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I'm in the same boat, and for the same reasons the orange and LY are a bit too out there for me (according to the wife as well). And agree, the LY doesn't suit the IV like it does the III (I owned a 265 in LY and it looked great). Red also my first choice, followed by the grey. Same same.... Black also looks very nice but I've had enough of black cars and trying to keep them clean.

Congratulations, looks great! I half had my eye on this one, but the price and being interstate put me off a bit. Actually I was quite glad you bought it first (this seems to be a common feeling on this forum)! Good luck with it and hope it turns out to be a great car.

I think a bit expensive for the kms. Nice colour though. Maybe $15-16K is more realistic, prices are coming down.

All looks like a 265 to me. I had a 2014 265 facelift and from memory no front parking sensors.

Actually not much cheaper (Meganes), those advertised have odometer in miles so multiply by 1.6 for kms.....most are relatively high k's and well over $AUD20K. But yes, generally cheaper in the UK.

You'll find that "old" guys may not be as desperate for the cash as "young" guys, who might need it to buy another car, so they'll stick to their principles and sell the car when the right buyer/price comes along. And I know the Brera you're talking about, it's been for sale for ages, thought there may have been something wrong with it.....

The OP (Verena) could be referring to a standard Clio, not an RS? In which case some of the issues with the RS may not apply.....

Welcome to the OzRS forum and RS ownership! The colour was always known here as Arctic Blue, perhaps it had a different name in the UK. My first RS was exactly this model and colour, and I loved it! Hope yours is just as good, all the best.

True. But my experience is this.......many years ago I let a mate (who held an auto license) drive my beautiful (?) TC Cortina manual, said he wanted to have a go. 10 minutes later and after lots of shuddering and jerking he gave the car back to me, and it stunk like it was on fire. Never again. Obviously I didn't have a second set of pedals, so that may have made the experience a bit less traumatic. And I probably wasn't the best instructor back then 😄

The biggest factor for me would be whether it was in fact a learner driver car. Can you imagine your car being driven by dozens or even hundreds of (potentially) sh*t drivers? I would definitely check this with the seller before offering any amount.

Yeah probably been through 3 clutches and several rear end crashes due to stalling 😄

It's a new car, it has to be perfect. I wouldn't stand for any of that. Take it back and bring me another one.................. [Sorry about the rant, apart from that is looks terrific!]

OK I tried that and changed theme to 'default', and it's gone back to white background - thanks!

Totally agree with the above. White text on black background is a no-no with respect to website accessibility, at least in my experience with website development some years ago........ Also, the background colour could be changed on the previous site, as stromlo asks, can it also be done on this site?

^^^ In Victoria the dealer (and any private seller - although most don't) must disclose if the car has been classed as a 'repairable write-off' (or you can check this yourself on the VicRoads register), which is an indication that the car was in a fairly significant accident which didn't warrant it being repaired. I believe NSW also has something similar (WOVR?), but not sure about other states. That still doesn't guarantee that the car wasn't involved in (one or more) 'minor' accidents. As for ex-rentals, unless it was significantly cheaper than the non-rental equivalent (i.e. thousands cheaper), I would simply not buy one. People who hire cars like the RS probably don't drive them like their own......