Megane RS 275 Trophy

With cars like this you need to be able 'get out' of them when you're done and want to move on ...so I can reduce the price and not lose my shirt versus the fun value.

 

Yes that's fair enough, it's bottomed out on the depreciation curve and the real costs are now on running/upkeep. The only danger is at this price bracket you get alot of morons who feel entitled to be able to buy a car with whatever change they can find in the bottom of the sofa + an Xbox ... but don't worry about it till you get to that bridge!

 

The R56 is already looking quite chubby compared to the R53!

 

Yes, they are torture. You find that the market for sub £5k stuff is still pretty active.. it's the stuff north of £10k that gets really hard to shift IME. I've got a mate trying to sell a 2006 Porsche 997 at the moment and the crap he's going thru isu unreal.

Anyway, as long as I get my fill out of it I'll dump it and run

 

I think the Mini's have got progressively worse looking.

 

Worse looking and too many doors on some of them. A friend has a 5 door one, it looks hideous.

Cheers BB

 

Progressively less "mini" in size as well.

 

The 10-20k bracket is interesting also ... I was reasonably successful selling my highish mileage 996 C2 privately to a genuine enthusiast, I took a £3k hit after a year of ownership, guess that's what happens when you buy from trader and sell on private ...

 

I have an E39 5-series BMW.
Recently in an immediately-adjacent parking space, was whatever the latest model 'Countryman' is - a shocker: it was c 200mm wider, at least that higher, barely 400mm shorter - and had observably less space inside for, you know, people. Very odd indeed. I looked it up - and yep, no lighter either (but with a very limited offer considerably more-tedious/constipated /dull/fragile engines)

why do these ..things , sell?

 

Style over substance?

 

No clue; there are 5 of them in our road of 16 houses. By far the most popular car here.

 

Definitely a ‘lifestyle’ choice for people who are swayed by the MINI brand/image (because these monstrosities anything but ‘mini’). They’re everywhere.

… unlike MINI ‘coupes’ (remember them?) which seem to have disappeared off the face of the earth.

 

..& good riddance to the hideous, 'cap on backwards', over-styling...

 

Is the Countryman the 4wd SUV(?) style...

 

Yes, it's like a Range Rover with the corners sanded off. Absolutely enormous thing. With a "Mini" badge.

 

Yep - funny how BMW never revived the obvious 'Maxi' nomenclature...

* it's a Mini adventure ... just inflated to 120psi / 1700Kg.

 

Remarkably, they did bring back "Mini Clubman" . There was a guy at work a few years ago who had a modern Mini, I think a Countryman, in the days when there was no Clubman apart from the 70s version, people used to call it his Mini Clubman to take the mick. My, how we laughed. He didn't, used to bite every time.

It's time they brought back Princess and Allegro. Or maybe Marina.

 

Ah yes, that chubby little coupé, the BMW Fröhlich.

…nah that’d never sell…

 

my words too every time I see an oversized mini on the road!

 

I had a 106 GTI for a while. Bloody brilliant thing to drive.