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what is the cheapest car you can buy???
« on: 06 February 2011, 00:46:49 »

just watched top gears cheap car challenge (awsome episode as usual) and jc got his car for a quid cos of the scrappage law.

where can you buy a car for a quid???

discuss. :)
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Re: what is the cheapest car you can buy???
« Reply #1 on: 06 February 2011, 01:00:59 »

Top Gear's 'Cheap Car Challenge'  :y  ;)
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Re: what is the cheapest car you can buy???
« Reply #2 on: 06 February 2011, 08:37:20 »

yeah, I wondered that too at the time - it was an old Volvo estate wasnt it?  :o
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Re: what is the cheapest car you can buy???
« Reply #3 on: 06 February 2011, 08:40:54 »

volvo saloon i think, the one he crashed into a wall and broke his thumb iirc
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Re: what is the cheapest car you can buy???
« Reply #4 on: 06 February 2011, 10:43:21 »

that was when you had to pay scrap yards to scrap your car
this was when the ELV was brought in
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Re: what is the cheapest car you can buy???
« Reply #5 on: 06 February 2011, 10:50:50 »

When i worked for peugeot / citroen we would often 'stand cars in' as £1 even though we may have given the customer a few hundred quid for their part ex, Because there is nornally enough profit in the car we sold to write off that amount and still show a sensible profit amount.

Reason being......

Then when we sent the cars to auction or sold them to trade our Trade account always shows a Profit as well as our new and used sales as we were targeted on all 3.
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Re: what is the cheapest car you can buy???
« Reply #6 on: 06 February 2011, 15:29:12 »

so excluding part exchange is there any where now i can pick up a car for a quid (or below 100????

would love to get one for a week and murder it hahahaha

btw, yeah it was a volvo salloon. 416 GLE - it actually was sound. hahaha
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Re: what is the cheapest car you can buy???
« Reply #7 on: 06 February 2011, 15:33:24 »

sorry it was the 760 gle.

hamster bought a 416gti rover - just got confused.com  ;D ;D
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Re: what is the cheapest car you can buy???
« Reply #8 on: 06 February 2011, 15:42:30 »

A few years ago I bought my brother's Punto Sporting off him for £5.
He was going to Afganistan and could not be bothered to sell it as it had "issues". It was a 98 R in bronze with 76,000 miles. I had it for 3 months while I fixed it up to what was a nice little car. I am a marine engineer so went back to sea 3 months later and sold it for £570 (didn't tell him that for a while and then I owed him a pint or two!!). I still see it running around nowadays, which I think is pretty cool.
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Re: what is the cheapest car you can buy???
« Reply #9 on: 06 February 2011, 15:53:52 »

hahaha nice one! not so nice you sold it for 3 million percent profit though  ;D ;D ;D ;D
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Re: what is the cheapest car you can buy???
« Reply #10 on: 06 February 2011, 15:56:32 »

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sorry it was the 760 gle. 

My dad used to have one of those. Not an easy car to kill. ;D

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Re: what is the cheapest car you can buy???
« Reply #11 on: 06 February 2011, 15:59:12 »

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sorry it was the 760 gle. 

My dad used to have one of those. Not an easy car to kill. ;D

Kevin

But a bastaad to work on.
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Re: what is the cheapest car you can buy???
« Reply #12 on: 06 February 2011, 16:24:40 »

To me it is any car that is given away and can be worked on cheaply, with parts from the scrappy, to keep going for at least a year. :D :D :D :D :D ;)

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Re: what is the cheapest car you can buy???
« Reply #13 on: 06 February 2011, 16:27:15 »

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When i worked for peugeot / citroen we would often 'stand cars in' as £1 even though we may have given the customer a few hundred quid for their part ex, Because there is nornally enough profit in the car we sold to write off that amount and still show a sensible profit amount.

Reason being......

Then when we sent the cars to auction or sold them to trade our Trade account always shows a Profit as well as our new and used sales as we were targeted on all 3.

We used to do the same at Vauxhall as well, (Hartwells). Took some explaining to customers, especially the thicko ones who couldn't get their head around the balance to change figures staying the same.
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Re: what is the cheapest car you can buy???
« Reply #14 on: 06 February 2011, 16:59:10 »

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When i worked for peugeot / citroen we would often 'stand cars in' as £1 even though we may have given the customer a few hundred quid for their part ex, Because there is nornally enough profit in the car we sold to write off that amount and still show a sensible profit amount.

Reason being......

Then when we sent the cars to auction or sold them to trade our Trade account always shows a Profit as well as our new and used sales as we were targeted on all 3.

We used to do the same at Vauxhall as well, (Hartwells). Took some explaining to customers, especially the thicko ones who couldn't get their head around the balance to change figures staying the same.


Indeed i remember it well.  ;D
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