To borrow a line from Lopez....

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Lopéz said:
Oh my God, what the hell have I bought
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2000 Mitsubishi Galant 2.5 V6 24v Estate.

Leather, Electrically adjustable and heated seats and no end of other luxuries I've never had before like PAS and Climate. Cost to me, £446 including buyers premium. It'll still be worth it even if it turns out to be a shed and I just keep the seats for the living room :D

There's a receipt with it showing that the previous owner paid £4650 for it in November '07 :eek:
 
144k although it doesn't show it, slight wear on the drivers bolster but a bit of leather feed should bring that up. It's not entirely problem free, got one or two funny noises from the front (suspect a wheel bearing or CV joint may need doing) and an unnerving steamy cloud when booting it but even if it's HGF, if I do it myself it'll still work out good value overall, suspension and steering etc all feels spot on and all the gadgets work, body and paint is all pretty good, tyres are decent and it came with 9 months tax, MOT 'til October and 1/4 tank of fuel.
 
That's a hell of a car for the price, I rearlly like the VR4's, I was mightly impressed by Confused's at the last RR day.
 
I think you've pipped me for bargain Galant!

Ours was £310, but a 98 with a bad gearbox. £446 for that, in that condition, is amazing! :)

That's one of the very last pre-facelift ones, but it's had the 98 refresh, which introduced the 3 point centre rear seat belt.

Economy on a run will be pretty good if you're sensible - mid 30's easily achievable :)
 
great motors them galants. that one was sale of the 'kin century mate.

Beats my 5y/o £350 Ka. :D

edit: which, 5 years and 68,000 miles of supreme thrash later, just got part chopped for £2600 against my first ever (in eleven years) new car.. in reality about a 1800 quid saving as the dealer wouldn't budge any on the price. Only a little suzuki, but meh, it's more economical by about 35mpg than anything else we got... and its a good versatile little car (vauxhall agila minus the vauxhall badge and about 2 grand) and it was the only deal where the "scrappage" actually made the car cheaper - most dealers are now charging top book price and wont budge an inch on price, around here... tis only for a daily driver, i got other things for if i want some fun.
 
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my m8 has got one of those (same year) and he loves it.

went from a 5 series bmw to this and has never looked back.

he's had it for 4 years and has never skipped a beat.
 
Woah, only just noticed this. Was going to bump your new car needed thread the other day to see if you how you were getting on. Thats a hell of a lot of car for the money, lets just hope you dont catch the luxo-barge bug!
 
Pete19s said:
lets just hope you dont catch the luxo-barge bug!
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Doesn't really matter if I do, I've still got the track toy and that will be staying road legal so I can always go out and get my kicks in that anytime I want. Just about my only criteria when I bought this were that I wanted cheap, comfortable and powerful enough to tow the track car with.
 
[TW]Fox;14456174 said:
Staggeringly cheap. No room whatsoever for criticism at that money.
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:eek: Are you sick ???



Looks a good buy, I looked at one myself last week & that was 600 quid so I'm beaten. :cool:
 
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