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[npole]

You.. I had the Bullitt for 5 years and didn't spotted ONE during the whole 5 years driving between Italy and Spain (while in Italy was a limited serie: only 68 registered and sold).

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[keithwalton]

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It might be fair to assume a fresh model, free from COVID-related supply constraints and prior to any talk of tariffs, might have ha da boom year like they did in 2016, but it seems not.

I will concede, the landscape for selling ICE cars has changed vastly since 2016 in UK and much of Europe, and the import numbers are lower to reflect that, but the fact they're sitting at dealers suggests that lack of supply isn't wooing the market like I thought it might (particularly for the Dark Horse). ...

Cars were late, dealers had sparse info as to what was going on which cost them sales. I suspect a good chunk of the cars sat around now are those that were ordered back in February'24 and then buyers found something else before it was delivered.
'24 sales numbers will be bad because they were only available to drive away in the final 4 months of the year.

And now the new car tax on it has doubled it's compounded the other issue, the price.

2016 was a good year because it was finally available in RHD, there would of been a lot of pent up demand and when it arrived it didn't cost much more than a top spec focus / golf R.

Starting at £34k it was back then a bargain, but the price creep has been insane.
The bullet costing in the late 40's was a hard sell, although thanks to covid they held there price for several years. In '23 used bullet's were listed for more than they cost new.

The mach1 costing low 50's again was getting costly. But again it held it's price used.

The base '24GT starting at more than a mach1 at £55k was going to be a tough sell and now that it's at least £59k for any colour other than white it's a really hard sell over a mach1 let alone and older base gt.

and the dark horse is now £71k up from £65k a year ago .. is it really worth nearly £20k more than a mach1 was new ?

The problem with the price creep is the competition (although they have also gone up a lot in price) it's gone from being a rival on price to a golf / focus to an M2/C43 etc.

I brought mine because it's pretty much the last chance to own one new before they're all gone.

Hopefully the over supply will dry up, and the demand will remain for the last chance to own a v8 will keep used prices up and i'll be able to trade it for a C63s, nobody wants those so they're prices are tanking and it's a much more exhilarating car to drive. (over 1000nm of torque through 4wd, it really shifts)