Where are the R26Rs for sale and what about this one at Mayfair Prestige?

Definitely looks like an .R I believe this is the one Sterling autos had for sale for a few months and couldn't get rid of, albeit much more reasonably priced now.

Shame it's missing the cage though...

 

I've got a white one, in my opinion cage and Ti are a must, good luck in finding one, think there are only 80 on uk roads

 

It's a rubbish advert

 

You not thought of an R26 then, strip it with different seats and a harness

 

Save yourself a fortune and get a faster better car with an R26 and go Stage 1 or 2. It will save you money, is faster than an R26R and you can reach to reach for a parking ticket without the silly harness.....Oh and there's plenty of good examples around!!
I looked and saw...... and got an R26!
R26Man

 

It does take balls to buy an R though their for the select few that don't want to be ordinary and sensible

 

R26R all day long, you can do a few choice mods and it will be as quick as most stripped out r26, plus it will be worth more than tuppence when you want to move on. Do your homework, there is a black .R out there that has had a big front end accident.

 

Overpricced, they're worth about 14k tops

 

That one is no cage or ti

 

Still worth more than most 250s

 

good luck getting a good one for 14K

 

Thing is if someone wants one and there are only 3 for sale and all are around 16-18k then that's what your paying, so you can say its worth what you want but youve not got much choice if you want it

 

I love these people that slag off the R. :rolleyes:

Yeah you you can buy an R26 and mod it but you'll never get your money back. I've had 2 years of fun out of mine and I could sell it tomorrow for more than what I paid for it. There aren't many cars out there you can say that about nowadays.
If you can afford an R and can live with the impracticality of it than do it. The R26 is a great car but the R is worth the extra in my opinion. I owned an R26 before the R as have quite a few owners and I don't know any of them that have said they think they've wasted their money.

 

Only people who say their not worth money are the ones that don't want one or can't afford one rob

 

There are two things a R26R is.

Rare.

Getting Rarer.

Hence people want them and residuals stay high.

If you have the cash buy one. Its probably quite a sound investment car wise.

 

Another one that can't afford one.

 

How is it a "miles better track car" by the time you've put a cage in and stripped it out you've just about made it as light as an R and worth feck all.
As Steve says.

 

The thing with any car is it's worth what a buyer is willing to pay for it.. seams the R is a sound investment and in theory they should only appreciate! But and its a big but.. if someone pays 60k for a truly out of the box example. It doesn't mean ALL r26r's are worth anything near that... good thing with the R appreciating is that R26's should also start to hold their values a bit better

An example is a R34 Skyline I saw with 2000 miles on the clock for £80k... the only kind of person who would pay that would be to wrap it up in cotton wool and hope it goes up more... but then you could buy an old porsche or ferrari f355 for that sort of money which are going up... or a Nissan GTR! Fact is in my eyes that car is legendary and worth it... would I buy it at that... no way!

I'd love to own an R.. but financially wouldn't see fit to put that cash in to a track car.. my talent would more than likely run out, smash the thing to pieces along with my investment... lol

...but if I had the sort of money to not worry (or care) about the consequences then yeah... all day long I'd pay 20k for one! In lunar grey of course lol

 

thought as much, bit sad, but there are a few around.

 

the reason a car becomes a good car is the way they drive sound etc, couldn't imagine anything worse than buying a great car and then it just being moth balled and never driven to experience why it has become a legend

 

If you do get an R, then the ti is a must. Just my opinion but the sound is just amazing and they are a very desirable extra come resale time.

 

As Simon said I think it's a must to get cage and ti. It's sounds good and they r the ones people want

 

jimmyslr, I'm pretty sure that R for sale has a Ti exhaust, its hard to see in the pictures but it doesn't look like a standard exhaust to me.

 

The cage can be bought from Renault for £1,400 iirc

 

Sound about right, although if I were the OP I wouldn't bother. That 1.4k could be spent on some decent tyres and brakes, plus the standard cages are more for show, especially the pants bolts they bolt them together with

 

Mate of mine rolled his R , cage saved his life

 

Obviously not as good as a built/weld in one but I'm not getting into that, just saying if he wanted one that's the price

 

Ha yeah I agree, didn't really word that very well, that's sort of what I was trying to say about the standard Renault cage vs weld in ones. Your mate rolled an R? Couldn't have been a pretty sight! Heard of a few that have been written off now.

 

He certainly did, nimbus grey one, he did put pictures on here or meganesport

 

Not sure what site the pics are on

 

Anyone seen the one on pistonheads today for £22k?

 

For a "common" black one too. Imagine what our rare ones are worth

 

Yeah it's at a garage around the corner from me, have some awesome motors but very overpriced.

Got an rs200 and want 500k for it!

http://www.ronhodgson.co.uk/used-cars-in-up-holland