Anyone after a used car?

[Blackpool Rock]

Just been announced that a load of old cars are being put up for same, just a word of warning though I think they've all been thrashed   

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[southcoastpunter]

i know someone who is after a used (3 -5 years old) small to medium sized car but left hand drive. (she wants to drive it to Italy and leave it there for use in Italy. she seems to think that prices of second had cars in Italy is way higher then here!

[Blackpool Rock]

i know someone who is after a used (3 -5 years old) small to medium sized car but left hand drive. (she wants to drive it to Italy and leave it there for use in Italy. she seems to think that prices of second had cars in Italy is way higher then here!

Could well be, I knew someone about 5 or 6 years ago who had a holiday home in Portugal and they were looking at buying a car in the UK to drive out there and leave as they were by far cheaper
Apparently it's something to do with less new cars being sold in those countries keeping the price of used ones artificially high, even tatty old wrecks fetch a high price

[lostandfound]

Could well be, I knew someone about 5 or 6 years ago who had a holiday home in Portugal and they were looking at buying a car in the UK to drive out there and leave as they were by far cheaper
Apparently it's something to do with less new cars being sold in those countries keeping the price of used ones artificially high, even tatty old wrecks fetch a high price

Of course nothing like that could happen here. 

[scutty brown]

Just been announced that a load of old cars are being put up for same, just a word of warning though I think they've all been thrashed   

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the photos I've seen of that collection have all shown red cars, in which case they'd make a good match for the Haynes Museum in Somerset (they've already got a hangar sized collection of red sports cars)
they'd look good next to these
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[Derrick101]

Could well be, I knew someone about 5 or 6 years ago who had a holiday home in Portugal and they were looking at buying a car in the UK to drive out there and leave as they were by far cheaper
Apparently it's something to do with less new cars being sold in those countries keeping the price of used ones artificially high, even tatty old wrecks fetch a high price

There's hope for me yet 

[mr.bluesky]

Just been announced that a load of old cars are being put up for same, just a word of warning though I think they've all been thrashed   

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Poor Bernie must be down to his last £billion then.

[timsussex]

Poor Bernie must be down to his last £billion then.

nah - he's only just realised he cant reach the pedals !

[Murray Mint]

Just been announced that a load of old cars are being put up for same, just a word of warning though I think they've all been thrashed   

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Ah! But would you buy a used car from that man, even if it only had one careful owner?

[DastardlyDick]

Could well be, I knew someone about 5 or 6 years ago who had a holiday home in Portugal and they were looking at buying a car in the UK to drive out there and leave as they were by far cheaper
Apparently it's something to do with less new cars being sold in those countries keeping the price of used ones artificially high, even tatty old wrecks fetch a high price

I believe the semi conductor shortage after COVID stopped new car production for some time as most (predictably) are made in China, which caused used cars to increase in value.