Defenders on "Car Sales."

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Originally Posted by DeanoH

How about one of these ? :)

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Australian designed and built Oka

Deano :)

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Yeah the OKA is trouble free! :Rolling: ...yes heavy duty. The only remaining Australian made vehicle? Not sure

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Originally Posted by martnH

Define heavy duty in your opinion
It seems reliability is not included.

I think you sounds like you want to sell.....

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Pffffft....

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Originally Posted by 1nando

My defender is gone. Its was picked up today by its new owner.

When we agreed on $65k he was in Israel and he had not even seen the car, put a $1000 deposit on it and i waited until today.

When he saw it for the first time he could not believe how good it looked in real life, how much work was done to it and how beautifully it drove.

After he paid the balance and got the paperwork out of the way i watched him drive out of my driveway.....its was the saddest moment ive ever felt in regards to a vehicle. I walked into the house with tears running down my face, my mrs gave me a hug and reminded me of our priorities.

Sad day[emoji24]

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I feel for you man. 😰

There was a nice td5 for sale few weeks back, sadly it went before I had a chance, the search continues

We've taken a wrong turn We've taken a wrong turn

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Originally Posted by Mittsy

There was a nice td5 for sale few weeks back, sadly it went before I had a chance, the search continues

We've taken a wrong turn We've taken a wrong turn

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Damn that sounded great! Much rather a Td5 for that price than a $60-70k Puma!

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Originally Posted by Zeros

Yeah the OKA is trouble free! :Rolling:

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Don't really know what you're getting at here ? The Oka is basically trouble free from a design and build viewpoint though the first production models needed a bit of tweaking here and there, no different to any other vehicle really.

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Originally Posted by Zeros

...yes heavy duty. The only remaining Australian made vehicle? Not sure

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Alas, no more since about 5 years ago, but hold their prices well if properly maintained, very similar to the Defender really in a lot of ways.

A good choice for a heavy duty touring vehicle especially as a family tourer/camper. For the same price as a Defender you get a lot of Oka. In the right application better value for money IMO.

Deano :)

ps. Deano is biased as he owns an Oka and has owned two (older) Defenders :)

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Originally Posted by Andrew86

Something is only worth what someone is willing to pay, it has everything to do with market price.

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Yeah....Nah. A person (thief?) may not be willing to pay anything for an object he wants personally. The price he is willing to pay (zero) does not reduce the worth of the object to zero.

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Originally Posted by tact

Yeah....Nah. A person (thief?) may not be willing to pay anything for an object he wants personally. The price he is willing to pay (zero) does not reduce the worth of the object to zero.

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there is a price he's willing to pay. he just doesnt have the money to pay it...

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Originally Posted by Eevo

there is a price he's willing to pay. he just doesnt have the money to pay it...

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That is just one scenario, yours. There are other scenarios that support my assertion.

My assertion being that there are people who will want something, are not willing to pay anything for it. And the price they are willing to pay (zero) in no way changes the worth of the item.

The focus of the assertion is not on thieves or theft or ability to pay.

I'd go further and assert that that there are "things" that people don't want. Thus are not willing to pay anything for it. This too does not change the worth of the object.

All this being a counterpoint to the comment:
Originally Posted by Andrew86 https://www.aulro.com/afvb/images/bu...post-right.png
Something is only worth what someone is willing to pay, it has everything to do with market price.

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Originally Posted by tact

Yeah....Nah. A person (thief?) may not be willing to pay anything for an object he wants personally. The price he is willing to pay (zero) does not reduce the worth of the object to zero.

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If that person is the only person in the market for a Defender, it does. You can't sell it for anything, to anyone, a bit like the Lada Niva by good friend had back in the 90's. Worth, in this case, being the value of the asset if it were converted to cash.

Obviously the market for Defenders is much bigger than one person, but the same principle applies. If none of those people are willing to pay $100k then it isn't worth $100k.