Tramps_mate

Theyve lost the bleedin plot from the look of it. This car shouldnt be more than £5000.. Never mind $40,000!!! Unbelievable!

http://www.brisbanecarmarket.com/vie...Wagon/5458752/

DrWho

It's a diesel 100 series 'Cruiser... the outback tourer of choice for all the nomads... check out carsales.com.au and I think you'll find a whole bunch of 2004-2006 models at over $50k... they're worth whatever anyone will pay...

Tramps_mate

WOW!!

Should import them from the UK and make some wedge! lol

iamthecreaturefromuranus

Have a look into that and you'll see why we don't all do it.

Tramps_mate

Yeah I guessed there would be a hitch!

jad n rich

Would be like anything else thats 10 X the price here, if you import it it wouldnt meet 'australian standards'.

isgraham

It's a joke isn't it. Never mind I suppose amazulu or commonwealth will be telling you it's great because it's in Australia and everywhere else is crap.

iamthecreaturefromuranus

So I buy a new Toyota in Australia and when I come to sell it, some years later, I still get a decent resale price.
or.....
I buy a new Toyota in the UK and when I come to sell it, some years later, I get the price of a couple of Mars bars and a can of coke for it.


You tell me which one is the "joke"

In Exile

or you buy a reasonably priced second hand car in the UK
or you buy a very high priced second hand car in australia

works both ways.

iamthecreaturefromuranus

or you buy a reasonably priced second hand car in the UK... and when you come to sell it it's worthless.
or you buy a very high priced second hand car in australia... and when you come to sell it you get a decent return.

jad n rich

But do you??

Certainly not at a car dealership.

Honda wanted to halve the price of our Sedan, when we tried to trade it in, it was only 18 months old.

On cars 10 years or over, most aussie dealers will only offer you the bog standard $2000 trade in.

You have to find that private buyer who has more cash than brains I guess

KJCherokee

People buy Landcruisers in the UK so they look good attending a point-to-point meeting. A second-hand one doesn't cut the mustard so the demand for used ones is low and so is the price.

People buy Landcruisers in Australia because they are necessary to access large parts of the country, spare parts are available everywhere, and they have a proven reliability record. Second-hand ones are in great demand and the prices are correspondingly high.

jad n rich

Impress on the 3klm traffic jam to the local primary school

In Exile

or you buy a reasonably priced second hand car in the UK... and when you come to sell it it's worthless. but you have not been hit with the initial (and significantly larger) depreciation from new>used

or you buy a very high priced second hand car in australia... and when you come to sell it you get a decent return. to recoup some of the money you spent in buying a more expensive second hand car

In Exile

ha ha! surely not. people buy landcruisers in Australia so they can drive Little Johnny to football practice and make sure he's absolutely 100% safe because he coudn't be harmed inside a tank.
It further protects him from impact jolts when they bash into other cars whilst parking.

I'll invent a statistic thats probably not too far off the mark: 90% of 'off road' vehicles in Australia have never left the main cities or highways.