Paul's - Maritime RS (Low Mileage)

[clubsport]

ORIGINAL: carreraboy

Hong Kong is the place ........ out of interest what has been the £ against HK Dollar performance over the last two years?

Hk$ is pegged to Us$, so easiest to consider it that way.

£:$ was 1.98 back in Mar '08, so generally the HK$ would have appreciated against the £ making the car better value now on a currency basis,,,but RS prices have literally shot up in the last couple of years to offset that, ever so slightly!

 

[jason]

ORIGINAL: davidcross

They don't need to try too hard....

Well they should as I'd never give them my car to sell based on those pictures![]

I'm sure they are lovely people but thats just a poor reflection on your business if you stick that on the www

 

[maekm]

Makes interesting reading together with the other thread about not 1 but 3 rs about. As I a offer in excess of £80k has been made/ accepted for the maritime blue rs

 

[Barty964rst]

ORIGINAL: maekm

Makes interesting reading together with the other thread about not 1 but 3 rs about. As I a offer in excess of £80k has been made/ accepted for the maritime blue rs

Are you an interested party in respect this Maritime Blue car? Offers????

 

[maekm]

Barty

Was.

 

[Barty964rst]

ORIGINAL: maekm

Barty

Was.

Slow up on the information here![]

So you were interested??

Is your change in interest due to alternative offer or sale of the aforesaid car??

It did look a lovely car (despite the poor photo's)

Good luck on the search

 

[maekm]

Barty, pm sent explaining all

 

[jason]

ORIGINAL: maekm

Barty, pm sent explaining all

we're all friends here....you don't need to be so secretive[][]
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[964rsdatabase]

Sold for £85k and off to Hong Kong!

 

[Barty964rst]

Is that confirmed???[&o]

 

[jason]

ORIGINAL: sapex666

Sold for £85k and off to Hong Kong!

Its the equivalent of 63k applying £/Hk$ exch rate off 2 years ago......When interestingly the car was probably worth......ooooh i don't know, 63k?[]

We really are living in the wrong country now when it comes to buying cars!!!

Cool if your selling though[]

Or if your a dealer selling it all abroad...

 

[964rsdatabase]

Yes, Simon. Have it from the horse's mouth. 4 guys, all from Hong Kong, were bidding.

 

[Barty964rst]

Lovely looking car, not surprised it made top money with that number of guys after it. Shame it has gone overseas though!

 

[carreraboy]

Another benchmark .... begs the question why is the RHD Ollie car still up for £63K? Has the Steve LHD car sold? Seems to have disappeared .... where is the LHD/RHD market anyone?

 

[jason]

Personally I think once you get over 40,000 miles the cars become harder to sell....and then harder still in increments of 10k miles.

If you look at all the cars that are 'sticking' such as Steve's, Ollies and the guy with the yellow 993RS at SCOM whose name escapes me for the minute they are all slightly higher mileage.

This seems to be irrespective of condition also - I know Ollies and the yellow one have had big money thrown at them (dont know the other).

I had the same issue selling mine. All people were interested in was the mileage and was it original panel.

Most people buying are unlikely to do any/many miles in them tbh and most are off to be garage/investment cars.

Bit sad really[&o]

Oh and the other thing that is important is colour.

So taking all that into account I would say the market is LHD £40k to £85k, RHD £50k to £85k (and you can move that up and down 10% depending on currency rates)

RSRs are of course min £200k now[]

 

[oldtimer]

I think you have summed it up well Jason !
Once you start to be more interested in the value of the car than in using it for what it was designed for then its the beginning of the end IMO , at least as far as enjoying trackdays in it []
The sweet spot for buying 964RSs was in late 90's and early 2000's ....the mags were writing them up at that time so enthusiasts became aware of their driving qualities, however the base car , 964C2 , was regarded as old fashioned and inferior to 993s and 996s. As a result you could get a decent 964C2 for 15k or a LHD 964RS for 25k. Anyway this is all cliched stuff , sorry readers.

The one thing that might drive me to selling up is the experience of continually being monstered by 996 cup cars and 996/7GT3RSs with impatient drivers at the trackdays that I want to drive at. If you can trade in a 964RS for most of the money needed to buy one of these then it becomes a real test of loyalty to someone who needs every mechanical advantage he can get to offset advancing years []
.. you even get aircon ( ...and a heater Vic... ) thrown in !!

 

[vic cohen]

Yer but i had a nice hot dinner to warm up on !!

Totally agree the monstering but also felt behaviour /etiquette 1 st class last w/end

Nearly reach 997 GT3 equation , have a w/end like the last one and forget all abt it ........................until i am frozen agan!

 

[Steve Brookes]

The queue of passengers at garage #24 on Friday showed there is still a lorra lorra love for the 964RS at trackdays. Faster is not necessarily better IMHO []

 

[h_____]

Some good points, however, when you get your 996/7/8 cup gt3 RS R thingymeflip you then realise you have to pull over to let Caterhams, Westfields, Radicals, atoms etc through. Trackdays are much more about the experience. If you judge your satisfaction by speed alone, then you'll soon be into something under 700kg.

Also, I think some of the people in well driven fast cars dont get enjoyment out of trackdays as they are always catching traffic. I did a passenger ride in a well driven 300bhp radical, a very frustrating experience, you catch stuff so quickly you never string much of a lap together.

Now, bailing out of a 64 RS, buying a track prep'd C2 and 3.3. turbo for the road - that makes sense. I've met several people at trackdays in 944s or similar who seem to have an RS in the garage, that they used to track.