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This looks fantastic, the price is a problem! An R500 manual is the ultimate car to me. I would love to get the money up for this some how.
What is this R500 really worth privately?
Please no 'whatever someone is prepared to pay for it'. The reason I ask is that if I was to buy this I may not be able to afford to keep it long term so I would have to sell on.
http://www.pistonheads.com/classifieds/used-cars/c...
What is this R500 really worth privately?
Please no 'whatever someone is prepared to pay for it'. The reason I ask is that if I was to buy this I may not be able to afford to keep it long term so I would have to sell on.
http://www.pistonheads.com/classifieds/used-cars/c...
Because I live in Ireland a Caterham will never sell here for anything like what it's worth in England and I don't like taking a pounding on the resale. That car is probably worth just over £30,000 here. I would have to take it back to Caterham and sell it to them trade. I would like to know what Caterham would value it at...........£32,000?
I had an R400d a while back and I couldn't sell it privately, a dealer sold it to someone in Denmark for me, I have yet to see another one as cheap, no one would get on a plane from England, flights are £39!!!!
I had an R400d a while back and I couldn't sell it privately, a dealer sold it to someone in Denmark for me, I have yet to see another one as cheap, no one would get on a plane from England, flights are £39!!!!
Edited by mike150 on Tuesday 8th March 22:47
Hi Mike,
Privately I would expect you to be able to get up to £32,000 for it in England, if you took it to a trader to buy from you I would probably expect around £30,000. In Ireland, its tough to say. As you rightly point out people dont like to make the journey, I think mostly for the cost and time involved in bringing it back.
I would ask what it is that draws you to the Duratec over some of the other great Caterham engines which produce the same power to weight ratio? I would love to help you find a car if I can. If you did decide to buy this car and needed an easy sale at a later point, we would always be prepared to offer our assistance.
All our best,
Callum
S&C
Privately I would expect you to be able to get up to £32,000 for it in England, if you took it to a trader to buy from you I would probably expect around £30,000. In Ireland, its tough to say. As you rightly point out people dont like to make the journey, I think mostly for the cost and time involved in bringing it back.
I would ask what it is that draws you to the Duratec over some of the other great Caterham engines which produce the same power to weight ratio? I would love to help you find a car if I can. If you did decide to buy this car and needed an easy sale at a later point, we would always be prepared to offer our assistance.
All our best,
Callum
S&C
This is an official dealer car, and it's £37k with very low miles and a manual box. That's one of the cheapest seen at a main dealer for an R500 (assuming it's genuine - get the chassis number and call Caterham to double check). By comparison, there is a Private seller asking £34k for a car with 24k miles… Guess which car is the better deal?!
As for resale back to a dealer - £30 - £32k seems realistic as long as the car needs minimal prep for sale.
As for resale back to a dealer - £30 - £32k seems realistic as long as the car needs minimal prep for sale.
fergus said:
O/T: Not sure what the fascination is with dash plaques? I have a genuine SLR which doesn't have a dash plaque...
I was only pointing out that it was not present, which often means it's a car that's been built to R500 spec, but was not s genuine factory R500.As subrig pointed out, easy enough to check with Caterham from the chassis number to find out its plaque number, even if it is not on the car.
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