S65 2010 (Collecting cars)

[Goldeneye]

For the long wheelbase, you need a chauffeur to waft around aimlessly while you do a line or two and do the jiggy-jiggy with a hooker in the back...

Does she come with the service plan?

 

[MikeInWimbledon]

Look on the down side; it may not have been serviced since July 2020, the Great Unwashed may spit at you if you drive through the wrong areas, it needs big parking spaces, and the fuel consumption will be high. Fine for pulling up at the Ritz; not so good for a council multi-storey car park.

My son, who is now 28, still shudders and goes pale when he tells stories of me trying to get my W220 around a very tight 1950's multistorey car park in Paris late one Saturday one he was just 11. Made for Citroen 4CV's and Renault Dauphines, the S500L was in the wrong place. It's curious the things that kids remember and play back at you.

 

[E55BOF]

Maybe the Renault 4CVs and the Citroen 2CVs?

My first car was a Renault Dauphine, bought in 1968 from a Corporal in the MT Section for £29. I was robbed...

 

[Bobby Dazzler]

My son, who is now 28, still shudders and goes pale when he tells stories of me trying to get my W220 around a very tight 1950's multistorey car park in Paris late one Saturday one he was just 11. Made for Citroen 4CV's and Renault Dauphines, the S500L was in the wrong place. It's curious the things that kids remember and play back at you.

I empathise!

The French have fondness for building very deep and very narrow underground car parks. Not just narrow in terms of the lanes and spaces, but the actual car parks are narrow too, so that the route from top to bottom is barely more than a square spiral.

I remember thinking “oh shoot” as I was past the point of no return, driving in to an underground car park in Cannes for the first time, knowing that going forwards would be very very bad, and going backwards would be even worse.

Driving 9 floors down the square spiral to only ever find a space at the bottom was hair raising enough; but going back up to the surface again was even worse, knowing that the final turn was much steeper, much sharper and just as tight as the first turn in.

A full-size SUV with widened track, wide wheels and low profile tyres was not the ideal car to be driving in and out of that car park. We were there for three weeks too. Practice didn’t make perfect, and it didn’t get any easier either!

 

[MikeInWimbledon]

Maybe the Renault 4CVs and the Citroen 2CVs?
My first car was a Renault Dauphine, bought in 1968 from a Corporal in the MT Section for £29. I was robbed...

Mea culpa.
I meant Renault 4CV and Dauphine, but my fingers blurred 2CV

My first car was a one owner blue Dauphine, bought from an OAP for £100 but sold two years and 20,000 miles later for £100, to buy another Dauphine for £100...

 

[MikeInWimbledon]

Returning to the subject in hand.

 

[Slartibartfast]

 

[Sam87]

I’m so annoyed I missed out on buying the car by £200+
I placed a bid and I was the highest bidder the last 1 min or so and then the time kept going up instead of ending and I thought I’d wait a few more seconds and bid went to £23k so I placed £23300 but it ended and I had typed £23300 but I was waiting for the last seconds before confirming my bid. What an idiot!!!



This car sold four months ago for £26k on collecting cars

I think it was a great deal for £23k

 

[MikeInWimbledon]

This car sold four months ago for £26k on collecting cars

Interesting but worrying that it was sold on so quickly.

Maybe it was just a simple profit, but perhaps there was an issue?

Sympathy regarding the last minute bid thing. It’s tough to judge a last minute bid on something like this.

Hey ho, there’ll be something else interesting along in a while…

 

[Slartibartfast]

I’m so annoyed I missed out on buying the car by £200+
I placed a bid and I was the highest bidder the last 1 min or so and then the time kept going up instead of ending and I thought I’d wait a few more seconds and bid went to £23k so I placed £23300 but it ended and I had typed £23300 but I was waiting for the last seconds before confirming my bid. What an idiot!!!



This car sold four months ago for £26k on collecting cars

I think it was a great deal for £23k

I think the way the bidding works is that if a bid is placed in the last 2 minutes then the time is extended by a further 2 minutes

 

[Slartibartfast]

Interesting but worrying that it was sold on so quickly.

Maybe it was just a simple profit, but perhaps there was an issue?

Sympathy regarding the last minute bid thing. It’s tough to judge a last minute bid on something like this.

Hey ho, there’ll be something else interesting along in a while…

The guy bought the car to use it here when he came over from New Zealand for a few months (rather than hire a car).

 

[MikeInWimbledon]

The guy bought the car to use it here when he came over from New Zealand for a few months (rather than hire a car).

With boring car hire rates approaching a grand a week that would have been quite a smart move, subject to insurance...

 

[Sam87]

Interesting but worrying that it was sold on so quickly.

Maybe it was just a simple profit, but perhaps there was an issue?

Sympathy regarding the last minute bid thing. It’s tough to judge a last minute bid on something like this.

Hey ho, there’ll be something else interesting along in a while…

I thought I’d feel better today but it’s been on my mind all day that I missed out on this car

One other thing I will say, don’t ever bid on a car while your wife is next to you. I don’t know why but I asked her what she thought of the car and her reply was, “ You’re happy to spend £25k on a car but don’t want to spend £500 on a phone that I’ve told you for the past 1 year to get” That comment started making me doubt if I was doing the right thing and just looking at the auction getting closer and closer to ending, placing a bid of £23300 but as I was trying to find some courage to click confirm bid, the auction ended
I’m blaming my wife 100% . She doesn’t even care about cars, what was I thinking!
I think I just needed some reassurance from someone but I asked the wrong person

 

[Bobby Dazzler]

I thought I’d feel better today but it’s been on my mind all day that I missed out on this car

One other thing I will say, don’t ever bid on a car while your wife is next to you. I don’t know why but I asked her what she thought of the car and her reply was, “ You’re happy to spend £25k on a car but don’t want to spend £500 on a phone that I’ve told you for the past 1 year to get” That comment started making me doubt if I was doing the right thing and just looking at the auction getting closer and closer to ending, placing a bid of £23300 but as I was trying to find some courage to click confirm bid, the auction ended
I’m blaming my wife 100% . She doesn’t even care about cars, what was I thinking!
I think I just needed some reassurance from someone but I asked the wrong person

I think she knows you better than you know yourself!

 

[ChrisHGTV]

I thought I’d feel better today but it’s been on my mind all day that I missed out on this car

One other thing I will say, don’t ever bid on a car while your wife is next to you. I don’t know why but I asked her what she thought of the car and her reply was, “ You’re happy to spend £25k on a car but don’t want to spend £500 on a phone that I’ve told you for the past 1 year to get” That comment started making me doubt if I was doing the right thing and just looking at the auction getting closer and closer to ending, placing a bid of £23300 but as I was trying to find some courage to click confirm bid, the auction ended
I’m blaming my wife 100% . She doesn’t even care about cars, what was I thinking!
I think I just needed some reassurance from someone but I asked the wrong person

With this kind of situation where its something I really want, I always bid at the value above which I’d be happy to lose it. You never get a bargain that way, but you also never get disappointed.

 

[Swotty]

I thought I’d feel better today but it’s been on my mind all day that I missed out on this car

One other thing I will say, don’t ever bid on a car while your wife is next to you. I don’t know why but I asked her what she thought of the car and her reply was, “ You’re happy to spend £25k on a car but don’t want to spend £500 on a phone that I’ve told you for the past 1 year to get” That comment started making me doubt if I was doing the right thing and just looking at the auction getting closer and closer to ending, placing a bid of £23300 but as I was trying to find some courage to click confirm bid, the auction ended
I’m blaming my wife 100% . She doesn’t even care about cars, what was I thinking!
I think I just needed some reassurance from someone but I asked the wrong person

Happy wife, happy life.

Difficult sometimes, when I say I fancy another car she says ... not a grey one - we already have one of those.

 

[MikeInWimbledon]

It’s a constant source of fascination how people who use phones and laptops all day long can be loathe to update their three year old device, yet not blink to spend two hundred on a meal or evening out, or thousands on a watch or bit of furniture.

 

[del320]

It’s a constant source of fascination how people who use phones and laptops all day long can be loathe to update their seven year old device, yet not blink to spend two hundred on a meal or evening out, or thousands on a watch or bit of furniture or restoring clapped out C124s.

It is because they do the former, that they can afford to do the latter... Well, the attitude really. Looking after the pennies etc...

 

[Sam87]

I think she knows you better than you know yourself!

Haha , I think you’re right!

With this kind of situation where its something I really want, I always bid at the value above which I’d be happy to lose it. You never get a bargain that way, but you also never get disappointed.

I should have just done that but I just needed a tiny bit of convincing to place my last bit, so one saying “ Go on, you need to buy this car “

I wasn’t even looking for an S65AMG but I just can’t help it.

Happy wife, happy life.

Difficult sometimes, when I say I fancy another car she says ... not a grey one - we already have one of those.

That‘s true!
She‘s fed up with M3’s at the moment as I haven’t been without an M3 for the past 13 years or more. She says surely there are other cars out there that you’d like more than an M3!

It’s a constant source of fascination how people who use phones and laptops all day long can be loathe to update their three year old device, yet not blink to spend two hundred on a meal or evening out, or thousands on a watch or bit of furniture.

I admit it, I’ve never cared about having the latest phones. I will happily keep the same phone for a few years as I only use it to make phone calls, browse here, M3cutters, eBay. I don’t need anything too fancy as it would be wasted on me. Cars on the other hand, I don’t mind spending on those and the house I should say

 

[Sam87]

It is because they do the former, that they can afford to do the latter... Well, the attitude really. Looking after the pennies etc...

I don’t know if I understand this right. Are you saying people don’t buy a phone so they can buy a car?