Tracy Sandberg of Fox Racing wrote "The European Rover Mini which is still a
currently available
model for sale, sells for up to approx. $29K"
Don't read too much into the price of cars in Europe, England especially.
When I moved here from England five years ago I was amazed at how cheap cars
were/are. I came over to work at Ford. At the time the FCG's (Ford collage
graduates) were all buying Probe GT's so I looked at them. At that time a
loaded Probe was selling for approx. $24,000 to the public, not with any
employee discount. In England the same car was approx. 24,000 British
pounds or $38,400 using a 1.6 exchange rate. Add to that a 2.5 V6 is a
monster engine by English standards it was basically impossible to insure
one until you were 30 years old.
I've just had a quick look at the Ford UK website. A base 3dr Focus with
the biggest available engine a 1.8 Zetec (You can go down as small as 1.4!)
costs 13,000 Pounds or $20,800. Now the base ZX3 Focus over here, with that
big dangerous 2.0L Zetec starts at $12,500. Trust me over here you have no
idea how lucky you are with cars. Let's not even start of gas at $4.5 a
gallon!
Adrian Thompson
-----Original Message-----
From: SlyFoxRc@aol.com [mailto:SlyFoxRc@aol.com]
Sent: Friday, November 05, 1999 1:24 PM
To: mattm@optonline.net; johnlee@softdisk.com
Cc: autox@autox.team.net
Subject: Re: Stolen Minis
In a message dated 11/2/99 7:24:30 PM Pacific Standard Time,
mattm@optonline.net writes:
<< This begs the question, who'd (in their right mind, which sort of
answers it in the first place) steal a Mini? They'd be hard pressed to
outrun anyone ( and at night fuggeddaboutit ).
>>
The European Rover Mini which is still a currently available
model for sale, sells for up to approx. $29K and has an up
to 3 year waiting list for purchase. I don't know what version
of Mini was stolen but they can be an expensive car.
Tracy Sandberg
Sly Fox Racing
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