There are some nice low mileage (10 to 12K) 07 & 57 plate Legacy Spec B's available for just around the £15K mark!
I wonder how much cheaper they will get, because I'm tempted? I should really be looking at the diesels, but life's very short.........
Edited by Pugugly on 27/10/2008 at 22:51
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I was so close to getting one earlier in the year, weekend before the announcement of retrospective VED changes actually. I wanted the normal 3.0R auto for the gentler ride though.
Having watched a particularly genuine low mileage 13K 06 plate sit for weeks and weeks at 9995 with no takers and now with various people in my own company being made redundant, my son being one, and me a good possibility, i have decided to forget that idea and keep my old Benz which at present rates i will be paying someone a grand to take it away next week.
If things pick up i will have one but i am firmly in the camp of thinking this is a very long term situation.
Keep your eyes on some you are interested in Nick and see how long they stay for sale, i think you will get a 57 for less than 10K after the new year.
Just a thought, LPG it and keep even less lolly out of Gords greedy mits.
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Sorry forgot that particular car was reduced to 9495 and still no takers.
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My local dealer had a Tribeca 4x4 (think it said 3.0Rn on the side) brand new £17495 - save £17000 or something. Madness, but its still pig ugly.
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3ltr 5 seater SE Tribecas @ Motorpoint £16K
Del mileage old style 2.5XT Foresters (cloth not leather) under £14.5K - few still about in franchises
Lexus Rx 350 Del Mileage (Sytner) under £25K
Heavy metal get cheaper by the day.
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Gosh, sorry to hear your news GB. Hope things work out for the best in due course.
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Brand new Mazda5 near me for less than £10,000.
I would have a Tribeca for £17,000. Can't be any less economical than my Outback and get a nice comfy seven seater (well 5 + 2). Given my annual fuel spend of about £2,000 and £1,000 on insurance, £400 on VED is simply another minor cost.
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>>£1 000 on insurance £400 on VED issimply another minor cost.
£1000 Insurance! That is monstrous - either you have lots of points/claims or with the wrong Ins Co surely
My 2 x cars and 3 x son's cars - X5, 525D,IS + my 2 x not so grand cars comes to £1300 for 5 cars and the boys are in their 30's
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The problem with these cars is that if you buy one you will really struggle to sell it in the future. I am thinking of selling my Legacy 2.0R and have toured a few dealers with it. No one wants to take it off my hands, not even Subaru in p/x for a new Legacy Diesel!! I have been advised to try selling it privately, but I guess that will be extremely difficult. I shudder to think what the reaction to trying to p/x a Spec B would be!
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I am thinking of selling my Legacy 2.0R andhave toured a few dealers with it. No one wants to take it off my hands not even Subaru in p/x for a new Legacy Diesel!!
That's shocking. I think it's a sorry state of affairs when a dealer can't demonstrate confidence in their own cars. It's also the start of a slippery slope. If they won't take p/x's, they also won't sell anything. They must be really struggling.
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Falkirk, if you lived where I lived, yours would be £4000. Regretfully the community of which I am a member (North Manchester Jewish) means that a) I have to live within walking distance of synagogues (we don't drive on the Sabbath) and b) it is within walking distance of loads of scrotes from Cheetham/Crumpsall/Blackey who think of nothing better than stealing cars from your drive. Hence high premiums. I can assure I have had no claims for well over five years and still my premium is crazy. Even if i were to drive a Citroen C1 the premium would be in the several hundred.
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Gosh sorry to hear your news GB. Hope things work out for the best
Thanks Humph, the lad is now an agency work hoping to get something permanent out of it, he has the right attitude and TBH honest once you are car transporter experienced other companies usually are pleased to recruit the alleged competent truck handling capabilities.. tee hee..i don't include either of us in that.
For myself i along with many others under threat have received notice that our jobs are no longer under threat...but...further redundancies will be forthcoming due to the downturns in vehicle volumes (the vast majority of cars are being ferried from one compound to another, this cannot and will not continue...we'll see).
There have been a lot of layoffs in the car carrying game recently, it had got too crowded anyway, some companies prepared to work for ridiculous rates (seen it before, very short term and the companies usuall go under quite quickly)
Been there before, redundant twice in 81 and again in 91, sometimes these times are good for the industry overall as it forces some of the larger companies to look at their overall costs, the big picture not just the wage bill, as we've discussed before the cheap employee isn't always the most economical overall. You only have to venture onto the nearest motorway to know that even if you knew nothing of the trucking industry.
The trouble is when companies and public depts get too big the ability to balance salaries against competency and overall costings seems to be too difficult to manage.
Old time knowledgeable transport managers have almost disappeared too, replaced all too often by college trained logistics experts with zero experience and even less common.
At least i won't have to buy any shoes again, bought good quality Northamptonshire boots and shoes over the years and they should see me out...sorry Humph..;)
Sorry back to topic.
I'm extremely pleased i didn't manage to get that legacy even though i was disappointed at the time.
If the job stays ok i will look again next year, these cars will be at even lower almost giveaway prices soon IMO, some of those prices on HJ's report are truly shocking, goodness knows how far this situation will go.
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That's the trouble though isn't it ? Buy more shoes please GB. I you do ( and a few other people of course ) I will be able to buy cars and so on and so on.......
If we all stop spending.......
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shoes? Cough... `er - indoors` is permanently attenuated to them..
As a Lad though, growing up in Yorkshire, we all had a pair of boots (just one) with those steel `caps` that you bashed into the sole and heels.
Italian style - it wasn`t ;(
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Yep, Segs. The announcer of one`s progress though the school and it`s corridors. ;)
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I remember segs. Are they still sold?
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Yes I've seen them around. To get back to a ...sort of..... motoring link you could get quite a decent powerslide with them on a polished school corridor......sorry mods !
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Thought they were Blakeys. Regional thing probably.
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Sparks too sometimes, IIRC.
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Get down to Timpson's
tinyurl.com/5b696o
Edited by nick on 28/10/2008 at 12:37
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Looks like Blakey's are a brand of segs.
tinyurl.com/58bbus
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I remember a guy ( long long ago and far far away ) who bashed some segs into his Colway crossply remoulds in an attempt to turn them into winter studded tyres.
Big mistake.......huge......
;-0
( Wisnae me BTW )
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"If we all stop spending......."
We will...
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>>I am thinking of selling my Legacy 2.0R and have toured a few dealers with it. No >>one wants to take it off my hands, not even Subaru in p/x for a new Legacy Diesel!! >>I have been advised to try selling it privately, but I guess that will be extremely >>difficult. I shudder to think what the reaction to trying to p/x a Spec B would be!
I went through this in March/April with my 3.0R Spec B and was appalled by the lack of courtesy let alone offers extended to me by a number of Subaru main dealers. I bought a Legacy diesel off a friendly, helpful and very professional Subaru specialist in Wiltshire who imported mine to full UK spec via Malta at a discounted price. They bought my Spec B for about what I was expecting (advice - set your expectations realistic and low) kept back an amount for the deposit and wrote me a cheque for the balance and kept the car. I had to wait two months for the car to arrive. When I couldn't borrow a car I hired one (never pay the advertised price) but if I had kept the Spec B it would have dropped by another huge amount so it was the right thing to do.
Selling privately is usually the right advice but with things the way they are now, you could struggle and end up knocking it down in a month or two at a lower price than you could get tomorrow with the trade. Then I'd buy a £500 runabout and wait six to nine months when things will be worse and the stonking deals we're talking about now will look expensive. IMO.
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