somebody please tell this guy to put the crack pipe down!!

The thing is, the next click over is the KBB values. According to my calculations, he's priced his car about 6 times higher than the best KBB value given for retail. And 71K, not so special.
 
no its not a type o, martin ( 93 blue on blue ) said its been on for around a year, and he says in the add at the bottom, please check this mark VIII out last, you'll see why it is priced the way it is. i dont care if it had 5000 miles on it, no one is ever going to pay the price that the car was 9 years ago, thats insane, there are tons of rare and special cars out there, that car is in no way worth 40g's and never will be.
 
I still feel sorry for the people that paid that price when the cars were new.
 
Lol. Yeah the price is genuine. I emailed this guy a few months back when it was at just 37,002 thinking it was a typo and that he really just wanted 3700. A guy on another forum emailed him too offering 7K, but this guy wasnt interested. Im not sure why its priced the way it is, gotta be those wheels fitted wrong way round making it unique! Lol.
 
" wheels fitted wrong way round making it unique! "

no dude, your english is unique lol, for those that dont know, martin is truely english, and i love talking to him, to think along long time ago, my ancestors spoke like this, proper english, for a northern yankee like me, its sometimes takes me a second to realize what he said lol.
 
Hehe... sometimes i forget myself. Must remember to speak more slowly. still, i dont speak like the queen, which is good. I will be truly screwed if / when i pick up some 'yankee' tones as i will be misunderstood on both sides of the pond! Lol. :)
 
LOL, off topic, but I have to respond, being southern, we still retain most of our slow British originating drawl. South Carolina and Virginia especially, are derived from predominant English colonies (as were New York, New England originally, immigrating dialects have altered these regions). When I hear someone from the West Midlands of England, they sound like native South Carolinians to me. Keep in mind that there are many different British dialects within England. Most native Brits will have trouble understanding someone with a Cockney accent.

As to the topic at hand, I'm clueless to why it's that high. Even if it belonged to a famous celebrity, it wouldn't bring that much.
 
93' Blue on blue said:
Hehe... sometimes i forget myself. Must remember to speak more slowly. still, i dont speak like the queen, which is good. I will be truly screwed if / when i pick up some 'yankee' tones as i will be misunderstood on both sides of the pond! Lol. :)
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Nah...the Aussies will still understand you...
 
Well same goes for the Turbo buicks from the 80s... they are selling for almost 100k now...

So are GTOs and other cars... prices are through the roof....

That said ... the car isn't worth much to a collector with 70k miles...
 
maxmk8 said:
Well same goes for the Turbo buicks from the 80s... they are selling for almost 100k now...

So are GTOs and other cars... prices are through the roof....

That said ... the car isn't worth much to a collector with 70k miles...
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People are asking around $100k for the 1987 Buick GNX with extremely low miles, like less then 1k. At least they are collectable cars, and there were only 547 made. But it does not mean they are getting the $100k.

In the year 2018 a very low milage 1998 Mark VIII CE may have some value to it.
 
I can tell you for a fact that Low mileage CEs are selling well over blue-book on ebay already.

A spring feature car is rarer than a GNX buick... depending on how things turn out I wouldn't be too surprised that Mark VIIIs will start fetching some good money...

Good ones are pretty much all gone now... most are beat up.
 
maxmk8 said:
I can tell you for a fact that Low mileage CEs are selling well over blue-book on ebay already.

A spring feature car is rarer than a GNX buick... depending on how things turn out I wouldn't be too surprised that Mark VIIIs will start fetching some good money...

Good ones are pretty much all gone now... most are beat up.
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You can’t compare a spring feature car with a GNX, all a spring feature car has is gold paint. The GNX is GM's fastest production sedan ever; it has performance options, not just cosmetic. It still holds up well 20 years later with avg stock times of 0-60 in 5.3 seconds and quarter mile in 13.3 @ 104mph. A lot of the most collectable cars have high output engines and are fast. If the spring feature car had an s/c on it from the factory and no other Mark VIII came that way it would be collectable.
 
This is an obvious apples to oranges comparison. I was just drawing a parallel to what I believe to be a completely overvalued car that many are willing to pay top dollar for...

Same could be the case for the Marks :D
 
PalmettoMarkVIII said:
LOL, off topic, but I have to respond, being southern, we still retain most of our slow British originating drawl. South Carolina and Virginia especially, are derived from predominant English colonies (as were New York, New England originally, immigrating dialects have altered these regions). When I hear someone from the West Midlands of England, they sound like native South Carolinians to me. Keep in mind that there are many different British dialects within England. Most native Brits will have trouble understanding someone with a Cockney accent.

As to the topic at hand, I'm clueless to why it's that high. Even if it belonged to a famous celebrity, it wouldn't bring that much.
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Completely off topic:
The English didn't start speaking the way they do until after the colonies were formed. Although I suppose people could have come later to settle the south, I would be surprised if it was a "New England" accent. Btw if you were to go listen to a Shakespeare play in England, it would sound like Americans speaking, not in the current British manner of speaking.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Phonol...2FBritish_split_.28c._AD_1600.E2.80.931725.29
 
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