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Post by mekon on Aug 19, 2021 8:46:18 GMT
Fuck me, didn't know cars had gone up so much in the last few years. I bought a new Hyundai i20 in 2010 and paid £9200 for it. The cheapest i20 is now £16500 and the base expensive version costs £22k. £22k for a fucking Hyundai i20...with 98hp!! that does 0-60 in 11s!!!!
Here's me thinking £8k was a lot for a mint Mk2 Golf GTi. I'd take that bad boy any day.
No wonder every cunt is renting cars now.
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Post by Eddie The Bastard on Aug 19, 2021 8:57:58 GMT
Funny you say that. I am picking up a new motor tomorrow.
What I am getting is a downgrade on what I'm trading in, yet the forecourt price is a few grand more. The trade in was tight as a gnatt's chuff too.
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Post by mekon on Aug 19, 2021 9:13:13 GMT
My mind was smoked that 22k gets you 0-60 in 11s and people are paying that?
Then again you don't see many new i20s now. If i had 22k I wouldn't buy a Hyundai. They seemed to gaining ground for a few years but I guess they've priced themselves out now.
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Post by elnoodle the reasonable on Aug 19, 2021 9:55:55 GMT
I looked at a 16-plate Audi S5 yesterday. £25k for a 5 year old motor and the cunt offered me peanuts for mine.
Think I'll just hang on to my old Merc for a bit.
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Post by Eddie The Bastard on Aug 19, 2021 10:35:15 GMT
I have heard there is a shortage of new motors so that explains the pricing. Someone is gonna get a great 10 year old motor when ours gets picked up again. I reckon it has another 10 years life in it but new bits are gonna be a bit tasty. A third set of brakes will be needed as the juddering is coming back.
I also wanted to go back to petrol one last time before the electric stuff gets better.
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Post by elnoodle the reasonable on Aug 19, 2021 10:51:42 GMT
I also wanted to go back to petrol one last time before the electric stuff gets better. Aye, similarly, I'm getting drawn back to the Jaguar XK as it will probably be my last opportunity to own a 5L V8. Wrestling over the running costs though. |
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Post by philthewindsurfer on Aug 19, 2021 11:07:58 GMT
I haven't bought a new car for, oh, ..... I've never bought a new car/van. Bikes, quite a few, I havent looked at the prices recently. I always thought Hyundai were a budget car. Maybe they have moved upmarket along with their prices. Seems to have worked for them, record profit last year. Certainly their older vans were popular with carpet fitters & windsurfers (not so much) as they were very long, but iirc not so plush as others. Looking at the company their European plant is in CZ. Maybe part still come from Korea, so exchange rates might come into price rises. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hyundai_Motor_Company#HistoryThe company recorded a profit of $1.16 billion from the beginning of 2021 until MarchKorean Won, CZ Koruna & Euro rates could all possibly affect the price here. These charts only go back 10 years. 2011 Sterling was still recovering from the financial crash, and was heading back to where it was before that until 2015 when for some strange reason regarding uncertainty then the event itself Sterling bombed.    Guess buy British, or something at least assembled over here is the way to go. World production of everything is tits up. Its very difficult to buy a windsurf board as the supply chain is buggered. Even canoe manufacturers in England haven't got the raw materials as they come from abroad. |
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Post by philthewindsurfer on Aug 19, 2021 11:13:17 GMT
I have heard there is a shortage of new motors so that explains the pricing. Someone is gonna get a great 10 year old motor when ours gets picked up again. I reckon it has another 10 years life in it but new bits are gonna be a bit tasty. A third set of brakes will be needed as the juddering is coming back. I also wanted to go back to petrol one last time before the electric stuff gets better. Even a little microchip to control the wipers is probably out of stock. My first VW car (1983) had on and off. The van (2013) has off, on, fast, intermittent with 5 different intervals, plus they stop when I stop at lights and revert to intermittent 10 seconds. Useful but unnecessary gizmos add to the price as well. |
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Post by elnoodle the reasonable on Aug 19, 2021 11:34:19 GMT
Seemingly manufacturers are struggling to source components, possibly linked to the global semiconductor shortage. It's the same story with bikes according to my local dealer although fuck knows what a heroin salesman knows about global electronics markets.
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Post by Eddie The Bastard on Aug 19, 2021 11:56:20 GMT
I'm trading used for used. A sub 3 year old then for a nearly 4 year old now. The new to me is in great nick with low mileage.
My old man finally bought a new car in his late 70s, a Hyundai in 2010 and loved it. An i30 I think. I was well impressed with it.
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Post by mekon on Aug 19, 2021 12:13:02 GMT
This cunt I know has just got his Golf R or whatever it is. Been waiting for fucking ages for it. Started to think he was just bullshitting me as it was always 'one it's away from the factory' but it's on his drive now.
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Post by elnoodle the reasonable on Aug 20, 2021 16:02:46 GMT
Went to view the Jag. Cunt's offered me a very good trade-in for mine. I know it's going to be a money pit but fuck me it's a stunning car and the noise from that V8...
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Post by mekon on Aug 20, 2021 17:46:43 GMT
Embrace your inner China man and fuck the planet.
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