HOW MUCH!!!!!!!

I was driving past Commerce Car Co. in Paisley, near Glasgow and saw a nice looking black F registration Highline stickered up at £4999.  "Must be clean at that price, I'll go and have a look.", I think to myself. 

Gorgeous car.  Immaculate black Highline with unmarked Lotus leather and virtually impossible to fault apart from a couple of missing tools, nothing that I could see to use as a bargaining lever.  The 24000 miles is guaranteed and warranted and backed up by a full dealer service history. Oh, and the sticker price is £14999, not £4999!

Is this the dearest 635CSi  currently on offer?

-they have been touted as a 'modern classic' for years. And they are nice cars- I own one (an early '87 635CSi).

-but there are some for sale at silly prices, no mistake. I'm not telling how much I  paid for mine but it wasn't in the sort of price territory mentioned above (but then I still need to sort a few things out, too, so maybe you pay for what you get).

-I suspect part of the reason for high prices is the lack of a 6 series for the last 15 years. Given that the 8 series isn't everyone's cup of tea, this has left a gap in the market for a BMW coupe with comfort, good looks and good (rather than brutal) performance.

-it'll be a few years before used versions of the new '6' fill this gap (and maybe they never will, what with its, er, 'challenging' looks.....

cheers

Horsetan wrote: It probably is, and Commerce Car Co. have had this car on their books for months....

And at that price are likely to have it on their books for some time yet, no matter how good it is. I'd be interested to know what they paid for it though........£7000?  £7500? £8000?  More?

Horsetan wrote: Old shape! wrote: ...As for replacing the 6, they can never match the looks.....that shark-nose, that style, those lines and that panache!... They can never match the looks because ever stricter "safety standards" (read "more rounded, more weight") mean that the shark's nose would not meet current legislation...

You sure?  There are far more pointy things on the road - and they are ugly too.  I mean, who would want a pointy Ford GT40, at 4mpg?  But seriously, the modern trend towards facsimile sports cars invites more danger to the pedestrian than a stately 6.  And, the shark nose isn't exactly pointy, I mean it isn't like a cutting edge (Like the old motorbike number plates).  If you get hit at say 20mph, the damage done to leg/hip is not going to be different between being hit by a 6 or a van.

Ah well, at £2,750 purchase + lord knows what spares cost, it can stay looking good on the forecourt.

-ahh, the Stag.... with built-in rust from day one.... they used to take unpainted bodies for a short drive to another factory to be painted and built up. In all weathers, on a flatbed waggon....

-ah, those cam chains, made of finest cheese, those lovely crossed cylinder head studs, made for seizure....aluminium wheel nuts (!!!!) ditto..... a 'design classic' all round....they don't make them like that any more.......

Sohlman wrote: What gets me is the price of MG's. I know they have a following, but they are exspensive compared to a six, less pretty, not fast, worse on fuel and go wrong more often yet they comand a price of 6K+ for a good one which is 5X worse than a bad six.

Not so at the moment. I know a guy with an absolutely mint MG, maintained to an obsesive degree. For example the radiator was replaced because some of the cooloing fins were damaged. Anyway he had it up for 6K, no takers, up for 5k, no takers,  now up for 4K and still no takers. The car market is really flat at the moment.

Peter Fenwick wrote: Surely you mean the M6, not the 635CSI. And the Triumph stag is a truely awful car especially with the original V8 engine.

I mean both were/are classics.

The Stag is not "truly awful" at all! It was intended to have the Buick/Rover V8 from the start but they couldn't produce 'em fast enough to cope so developed their own.  Most of the Stags engine problems stemmed from a poorly positioned waterpump & poor maintenance. Remember cracked heads on early M30 engines?

Rust was a problem on all 1970's cars & the Stag was better than most - look how many survive. It was certainly better than early Sixes.

Incidently, I'm led to believe the last Sixes were part galvanized hence the 6 year corrosion warranty.