Quattroporte Vs Listed For Sale

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Benbuhagiar

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I'm struggling to see the value in this one given the mileage and condition when there are others available with far lower miles for not much more and even these seem to take a while to shift.

I think £7 - 8k max.

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This didn't actually sell. I just called the owner the winner of the auction failled to collect it...shocker!

I'm kind of interested but not at £11,650.

What do we think is a fair price based on the miles? Let's say I drivethe car for 2 years and the miles are up to 140k. Who's actually going to buy it from me?
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You would have thought someone would break them at the prices they are selling for. How much are front and rear lights?,
 
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On reflection, it's worth £5k max. You drive it for 1/2 years with minimal spending and then sell on an ebay action starting at £0.99 with no reserve.
 
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I don't think the miles matter as much as the condition and recent repairs. A 70,000 mile car that needs variators, subframe, louder exhaust, lambdas, bushes, arms, discs, calliper-painting, concave grille, etc, is worth £8k less than a 140,000 car with all that recently done, IMHO.

Regarding breaking, the parts are really valuable, so I think it is all about the labour, and the attitude to used parts. If I was mechanically-minded and had a reasonable-sized garage, I would definitely snap up a cheap sacrificial QP, and gradually take off what I needed to keep my 'real' QP going. But would not want to have to actually break the car and then try to sell each part on eBay with the inevitable hassle when some parts failed soon after sale. YMMV

Last time I checked a front light unit was £1,700. o_O
 
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Benbuhagiar said:
On reflection, it's worth £5k max. You drive it for 1/2 years with minimal spending and then sell on an ebay action starting at £0.99 with no reserve.
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I think it's worth a bit more than that. Depending on why you want it. I think you pay £8,500, put another £4,000 into it and drive it for 15 years, putting in another £1,500 per year. Well, that's what I have been doing...
 
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For clarity, I wasn’t suggesting anyone break it. Just that the current pricing is so low that you could reasonably make your money back (if not more) by taking it apart piece by piece.
 
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I can see QPVs slowly following the price path of e46 and e36 M3s before them. A £10-15k M3 ten years is £20-25k now. For the M3s the trend was set by the CS special while for the QP by the GTS. The fact that the upkeep of a Maserati is much more than an BMW also means that there are fewer good ones around but also fewer people that can really afford them.

The problem sparing a donor car (other than space) is that it would be useful resource in an accident. Otherwise the bits that really go wrong due to age/use will likely also be worn out.
 
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I have a friend who had 2 QP’s (consecutively) as daily drivers. Bought one with 60k on the clock and took it to 120k without much hassle. Now has a Ghibli, so it’s certainly possible.
 
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