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After the purchase of a home, cars for most people are the next most expensive outlay one incurs and 98% of the time money is thrown down the drain. Why does anyone want to purchase a new car? In England it is often for the snobbish element, to have the latest plate. I have a friend, who every two year gets the ‘must have’ car. Dealers like Tom Hartley must be falling over themselves laughing!
Paying a premium over the new price and then a couple of years later seeing the car worth less than half and five years later about a tenth. The car in question, a 997 Turbo, cost circa 125K and is now worth trade 45-50K 2 years late!.
The point of all this is, if you have been bitten like I have over the years and thrown money down the drain on cars, upgrading them, rebuilding them, for absolutely no financial gain and mostly loss, then what I have to say could save you a lot of money, time and effort. I don’t sell everyday cars. Hundreds of other people do. They are more professional, they have vast overheads, they have to be corporate, they have targets, they mostly want to branch out on their own if they could – the list of negatives are endless. There are exceptions, of course, but these are in a very small minority.
Paying a premium over the new price and then a couple of years later seeing the car worth less than half and five years later about a tenth. The car in question, a 997 Turbo, cost circa 125K and is now worth trade 45-50K 2 years late!.
The point of all this is, if you have been bitten like I have over the years and thrown money down the drain on cars, upgrading them, rebuilding them, for absolutely no financial gain and mostly loss, then what I have to say could save you a lot of money, time and effort. I don’t sell everyday cars. Hundreds of other people do. They are more professional, they have vast overheads, they have to be corporate, they have targets, they mostly want to branch out on their own if they could – the list of negatives are endless. There are exceptions, of course, but these are in a very small minority.
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The cars that I sell are the ones I would be very happy to own myself, that I enjoy, have probably had a host of motoring journalists drooling over at their inception, have fantastic performance, usually superb built quality and most importantly for a supercar, depreciation-proof, or near enough! Elsewhere on this site are my recommendations for servicing. Now I am not trying to take business away from Independent Servicing Units, but if you employ a trusted home base mechanic to do all the basics, pads/discs, oil change etc then you might be able to afford a Depreciation Proof Supercar and if the car needs more ‘in depth’ work by all means take it to the I.S.unit – we suggest you join the local car club of your choice and see who they recommend.
I have a large list of cars we ‘specialise’ in but this was written in 1996/7 and has obviously changed. Cars that we were once often asked for have gone very slow so we don’t attempt to stock them ie Lancia Integrale, Golf Rallye, Lotus Carlton. The values have not really diminished, so in effect they are still depreciation proof. However, in many cases one can have a car sitting in the garage for a year waiting for a buyer!
So here we are in March 2010 and I was asked by a friend the other day why I didn’t upgrade the site to the latest ‘must haves’. In other words the cars I am currently really specializing in. All these are cast iron depreciation proof certainties.
I have a large list of cars we ‘specialise’ in but this was written in 1996/7 and has obviously changed. Cars that we were once often asked for have gone very slow so we don’t attempt to stock them ie Lancia Integrale, Golf Rallye, Lotus Carlton. The values have not really diminished, so in effect they are still depreciation proof. However, in many cases one can have a car sitting in the garage for a year waiting for a buyer!
So here we are in March 2010 and I was asked by a friend the other day why I didn’t upgrade the site to the latest ‘must haves’. In other words the cars I am currently really specializing in. All these are cast iron depreciation proof certainties.
Here they are:
AUDI: RS2 / RS4 / RS6 / R8
MERCEDES: Evolution II / AMG SL60 / R129 SL / 500E/E500 / E55 / SL55 AMG
PORSCHE: 968CS 928CS 911 2.7RS 911 2.4s 935 DPMotorsport (the original German DP-not the UK) 930/935 Kremer Turbo 964RS 993RS 993 GT2 996 GT3RS 997 GT3RS 996 GT3 MkI 993 Turbo 4 996 Turbo 964 Turbo 996-964-993 (base models)
BMW: E39 M5 / Z1 / E30 M3 (all variants) / 3.2 CSL Batmobile / E34 M5 Touring / E46 CSL
ALPINA: B10 Bi Turbo / B12 5.7 Coupe / B8 4.6 Coupe / 635 B7 Turbo / B6 3.5’s’ M3 / D10 Touring
ALFA: RZ / SZ
VOLKSWAGEN: R32
VOLVO: 850R / V70R
FERRARIS / MASERATIS: Certain models but we don’t stock them. Why? – you can’t drive them as an
everyday car, you can’t put any miles on them. When did you last see a Ferrari with over 30,000 miles? And they are not cheap to service. Some of them are really beautiful to drive though!
JAPANESE CARS: With a couple of exceptions they depreciate faster than drinking water.
OTHER CARS: In the vast majority they do not have a good enough build quality
MERCEDES: Evolution II / AMG SL60 / R129 SL / 500E/E500 / E55 / SL55 AMG
PORSCHE: 968CS 928CS 911 2.7RS 911 2.4s 935 DPMotorsport (the original German DP-not the UK) 930/935 Kremer Turbo 964RS 993RS 993 GT2 996 GT3RS 997 GT3RS 996 GT3 MkI 993 Turbo 4 996 Turbo 964 Turbo 996-964-993 (base models)
BMW: E39 M5 / Z1 / E30 M3 (all variants) / 3.2 CSL Batmobile / E34 M5 Touring / E46 CSL
ALPINA: B10 Bi Turbo / B12 5.7 Coupe / B8 4.6 Coupe / 635 B7 Turbo / B6 3.5’s’ M3 / D10 Touring
ALFA: RZ / SZ
VOLKSWAGEN: R32
VOLVO: 850R / V70R
FERRARIS / MASERATIS: Certain models but we don’t stock them. Why? – you can’t drive them as an
everyday car, you can’t put any miles on them. When did you last see a Ferrari with over 30,000 miles? And they are not cheap to service. Some of them are really beautiful to drive though!
JAPANESE CARS: With a couple of exceptions they depreciate faster than drinking water.
OTHER CARS: In the vast majority they do not have a good enough build quality
