go ! such is a massive problem ! if we were looking at the total of the cars on the road were battery, just think of that pollution problem.

Not to mention why the hell are we not being informed on the latest in Nuclear Power Stations advancements ! We live in a retard world that people still think Nuclear Power Stations are 1960's tec that's backward rubbish like driving a T model Ford around today.
The advancements in Nuclear Power Stations has advances way beyond what 99% of Australians know of and you have been hidden from the facts about it all and are being fed like mushrooms.

The latest Nuclear Power Stations run on Spent fuel ! that's right, the old toxic wast is what they use for crying out loud ! and we have enough of that to power the world for 150 years without digging any yellowcake out of the ground at all.
Not to mention when they have finished with that fuel it is only toxic for 150 years. not thousands of years !

Now where are the Greenies ! No, they are water melons, Green on the outside and Red on the inside. nothing but moronic stooges.

Look up Gen 3 and Gen 4 Power Stations.
China has them, Japan and France for years.
The USA has only T model Ford tec Nuclear crap, that's all 99 of them ! Why ! I am totally against that old tec rubbish, it's far to dangerous.

[Jack91]

I've been trying to buy a falcon ute, au or ba, preferably trayback and no LPG, for a reasonable price.
I have decided instead to buy a trailer.
There's no way some of these cars are selling, it seems mainly Victoria too, prices are a lot more reasonable interstate.
Just another way in which Victoria endlessly sucks.

[HIPO]

thought this looks pretty reasonable for what it is, k's etc...........

https://www.facebook.com/marketplace...type=top_picks

[FPV414]

Originally Posted by Jack91

I've been trying to buy a falcon ute, au or ba, preferably trayback and no LPG, for a reasonable price.
I have decided instead to buy a trailer.
There's no way some of these cars are selling, it seems mainly Victoria too, prices are a lot more reasonable interstate.
Just another way in which Victoria endlessly sucks.

I sold a RWC BF1 LPG Ute with a tub, average to fair clean condition, 275000km, for $5800 in 4 days. 3 people looked, 2 said the body was a little too average for them but the 3rd was a panel beater.

They are selling.

I also got $25k for an EL XR6 recently


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[Mulva]

I just don't get it - wouldn't you get more if you detailed this up prior to sale? Does the whole "barn find" bull**** still work on cars less than 20 years old?

First glimpse of the small thumbnail I thought it was an odd colour, then noticed the wiper-sweep over the windscreen.



https://www.grays.com/lot/0001-60011...sedan?spr=true

[ford71V8]

Will suit the most fasitidious buyer

[pottery beige]

could be a dead dudes car??

quick squirt with a hose, $2 servo vac job and would be a nice daily

[FairmontGS]

Originally Posted by pottery beige

could be a dead dudes car??

quick squirt with a hose, $2 servo vac job and would be a nice daily

Interior looks like dead dude dissolved in there

Last serviced 2010 and 40k done after that

[Tassie f100]

Looks pretty straight except front bar cover.Interior looks tidy,so would clean up,into a pretty good low km original

[Mulva]

Originally Posted by FairmontGS

Interior looks like dead dude dissolved in there

Last serviced 2010 and 40k done after that

Reg expired Oct 2016

[pottery beige]

Originally Posted by FairmontGS

Interior looks like dead dude dissolved in there

Last serviced 2010 and 40k done after that

meh, looked fairly clean - sun damage around shifter (only gay ****s buy auto GTs anyway )

[FPV414]

Mate just bought a 70km FG2 F6 for $74k.

A friend of a friend bought one in the last 2 weeks for $85k - white mk2 ZF FG2 F6.

People think they ain't selling. They definitely are.

[pwr4ce]

Originally Posted by FPV414

Mate just bought a 70km FG2 F6 for $74k.

A friend of a friend bought one in the last 2 weeks for $85k - white mk2 ZF FG2 F6.

People think they ain't selling. They definitely are.

That’s Nuts !!


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[fordomatic]

Originally Posted by FPV414

Mate just bought a 70km FG2 F6 for $74k.

A friend of a friend bought one in the last 2 weeks for $85k - white mk2 ZF FG2 F6.

People think they ain't selling. They definitely are.

It’s interesting that they are selling. Personally I don’t see the value in a 10 year old $80,000 FPV, it’s insane.

I look at my fleet and there is no way I’d pay what I would get for them now. I sold my FGXR6T immaculate for 20k almost 5 years ago now. I now have a G6ET in the same condition and same year and been offered 35k, it’s mental.

For me, if I was dropping 80k on a car, it’d be a mustang. I do not see cars as investments though. Rego, upkeep, insurance, the stress of owning a car increasing in value, worrying about driving it anywhere etc etc. I have much easier less stressful ways to make money.

I sold my old LS3 VE Clubsport for 32, 4 years ago. It was immaculate. It’s sold twice since, once for 55 and last week for 85. Some people have way too much money. It’s a crazy world right now, I’ll just keep enjoying the cars I have because if I sold them, I wouldn’t be buying anything like them again.

Surely this can’t continue

[oldel]

Originally Posted by Mulva

I just don't get it - wouldn't you get more if you detailed this up prior to sale? Does the whole "barn find" bull**** still work on cars less than 20 years old?

First glimpse of the small thumbnail I thought it was an odd colour, then noticed the wiper-sweep over the windscreen.

image

https://www.grays.com/lot/0001-60011...sedan?spr=true

That's what my ute was like after I parked it for 6 years due to failed trans and peeling shockwave and no interest or money to do anything about it. I accidentally hit the wiper switch after moving it out of the garage for repairs and I can tell you right now that's going to make a mark - ie need a new windscreen due to all the scratches the wipers made LOL.
Looks like front right tyre flat too, so probably 4x tyres as expect them flat spotted, also all my rotors were rusted/pitted/seizing, calipers needed a rebuild and so on. All aluminium/alloy on the engine, under bonnet will have corrosion buildup and look damn ugly forever too.

[DTFRMONT]

A mate has a VF2 SSV sportswagon, purchased new with a Holden staff discount (his dad did 25 years there). He knows he can sell for a big profit from what he paid for it new, but as he said, there's no longer an equivalent new replacement, save spending $150-200K plus on an AMG or M series, so what would he replace it with? Hence the decision to keep it. And most likely the reason why these are going for silly money.

[Sprintey]

Originally Posted by DFB FGXR6

So I went shopping for a Sprint 6............

https://www.carsales.com.au/cars/det...-4125570/?Cr=4

https://www.carsales.com.au/cars/det...20058313/?Cr=6

I would love one, but now that these, and other desirable Falcon's are becoming so expensive that it has me wondering if I would rather spend that sort of cash on this...............

https://www.carsales.com.au/cars/det...-7442182/?Cr=4

https://www.carsales.com.au/cars/det...20477881/?Cr=7

I LOVE Falcon's with all my heart, but they are, and never have been a $100,000+ car. Having driven a few F-Types, they walk all over every single Falcon ever made so at those prices, they are merely a sentimental purchase. And I say that as someone who has two Falcon's for that very reason.............difference being I did not pay $100k for them.

Completely agree, my thing with Falcons was to find the best performance one at bottom of it's depreciation curve and pay 7-8K for it (never failed!).

Have you considered that it's $100,000 that is not $100,000 any more (inflation - the tax one man in a million understands)

I do like the Jags - F-Pace for Terry, XE is handy, spend less than 130K try to get a really nice XJ with that interior...

[Sprintey]

Originally Posted by Burnout

I find it interesting that Car buyers are paying electric optioned up car prices for Aussie built ICE vehicles.
Does this show the REAL, rather than perceived interest in the EV in Aust.

Yes. I think that's the real interest (in the Aussie cars; ergo, the prices) by the people who have the means now, who realise it will be very hard to replace what was lost. For electric, I'm still waiting for them to become affordable runarounds. Got an electric lawnmower today - coughed up for the one with the battery as the one without is in supply nowhere land and no idea where in the aether it is, or when it will arrive (we already have a similar battery/charger on the whippa snippa).

[hackney]

Originally Posted by Sprintey

Yes. I think that's the real interest (in the Aussie cars; ergo, the prices) by the people who have the means now, who realise it will be very hard to replace what was lost. For electric, I'm still waiting for them to become affordable runarounds. Got an electric lawnmower today - coughed up for the one with the battery as the one without is in supply nowhere land and no idea where in the aether it is, or when it will arrive (we already have a similar battery/charger on the whippa snippa).

Eleccy lawn mowers are great!I bought a Ryobi awhile back,bought an extra battery,now it has two!Boy do they go!Even self propelled!So light to push as well.

[Sprintey]

Yes! That's exactly what we got. It looks like a beast. The whippa snippa also Ryobi and has been very good.

What are ED Sprint's being asked for these days?

[pottery beige]

Originally Posted by Mulva

I just don't get it - wouldn't you get more if you detailed this up prior to sale? Does the whole "barn find" bull**** still work on cars less than 20 years old?

First glimpse of the small thumbnail I thought it was an odd colour, then noticed the wiper-sweep over the windscreen.

image

https://www.grays.com/lot/0001-60011...sedan?spr=true

Sold!! a solid $32.4k!!

Any idea if it was a deceased estate??

https://www.grays.com/lot/0001-60011...sedan?spr=true

Originally Posted by oldel

That's what my ute was like after I parked it for 6 years due to failed trans and peeling shockwave and no interest or money to do anything about it. I accidentally hit the wiper switch after moving it out of the garage for repairs and I can tell you right now that's going to make a mark - ie need a new windscreen due to all the scratches the wipers made LOL.
Looks like front right tyre flat too, so probably 4x tyres as expect them flat spotted, also all my rotors were rusted/pitted/seizing, calipers needed a rebuild and so on. All aluminium/alloy on the engine, under bonnet will have corrosion buildup and look damn ugly forever too.

i have dry stored mine and nearly been that dirty before a wash up and a quick skid - was yours sitting under a tree on a mango farm??