Ricerocket0_1

I'm curious as to how many Type-R's are in daily use?

I for one use mine 7 day's a week, reason for this I could not achieve a sale at a fair price, so sold my every day car and decided to put miles on the Type-R. If I'm to loose £k's on her I would rather put some miles on the clock first!

Any way........I never see any Type-R's or P1's for that during week day's, unless parked in a drive way. Once a blue moon I pass another on the road, but at weekends only!

What's the crack lad's, are they just weekend toy's now ? Do you know of others in daily use?

zedy

they are expensive on fuel, you cant leave them parked in random spots, people dont want to put mileage on because of resale value, most people want to keep them mint so leave them parked up and use them in nice weather,,,, i think the main one is the fact that people do not want to leave them out of sight for a certain period of time

JdcTypeR

iTrader: (19)

I own a type r and use it daily and as above i never see another type r about where i live but i do see one p1 occasionally.
Whats the going rate for a 98 v4 with 74,000 on the clock?

leecalcars

iTrader: (37)

I bought my v4 sti type r 6 years ago had it for 4 years and ran it daily bought it for 10.5k sold it 4 years later for 7k it had 53000 on the clock when I got it and had 83 k when I sold it, so in 4 years 30k mileage average 7k a year was parked up most of time as I started working away alot so never drove it.
Would defo get another nothing compares to the rawness of a type r .

Steve777

iTrader: (8)

Use mine everyday and its still in mint condition

chris-RB5

nope mines a weekend/going out at night toy. The only reason for me is the petrol, i'm a sparky and hardly ever work locally, so it's just not cost effective, so that's where my punto 1.2 comes in

MK2VTR8VALVE

I used mine everyday for about 4 months until I got an HDI 406 as a workhorse a couple of weeks ago.
I was going through at least 100 quid of petrol a week, but damn was the run to work fun!

leecalcars

iTrader: (37)

ha ha !!!!!

stevie1982

iTrader: (16)

Used my p1 everyday In fact I used all of them including a 485bhp car everyday untill feb when it was off the road for weeks as I broke the suspension so picked up a vectra estate as a work horse.

I see a White type r most days driving along the cookham rd in Maidenhead, looks lovely

Ricerocket0_1

Well that's about the same miles as my 98 V4 & I wouldn't except less then £5k! Advertised mine a few months ago at £4995, not one single viewing, just one or two insulting offers of £4k

Martin typeR

I use mine every day, with 400bhp sitting there it would be rude not to.

Jay m A

iTrader: (2)

Mine is an RA so arguably more hardcore. Competes in Sprints on the Sunday, drops the kids to school on the Monday

Turbovin

iTrader: (2)

Can't stand to use mine everyday, too loud and uncomfortable. I rather drive around in my E34 525i with amazing comfort for such an old car. One thing making the Type R slightly awkward for me is that it is RHD in a LHD country

KAS35RSTI

iTrader: (73)

I used mine everyday maybe thats why i got bored & sold it.

Ricerocket0_1

As I thought, not many in daily use any more! Petrol consumption on mine is more then acceptable if taking it easy, I must be averaging 300 miles a tank full?
Haven't done the maths, maybe someone can enlighten me?
Although mine is in daily use it is still in exceptional condition, no signs of rust or chassis corrosion what so ever. In fact just had it MOT'd and the mechanic was so impressed how clean it was for an old vehicle.
Like some others it is very noisy on long journey's. I have a 'Kakimoto' full straight through system and it is very loud! Comfort I think is more then good, I guess 7 hours my longest journey at any one time and believe it or not I ached more getting out of my wife's old Lexus after a journey??
I shall have one more go selling as my wife hates it's noise and boy racer status, me on the other hand love it as I'm proper petrol head through & through and do love a burn up

Any takers as I would like to import a 22B.........? Thanks for the feed back guy's

EddScott

Wouldn't have said it was that much of an insult. If you were in no hurry then asking 4995 you'd probably end up taking 4750 or 4500. If you needed it gone quickly 4000 is better than a car you don't want. Although by the sounds of it you didn't have your heart in getting rid anyway

myblackwrx

iTrader: (1)

Bought my V4 Type R for £4500 last Sept (with Simtek already fitted but standard suspension,exhaust etc).
Need a bit of tidying (paintwork,few dinks etc) but I use it everyday,sometimes it gets the cobwebs blown out but otherwise driven as a 'normal' car

Ricerocket0_1

I had redused the price to £4995 and was then not open to offers! Since then I have spent a fair bit more money on her.
I've never been desperate, you will only buy something needing work for less then £5k. If I wanted £4k or £4.5k for it, I'd ask that in the first place. I must also add these bidders had not viewed the car, for that reason it is an insult! Only time waisters start bidding for a car they have not viewed
Yes very true......not bothered about selling, would rather smash it up with a hammer then let someone have it for less then £5k

bigsinky

talk sense fella. you would be surprised what you take for it when money is tight and mortgage payment and child care fees are due.

Ricerocket0_1

Don't read in to my last comment fella, figure of speech......I just get peed off with people negotiating threw text massages!
No one has been in the s*** more times then me financially, I know what it's like to be desperate. It seems a lot of potential Scooby purchases are praying on hard up Scooby owners and want to knick a car.

rickya

iTrader: (18)

I use mine on average 6 days a week.........sod the petrol bill!!!
I only manage about 250 miles on a full tank of town driving

P1 LTD

Getting back to the thread! I use my P1 daily its a great car! OK its not the fastest of scoobys now and it drinks petrol like no tomorrow! But it looks good sounds good and drives great!

Ricerocket0_1

I'm with you guy's, fair play

Davros 1979

iTrader: (56)

Here is another one that gets used daily. Get about 230 miles to a full tank. However it has been converted to a 2.5

I have the same exhaust as you, its insanly loud, long journeys leave my ears ringing!

I bought the car to enjoy it, leaving it sat unused apart from weekends seems pointless to me.