{"id":777,"date":"2008-11-11T21:42:33","date_gmt":"2008-11-11T21:42:33","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/brennigjones.com\/blog\/?p=777"},"modified":"2008-11-11T21:42:33","modified_gmt":"2008-11-11T21:42:33","slug":"under-the-hammer","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/brennigjones.com\/blog\/?p=777","title":{"rendered":"Under the hammer"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>This evening we trogged down the Old A40 to a car auction in Witney (hat tip to <a href=\"http:\/\/theperpetualspiral.wordpress.com\/\" title=\"Perpetual Spiral's blog\" target=\"_blank\">Perpetual Spiral<\/a> for telling me the place was worth a visit).<\/p>\n<p>There was a full list and I&#8217;d marked a few cars I was vaguely (!) interested in from the auctioneers website, so off we set &#8211; purely in the interests of market research &#8211; for a look at what&#8217;s what.<\/p>\n<p>Sadly there weren&#8217;t very many Quality cars (that&#8217;s quality with a capital Q):<\/p>\n<p>The November 2000 Jaguar S-Type V6 SE went for a provisional \u00c2\u00a33,000.<br \/>\nThe September 2003 Toyota Celica VVTI went for \u00c2\u00a32,950<br \/>\nThe July 2004 Honda Accord Vtec Executive went for \u00c2\u00a33,300<\/p>\n<p>At the other end of the market&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>The November 2004 Ford Focus went for\u00c2\u00a31,050<br \/>\nThe September 2005 Vauxhall Astra CDTI went for \u00c2\u00a32,700<br \/>\nThe immaculate June 2003 Nissan X-Trail Sport TD went for \u00c2\u00a33,300<br \/>\nThe June 2006 BMW X5 D Auto went for \u00c2\u00a38,050<\/p>\n<p>But apart from the mundane business of watching an auction in process (I just can&#8217;t get excited by auctions &#8211; not unless the auction in question is Ascot Bloodstock Sales where, when I attend, you&#8217;ll usually find me sitting on both of my hands in order to prevent me from going home with a stableful of unplanned horses following by transport!) it was a useful exercise in helping me understand the auction value of the more common types of cars.<\/p>\n<p>What I need is to go a few more times to try and get the values of Jaguars, Mercedes and BMWs. Just in the interest of market research of course!<\/p>\n<p><em><strong>B<\/strong><\/em>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This evening we trogged down the Old A40 to a car auction in Witney (hat tip to Perpetual Spiral for telling me the place was<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":13,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-777","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-stuff","two-columns"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/brennigjones.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/777","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/brennigjones.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/brennigjones.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brennigjones.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/13"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brennigjones.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=777"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/brennigjones.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/777\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/brennigjones.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=777"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brennigjones.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=777"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brennigjones.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=777"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}