Cheapest Cliosport You Have Bought

[Daz...]

Paid £2400 in 2015 and it ticked onto 94k on the drive home.

Sold the Recaros for £450ish (I think) as they were not comfortable for me at all.

It’s on 148k now, will be 9 years of ownership in 4 days time.

 

[Andyano12]

I love these types of threads....

I bought my Cup at the end of 2016, via Ebay for the grand total of £970.00 The story from the seller (who was a builder) was that it was his apprentices car and he had owed him some money so took the car from him as a payment. All seemed quite dodgy but I turned up in Swansea to collect and drive it back a couple of hours and turned out alright, don't like to think about how much I have paid to keep it going and up together but has definitely been the best £ for smiles car I have ever owned.

Photo of the car taken last weekend and when I first bought it.

 

[gudger12345]

The current money pit along with my DC2 integrea
Paid £1200 for it

Complete with brand new Bilstein's, belts replaced, whiteline arb, exhaust, induction kit and turni's.

Previous owner had the DS sill replaced by stevie wonder.

I have since had all the rot cut out, new sills fitted and just waiting on the car having a full external paint job before stripping the underside fully and refreshing everything

 

[Sir_Dave]

I've had a few, so will go in price order ... they were so cheap at one point

RB 182 Cup Packed. £9850 (12 months old)
182 Trophy £6850
172 Cup £4850
ITB'd 182 Black Gold £2995
182 ShedTrophy £2675
182 Trophy £2650
182 Cup Packed Silver £880
182 Cup Packed Black Gold £800
Ph1 172 Silver £500
Ph2 172 Silver £565
Ph2 172 Monaco £750
Ph2 172 Monaco £535
Ph1 172 Exclusive £375

ShedTrophy was the best by far

 

[Hixle]

I've had a few, so will go in price order ... they were so cheap at one point

RB 182 Cup Packed. £9850 (12 months old)
182 Trophy £6850
172 Cup £4850
ITB'd 182 Black Gold £2995
182 ShedTrophy £2675
182 Trophy £2650
182 Cup Packed Silver £880
182 Cup Packed Black Gold £800
Ph1 172 Silver £500
Ph2 172 Silver £565
Ph2 172 Monaco £750
Ph2 172 Monaco £535
Ph1 172 Exclusive £375

ShedTrophy was the best by far

View attachment 1696006

Can’t remember what i bought the Trophy from you for £ wise, or when.

I’m going with £6500 in 2010. On about 55k miles iirc - cheapest/only one I’ve ever bought.

 

[Donny_Dog]

Makes me want one again.
Then I see how much they are.
Then I get sad, that I'll never experience one again.

 

[BIFCAIDS]

£1200

 

[KitsonRis]

Ph1 #1 bought in 2013 for £750

Ph1 #2 bought in 2020 for £1200

Both were never "show" cars and needed work doing - the second one needed more doing to recomission it. Second one is for sale but I am reluctant to sell it as I won't be able to afford another one when I come around to buying another!


Keep looking at Ph2's at the moment to use as a daily....

 

[Jamess182]

Will also add this.

Not my cheapest, but I bought my RB 182 when it was 4.5 years old for £3900, imagine being able to buy a sub 5 year old hot hatch for that now, mad.

View attachment 1695986

That's some crazy depreciation. Did they depreciate that fast back in the day?

 

[jenic]

That's some crazy depreciation. Did they depreciate that fast back in the day?

It was cheap even at the time, but some of the other posts here have similar levels of depreciation so not that uncommon.

Now we have that 11 year old R56 in the classifieds for £8k, and that looks a lovely buy.

It's just not as easy as it once was to buy a good newish car, mainly because there aren't as many good newish cars imo.

 

[SharpyClio]

Paid £3k for mine a couple of years back, my mate had done some work to it already and so I paid a bit extra for that as he had put well over £1k into it and he had only had it a few months, would have paid around £2k otherwise. Im happy with that, then it got written off and I got £4k from the insurance company and bought it back for £800.

Then I lost my mind and started making it a track car and spending all the £££s...

 

[Jamie86]

Think I paid about £450 for this one. Added some suspension I had in the garage and a couple of cheap seats. Some new plugs cured the misfire and it did about 6 trackdays.

 

[JezzaMac]

I bought this in 2016 for £550 running and driving with an MOT on 114,500 miles.

After 8 years of ownership I’ve only done 3000 miles in it and pumped thousands of pounds into it 😂

It’s now just a full time track car:

 

[Pearce]

£1200 gotta be over 10 years ago
seems like a life time ago I’ve been on here owned my fair share of these hot hatches back in the day

 

[DaveL485]

Least: £500 (I added the wheels and cooksport springs)

Most: LY 220T £14750 in Dec 2021 (which considering I also have a Clio V6 is pretty good going)