Bought myself a bargain barge

I love these but am confused as to the price, 4k seems like a lot for a 14 year old one, surely it buys facelift cars?

I think it qualifies as an awesome barge rather than a bargain barge :p
 
I think the high price is more to do with the 1 owner thing. Great cars.
I agree though, not a bargain compared to other examples but certainly a good buy with that history.
 
Im not really a brand whore, but looking at that car, certainly the inside, you can kind of see why BMW/Audi/Merc are still the daddies with luxury motoring. The lexus,Inside, still looks like a upmarket Toyota.
 
Tinders said:
Im not really a brand whore, but looking at that car, certainly the inside, you can kind of see why BMW/Audi/Merc are still the daddies with luxury motoring. The lexus,Inside, still looks like a upmarket Toyota.
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The thing is, compare it with the equivalent BMW of the same age:

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Rilot said:
The thing is, compare it with the equivalent BMW of the same age:

You know all this Rilot but for the benefit of others:

This is completely unfair, the E38 was absolute end of life and last off the line at that age. You can barely even find an 02 plate one. The E38 is a 1996 car (and looked great in the 90's).

Here is an early E65 which was the 2002 model 7-series
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Tinders said:
Im not really a brand whore, but looking at that car, certainly the inside, you can kind of see why BMW/Audi/Merc are still the daddies with luxury motoring. The lexus,Inside, still looks like a upmarket Toyota.
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I'd rather 'suffer' with a slightly reduced interior aesthetic (still with stonking levels of comfort and refinement) in return for vastly improved reliability though :).
 
Howard is right, though. I'm not sure i would expect an early E65 to be anything other than a total nightmare of exploding coolant systems and general niggles with the winCE idrive system :p
 
Neil, how would you assess the audio quality of the Mark Levinson system? I'm guessing it doesn't have bluetooth phone prep (I don't mean A2DP). Without doing a load of googling, do you know if it is easy to retrofit some sort of USB input for memory stick/iPod/iPhone via a CD Changer input?
 
I found the fuel economy to be pretty good in these for what they are. I always managed mid-high 20's whereas the v8 jags and mercs ive had have always been high teens low 20's. Perhaps you're driving it harder than me :P
 
As Jez said, I wouldn't want a 2002 E65 even if it was £1k. They weren't that reliable even when they were new so god knows what a 14-year-old example would be like. Nope, for comfort at this end of the market the LS in king IMO.

And yeah, Fox. I see that it's an early E38 now. I also forgot about the 4:3 screen. The interior is largely the same though so my point stands. Yes, the Lexus looks dated but so does everything from that age.

Howard said:
Neil, how would you assess the audio quality of the Mark Levinson system? I'm guessing it doesn't have bluetooth phone prep (I don't mean A2DP). Without doing a load of googling, do you know if it is easy to retrofit some sort of USB input for memory stick/iPod/iPhone via a CD Changer input?
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In the GS which uses the same nav unit is was dead easy to add iPod support. You could buy an adaptor fairly cheaply that connected to the second CD changer port on the back of the unit.
 
Rilot said:
In the GS which uses the same nav unit is was dead easy to add iPod support. You could buy an adaptor fairly cheaply that connected to the second CD changer port on the back of the unit.
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And via this you can simply add ipod to bluetooth adapter for £15 and there is your 2016 A2DP :D
 
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