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posted by 42 on Mon Sep 27 01:53 CST 2010
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After seeing that white 240 sedan in California sell on e-bay for $16,000, this one looks like pretty good value for money:

http://www.carandclassic.co.uk/car/C184898/

In US$ that's just over $2000. Suffice it to say there's not much demand for 240 sedans in the UK.

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posted by V945T on Mon Sep 27 03:32 CST 2010
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Having lived in the UK for a year, but being Canadian, I've noticed there's a big thing about having a new car. Sure, often just being towed off the motorway is more than the value of the car
so some people will try and make it off and blow a motor in the process. But there's more to it. Nobody in the UK wants the negative connotations of driving an 'old' car. Add in the fact there's no other outside markets to sell to due to miles and dive side, and the fact it costs money to scrap a car, and well, this is what you get.
Having said that, if you have an old 240 and love it to bits, bt it's just not great and you need a new car soon anyway... Sure, you could spend $16,000 on a 35k mile VW and have higher repair costs and less ease of servcability... Or you could get a time capsule 240.

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posted by scorron on Mon Sep 27 02:30 CST 2010
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I can usually find a 240 (sedan OR wagon) for less than $1500, any day of the week on Craigslist. That $16,000 Cali car was a joke. Somebody is going to have the buyers remorse.

The only person I can see paying that much for that car is someone who has so much money that $16,000 feels like pocket change. Maybe it was Ingvar Kamprad.

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posted by Wiglaf on Mon Sep 27 06:32 CST 2010
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Think about that mileage figure. Come 'on. Do you really think someone put like 14,000 miles on a 1990 sedan? Whatever! Even if they did, are we supposed to think that is a positive thing? That mileage means the car has been sitting up for its whole life---which is worse that driving it everyday.

I bought my 245 on eBay. It is NEVER like they say it is.

Dow

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posted by Euroman on Tue Sep 28 02:10 CST 2010
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The value of any car or any thing for that matter has to be determined, in part, by who is buying it. Like my car for example, it is a 1990 240 with 160K ONE-OWNER miles and it has been garaged and cared for like you could hardly imagine. I doubt if I could get more than $5,000.00 for it but I would not sell it for $10,000.00. I really would not. I sell $100,000 cars on a regular basis and most of them pay cash or lease it trough their practice to write it off and I am usually more excited at delivery than they are. It is just a car in most cases and yet when I drive mine on week-ends, I just love every mile and smile when I see its reflection in a glass building window. My daily driver is a 1991 Lexus LS400 that was a demo when I ran the store while at Lexus and I have over 220,000 miles on it and drive it every day. Again, probably worth $4-5,000 but NOT FOR SALE! Beauty is in the eye......etc. The real value of a car is in the mind and heart of the buyer. Still awake? I get carried away on lthe subject I am passionate about, even after 47 years selling cars!

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posted by V945T on Tue Sep 28 03:11 CST 2010
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You have driven a 1991 Lexus as a demo for 220k miles?
Oh, I'm sorry. :P ;)

I too work for a very high end dealership (errr, worked? - friend still does, still great friends with the owners). I'm 23 and am blessed to have driven cars that most people my age only dream about. Let alone having driven them enough to be able to compare and contrast them.
Anyway, point is sometimes it's more fun to drive a slow car fast than a fast car slow, and even a primitive old 240 can be fun. :)
And there's a lot of sentimental old fools too. If the 240 is IT for you, and you want to pick one that's two years old off the used lot... One of these is a great option.
To be honest, that UK car looks pretty base. In fact if it wasn't a 1990 I'd bet she would be carbed. Look at the old style intake. Is that a K-Jet car!?!? Looks like the German spec '88 I'm looking at in that it's a GL with less options than a base DL we got in North America.

And again, the market in the UK is dumb. My friend had a 1990 740 limousine there he picked up for £500. He planned on importing it to Canada but sadly it was tboned in the UK.

When I move back to the UK next year on a youth work visa for a year or two (I spent a year there from summer '05 to fall '06 previously) I'm going to get myself a 1998-2000 S40 or V40 T4. ~200bhp, and that beautiful mitsubishi chassis should be pretty fun. And you can pick one up for ~£200-£900 sterling. Hell, if I really like it, I may just take advantage of Canada's 15 year import rule and bring it home with me. ;)

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posted by 42 on Tue Sep 28 09:00 CST 2010
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The one in the UK ad is indeed a K-jet car -- it looks like a B200E. My UK spec '88 240GL is K-jet too. This setup goes fine and has a few more hp than the B230F. From my '88 volvo manual,the K-jet B230E was the most powerful naturally aspirated 240 motor sold in the UK, at 129hp.

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posted by V945T on Tue Sep 28 09:38 CST 2010
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No thanks. I've always found k-jet to be more finicky than LH2.2. I personally like LH2.4, but if I buy a late model 240 I want the option of a fairly bolt on turbo install, and 2.4 is plug and play with a late 740t or 940t ecu. The 940 having the benefit of efan control after 1992.
Plus, there's been people that have screwed up kjet and burned cars down.

Interesting you mention that 129hp motor. I wonder how much of that comes down to cam...

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