MC Victory up for auction in the UK

JonW

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It’s a tricky one isn’t it...

£43k plus 6% premium means it’s a 46k car. Add in a service and a £2k contingency for bits and pieces, and it’s over £50k...

That‘s still a pretty good price for an MC-V, but then this one has 44k miles.

if I were in the UK the last two weeks I would have gone to see the car in person, and then may have been willing to go a bit higher... however, given I haven’t seen the car, and given I think the seller was hoping for a number that started with a 5, I wasn’t willing to risk it...
 

Ewan

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£43k was never going to buy it. Not when it would retail from a dealer at high fifties. As mentioned above, more likely just an experimental exercise - put it on an auction with a reasonably high reserve and hope that someone comes along and bids big. Which this case, they didn’t.

But it’s probably still for sale, so if anyone is serious about buying a great car (as opposed to purely trying to fluke a bargain), they can contact the seller and still bag an MCV.
 

rockits

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Although a complete waste of people's time especially if a high reserve. Good sneaky way for a seller to get good advertising and exposure for free if no seller fees upfront.

Slightly flawed process really is it not?
 

allandwf

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Although a complete waste of people's time especially if a high reserve. Good sneaky way for a seller to get good advertising and exposure for free if no seller fees upfront.

Slightly flawed process really is it not?
It shows what the market is willing to pay does it not? So not really a waste of time, interesting I would think.
 

rockits

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It shows what the market is willing to pay does it not? So not really a waste of time, interesting I would think.
Well not really as it would be sold with no reserve to achieve this. It is just a game and test to see what the market will pay with no real intention to sell unless it made silly money.
 

JonW

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I’ve been swapping emails with the owner and the Collecting Cars people - seems someone went to see the car today and made an offer that is likely to be accepted... anyone on here?
 

rockits

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I'd love one of those but they are getting too close to a V12 to not go V12.

I went early manual 4.3 as it was well under £30k. If I had more cash I would have gone V12 for this one's kind of money. Many 4.7 V8's are in a funny place now for me price wise.
 

Wattie

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oh a manual S .... Rare to see one go for under 50k.
Drove a Manual up at Castie Combe and it was one helluva clutch push. Dunno if it was the particular car I drove but if they are all like that- around town would be a chore. That said, we stuck it in 4th and it literally did the entire track without changing. Massive torque.
 

Andyk

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I'd love one of those but they are getting too close to a V12 to not go V12.

I went early manual 4.3 as it was well under £30k. If I had more cash I would have gone V12 for this one's kind of money. Many 4.7 V8's are in a funny place now for me price wise.


An early manual V12 is around 65k.....sure you could get one with a bit of haggling for 60k though. Dealers are still asking high 60,s to 70k plus though and interesting to see that the V12 S has dropped to the same price as the early manual cars. Cheltenham Aston Marting had a V12s in yellow for 69k which sold quickly and there are private sale V12s at 65k. love the S but after looking an early manual car in Bristol this week when it was parked next to an S I think I prefer the early car with its classic. Just feel in love with this one.......Now what you mean with the 4.7 prices. The black car below has been for sale for ages and looks a bargain at 39k and it's a face lift, manual and at an Aston Maryin dealer.

https://www.autotrader.co.uk/classi...us=1500&price-from=35000&model=VANTAGE&page=3 Lightweight clutch to.
 

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Andyk

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Drove a Manual up at Castie Combe and it was one helluva clutch push. Dunno if it was the particular car I drove but if they are all like that- around town would be a chore. That said, we stuck it in 4th and it literally did the entire track without changing. Massive torque.

No they have a heavy clutch which is why Aston and most specialist offer an alternative.
 

mjheathcote

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An early manual V12 is around 65k.....sure you could get one with a bit of haggling for 60k though. Dealers are still asking high 60,s to 70k plus though and interesting to see that the V12 S has dropped to the same price as the early manual cars. Cheltenham Aston Marting had a V12s in yellow for 69k which sold quickly and there are private sale V12s at 65k. love the S but after looking an early manual car in Bristol this week when it was parked next to an S I think I prefer the early car with its classic. Just feel in love with this one.......Now what you mean with the 4.7 prices. The black car below has been for sale for ages and looks a bargain at 39k and it's a face lift, manual and at an Aston Maryin dealer.

https://www.autotrader.co.uk/classified/advert/201909252588990?advertising-location=at_cars&onesearchad=Used&onesearchad=Nearly New&onesearchad=New&price-to=50000&postcode=np165ly&make=ASTON MARTIN&sort=price-asc&radius=1500&price-from=35000&model=VANTAGE&page=3 Lightweight clutch to.

Is that brown though?
 

rockits

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I thought the V12 had dropped to less than that so maybe your right. Looks more like high 50's and 60k to get into one. I thought they were down to £50k.