£10,000 for a mk1 turbo?

[Munter]

http://www.pistonheads.com/sales/832626.htm

Now it might be very nice.... But even so is that a bit steep.

[anonymous-user]

if for track..maybe not..The monster crunch will probably mean it is...

[hornetrider]

Nice, but it ain't 10k nice imo. Maybe 6, tops.

[Planet Claire]

You may as well buy Blackbullet's for £6k instead of that (although I haven't compared the specs), and you could eat your dinner off Blackbullet's engine bay. It's mint.

[Herman Toothrot]

It would cost about £15K to build that, more if you wanted someone to do it for you. If someone wants a sorted MX5 but doesn't want to mess about themselves its easily worth £10K.

Mine cost about £12K to build and i'd not sell it for less than £9K, sadly i'm aware that the market is tiny for such a car so i'd break mine if I was to want to change it.

[hornetrider]

I'm not looking for an argument, but why don't serial 'modders' ever realise you will never get back what you put in.

Herman, you say you've put 12 in, and would never sell it for less than 9. Well I'm sorry to say that if that's the case you'd never sell it at all. Nobody is going to pay 9 grand for a Mk1 MX5.

Just checked your profile - I take it your figure includes 4.5k to buy and 7k's worth of mods. How much would your car be worth now, absolute stock. 3k? So you're saying you've put 7k into it in mods and want 6k of that back?

I'm sorry, but that will never happen, not in a million years. Like you say, you'd have to break it.

[Howard-]

Agree with Hornetrider, too many people don't realise you can't spend thousands modifying a car and see it as an investment It's a hobby, hobbies are expensive


There are of course exceptions to the rule; restoring an old classic car, for example.

Edited by Howard- on Monday 29th December 11:57

[Herman Toothrot]

hornetrider said:

Like you say, you'd have to break it.

Yes, exactly, like I say I'd have to break it.

Braking it would get back virtually everything, if you look at the price 2nd hand mods get on ebay / forums you'll see they are often within 10% of new price.

[iguana]

Is slightly mental money.

Herman I was actually thinking of mailing you ref yous & if you were selling, as I think you'd mentioned you might in the future, I sorta regret selling my Mx5 turbo as it was such a fun package & not as much power as yrs, but didnt think you'd be after that sort of £ tho! blimey!

Edited by iguana on Wednesday 31st December 15:54

[OnlyMX5ives]

iguana said:

Is slightly mental money.

Herman I was actually thinking of mailing you ref yous & if you were selling, as I think you'd mentioned you might in the future, I sorta regret selling my Mx5 turbo as it was such a fun package & not as much power as yrs, but didnt think you'd be after that sort of £ tho! blimey!

I have two FM2 turbo cars...

I bought a really nice 1.8 with the intention of using it as a track car but then came across an older tatty 1.6 a week later and bought that too.

I only need one so give me a bell I could be persuaded to sell either (but not both)

Although I'm still keeping my supercharged road car too, as I much prefer SC's !