Buy with the heart or head?
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Sign up on seloc and take a look at the thread on V6 exige values.
Lotus are a special is car, supply is limited and buyers are fussy. Hence cars will sit around for a while waiting for the right buyer to show up. The upside is that the values stay high and depreciation is amazingly low.
Your 25k Astra will be worth maybe 7k in 5 years time, a 45k Exige V6 is likely to be mid to high 30s.
25K.would get you a very nice, late Elise SC, a bit more would get you a 4 cylinder Exige which will hardly depreciate. When you want to sell there are several dealers in the mainland who would either buy your car outright, or offer a sale or return service.
Suggest that you try a couple more variants, the Evora could alone be right up your street. Talk to one of the dealers and get them to let you out in a couple of variants.
Lotus are a special is car, supply is limited and buyers are fussy. Hence cars will sit around for a while waiting for the right buyer to show up. The upside is that the values stay high and depreciation is amazingly low.
Your 25k Astra will be worth maybe 7k in 5 years time, a 45k Exige V6 is likely to be mid to high 30s.
25K.would get you a very nice, late Elise SC, a bit more would get you a 4 cylinder Exige which will hardly depreciate. When you want to sell there are several dealers in the mainland who would either buy your car outright, or offer a sale or return service.
Suggest that you try a couple more variants, the Evora could alone be right up your street. Talk to one of the dealers and get them to let you out in a couple of variants.
Be patient. There's a Lotus dealership coming to Belfast soon. It's mentioned on the Lotus dealers webpage. 'In the New Year' is what I was told when I enquired further with Lotus directly.
It sure seems like it's going to happen as a mate had a test drive in a demo car already in Belfast.
It sure seems like it's going to happen as a mate had a test drive in a demo car already in Belfast.
And on the monies, I'm with you. It's a lot to spend on a car.
There seem to be plenty of folks doing the finance thing. I personally prefer the financial security of only buying when I have the money (and without clearing all the savings), which is why I've only ventured as far as a 2003 Elise 111S.
There seem to be plenty of folks doing the finance thing. I personally prefer the financial security of only buying when I have the money (and without clearing all the savings), which is why I've only ventured as far as a 2003 Elise 111S.
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