Makes me happy, mine has done fewer miles. Nice looking car.

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In my humble opinion that is definitely not worth £10k.

I know some people out there who have late model low miles coupes in good condition would probably disagree for obvious reasons, but there is no way that is worth more than £5k.

Someone really desperate for a car of that exact spec with deep pockets might pay more than £5k but still no where near £10k.

Nice to see one that looks like it's sat in the Fiat Main Dealers showroom circa 2000, the seats, the lack of console gunk, the engine bay; bloomin lovely that.

VT6 are very rare now! I would guess £7k upwards. There have been good condition 5speed turbos being sold recently between £4-5k so it defiantly more than £5k. Leather looks as it should matt black. No squashed and worn out cushions etc. Yellow is still Yellow and not a mis match of various shades!!
Low miles low owners.

Am I seeing standard seats or Recaros?

If it's not the latter as I suspect then priced a bit high.....

Bigger side bolsters on the 20vt6 but I would have expected to see side airbags in one of the last models.

Its very very nice, but I think I'd prefer this one myself http://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/Fiat-coupe-20v...yMAAOSwzJ5XVn0B

Ok, not quite the pedigree of the yellow one, but at a third of the price and with better seats (arguably nicer colour too)

Yes, Recaros much more tempting, not a bad price at all if there are no major corrosion issues

Traders 'flipping' a Coupe...our cars must be on the up!

Considering I've just spent slightly over 4K for my 1999, 88k 5 speed Broomy I would say this is maybe just slightly overpriced but not horrendous. Admittedly mine has had the belts, clutch and turbo sorted recently but this seems to have been very well looked after. Crazy to think I've only bought it for summer before I start university in September!!!

Also like everybody is mentioning, this stuff in the market will only increase the prices of the coupe over time, although I can see it being sat there for a while...

Think we maybe waiting awhile for market prices to start soring, but as long as people / traders price thier cars around these figures it sure helps. Still many cars around the 3-4k mark (underpriced really when you look at the value of lesser classic / cult performance cars) So higher priced cars will always struggle to sell but worth the money in my opinion.
Problem is not many people even know what a coupe's is so always undervalued! The number of people who have asked what is it?
This only adds only to the appeal and connoisseur status of the car in my view.

The issue is that us as realative expects ie. owners of coupes openly disagree with higher priced cars, therefore why would anyone new pay that price.
It's basic supply and demand if people selling coupes put the price up and hold out the market value would increase. Anyone who own's or been driven in a coupe's knows its worth especially if driven other performance cars out there.
Other brands have seen prices rise quicker and higher than the coupe's so come on add an extra zero for the fun factor and make my car worth more.

I think owners disagree with higher priced coupes because a lot of us bought them when they were very inexpensive for the type of car it was. In my opinion that's still in the back of owners minds as they start to see prices rise, whereas those looking at purchasing a first coupe are seeing it for what it is, as opposed to what is was worth 3-5 years ago.

Agreed, but the more discerning people looking at buying these cars are doing due diligence and researching the cars, many using this site. Perhaps we should be happy that we got a bargin and embrace higher sale prices, if "we" disagree with paying more the market value will never rise
I'm not connected to the sale but why devalue the car by 50% as some members have commented?
The car looks a fine, clean well looked after example by the look of it. Good luck to him.

I paid 6k for a 99 VT 5.5 years ago so I'd hardly say prices were even level with then.
There's along way to go yet, I'll have classed them as up when mines worth what it was then with its current mileage.

Says he bought to keep but it's a blatant flip
All of his cars are expensive, and I sell cars!!
Agreed good cars should command a premium but this is somewhat overpriced

This happens every time: a car is offered for sale and irrespective of the price, we trash it!

Amazing!

If a potential purchaser decides a car is overpriced then he has the opportunity to negotiate. But the real impact of us talking the price down every time we see something is that the insurers are finding it hard to agree the prices we want to insure our cars for.

So keep talking them down, boys, and good luck if you write your car off...

Agree Barnacle...but a blatant £2800 profit to flip the car in a matter of days..still does benefit us all in the long run.

I just have an issue with people/speculators who dont own the car but use it as a tool for greed/profit making (i know this is not a great argument and its supply and demand etc).

The market has fluctuated in the last 20 years...mine is possibly worth more than I paid 12 yrs ago. So many variables to what determines a value for the Coupe..almost unquantifiable..but prices are rising given the number that were being broken and going for shed pounds a few years ago.

Take a look at what you might pay for a "Classic Car". You can easily pay 10k for a MGB, you can pay 14k for a mk1 Cortina, 15k for a Riley or 23k for a TR6. Prices are on the up for these cars because of a rising market for them. So why not for the coupe ?

Like Barnacle, I have said before on here, I don't understand why forum members talk down the value of advertised cars. Time to reevaluate what they are worth and if someone buys a car that nobody else did and then finds a buyer for it at a higher price then we'll done to them. Nothing wrong with that.

Or... £2800 negotiating room to anyone who can do the research. Swings and roundabouts.

Offer the dealer £7200 and I think I know what the response will be

Not everyone trashed it, personally I said it was a very very nice car.

But I would be foolish to not look around and compare as I like to get the best value for money no matter what it is I am buying.

Price does account for a lot with most people who live in the real world, I guess the dealer is looking for someone who can afford a toy regardless off cost and just wants the best. Perhaps they may even find that person.

From my experience, people with lots of money are also canny with it. No fools. And usually quite tight too.

Its worth whatever someone will pay - why are we not saying that the other person must have been desperate to sell £2800 under what it's worth?!

It's a nice looking car in the pictures, if it as sweet as it looks and everything stacks up mechanically then it's worth the money, hopefully a sorted coupe won't lose money going forward.

That is the point. In recent years, coupes have been disposable cars, impulse purchases to be thrashed and thrown away. And guess what - many have been bought on impulse, thrashed, and thrown away.

But as the number of dogs, or at least those for whom the ownership experience does not tally with five or ten thousand spent on restoration, falls... those left will be looked on with more fervour.

As pointed out - cars of the coupe's age and twenty years older are selling for the sorts of prices we're ridiculing here. It's *always* a buyer's market for cars (with very very few exceptions) and we all want a coupe as cheap as we can get it, but the buyer and the seller have to agree - and that's what sets the value. But the seller has to put a price on it...

I think the notion that us talking down prices on this forum will affect the actual market for these cars is misguided.

Th market for a specific car is obviously affected by a myriad of different things but what we discuss on a forum is not one of those things....again, my opinion only.

I stand by what I said originally, I think this person paid slightly over the odds for the car, so adding £2800 is really wishful thinking.

Stating the obvious, a car is worth what someone is willing to pay...

Stating the obvious again, not everyone has the same thoughts/opinions on this subject...

I've added some smilies to show that I'm not grumpy about this thread.....

This is a "conversion" in the process, folks!