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Old 28-12-2006, 09:31 PM   #31
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Parents/partner mght have demanded he put it up for sale when he was suspended...could be a clever ploy to make sure he still owns it when he gets his licence back.
You beat me to it as I was thinking the same.
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Old 28-12-2006, 09:43 PM   #32
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i just brought a mint el xr6 off a one elderly owner for $8,500 it stiil has original spare with the sticker on it. and it has done only 82,000klm
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Old 28-12-2006, 09:54 PM   #33
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Yeah i also saw that a while ago... there's definitely something shifty going on in the background lol.
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Old 28-12-2006, 11:40 PM   #34
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i just brought a mint el xr6 off a one elderly owner for $8,500 it stiil has original spare with the sticker on it. and it has done only 82,000klm
I bet its never gone above 3000 RPM in its entire life hehe.
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Old 29-12-2006, 12:31 AM   #35
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Nice car, but the asking price seems a little bit over the top to me...

Carsales EL XR8 22K

[Edit] I just browsed through the rest of the XRs on offer on that site. Either I'm completely out of touch with E series values or there's a lot of dreamers out there.
That sort of money will get a good modular ba
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Old 29-12-2006, 01:47 PM   #36
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Next to Lost Licence he should also put, street racer, thrashed car, caught doing burnouts; can you feel the sikness of my pimped out ride?
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Old 29-12-2006, 02:45 PM   #37
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Considering i got my BA XR8 for around 30K On the Road...

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Old 29-12-2006, 02:51 PM   #38
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if they are getting 22k for that then im upping the price of my stocko by 25% i reckon : never getting it not in a million years and be close to even get half that i reckon.
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Old 29-12-2006, 03:16 PM   #39
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Nice car, but the asking price seems a little bit over the top to me...

Carsales EL XR8 22K

[Edit] I just browsed through the rest of the XRs on offer on that site. Either I'm completely out of touch with E series values or there's a lot of dreamers out there.
Someone who has stacks of cash will probably fall in love with it and get it! LOL!

It's worth what someone will pay for it I guess, but I reckon it's poor form to ask so much for it!

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Old 29-12-2006, 03:36 PM   #40
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Yep all tremecs, my old EF was a tremec T5. He is asking too much for it, my ef had 150,000 on the clock and it wouldnt have gone for more than 10,500. he's full of it, i can get an 03 XR6 turbo manual leather and premo sound for that price, ok it might be wholesale, but who cares, i can still get it!
I thought the T5 is a Tremec design but built under license by Borg Warner/BTR/Ion.
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