Chirons at Keighley

[thecremeegg]

Doing a speculative google of Chirons for sale as I'm bored on a Friday night, and noticed that there are 4 for sale on Autotrader, all of them at the notorious Motorhub in Keighley.
Anyone know the backstory of how they have 4 of them? Given their reputation, I can't imagine people are queuing up to buy a Chiron from them?

[Megaflow]

Not a hope in hell they are legit…

[thecremeegg]

In that they don't exist or that they're crashed or something?

[supersport]

Google them. Barge and pole.

[200Plus Club]

There's a very lucrative business running behind the scenes somewhere...

[p4cks]

Yeah, they don’t sell cars.

They’ve had a Gallardo for sale for 15 years

[Wills2]

And it continues to sit there hiding in plain sight....

[Megaflow]

The real shame with this is the reputation it has given the whole area, I will be in the market for a new toy in the next month or so and have started to look around, I saw a MK3 MR2, one owners in a nice green colour.

Location, Bradford.

Nope.

[p4cks]

I'm not sure it's Keighley who are responsible for Bradford's awful reputation, it's the demographic.

[andrew]

four must be a decent percentage of all the uk's chirons

i can't imagine that all four had dodgy histories before they arrived up there !

[ratrod 2]

Let me think !! Where to buy my Chiron ,HR Owen or The Motor Hub

[Megaflow]

As a laugh, I did just google them, they were shut down 6 years ago... that 'enforcement' worked then didn't it?

[NicheMonkey]

One of those 4 was the car from PET Birmingham the insufferable chap who calls himself Lord Aleem, its been out on hire, 22k miles on it.
There's footage online of it being crashed, up for £2.4M haha.

Edited by NicheMonkey on Saturday 21st February 14:46

[ex-devonpaul]

Ahh, these ones?

https://www.pistonheads.com/gassing/topic.asp?h=0&...

[andrew]

ex-devonpaul said:

Ahh, these ones?

https://www.pistonheads.com/gassing/topic.asp?h=0&...

yes
they have phoenixed at least once though

[SydneyBridge]

A Porsche CGT was a bargain at £250k 6 years ago..

[supersport]

I ended up driving past it regular for a while last year, knew it by reputation but had never seen it before.

It was almost a eureka moment, it’s completely out of place and looks a bit of a dump. I can’t imagine anyone actually going there and spending actual money.

[thetapeworm]

They were dodgy even before the Keighley Trade Centre days, the value of the cars has just continued to ramp up.

They have a LaFerrari listed at the moment too along with a few million of other cars.

As a local that was into Japanese imports I'd pop over now and again to look at stuff and it usually clear they'd been buying a kit if damaged stuff in Japanese auctions and carrying out really poor repairs.

Thankfully we had other local places that were far more legit but KTC somehow stayed open despite all the negative feedback and evolved into the business that's somehow still going today.

Old topics here cover most of it in detail after PH were allowing them to advertise...

https://www.pistonheads.com/gassing/topic.asp?h=0&...

https://www.pistonheads.com/gassing/topic.asp?h=0&...

[smithyithy]

I know they're dodgy as F and I wouldn't entertain the place for a Fiesta let alone a Ferrari..

But I'm genuinely curious how a multi-million pound Chiron (multiple Chirons for that matter) end up at such a place..?

Lambos, Ferraris, G-Wagons, Rolls etc etc I get, they're expensive but not particularly out of reach for cash-rich or successfully dodgy individuals.. But a brace of rare million quid hypercars? Are they fake SOR on behalf of some rich (very trusting) individuals, or are they somehow owned by the people associated with the company?

[Megaflow]

smithyithy said:

I know they're dodgy as F and I wouldn't entertain the place for a Fiesta let alone a Ferrari..

But I'm genuinely curious how a multi-million pound Chiron (multiple Chirons for that matter) end up at such a place..?

Lambos, Ferraris, G-Wagons, Rolls etc etc I get, they're expensive but not particularly out of reach for cash-rich or successfully dodgy individuals.. But a brace of rare million quid hypercars? Are they fake SOR on behalf of some rich (very trusting) individuals, or are they somehow owned by the people associated with the company?

I seem to recall it is a money laundering scheme, but I can't remember the details on how it worked now.