Pogue

I'm looking to buy a Bugeye (no flames please, I like 'em) I will have 10-11k to spend early next year, does anyone think they will have dropped to that price by then or will I need to wait till late 2003?

steve jackson

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Katana

Pogue, this is a very sensitive issue mate. You'll get flamed by loads of bug-eyed owners here.

ADP

FFS

Bugeyes arent Marconi shares you know.

logiclee

Pogue,

People are a little upset about used values at the moment.

Welcome to scoobynet.

There are lots of year 2000 cars for sale in autotrader below 11000 pounds, with new models taking a 3k GBP hit and the influx of Euro imports you wont have to wait to long before the bugeye falls in your price bands although it may have a few miles on it.

Enjoy it when you get it.

Lee

ed_the_duck

if we all stick to selling at what we more or less paid, all this chat about what they're worth is just price conditioning everyone down.....causing panic sellers that flood the market which naturally causes subsidence in prices.....Hold on to your little treasures and cherrish thier real value, don't let the loosers that cannot afford them to talk down prices so they can cheapen them with F.C.UK stickers and cheap silver mesh clad 'seriously wide' body kits.....oh, and an ice install that rattles the cheap body kits and makes the mesh fall off!
scoobies old and new look great, feel great, sound great, handle great and go like s**t off a shovel.....so lets all remember why they hold thier value, and not sell our souls.........the only way our beloved scoob will loose value is if the new fugley is sold at a lower value than before, and of coarse natural depreciation.

Pogue

ED the Duck

By that do you mean I am a loser that can't afford one ??

yoza

You can have mine for £10 grand.........

You can also pay for the rest of the fianance while your there

Pogue

Yoza
Err, no thanks

I'll just bide my time

I think around April next year bugeyes will be had for 10k.

Mwahahahahahahaha

/rubs hands

yoza

Why the big laff...........

Who gives a ****

Not me

Dream on and keep an eye on that nova of yours

You couldnt get a sh4g in a brothel with that £10 grand stuck behind your ear........

Pogue

Oh dear ....

Why are you so upset ??

It was a perfectly straight forward question.

I don't think there was any need for personal insults was there ?

By the way, when I buy I won't need finance like you did, I have 3 times that amount that I'll need to move by April for tax reasons.

Loser

Scooby Dooby Blue

LMAO Yoza put that handbag away mat!

Pogue...Davyboys MY01 recently went for just under £14K IIRC
It wasn't a high miler and as far as I could see, the only downside to the car was that the colour wasn't everyones cup o' tea (white).
By that token, you'll no doubt get someone desperate for a quick sale of a Euro import willing to let their Scoob go for £10-11K

Paul

Pogue

Thank you SDB and Logiclee for your intelligent answers, I was only looking for some pointers as to what prices (might) do in the near future but it seems to have ruffled a few feathers

BTW the manic laugh was because I'm so looking forward to my first Scoob (mad car = mad laugh)

[Edited by Pogue - 10/27/2002 12:47:27 AM]

Numptie

Aye, Pogue !

ed_the_duck

we would all like something for nothing.......no pog, was not a dig at your pecuniary prestige!
but putting the damage in the ten grand area will price condition others that are looking to buy and will make it harder for the seller to motivate...........ten k will get you a shagged 100k miles jap import around 94-5....so perhaps you need look in that range...

Pogue

pecuniary prestige ??

Those are big words for 1 am on a Sunday morning

Thanks for your input tho'

BTW why are people so down on the Bugeye, I think it looks the dogs danglies with a set of color coded morettes.

Katana

Um no need to be like that ed. Some people actually prefer the classic shape and when I sold my MY 93 WRX, it didn't have as much as 100k miles on it.

ed_the_duck

think they was let down on the launch as opposed to the classic looks.........it was not an improvement in many eyes!

remember the clocks go back an hour.....not that late realy!!

now if you got 30k to shift well you'd get a blinding scoob for that...........16k for the car and 14k for the mods

Pogue

LOL, I wish, the rest is earmarked unfortunately

Scooby Dooby Blue

Ed

Just read your post about 5 times and to me, it makes no sense at all.
The bit I did understand...
...indicates you're either:

1) out of touch re. pricing
2) someone that payed too much for a shagged 100k jap import
3) pi$$ed/bored and looking for an argument

If the best offer I could get for my UK MY01 WRX with a good few grand extras was 16K, i'm pretty sure Pogue will pick up a Euro import for his target £11K next spring!

Paul

Katana

An improvement is far from what people would call it back then mate. Its actually grown on me over the year but at the end of the day, I still like the older models because they were lighter and performed better (bar handling of course).

D8UGF

Ed,
My 94 jap import has 87,000 miles on the clock, and it ain't shagged, take it from your post ( might be wrong here) you are a uk owner?
Seems every time theres money talked about imprezas it ends up in a flame war, and in general the uk owners start havin a go at the jap owners as tho' their cars are a piece of ****.

Have to say mate, when I bought my car 4 years ago I looked at Uk cars and I can tell u some of them werent that clever.So it isnt always a prerequisite(sp) that a uk car is a minter and all Jdm cars have had some mad kamikaze jap blasting up and down the Tokyo highways.

So please help us poor jap owners to keep our residual values up by not slagging them off in public.

Dougie

ed_the_duck

I was being generous there kat!......trying to keep the prices up.
im a classic owner meself so was ment to sound derogatory, no offence ment.

pog .....i can do sums too

Katana

Yes hence to end this debate we should leave with:

Classic > Bug-eyed

Scooby Dooby Blue

Classic > Bug Eyed/2

ed_the_duck

seems you all got the wrong end of the stick
point was ment if you can sell a 8 years old jap import with 100k on the clock for ten grand then surely a bug eye is worth more than pogs est. ten k!

there was no slagging off of jap imports..seems you jap owners are a tad sensitive!.....not everyone has the confidence to buy an import.....not all peeps know where to get them serviced and source parts etc....thumbs up on havin 280gg's mind, i wouldnt say no

D8UGF

why only 280gg's

ed_the_duck

im only on 220 gg's so 280 for me would be a dream......oh well only 8 months left on the warranty....then....full decat, filter and ecutek: and maybe one or two other gubbins with a bit is sauce on em!

Si James

Bugeyes have already been discounted, and so will take a bit of a hammering, which is why IM want rid of them so fast.

Don't think you will get one for 10K, though, however 12-14K will do it next year.

Si

ADP

Hang on,

Bugeyes have always been 18K havent they right? Well they have if you go to trade sales or motorpoint. Or if you import it yourself they are more like 16k.

Its no secret is it, its just Subaru now want shot of what they have left.

However, I still dont think this means that all of a suddent our bugeys are all worth 10k? So what does that mean all the X reg classics are worth 8k? Type Rs 6K NO. 10k for a bugeye is cr4p. Just because a bit of media hype has flustered a few people doesnt mean theres going to be a marconi style panic sell session from all owners. If we all stick together and avoid a sudden panic then the 18k price from subaru should make no difference to the price of our cars. As I said, they have always been 18k.

At the end of the day, everyone knows what good solid cars they are and no market pressure can change there real value.

AP



[Edited by ADP - 10/27/2002 10:18:12 AM]