Geoff & Ian go Fantasy Car Shopping - TEN favourites for sale in Europe
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- Опубликовано: 7 сен 2024
- Ian introduced me to the website AutoScout24 (not a channel sponsor by the way) so we decided to make a video about some of the cool cars for sale in Europe.
01:38 Ford Capri Convertible, €4250
03:39 BMW 324d, €3500
06:50 Volvo 940 2.0 Turbo, €3200
07:35 Opel Ascona GT, €2000
09:11 Peugeot 304 Convertible, €4500
10:48 Citroen DS, €14950
11:54 Fiat Ritmo Convertible, €4500
12:57 BMW 740d (E38)
14:58 Citroen Traction Avant €14000
17:15 Chevrolet Caprice Station Wagon €19870
18:53 Summing up and conclusions
The Capri is a Capri but from Ford Australia, its actually based on a Ford Laser TX3 turbo aka Mazda 323!!!
The Capri was built in Australia 1989 - 1994 for the local market and was built in LHD and exported to the USA. FWD built using Mazda 323 mechanicals.
My fave is Ians 740 V8 diesel. I've been on AutoScout myself and found a 405 Mi16 in northern Spain near Santander for 6500 Euro!!!!
Citreon Traction...awesome looking car, can handle ploughed fields and pot holes...I really wants one...Do a video about that and others similar to that would be good and educational.
geoff could you do a nxt video on how to get one across? what you need to do, paperwork, legal stuff etc? would make a good add on to this vid :)
Great stuff Geoff .. I had a 324 whilst in my 20’s living in Belgium. A great car that proved to be both reliable and economical. I was aware that it wasn’t available in the uk, making it a bit more of a mystery euro Beemer . If you do take the plunge on the ‘outsider ‘ e30 I’ll definitely buy it of you . Mine was none turbo but still had plenty of torque and much less agricultural than its Mercedes rival . Great channel bud and keep doing the great work .
Easy... The caprice and the e38 hands down awesome
Always luv Geoff and Ian chats. Very informative.
The 7 series definitely 👍
For what my opinion is worth ( no more than the next person ) the Bmw 740d is likely to be rather good.
BMW 324D Yes please Geoff.
Those cars run on fumes with a light foot.
Buy it Geoff.
My favourite is the Red Peugeot 304 convertible ❤
If it was more of a mustard colour, you could pretend to be Columbo!
That Ford Capri was marketed in Australia, so should be plenty of Right side drive parts in Aus..
Wow IAN, Fantastic to hear your sis has that E34 from that long ago on Isle Of Man!
I stayed there in Laxey for 7 yrs, until 2020.
For driving a BMW 740 Diesel (and the 324 as well for that matter) in the Netherlands you would have to be a Millionaire with the crazy tax we have on diesel and Liquid Natural Gas... 🧐 So as much as I like these I would skip them and go for the rust bucket 305 Convertible and the ID19 Citroën DS. 😏
Love the Ian videos
I'd go for the DS, lovely soft floaty ride, but a plumber's nightmare, with all those hydraulic lines.
You want to see a plumbers nightmare you should see the inside of a Buccaneers Bomb bay There are about 20 pipes of all shapes and full length of the bomb bay they will only go in one way in order if you put one in the wrong order you have to start from the beginning.
BMW 340d and the Peugeot 304 convertible- love those two!
Cracking video fellas 👍
Too jump in and drive now the 740 BM
Long term tha Ascona which essentially a mk2 cavalier.
That E30 diesel is a Belta loving my 300D me pal who Mk2 Cavalier daft also just found him a 300D on a G for a grand with mot and solid! Was like pulling teeth too get him too buy it still wants another cav! Peugeot reminds me of me pal long gone Rip John Lowrie his was metallic purple with white hood was originally grey! He learned me how too be mechanic weld and paint had a sturdy job and school holiday job can't believe u picked the last old motor he restored and it was one of them! He hit the bottle and was gone at 47!! Still got a spray gun he gave me a old devilbis first of gravity pot must be as old as me but still would spray a blood clot! Off out too get a couple of pints will watch rest when I get back on on the smart telly!!! Amazing how cars bring back memories of good times and people who have passed but helped guide u on your automotive journey!
My mother had a Citroen Light 15 for a few years - as driven in that great BBC WW2 series with Bernard Hepton, "Secret Army". The registration was one of the old 2 letter + 4 number plates; not a word of a lie, the letters were SS!
Great video! I’m with Ian, I’d have the DS!
The Capri convertible is an Australian only model 👍
Geoff, You can fit double bed mattress in the caprice, not the volvo, so there's the benefit when going on a surfing weekend with misses
That "Capri" is really a Mazda 323, but badged as a Ford for the Australian market.
Citroen traction/ds & the convertible Peugeot.
"I function exacvtly like a solar panel" : "Short life expectancy?" 🤣👍
Our first car was the Citroen TA with the spare on the back It was from 1954 to 1961. We were living in Curacao then. I remember that it had sign lights that flipped out from the sides when activated and you could see them from front and back. It is totally nostalgia for me and and I now have Citroen Berlingo and had Citroen C2.
It’s got to be the DS👍
I had a Strada/Ritmo new in 1983, I was young then and it used to fly the 1500 cc engine was a peach.
We didn't get the 740d here because most E38 were petrols where as in Holland they were mostly diesels.I had a 740d when i worked for Philips in Eindhoven a lovely thing to waft down the autoroutes in..they had several and some e class diesels or you got an Opel Kaddet 1.2 !
I was a junior then and remember having to go to Rotterdam for a conference..all the kaddet 1.2 were out so they reluctantly gave me the keys to the 740d and muttered something in Dutch which I assume was DON'T STUFF IT...felt like an executive cocooned in air conditioned luxury and no I never stuffed it
Geoff. Ian’s pick of the BMW 324td & 740D are my pick. Awesome cars. Yes I am a biased BMW fan & yes Geoff, you should’ve kept your X5.
Citroën Traction for me thanks for the vlog Geoff🤗👍
I'd go for the Caprice wagon. Ok, it's not cheap, but it's lovely.
CITROEN traction please ;)
I could tell you what it's like to drive that Caprice. If you've been in an old Opel (which I'd bet you have), just imagine that with about 50% of the build quality and plastic instead of wood or metal on the inside. You'll sink 4" into the seat and the prehistoric suspension only accentuates that sensation. As for fuel mileage, plan on low teens in the city and high teens, maybe 20mpg on the highway. You'll get about 140-160hp to work with through a slushmatic transmission that may or may not have an overdrive. However, many Corvette and Camaro engine parts are transferable if you wanted to make it faster. Awesome long distance cruiser if you can afford to feed it, though the best American V8 RWD road trip car is the 94-97 Mercury Cougar / Ford Thunderchicken with the 4.6L 2V. That one will post high 20s to low 30s for mileage if you stay out of it and my back didn't hurt after a 17 hour, 1000 mile drive from Philadelphia to Jacksonville. No other car ever went that far in one stint without causing me spinal damage or a scorching case of Flat Ass Syndrome.
In the past i have actually driven a Citroen TA. It doesn't really drive very good. Very heavy steering. Unsynchronised gbox.
I would pass. That ID/DS however. That i would enjoy very much. I have driven a Dsuper 21 before and that was very nice with powersteering, hydropneumatic suspention. Very special.
The Fiat Ritmo, didn’t they do that in the UK as at Strada . And you could get the Strada Abarth back in the 80’s??
They did...a friend had several,very good engines but not good rustproofing.I had a mk2 16v Golf and he had a 130 Abarth later on
You could..briefly had a 130 Abarth in 1986
I was busy doing this at the Festival Of The Unexceptional. Some interesting cars were being offered for sale. There was big old Citroën XM diesel with for sale on it.
I'd go for the Peugeot cabrio. And btw, its the 2CV which as supposed to cross a ploughed field with a basket of eggs on the bck bench remaining intact...
Yes the 2cv. James may did it in his cars for the people series.
School us on running and living with a left hand drive car in the UK. That would be very interesting. Thanks😊
Great choices chaps but I would buy the Citroen Traction. For your next video how about looking at luxury sports cars? 🤔
Bmw 740 all day long ✅👌
Cavalier SRI/Ascona SRE really good cars,over 230,000 in mine not many problems
The capri you show is Australian made
Its not a Capri, Its an MR2 in a ford jacket 😅
Ians picks for me this time.....
740 diesel is pick of the bunch 🍒
No it's North America ford Merkur, badge on centre of steering wheel is Merkurl. From memory it has North America ford escort running gear and 1.9 CVH North America only engine from memory.
Fiat ritmo was badged as fiat strada in the uk, cv equates to cavallo which means horse in Italian, so you're right Geoff its horsepower 😂😂
I’m old enough to remember the robotic production line advert in the late eighties.
New RUclips series for you and McMaster.
Both of you pick a car from this website in Spain. Or some other country.
Fly out pick them both up and see if they will drive back to the UK without breaking down. 😋😋😋😋😋
Then sell it in the UK. Winner is the one who makes the most profit after the sale.
Maybe also include costs for getting it back like fuel etc.
That land yacht is going to be able to fit fewer places in the UK than a Taycan
Geoff, you need to but a Chevrolet HHR, its a retro style 2006-2010 wagon sold in US and Europe only, runs on usual GM platform ( so easy parts) and looks fab.
Once you have it here and the video is done ill buy it off you 😁 because im sick of my Jeep Renegade throwing daily warning lights....
The Ford Capri convertible is actually built by Ford Australia and uses Mazda running gear. It was originally built for Australia and RHD, then it was exported to the USA as LHD. All I can say is it wasn't very popular.
6:24 buy the 324d ... ...
That Capri has a Mercury badge on the front of it.
Citroen DS sure is pretty
I’m Sick of the sight of BMW’s. But the 320D and the 740 V8 diesel are both lush ❤
Its the Caprice for me no question , i would drool over that , sod the fuel costs
Citroen ds all day and everyday
😮 very cool car
You are going to go when it gets colder, so your off next week 🤣.
The BMW 740 V8 Diesel (is it a turbo?) looks like an interesting car to buy, I am sure it will have a lot of power and you two will enjoy it. Me personally I would love a Citroen traction.
Thousands of euros is no money, I wish I had no money like that!
We mean relative to what people spend on cars 😂
@@GeoffBuysCars Yeah I was just kidding.
304 thats nice, 740
We had the unfortunate Capri in Australia. Mazda based
Either of the Citroens ❤
My dad can top you 2 he owned a hillman husky and he went out to look at a new car and came back with a Armstrong Sidley sapphire 2 tone and I thought what have you done, this was late 50s.
Red Peugeot is nice very classic
Made in Slough with British themed interiors and dashboard, so lots more dials 😂
Peugeot 304!! columbo's car
Love this video I’m often drooling on autoscout24 I did import a 2 door vw Jetta pre brexit from the Netherlands was so easy insured on the chassis number went to a travelex bureau de change to de register and get my transit plates and drove back using the noVAT forms is it as easy as this now?
Geoff, just heard that LV will no longer insure Toyota RAV4 or Auris Hybrids, possibly other models too, apparently too many are getting nicked
I think the power structure are allowing the looting of Britain from the top(themselves) and migrants(from below) the kosha sandwich 🥪
Really?!
@@GeoffBuysCars yeah, I get an Honest John email every Saturday with questions they’re being asked, this guy was saying he’d had two letters, one for each car and was asking why? Their reply was something like there’ll be other insurers that’ll cover them, it’ll be due to them being stolen often.
So it’s not only JLR products, is it too much to hope they’ll not insure EV’s soon too?
Would love a DS21 convertible.
One of big my favourite cars Citroen traction
Mmmm... I'll have both the Citroens, thanks!!! GGG!!!
Great Video Geoff
Hi Geof and all
fiat ritmo,european name for strada. my first wife wanted one(divorced in 88) I got my way and bought a strada 130 tc. such fun for a 27 year old divorcee.
Wonder how many Volvos are in Geoff’s top 10? 😀
Yes
Ian how much is the insurance for a Mercedes C200 CDI Sports 2009 Diesel ?
Of those, I'd have the Ritmo. It's so fugly, I ❤ it!
Yeah but within a month it will have rusted away even if it's rust free now. Probably non left in the UK due to rust.
@@WhiteDieselShed according to HowManyLeft, there are 25 Fiat Strada (sold as Ritmo on the continent) in the UK, of which 5 are Cabriolets.
@@Eric_Hunt194 Just looked at 2023 figures. Seems a couple of people are using them on the summer. More taxed during the summer and more SORN in the winter.
Quarter 3 2023. 8 cabrio's taxed and 27 on SORN. Possibly 2 people using them all year around? But are the ones on SORN just the plastic bits? :)
The Traction, and the Chevy Wagon!
You should look at importing Japanese cars they have loads of rust free European cars going cheap, BMW, Audi, Volvo, Mercedes and VW and all have the steering wheel on the right side...
Citroen DS all day
Is that a fiat strada 130 abarth convertible I see
740 diesel 💪
BMW 324D for me!
Next video? How about what you can get with a long MoT for less than 500 quid (uk and europe)? Few and far between now, but they can still be found.
Conditions, other than the price, they must have 5 seats, with a decent luggage space and not have a cambelt that should have snapped 5,000 miles ago. Good luck.
306 diesel with 12 months MOT on auto trader 👍
@@chrischarlton422 Cambelt replaced recently? I had a quick look, having come up with the idea, and found only 3 that fitted my criteria, and none referred to the cambelt, although one I believe was chain driven, but as it had no service history, I would not place to much faith in not being stretched. The cambelt really is the killer, quite literally in some cases, as most are a pain in the proverbial to replace.
Might just buy em all!
@@GeoffBuysCars Ideal "Geoffles". Not sure how many tickets you flog per car which are the normal offerings, but these could be a pound a throw and still make it worthwhile. Maybe I have just hit on the future of the secondhand car market?😀
I've suddenly become very wary of BMW and their recalls. Son just took his 2016 X3 35d in after getting pestered to have the EGR valve replaced. 1 week later it was dead as a door post. Turned out they had left a bolt inside a hose that was duly sucked into the turbo, wrecking the twin turbos AND the engine. Their insurance have decided to write it off as it was going to cost £30k to sort it out. Now he has no car and was very likely in negative equity so he'll get nothing, and maybe even still need to pay to clear it off.
That can't be right.
An ICE car that costs more to repair than the car is worth?🤔
Just like EVs?
😂😂😂😂
Why doesn't he get a used engine setup and fix it himself?
Geoff would!
@@DwaynePipes He's waiting on the final offer to see if he can buy it back after it's written off. Won't know until then, but a 2nd hand engine can be had for around 3-4k, plus the twin turbos on top. Have to remember that for BMW insurance to sort it, we're talking a brand spanking engine, two new turbos plus many many hours of BMW technicians time, hence the £30k. He's away to France next week so we won't find out for a fortnight what the end result will be. Plus, it's not always easy to A: Afford a lump sum to buy the written off car back, and B: Then fork out another potentially £6k to get it back running. I know I certainly don't have that sort of cash available. Either way, I'm just saying it's a shitty outcome due to some idiot BMW technicians ineptitude.
@@Nite-owl 👍
This is wild…!
You and Ian need to do same again but with American cars only.
15:47 ok
No buy the Peugeot 304
15:36 Slough I recall, not reading!
Made on the Slough Trading Estate
In the not too distant future the UK will be like Cuba. The place will be awash with old, old, old cars! All ICE of course and being kept alive by blacksmiths. 40 year old Ford Corsairs and 45 year old Vauxhall Cavaliers. Can you imagine broken touch screen controls being replaced by WW11 aircraft instruments. Marvelous!
I can’t wait👍👌💪
@@illsaveyes Be careful what you wish for. It'll come with a side order of nastiness.
@@user-ev7kw1uq9o the nastiness in the world ain’t going t get any worse than it is already🤷♂️
Fiat Ritmo...AKA Fiat Strada here in the UK.
Bmw 740 v8 please what a nice looking car 👍
Ian what insurer should i go to for temporary insurance to drive a car back from Netherlands/Germany?
I would go for the BMW.
Bought one from Switzerland 11 mouths ago. And it’s a nightmare this country makes it unbelievably difficult to register every though we aren’t a EU country and neither is Switzerland and we have a trade deal with Switzerland. And they still blamed Brexit.
Funny really as we still have to stick with some EU laws
@@turokforever007almost all of them.. Brexit never happened and it's a scam to blame the financial collapse on
Geoff does National Lampoons Vacation.
fiat ritmo - was the strada over here. rare cars due to rust.
Geoff, can a garage insist on cash when website says they take cards?
Cash only sounds dodgy, money laundering maybe.
Did you buy the E30 diesel - 324d?