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Post by Deleted on May 20, 2021 14:04:47 GMT
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Post by WDB on May 20, 2021 14:11:51 GMT
I’m paying £2000 for a car 11 years old. This one is twice that age. Is the mk1 Focus an appreciating classic now? Even in unlovely saloon form?
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Post by Deleted on May 20, 2021 14:17:42 GMT
It will be soon. Especially in lovely saloon form. And beige.
Anyway, there isn't a linear relationship between the value of all cars and their age. And this is from a dealer, yours is a private sale from a personal contact. It's not really apples and apples. Also, a mk1 Focus is a car, not a tumble dryer.
If you were to line up your Aygo and this Focus in front of me, both with £2000 on the screen, I'd buy the Focus. You wouldn't. Diff'rent strokes, innit.
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Post by WDB on May 20, 2021 14:35:30 GMT
The Focus wouldn’t fit the space on my drive. I like the Focus — more than I like the Mondeo — and it was a groundbreaking design in 1998, but the hatch is the standout model, so I’ll leave this one to you. 🤠
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Post by Humph on May 20, 2021 14:41:41 GMT
I'm finding it hard to come up with the right words to describe that. "Absolutely hideous" seems too generous somehow.
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Post by Deleted on May 20, 2021 14:44:17 GMT
Ain't life strange. Pretty much automotive perfection to me. Could only be beaten by a Regata or a Sud.
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Post by Humph on May 20, 2021 14:55:28 GMT
The Aygo was allegedly aimed at the iPhone generation, that, however, was solidly targeted at the British Home Stores generation. Just horrible. If it wasn't beige, and it was a hatch, then maybe it would be OK, but that would be like asking your son to learn to drive in a pair of crimplene slacks.
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Post by Deleted on May 20, 2021 14:58:11 GMT
You've heard of this new fangled fashion thing called "Hipster", right?
Honestly, the lad would be fine with that. He prefers a saloon to a hatch, as does any right thinking gentleman.
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Post by Humph on May 20, 2021 14:59:02 GMT
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Post by Deleted on May 20, 2021 15:04:22 GMT
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Post by Humph on May 20, 2021 15:06:26 GMT
Be ideal with that coat of yours...
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Post by Deleted on May 20, 2021 15:07:01 GMT
You haven't seen the leather Aussie bushman's hat I wear with it either.
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Post by Humph on May 20, 2021 15:09:08 GMT
Every cloud as they say, every cloud...
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Post by EspadaIII on May 20, 2021 21:05:08 GMT
Hmmmmm.....
Metallic beige... I like it!
Have to admit I really like the Mk1 Focus, saloon, hatch or estate. I could even pay £2k for that example although the Mazda 3 from last week was even better.
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Post by dixinormus on May 20, 2021 21:09:39 GMT
1500 quid tops, to the person who wants to drive a future museum piece (albeit not the design museum).
Shouldn’t snicker though; there are thousands of cars like this and of this vintage still on the roads in NZ. But they are almost exclusively Japanese, not Fords.
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