Yes. I don't often but things with a view to selling them on.

Five years old, 84k

http://www4.autotrader.co.uk/classified ... &logcode=p

Get yo lease on!

That's in Portsmouth !

But the Skoda will be a much nicer place to live in for those four years, and more reliable.

You keep saying 100 miles. Do you mean 100k miles?

Oh. Yes. Soz. The phone writes stuff that I don't type in sometimes

It's tempting. But damage is an issue.

How do you mean?

Also, for the record, don't be put off by 100k miles. If it has a full service history and receipts it'll be fine. And something that's done 20k miles a year will almost certainly have spent a considerable chunk of it's time under stressed on the motorway.

It's electrical shit on cars that tends to fail more often so buying a cheap as chips car loaded to the gunwales with electronic tat, is more likely to have difficult and expensive to fix shit go wrong.

Also, for the record, don't be put off by 100k miles. If it has a full service history and receipts it'll be fine. And something that's done 20k miles a year will almost certainly have spent a considerable chunk of it's time under stressed on the motorway.

It's electrical shit on cars that tends to fail more often so buying a cheap as chips car loaded to the gunwales with electronic tat, is more likely to have difficult and expensive to fix shit go wrong.

He won't listen. He's buying a fucking Dacia.

Jesus Christ.

Picking up a 206 GTi for less than a grand and sticking it in a barn for ten years is probably a sound idea right now.

Christ, even the 180 (the tuned version) can be yours for £600 - it wouldn't take much to tidy the interior and get the thrust bearing sorted: http://www.autotrader.co.uk/classified/ ... &logcode=p

Rallye Rallye Rallye

Big difference between a 205 and 206GTI though mate?

The 206 was pretty pants IIRC, because to be fair, it had to be. Those side impact bars etc. come at a terrible, terrible price in terms of driving dynamics and handling etc.

Rallye Rallye Rallye

Yeah, right now it's about £24k! But in a decade or so it may well not be.


No bugger is going to drive it.

I don't think prices are necessarily rising because people are nostalgic for the 80s, though that could be a dimension. I think it's more to do with how genuinely entertaining these classic all-time hot hatches were to drive - because they weighed 800kg, not 1200-1500kg, and can never again exist (as new cars) because of all the NCAP and enviro stuff?

306 Rallye? Good car!
Last Pug I've driven that was even remotely any good as a drivers' car.

Yeah, had one for a couple of years. It was an absolute beast. Then it taught me an important lesson about changing timing chains in a timely fashion and was a beast with very little in the way of an engine block.

You can get lift-off oversteer in the Puma if you try hard enough. Whee!

I think it's because people think the prices might keep going up. These cars are going to be investments.

Suddenly my wallet is twitching at this: http://www.carandclassic.co.uk/car/C724384

I don't blame you. If you drove one of these, and then the very latest 308GTI back to back, you'd remind yourself why you went to all that trouble and expense, and held onto the car for years.
Which brings us back full circle, basically why I think there's all the interest now.

As usual, it's the people, our age that now have disposable incomes buying stuff they couldn't afford before.

:DD

Did you just smiley post your own joke?