UK fairytail prices on Landcruiser...

[Lars Bo Kjeldstrom]

Well, first of all I want to congratulate Chris on his "Silver surfer". It looks like it has had an easy life (until now!). Reading the whole quest digging up this car -and everybody chipping in help revealed many of your thoughts...during the process of purchasing cars!!

Concerns about fuel I can understand, we have the same issues here.....but 200 or 400 miles of distance from the seller does not keep me from getting the best possible car for me...

But your prices are fairytail 3000£ or 4500...even 7995£ ???????????????

I need to let you in on a national secret we have here in Denmark...people will buy cars allways...even though you tax them heavily! We have a 180% TAX on new cars on top of that you can put our 25% VAT (we pay on everything from rockets to potatoes!)...I picked all the landcruisers available today in Denmark (if you take away Cargo, Camper and 10pax Busses with special plates) normal cars with 5 seats (we dont have 7-seaters??)

Landcruiser 100 there was only 1: VX 100 4,2TD LS , 2004, 277.000 km at 479.000 Kr (= 55.730,80 £)

Landcruiser 80...none available:

Landcruiser 120 there was 1: GX 120 3,4V6, 1998, 144.000 km at 110.000 kr ( 12.798,30 £)

Landcruiser 125 there were plenty: GX 125 3.0TD, 2007, 87.000 km at 399.999 kr (46.539,18£)
GX 125 3.0TD, 2007, 115.000 km at 375.000 kr (43.630,79£)

Landcruiser 150 there was a new one: GX 150 3.0TD, 2011, 0km at 1.045.000 kr (121.583,91£)

ohh..if you want a Landcruiser 200 4.5TD !!!.. ................................1.600.000 kr ( 186.157,18£)


I just hope you will enjoy UK prices from now on ......also you might grow a better understanding if should come across a danish Landcruiser and the driver seems a little wimsy about plunging his savings into an unknown mudhole

Having said all this we also have many ways to avoid these heavily taxed "personal cars" by register as a "2-seater" for cargo or a "10-seater" privat bus.....though you will have to buy a used car, since they closed these upportunities in 2007 ....today a 2-seater LC200 will be about 115.000£ -and if you are caught with more people you will pay the rest (70.000£ + a fine the equal amount)

So my friends, keep your citizenships and smile every morning when you look at your cars and thank the Lord you were not born in Denmark and bitten by the bug

Deeply indebted

Lars

 

[Graham]

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Hi Lars,

Same in Norway.
Hideously expensive.
Denoted by the green number plates.

Graham

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[Crispin]

that is pretty steep. SA is the same. A friend bought a new 150. IIRC, he paid R675k for it or, £60,034.83.
The difference is not that large on a new car but hurts for second hand markets. A quick look at Autotrader and a 120 (non-D4d) is around the R450-500k mark. That's 40k for an old car. Crazy.

The prices of cars are cheap in the UK, more so I think when you compare it to average salaries. Running them is where it stings...

But Demark - ouch....

 

[BIG clean GREEN]

Yep, it's running the buggers that stinks over here But I believe that if fuel were half the price then there'd be very few LCs left around anywhere in the UK, so we're shafted either way

 

[Jon Wildsmith]

So we should stop moaning about fuel costs and think of it as evening thing up, if you do starship miles!