Skoda Superb III 4x4 280 - A sleeper’s journey – 280ps to 560ps
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yours. skoda is pretty quick arent they sorta like a golf with a skoda badge
Arteon with a Skoda badge but yes
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so cost was £70K+ for car plus all the mods?
I know it's a hobby and enjoyment but would honestly rather have just bought a porsche, bentley, aston or dare i say it a jag or even the lexus sports cars second hand. i don't really care what it can do on a track or on a rolling road. if i really needed a big car the the bentley. would likely have went porsche or aston though.
it's a shame after all that you are selling it. can you not just get a loan for your extension? i mean if you can drop £70K+ on a car then you should be able to get a loan for an extension or a re-mortgage. or even just pay them cash as they complete work on a monthly basis. just seems a waste after all that you have went through to make this your car and it now will no longer be.
i would be surprised though if it sold. £35K on a second hand skoda. people still hate the badge.
I know it's a hobby and enjoyment but would honestly rather have just bought a porsche, bentley, aston or dare i say it a jag or even the lexus sports cars second hand. i don't really care what it can do on a track or on a rolling road. if i really needed a big car the the bentley. would likely have went porsche or aston though.
it's a shame after all that you are selling it. can you not just get a loan for your extension? i mean if you can drop £70K+ on a car then you should be able to get a loan for an extension or a re-mortgage. or even just pay them cash as they complete work on a monthly basis. just seems a waste after all that you have went through to make this your car and it now will no longer be.
i would be surprised though if it sold. £35K on a second hand skoda. people still hate the badge.
Your input is appreciated and noted. We are all different and having a second hand supercar is not something everyone likes, some like to be different and not everyone has the same opinion about car brands so, even if it takes some time, I am sure the right buyer will be found
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i hope you keep it tbh. you have went a long way to make it your car. the youtube video will definitely help so if a buyer isn't found within the next 2-3 months it's likely it won't be without dropping the price which means you may decide to keep it. would be a shame for you to sell it now after all you have went through.
It was posted in the Octavia vRS Owners group on Facebook and the general feedback seemed to be 'awesome car but £35k for an unwarrantied Skoda is absolutely mental'.
Quite why the warranty bothered them I'm not sure given there can't be much more than the radio left that they'd warranty anyway
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It was posted in the Octavia vRS Owners group on Facebook and the general feedback seemed to be 'awesome car but £35k for an unwarrantied Skoda is absolutely mental'.
Quite why the warranty bothered them I'm not sure given there can't be much more than the radio left that they'd warranty anyway
a Golf R with similar mileage and the same year can be had for £19K granted it doesn't have the mods or power but day to day that isn't going to make any difference.
for £32K you can get a Audi S7 4.0 TFSI quattro 450 PS S tronic 5dr which is a 2015 plate with 36K miles, 444 bhp, the boot the interior the spec is no comparison at all. with the spare £3k you could also get a 2 week holiday abroad in a 4/5 star hotel.
he really should just keep the car. I don't see anyone crazy enough to buy it especially with the badge it has.
Isn't that the usual way with heavily modified cars though? You see the same story all the time - Owner starts modifying, then huge sums of money thrown at the car, finally the owner has it barely any time at all in its final spec then sells it or puts it back to stock and tries to recover costs on the parts.
I'm sure the reasons are various for the inevitable sale but I'm always surprised there isn't a longer period of time just enjoying the final package before moving it on. Maybe the reality doesn't meet expectation in a lot of cases.
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Some people seem to enjoy the "build" phase of the car more than the end result.
Doesn't apply to everyone though, I'm 4 years into the Turbo MX5 ownership journey and nowhere close to selling up
This is the biggest problem. Forget about supercars, 25k gets you a low mileage Audi S6 with the same v8 twin turbo that will map to ~600bhp with minimal hardware mods.
It's almost as undercover and practical, and I'd dare say with similar running costs, the v8 has cylinder deactivation when cruising.
But I'd dare say realiability is in another league, and you get a lovely v8 noise, a much better quattro system (torsen & sports diff) and quite a few thosand pounds in pocket change.
Heavily modified cars never get the investment back unfortunately, I agree it is something truly unique though.
Good luck with the sale!
This is absolutely true, it is also absolutely why I steered away from tuning the SVR, because tune, pullies, exhaust sports cats, by the time I finished be around £5000 in but would de-value the car by around £10,000, so total cost would be like £15,000 as modding such a car, invalidating warranty would make it very un-desirable to any buyer or as trade in value, so I simply decide against it, make it look how I want which cost minimal and leave power as it is, not like its slow anyway with 600 plus HP.
Quite why the warranty bothered them I'm not sure given there can't be much more than the radio left that they'd warranty anyway
IIRC the head-unit isn't covered by the warranty
This is absolutely true, it is also absolutely why I steered away from tuning the SVR, because tune, pullies, exhaust sports cats, by the time I finished be around £5000 in but would de-value the car by around £10,000, so total cost would be like £15,000 as modding such a car, invalidating warranty would make it very un-desirable to any buyer or as trade in value, so I simply decide against it, make it look how I want which cost minimal and leave power as it is, not like its slow anyway with 600 plus HP.
people dont trust a modded car i read this on my other forums all the time, you're looking for a car that's extremely low mileage and hasn't been modded at all and preferably, less than a year old.
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Excluding the OP, I bet most mid to highly modified cars never run quite right, with endless trips to mappers, rolling roads etc etc. That's my theory anyway
Excluding the OP, I bet most mid to highly modified cars never run quite right, with endless trips to mappers, rolling roads etc etc. That's my theory anyway
I suspect you're right.
I can only see one type of buyer for this car. Someone who wants to do the exact same mods to the same car (or near identical) and wants to save a ton of cash. My feeling is there aren't of these types in the country.
Thank you all for your input. I do have a couple of offers I am considering but on the other hand I can wait for a bit longer too so the car is not going back to stock or sold for less than I believe its worth. The work done on it is exemplar and it will find the right buyer at the right time.
yes............someone who wants this car as a street sleeper but sees it as work in progress because this car should be running 10s, this car wont go back to stock, because why buy it and return it to stock when there's already so many others for sale....it makes no sense.
The l&k with all the extras I have in is £34k from broadspeed (btw the broadspeed configurator shows the RRP to be £2500 less than the Skoda configurator so something is off, should have been £36.500). Add 30k of mods. That's £64k (or £66.500 with the correct full price). £34k (£36.500?) is a good saving
Apples and oranges BTW a 3 year old l&k with full extras is around £20k (£50k with mods plus a long time spent to make these x what your time is worth) so that is an even better comparison if you wanted to make one.
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