Re: Startech Roadster for sale.
I agree you have a good point Steve as I have just looked on the auto Trader in which I have not been on lately. as for last year I lived on their looking at crossfire, xk, and Maserati.
I did not know that the convertibles had dropped that much I wish it would have been like that this time last year as it was a convertible I preferred.
I saw the standard cars dropping last year but this is probably due to the traders not shifting many of these cars enabling them to buy them in cheap and then pass on at cheaper prices which doesn't help the resale value for people like us. But the collector or somebody that wants one of these special cars to cherish. Money isn't the issue for them so much and that's the sort of buyer we should look for if we ever sell.
I didn't think they could get much lower than last year but they're still plummeting down. looking back now I wished I would have bought another xk8 convertible because that's what the original plan was way before the crossfire came into my head. but there dropping to but the convertible is holding its prices slightly better. But I kept thinking about the crossfire and needed to try one like you do .but I must admit I'm really miss my xk convertible and do regard it as the best car I've owned.
But I would never compare the Jag to the crossfire as that would be totally unfair to both cars as they are too totally different beasts in their own right. Please don't think I am putting down the crossfire .I do love my car and its fun to drive but it's just for me something is missing but after driving Jaguars for years now that is probably not helped matters as it's not that I've gone from your normal day-to-day runabout to the crossfire.
But there's no way I will ever give my car away at a ridiculous price I'd sooner let it rot away before I give it away and at the present I would probably want a lot more than I paid for it because of the rarity of the car. But I suppose it's because I've lost thousands of pounds on cars having them on loans, contract lease, etc etc and nothing to show for it at the end and I'm glad that I was so so fortunate to have paid cash out right for my crossfire and not having interest to pay on loans which makes it worse even more when you decide to sell losing even more and I know we're not all in that position to pay out right and we have to use other means of getting our toys. But in my case I've tried the other and now it's a great feeling knowing I don't own a bean on my car.
Let's hope the crossfire will become a collectors piece like the E- type and we all will get our money back.