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  • CKhalvashi
    CKhalvashi Posts: 12,134 Forumite
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    I've been at it again, this time keeping it for ourselves.

    Paid £350 plus a couple beers for the car, needs MoT end of May and had 2 tires (£79 + VAT each) fitted earlier today. 104k miles, full dealer service history, and it's local car to me from new. Owned by someone in their 60s from new.

    Apart from hating 3 door cars and manual gearboxes, I really like it already!

    CK

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  • worried_jim
    worried_jim Posts: 11,631 Forumite
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    Looks fabulous for £350!
  • CKhalvashi
    CKhalvashi Posts: 12,134 Forumite
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    worried_jim wrote: »
    Looks fabulous for £350!

    Pulls at 30mph in 6th, and averaging about 40mpg (town/B-road driving)

    There again, I don't drive like the idiot anymore :)

    CK
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  • rev_henry
    rev_henry Posts: 4,965 Forumite
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    That's not an ST badge on the back is it?!
  • scaredofdebt
    scaredofdebt Posts: 1,663 Forumite
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    rev_henry wrote: »
    That's not an ST badge on the back is it?!

    Not if he's getting 40 MPG around town in it.

    :rotfl:
    Make £2018 in 2018 Challenge - Total to date £2,108
  • CKhalvashi
    CKhalvashi Posts: 12,134 Forumite
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    rev_henry wrote: »
    That's not an ST badge on the back is it?!

    Yup, it's proper ST170.

    The 40mpg is a mix of town and B-road driving, but it's happy to change gear at 1500rpm (and that is how I'm driving it), as it has torque of a diesel car.

    There is no point to drive like idiot, only to halve efficiency :)
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  • Farzackerly
    Farzackerly Posts: 265 Forumite
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    An ST170 for £350? Jammy buggr.
    It's as I've always said though; take a modern high-output engine and drive it sensibly and it will reflect its efficiency in higher than expected miles per gallon.
    I found the same years ago with modern (at the time) Jap bike engines and could wring 60mpg out of a GS850 if I sat at sedate speeds on the motorway. Boring as hell, though.
  • colino
    colino Posts: 5,059 Forumite
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    I know I'm being a fool to myself, but I'll take that scrapper off your hands CKhalvashi for £360, cash!
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    colino wrote: »
    I know I'm being a fool to myself, but I'll take that scrapper off your hands CKhalvashi for £360, cash!

    Me too. I'll even stretch to £400!

    Nothing like that round my area for that price ever pops up.
  • colino
    colino Posts: 5,059 Forumite
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    OK Lee, I'm out.
    That isn't just great bangeromics, it is a sensational deal. You've bought the whole car for what you could expect to sell the wheels for.
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