I am amazed this Rover 75 on ebay got no bids at all. Other rover 75s seem to be selling.. Doesn't seem to be over priced? I thought there would be mass bidding at the end, but there wasn't. I was tempted to bid but was thinking maybe other people are not bidding for a reason I am not spotting. Seller didn't seem dodgy or anything, decent feedback.
In message , Adrian writes
Could it be cos its six years old and asking price was five grand??
Under the current circumstances I'd expect a two year old model for that price.
From what I can see, there's a couple of reasons. No.1 is that it has the least desireable engine / gearbox combination - the 1.8 is pretty gutless, and combined with a slushomatic this will make it dog slow.
The other reason is that interior. Was the orignal buyer totally colourblind when he ordered dark leather seats with a light colour dash?
My 2000 Xantia hdi with the same mileage is worth about £3000 so I'd think the price for an older, smaller engine driving a heavy car through an auto box- with mention of previous owners (how many?) and the uncertainty of being able to repair it in the future, would be about £2500. DaveK.
with mention of previous owners (how many?) Just looked again and see it's on its third owner. And those seats look like they came out of a 1965 Triumph Toledo. DaveK.
"Paul Giverin" wrote
And it's hideous inside. £5k for a six year old Rover with 55,000 on the clock? I'd pay maybe half that.
Add to that the "Wedgewood Blue" paint. Which is just awful.
And the 15" wheels, which look crap.
Mine was a 2.0 V6 Manual in Atlantic Blue, mid spec with the 16" rims and looked much nicer - and was still dumped off at about 4000 quid after 2 yr
80k.
I see what you mean, it's truly vile isn't it.
When I bought mine my dealer told me that he wouldn't take orders for wedgewood blue, primrose yellow or antique white as he didn't think customers would accept the car on delivery they were so awful.
However having said that I saw an older (1974 I think) Jag XJ in flat pink (original colour) at the garage that services my Volvo. Why????
Malc ( snipped-for-privacy@ubht.swest.nhs.uk) gurgled happily, sounding much like they were saying :
I think he must have been colourblind - read the description :- "The interior is... one of the main reasons we bought this car" "gorgeous dash"
Even ignoring the ropy colour scheme, the start price isn't far off Parkers "Private Good" price - £5390 - and that's certainly the wrong fleaBay strategy. Low start, low-to-realistic reserve is the only way to do it.
Not putting a full MOT on it is daft, as is SORNing it - Just over a hundred quid would have seen a new ticket and six months tax on it.
TBH, looking at the completed 75 sales, it doesn't look massively unusual - I think it has to be the high start price (or the 1.8/auto combo). There's even others with that same interior colour combination - but their pics don't look quite so vile...
for example :-
I'm really getting weary of this cobblers. Just why do you believe that there will be any difficulties in repairing a Rover 75 in the future? You can still get repairs and spares for Ladas for christs sake! Spares are not supplied by the manufacturer but by independent spare parts suppliers.
Kev
But they are a damned sight more comfortable than most of the 'church pew' seats put in current cars from other manufacturers. Read any Rover 75 review and you will find that it majors highly on comfort and ride quality. You may have not realised it but the 75 was 'retro' designed deliberately...............
Kev
Why? What is there about the current circumstances that would warrant such a suggestion? Will servicing be a problem? - No. Will spares be a problem? - No. So just what *is* the problem?
Kev
The colour on the photos is inaccurate. The lower part of the dash on Rover
75's (apart from the recent 'Contemporary') comes in just two colours - Grey and Sandstone Beige. As standard the grey (which is actually darker than the photos make it appear) comes with black leather/cloth. You may not like it personally but at least its different - unlike the acres of black plastic on 95% of cars on the road today. Incidentally do you also strongly dislike the dashboard on the X-type Jag (which is virtually identical)?Kev
Pete M ( snipped-for-privacy@blue-nopressedmeat-yonder.co.uk) gurgled happily, sounding much like they were saying :
I can definitely see it happening, and I don't think it'll be that long. It'll be one of those "word-of-mouth" surprise cult cars, I reckon - but it's only going to be the KV6, I think.
Indeed. I wonder how many actually got built? I've seen exactly two - one was course car at Snetterton last summer, before they were officially launched, and the other was a blue 'un in a pub car park a few months ago. Of course, the *real* scarcity's going to be the Rover v8, not the ZT260.
Market forces - influenced in this case by people's worries, whether justified or not.
Spares for 75s have been hard to get for a while already - might actually be easier now without MG-Rover in the frame!
As for Ladas, spares dried up in the UK ages ago - have a spare one here we've been using to keep my dad's going - though I think it's going for crushing at the weekend.
For those who are interested - he bought a scenic...
There's one less after one got trashed at the autocar sideways challenge...
In message , Uno Hoo! writes
The *problem* is that the price of new models has plummeted so who in their right mind would pay 5k for a 6 year old model. As someone else has said, its market forces in action. The fact that the car in question didn't sell backs this up.
Tim S Kemp ( snipped-for-privacy@timkemp.karoo.co.uk) gurgled happily, sounding much like they were saying :
You just ain't looking.
Ladas fetch decent money on fleaBay - why pay to crush it?
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