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I've had my skyline ( R33 GTS-T M SPEC )now for 4 years it was always my dream car and now that i can grown up and got married! its time for me and my friend to part our ways :(:(

BUT to my suprise its been a hard battle trying to sell my skyline, It was on sale for $16k but only had one phone call, car dealers where only offering $7k lol, and theres nothing wrong with the car!

2 months later still nothing and i had a bit of a accident reversing and got a dent on the door so i dropped the price to $14k with 1 Year rego and guess what still nothing!!!!!

Maybe its the new law that P-Platers cant drive Turbo cars? Whatever it is selling a Skyline is turning out to be a NIGHT MARE!!

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Yeah thats a good point, but i guess people buying a r32GTR dont consider that the parts are more expensive if something goes wrong, insurance is much higher.

Ohh the other thing i even tried to offer it as a trade in just to see what they would give me, they always ask the same thing! "Is that a Import?" and then they face screws up when u reply "Yes"

Then they come back with the trade in figure $7-8k I dont know if i should cry or laugh! lol

it's hard to sell a skyline because most people overprice them (specially the dealers) and most are just 10-17yo cars that have had the crap flogged out of them their whole lives

90% are just not worth the money. a lot of private sellers are dreaming with their prices.

lol maybe you should have advertised it on here sooner.

On that note, its a white series 1 R33, which is probably the most common skyline in the "for sale" market. A lot of people don't want to buy a car that's common. Still 14k on road with rego is pretty good.

Its also a "Type M" not an "M Spec".

In your ad, you might want to add the pic of the dent on the door, where you are located (looks like NSW from the rego sticker), the year of the car, auto/manual and a list of mods, just to save you having to answer repeat questions.

You know what? I saw tons of series 1 Skylines around that money when I was buying my car.

The ONLY thing that would stop me from buying a car like yours is the pure fact that I was looking for a series 2. Being newer and looking much nicer than a stock series 1.

So... 32GTR's are good value, and series 2 R33's are 1-2K more.

Your car looks nice though, maybe it doesn't show in pictures. =-]

too common.. should have sold it 18 months ago and you would have got an easy $16k, but that is really just standard depreciation over that time.

ask $13k, sell it tomorrow... move on, and remember the fun times.

The laws are making it harder and harder for people to get these cars so the market is getting smaller and smaller so there isnt such high demand now. That looks like a very nice car and id certainly snap it up for 14grand if i didnt already own a gtst. But at the end of the day with fuel prices going up and new laws coming out it is only going to get harder.

I think people originally bought import skylines for something different than the local aussie V8s that are going around. A skyline was something rare and special.

Flash forward to today. I did a search on CarSales - Holden+V8 returned 78 dealer vehicles. Nissan+Skyline returned 143 dealer vehicles (only 9 of which were the old Aussie R31s).

Buying an import is no longer "different," the local V8s are!!! Skylines don't have that charm of being a rare and different car anymore. :)

Plus fuel costs, P-Plate laws, insurance, dickheads with keys in carparks, increased competition from other vehicle imports, the "skyline driver reputation," increasing police attention, increasing multinova population, increasing number of natatmo 4cyl neon&subbie equipped "racing cars" on the road (identified by their aerodynamic "enhancements" for high speed racing), increasing quality of the sub-$25k brand new car, and the housing boom (people spend on houses not cars) all have an effect too... :)

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2 months later still nothing and i had a bit of a accident reversing and got a dent on the door so i dropped the price to $14k with 1 Year rego and guess what still nothing!!!!!

Maybe its the new law that P-Platers cant drive Turbo cars? Whatever it is selling a Skyline is turning out to be a NIGHT MARE!!

You can land and have them complied from $13k, or there about’s. As said above the market is flooded with R33’s. From what I’ve seen the current trend is towards R32 Gtst’s and GTR’s so you will have to compete with R32 gtst price’s to get all the d1 would be’s looking :P

i remember finding R33s for around 11k on average around 1 year ago down melbourne way, i think they all went up in price just after that. dealers ask for redicolous prioces and people will pay because they offer finance too.

in any case if you can pay cash for a car i would pay 14k for a nice R33. Not to mention i think people are getting the idea that R33s just arnt as race spec as R32's or R34's.

i just think people have no idea these days ..

want stock and they can never afford to modify it

believe that even mildly modified means 'thrashed' and about to blow up at any moment

want the cheapest but wonder why it stuffs up

dont buy an r33 because they're too 'common', but buy an equally common r32

believe that r33 are somehow 'slow' or mangey at driving compared to an R32 or R34 Despite only ever driven some regular joe car which is 5 times behind in all respects.

want to pay 'cash' because they cant get a loan like everybody used to

want a 10-15 year old car to be 'immaculate', with not one scratch and behave like a new car

its all a silly market..

someonestolecc very impressive use of problem solving to come up with such an intelligent analysis of the problem at hand *pats cc on the back* There so unpopular that everyone has one yet they dont like them. People much just hand them out for free to people who want to look funny while driving. Im sure all these r33 owners have r31's at home as there weekend drivers leaving the mere 33 for a daily thrasher considering there so shit and worthless. hows that for "ARGUEABLY"

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