too good to be true?!

[anonymous-user]

I have seen a 4 ltr chimera in the latest copy of autotrader for £11995. As i am soon to purchase my first impractical sportscar, probably midget, spitfire or westfield, i would like to know why the tvr is so cheap!? its done 60000 miles and has fsh, i think its L reg. So why is it less than a new Corsa!? it didn''t look to be modified or buggered about with. Finally are there any young (22-25) year old tvr owners who could possibly let me have a few details regarding insurance in terms of rough prices, brokers and policies! cheers pablo pablo

[AndrewD]

I'd say that's not out of whack for an L reg car with so many miles on it, given that my other half got a 97R with half those miles for 15 and a bit...

[Jason F]

The mileage is 'quite high' for a TVR so I guess that is some of it, and is it in Ropey Condition ? Insurance - I am insured with Supercar insurance, £739, 26yrs old, 5yrs NCB, Clean License. Edited by Jason F on Thursday 16th August 20:16

[Factory Hound]

I agree Andrew. It's not 'cheap', Pablo, it's priced realistically, probably because the seller actually wants to sell it and there are at least 40 other Chimps on the market right now.

[PetrolTed]

quote:I have seen a 4 ltr chimera in the latest copy of autotrader for £11995.

A friend of mine has just put his 4.0 Chimaera in the classifieds section here for around £12K. It's one of the early cars and fact is that's what they're going for. It's a buyer's market.

[ohidunno]

I paid that sort of money for my L reg. I wouldn't worry too much about the mileage. Looking through the history of my car the speedo and milecounter has failed several times.....makes you wonder sometimes about the very low mileage cars you see advertised.

[marco]

Yep, Like the Griff 500 I drove at a main dealer last weekend where the previous owner apparently "sold it as he had only done a couple of thousand miles in the past year". Yeah, not suprising as the test drive showed that the speedo didn't work! (It had also been serviced at a petrol station which didn't fill me with confidence.) The best advice for TVR is *always* buy on condition over year/mileage. Good ones go on for ever, bad ones can be really expensive to put right. Marco