Yeah, but some of the cars people drive here aren’t boggo family hatches though. There could also be a security concern if randoms are asking you.
Nobody asks about my Astra.
How much is your car mate ?
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Nobody asks about my Astra.
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If you get asked, just launch into a concerted sales pitch to try and get them to buy it.
Soldato
Very clean example, wants for nothing?
Soldato
Give them the "It's priced to sell" line.
Man of Honour
Pulls like a train.
In the style of Swiss Toni.
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Don't worry it'll need doing again and again
Could be worse though you could have a bmw 4 pot diesel chainsnapper, and replace them like 4 times already. Best ones are the 6 pots that require the engine out...I remember when a chain meant it'd outlive the car...
Yeah, but some of the cars people drive here aren’t boggo family hatches though. There could also be a security concern if randoms are asking you.
Nobody asks about my Astra.
In my case it has nothing to do with security. Anybody who wanted to know could just look it up on the internet. For me it falls into being brought up in a family where to ask people about money just wasn't the done thing. Just like calling adults by their first name as a child wasn't a thing and I had to put aunt or uncle in front of their name, even though they weren't my real aunt or uncle. Fellow Gen Xers can probably relate. Maybe i'm old fashioned, but was curious how others felt about it.
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Until rececntly I was driving a 11 year old 12k range rover and was constantly getting comments about how rich I must be. Maybe they were refering to the cost of running it 
Shoo you ghastly person, mummy, the unwashed person tried to speak to me, you never told me they were allowed to do that!!
Jeeves, give him some money and get him to sign the NDA and then get rid of him. Also, SAS Dave, I said 10 metre radius not 10 feet and if they shout, slot em.
Jeeves, give him some money and get him to sign the NDA and then get rid of him. Also, SAS Dave, I said 10 metre radius not 10 feet and if they shout, slot em.
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Man of Honour
I got this quite a lot with the XR3. My usual answer was "Nice ones go for anything up to 15 grand but this one's a rough old dog" and leave it at that.
Understood some of this but loved it anyway. 10/10 thank you
I just say : "Your energy bills pay for my car"
Because it sounds better than 'someone else pays for most of it'?
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i get this quite a bit and usually just state approx how much they are trading on autotrader or ph for rather than how much I paid, usually it comes from a good place (but not always), along with the normal "did you build it yourself?" and "dont you get wet?"... which whilst looking at an Atom im like well... yes when it rains I do get wet, it has plenty of grip but dodging rain drops isnt really a thing...
I tend to go list price, what I paid, what I think it's currently worth, often suggesting if they want to buy it then make me an offer. Covers all avenues really and gives a perspective to people really interested. I tend to get asked more what's it's top speed or what's its 0-60 but have probably been asked how much are they 3 or 4 times.
The Polo GTI we're talking about here?