A word of advice on cheap Porsches. Be aware of what years you look at. IMS bearing failures are a thing. If you look at the oil and see glitter(common advice for any car) and you hear a weird sound near where the engine meets the transmission,walk away.😊
The 987 base model cayman and boxer are a lot more reliable but a 987.2 the IMS and bore scoring issues are completely removed 987.2 base cayman: £15-20k or $19k-25.5k
You used to be able to build the vaydor g35 on an infinity g35 drivetrain, just with modified body panels seats etc, for around 40k. but the manufacturers of the bodykit decided to make the kit only be purchasable as a full on car, charging you 130k.
So a 120k body kit for a 10k car? No wonder why nobody buys the kits anymore. You can buy a brand new 911 for that price and get more looks, and be faster in every aspect.
I heard this saying and it makes so much sense. "If you can't afford it if it's new, you can't afford it when it's cheap" Just cos you can buy a Bentley for $10k, doesn't mean you can afford to keep it on the road.
That's pretty bad advice when it comes to normal cars. The value drops so much the second it rolls off the lot that buying used is perfectly fine financially, even if you couldn't buy the same car new.
My mom has a 2001 Jaguar XJ8 in dark green. It’s a stunning car, I bought it for her for $5,500. It came with the original sticker at $78,000. We love that car. Had it for 6 years now as my mom’s daily!!
Dunno, a 2004 Bentley Continental GT is basically a VAG "D" platform, with a high number of VW/Audi components, and a huge parts aftermarket. My buddy's daily driving one, expenses are manageable.
If you buy an old Bentley and they ask a fortune it can be repaired successfuly in sketchy ways such as modify parts to fit or modify the car to accept parts from other cars. It's nothing valuable to keep it original, if you can buy it it means they wanted extra cash from a scap yard car.
I bet none of you have ever owned a Bentley, yet you all parrot the narrator about the cost. I had no "issues." Also, NONE of the Bentley's are under 10K.
Well it's not the first one the. Is it, which was a Mulsanne. And to state you have an Arnage which everyone knows is a dearer car anyway, even without your clarification on the "good amount" paid - which therefore renders it wholly irrelevant to the conversation given that - by your own admission - it was/is not a "cheap car". In fact, another way of phrasing what you described might be "I have an expensive car - which looks expensive". Well bully for friggin you, dickhead....
Here is my list of cool cars that are cheap but look expensive: -Chrysler 300C SRT8 -BMW e32 -Jaguar XJS -Audi TT 8J -Chevrolet Corvette C4 -Nissan 350Z -Mercedes E55 AMG -2005 Cadillac Escalade -BMW Z4 -Pontiac GTO (2004-2006 one)
Like many of us, I've always been tempted by a Continental GT or a Range Rover or Cayenne, and it is actually manageable, but you'd have to swap out the engine for an LS and any hydraulic suspension for coilovers. You'd still have the bodywork and the luxury interior, but vastly cheaper maintenance plus much better performance. The plus side is you could get a really cheap example with all sorts of engine or suspension issues that ultimately wouldn't matter, you'd still have almost everything that made the car nice to begin with, and you'd save a nice car from being scrapped which so many of them are, you'd just have to undertake the initial work or find a shop to do it for you.
You can take a Pontiac Fiero & put a Lamborghini shell on it & engine is in back. I heard they have cheap aluminum engines,. so put a different motor. Still cost probably $30k+ when your done
I got a Suzuki swift for 3k from a dealer and the only thing wrong with it was a wobbly headlight that still works, just needs to be bolted in place because a small piece of plastic broke. I was lucky to get such a deal because the dealer got it because another customer couldn't pay for his camper.
And me with my old sturdy Skoda Fabia. Got it for 5.5k six years ago, still going strong. If i've got some 50k Audi, I'd need to have the car for sixty years to get the same annual value out of it.... and probably would have had ten times the repair costs....
Another one is the 2000s S classes, I found a 2000 S500 in absolutely immaculate shape with tons of options, low mileage (120,000 kms), never winter driven, for 8700 Canadian, and he would've taken 8
Bro i had an early 2000s C clas, water pump and basic repairs were fine, very reasonable but if you get one electrical problem on those cars you're pretty much screwed.
btw. The aston martin Vantage S V8 model is going for a consistent 60-70k, if u ask me. hell of a lot cheaper than a few years ago. prolly also one of my favorite cars
That's because regardless of price, it's cool - whereas most of these 10k Bentleys, are in such a terminally destitute state of decrepitude, they wouldn't fool Helen Keller from 200yards away. The really good ones - which ARE still impressive - are by no means cheap and therefore are disqualified from "cheap cars which look expensive". As for that kit car abomination, even at 15OOO USD I wouldn't touch it with yours as I'd just feel such a cheap, shystering fraud and drive it in a state of flushed and sweaty mortification knowing that everyone who saw it would be guffawing scornfully not only at my embarrassing lack of fiduciary know-how and my parody level wilfully gauche tastes in motoring - but over and above all that would be the assumptions about the tiny size of my penis - and that despite being told about the consequences of assuming - that on this occasion they would be completely correct......
Infiniti is the only thing I’d go, not a big fan of Nissan but if you’re looking for Looks and some reliability compared to an old Bentley or an old Porsche just go with the infinity
@@person1501aaa most of the ones I saw on the website were. I’m sure you’re right, if you go digging you’d for sure find them cheaper thank 100k but the handful I saw were real expensive
If going to pick an 80's bentley, do it fast, cause 70's cars are already worth a truck of money, it won't be long before 80's and 90's cars get up there in prices
None of these are really cheap. Apart from the vaydor (which also cost a lot for a badically just a g35 bodykit), these cars will not only cost you an arm and a leg in maintenance but the headache it will cause you from the scavenger hunt for parts is not worth it.
The 80's Bentleys and Rolls Royces are really tempting but the only way to make them reliable is to swap the motor for a GM V8 and then the suspension and electronics need to go to.
Well not really - if anything that falls into the category of "expensive car that looks like a cheap one" as, I don't know about you, but anything which looks like an unlicenced taxi plying it's trade on the streets of Bangkok, doesn't really fall into the definition of "cars which look expensive"......
First pick: cheap buy, hella expensive repair costs with high maintenance necessary. Second pick: A nice little porsche for under 15k that, for the price of spare parts, nobody is really going to turn their head for. Might I add that the service fees are also going to be fun. Third pick: a Vaydor, which although being a body kit car, can be expensive, plus all the work and labour you’ll put in. And if someone is selling it, YOU BET it ain’t going to be cheap. So yeah, I’m not trying to hate, the video entertained me, it’s all good. But in my opinion, just don’t buy previously expensive cars to look cool and rich. Make bread, buy a car within your means
Fun fact: You buy any of these, you'll look rich but just go broke maintaining them. Parts are scarce, companies won't supply you them and usually they'll break often. The best thing you can buy to seem richer, get good bang for your buck and actually get performance would be 80s and 90s Mercedes depending on the model and engine. They're probably the only brand you can do this with besides a few others. Those old Bentleys are HORRENDOUSLY terrible FYI, avoid them at all costs.
One of my neighbours has an old boxy Rolls Silver Shadow. Some local reprobate teens smashed the passenger door window. Took him 6 months of looking around before he gave up and got a local glass store to cut him a new one from scratch. He's still got a small hole in the dash from the corner of the brick.
I have a 986 boxster s. Black on black and manual. It’s a really fun car. Love that thing! It’s also my least powerful car but it’s the fastest around a corner.
I bought an old T2 from 1979, beautiful car, rides like a boat and is practically useless, but it’s all good fun and surprisingly reliable and easy to fix, it is slow with a lazy 205 HP, but that’s okay
No to all of those, fiat 124 abarth trim > People say it looks like a ferrari Or the lusso trim for refined elegance. Both can be found for mid 20k, depending on options. Great fun cars too.
You wanna buy something to make you look rich and not go broke? Go for the Toyota Crown series. Yes, parts can be difficult to find, but they won't break all the time like these cars. Also old Lexus LS series. Acura is also a great option.
You know what's always been weird to me? Hand made cars that are high quality have absolute trash long term reliability while mass produced cars pumped out of factories in the middle of nowhere are trash if they don't hit 100k without major issues.
Buying a cheap one Bently is a horrible idea. There's a reason it's lost over 90% of it's value. Porsche Boxster isn't a bad idea as long as you've got the money for repairs and maintenance, and as long as it's been taken care of.
It's a sorry thing that some are so shallow they need a car that looks expensive but isn't. How insecure and worthless they must feel. Nothing a good therapist couldn't help with.
