Qpv facelift colour spec question

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bello13

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Hi everyone,

I’m looking to buy a QPV S facelift and really want one in Oceano or Nettuno Blue (green would be also nice but I know extremely rare) with an Avorio interior. Do you know how rare this spec is? I’ve seen a lot of black ones for sale but not many in blue. Is it worth waiting for a blue one to come up, or should I go for a black one in good condition?

Thanks!


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Ebenezer

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That's what everyone wants! I settled for Black with Avorio (pre-facelift)

@MarkMas was the last person to go on that particular hunt (successfully)

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I waited for a year to try and find a sport GTS QPV in one of the colour schemes I wanted. And when one did finally come up it was a total dog. White with red/black interior wasn’t on my list but now I’ve got one (two if we are being pedantic), I love it to bits.
 
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bello13 said:
I’m looking to buy a QPV S facelift and really want one in Oceano or Nettuno Blue (green would be also nice but I know extremely rare) with an Avorio interior. Do you know how rare this spec is? I’ve seen a lot of black ones for sale but not many in blue. Is it worth waiting for a blue one to come up, or should I go for a black one in good condition?
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Ebenezer said:
That's what everyone wants! I settled for Black with Avorio (pre-facelift)
@MarkMas was the last person to go on that particular hunt (successfully)
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When I was looking, in 2021, there were a few Blu Oceano QPV S cars around to buy - maybe 4 came up in six months, with (I think) two of those in Avorio or Sabbia.

So you might be waiting a month to a year to find one. And a GT S with a light interior is almost impossible to find - maybe 1 a year comes up.

There used to be a website called https://carcolours.co.uk/ where you could see what cars had been newly registered in what colours (I guess using DVLA or SMMT data). It's dead now. I think this is a chart for QPs that I did from that data in 2021. I have no idea if it is accurate. I guess 2008 is the sweet spot.

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What is infuriating is that most car sales sites do not list or filter on interior colour, and several ads don't even show any interior photo.

You could try to hunt down cars that you have seen listed by dealers in the past somewhere:
EG:
LJ11EOA which was for sale at Elite Carriage Company in Salisbury in 2021
RX09CHN which was for sale at Giallo in 2019
RX07LUF was a bit rough in 2016, but I think had a light interior
KN07OBB has a dark interior https://www.sportsmaserati.com/index.php?threads/maserati-qpv-gts-does-anyone-know-the-cars.31484/

Or ask specialists if they have serviced one (this is how I found mine).

I tried asking individual forum members if they were selling, but nobody was (and one or two people were quite huffy to be asked).

Or wade through this:
 
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bello13

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MarkMas said:
When I was looking, in 2021, there were a few Blu Oceano QPV S cars around to buy - maybe 4 came up in six months, with (I think) two of those in Avorio or Sabbia.

So you might be waiting a month to a year to find one. And a GT S with a light interior is almost impossible to find - maybe 1 a year comes up.

There used to be a website called https://carcolours.co.uk/ where you could see what cars had been newly registered in what colours (I guess using DVLA or SMMT data). It's dead now. I think this is a chart for QPs that I did from that data in 2021. I have no idea if it is accurate. I guess 2008 is the sweet spot.

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What is infuriating is that most car sales sites do not list or filter on interior colour, and several ads don't even show any interior photo.

You could try to hunt down cars that you have seen listed by dealers in the past somewhere:
EG:
LJ11EOA which was for sale at Elite Carriage Company in Salisbury in 2021
RX09CHN which was for sale at Giallo in 2019
RX07LUF was a bit rough in 2016, but I think had a light interior
KN07OBB has a dark interior https://www.sportsmaserati.com/index.php?threads/maserati-qpv-gts-does-anyone-know-the-cars.31484/

Or ask specialists if they have serviced one (this is how I found mine).

I tried asking individual forum members if they were selling, but nobody was (and one or two people were quite huffy to be asked).

Or wade through this:
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Cheers mark!

There a couple black ones for sale but not to say black isn’t great but there is just something special about blue/cream. Very classy.. it’s one of those ones where I either wait it out and find the correct spec and hope condition is good or get one sooner but in a more basic spec

Dom


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I wouldn’t really call any of those cars cheap and certainly not once you add shipping, import duty and vat to the equation. You’re still buying a car sight unseen unless you factor in a flight to the other side of the world!
 
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MarkMas said:
I don't know which of your organs is worth £220,000, @DLax69 . None of mine are.
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