[s-cars] FS: 1993 S4

[Tom Green]

No one likes to see their favorite ride devaluated by low priced  
sales that
others may try to use as comparable,  but, let's face facts.  It  
doesn't take
too much deferred maintenance to add up to the point where the car value
is headed for the negative range, especially when some of these items  
are
appearance items, like paint, and the mechanical upkeep deficiencies  
are obvious.

Then, much of the value of the car can disappear in uncertainty over  
any hidden
defects that are expensive repair items like twin turbos, timing belt  
due, and a front
end rebuild needed.  These are things that are depressing the 2.7t  
market as well.
Just look how uncertainty affects S8 prices lately (as well as the  
certainty of high
cost repairs).

OTOH, are there any URS owners on this list that do not have more  
invested in their
car than the market will return?  Once you get to a point that owning  
and driving the
URS is no longer that valuable to you, your value of the car has to  
change, in some
cases by orders of magnitude.  If you have been able to enjoy the  
ride and have
driven much of that value out of the car then you are a clear winner.

Besides, who bought their URS thinking they would make money on the  
deal?  :-)

Tom


On 12/04/2006, Taka Mizutani<t44tqtro at gmail.com> wrote:
> Sounds to me like if you needed someone to do the work, the car needs
> probably
> about $1500-2000 worth of work.
>
> The price makes sense- that would extrapolate to $5500, unless  
> you're saying
> that
> $5k range for an UrS with nearly 200k is too low, when '00-01 A6  
> 2.7Ts go
> for low to mid
> teens.
>
> Taka
>
> On 12/4/06, James Murray (QB/EMC) <james.murray at ericsson.com> wrote:
>>
>> What should not be allowed and there certainly has to be something  
>> wrong
>> with... Is selling such a fine automobile for that low a price!!! :-(
>>
>> No affiliation to Cecil, just a concerned S-car fan.
>>
>> /Jamu.