Anyone really looking for a GranTurismo?

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bigbob

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So here's one that is now £22950 retail:

http://morecarsltd.com/vehicle/maserati-granturismo-4-2-2dr/

There will be plenty of:

-I don't like the exterior colour
-I don't like the two tone dash etc
-I don't like the mileage
-I don't know the dealer
-It's bound to need new suspension bushes, shocks, a/c compressor, nav screen, tyres, brakes, air freshener
etc
etc
etc

However, at the end of the day it's cheap and some of you are after a cheap GranTurismo or at least you say you are after a cheap GranTurismo. Anyone?

PS There is another here for the same price with a cleaner looking MOT history:

https://www.autotrader.co.uk/classi...onesearchad=Nearly New&onesearchad=New&page=1









Happy Christmas BTW
 
allandwf

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They both look great, I do like the colour of the first one. Nice Christmas presents for someone. Although I do hate it when the air freshener has worn out! ;)
 
CatmanV2

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Stupid cheap! I like the exterior (but I don't do red cars). The interior is 'interesting'

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Yep. After sticking at > £30k asking prices for the last three years the early GT were bound to take a rapid price correction, and this year was that point.

I have been thinking for a while to swap the GS for one. However that car is depreciation nutural now, where as a GT will cost me more to maintain and continue to go down to £15k in the next three year.

However I may decided to have both and use the GT as my normal car and keep the GS as a toy...or swap that for the best 4200 out there.
 
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safrane said:
Yep. After sticking at > £30k asking prices for the last three years the early GT were bound to take a rapid price correction, and this year was that point.

I have been thinking for a while to swap the GS for one. However that car is depreciation nutural now, where as a GT will cost me more to maintain and continue to go down to £15k in the next three year.

However I may decided to have both and use the GT as my normal car and keep the GS as a toy...or swap that for the best 4200 out there.
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Can't see a GT at £15k sorry. They will do what the GS has done and sit around the £20k mark and then appreciate once we find out that there will never be another V8 with Mechanical steering and that the next sporty Maser will have be full Electric.
 
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Not sure the base 4.2 will stick at 20. MC Shift for sure, I'd agree.

We shall see I guess. Be interesting to see how much I need to spend to get into the MC Shift in 2020

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safrane said:
Yep. After sticking at > £30k asking prices for the last three years the early GT were bound to take a rapid price correction, and this year was that point.

I have been thinking for a while to swap the GS for one. However that car is depreciation nutural now, where as a GT will cost me more to maintain and continue to go down to £15k in the next three year.

However I may decided to have both and use the GT as my normal car and keep the GS as a toy...or swap that for the best 4200 out there.
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Given you do low miles in the GS, Peter, I would not sell it to replace it with a GranTurismo. Running the latter as a daily driver could make sense but if you keep the GS why not run a used Ghibli or QPVI as a daily?
 
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There will certainly be 15k GT's. As they are so usable as a daily for many & have demonstrated being able to do plenty of miles there will start to be some 80k, 90k & 100k+ miles. Many will have started to need money spent on them and will easily hit 15k. Just look at 3200's, 4200's & QP's. Even the strongest model of recent times the GS would have had some models with higher miles & lesser examples go through the trade/market at 15k or lower a few years back.

Obviously decent ones will always be worth more but there will be a decent supply of 4.2's coming onto the market in the next year or two at sub 20k. When you can get a 4.7 GTS for 30k & less earlier higher miles 4.2's will easily be sub 20k.

I don't see a 4.2 GT bouncing back up north as strong like the GS's though.

There is no reason a GT wouldn't hit 10k. You have to bear in mind we appreciate, support & get the brand as a cracking 2nd hand buy. Trouble is the rest of the market doesn't see it the same way including the trade.

There will be a ton of competitive vehicles out there with values on the floor. There aren't many people that want a big lumpy motor 10 years+ old. It is certainly a small & difficult area of the market.
 
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Yep totally agree with that

The only thing stopping it from going south of 20k is that it is still a current model sp you can buy a cheap 4.2 and look vaguely similar to someone rolling around in a new GranTurismo worth 100k plus.

I'd rather keep my 4200 and maybe buy a 4.7 QPV in a few of years or maybe a ghibli s
 
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It is a little weird why the QP is so much cheaper than an equivalent GT when they are pretty much the same car, size & weight. The QP is a little more practical & is cheaper...win win for me. I would have paid more for a QP over a GT as don't value a coupe with big front pain in the butt doors, no rear doors & smaller boot. However as the QP's were cheaper then great.

I can see why some would want a GT over a QP but for me the QP represents so much better value for almost the same car. Now if a GT were smaller & lighter like a 4200 or GS it would be a completely different story.
 
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Why would you want to buy an old troublesome Granturismo when you could buy a nice classic 3200GT for the same money

Its a no brainier, there's thousands of Granturismos's but only a handful of nice 3200GT's!

Dave
 
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