Thinking of selling my W12 SWB
 

It just doesn't get used that often now so toying with the idea of selling up.

It's a 2005 Short Wheel Base W12.

Dark metallic blue with black leather.

The options list isn't huge on it:

Keyless entry/start
TV (needs digital tuner to work though)
Phone
Power boot
Soft close doors
Rear blind

Not sure if any of those were standard equipment to be honest?

It's done around 120k miles and is in good condition apart from:
A small area of lacquer on the drivers front pillar come away
Chrome trim round rear windows gone milky
Power boot opens itself but wont close itself

Any ideas on a rough price I should be looking at?

I think the options list is about right but the looks of it.

Also has wooden gear knob apparently.....

The colour is unusual, in a nice way, but the (relatively) high mileage is going to kill its value and desirability.

On that spec and mileage, I guess WBAC is around 3-3.5 K, maybe a touch higher as a trade in, and private up to 5 K. Dealer Forecourt is showing 6.2K.

Lot of car for the money, but they do cost a lot to run compared to other variants unfortunately.....

If you wanted to move it on to the trade, I might be interested, not because there is 1 penny of profit in it, but because I've never managed to own a 12 cylinder car. Came really close 3 times, but its still on my bucket list +++

I think your signature says it all really - "Need an OPEC membership to run it!".
Probably the hardest of all Audis (well, '8s anyway...) to shift, and the one with the biggest gulf between market price and owner value.
I've no idea what it's worth, but good luck with the sale - there may be someone out there who really wants one.

A case in point...

https://m.ebay.co.uk/itm/Rare-Audi-A...c/192429739639

Ouch! Fifteen grand!

If I had fifteen grand to spend then it wouldn't be going there. Especially as it is a cat D, however you feel about that it lowers the value.

I can only imagine he doesn't want to sell it!

That's only the starting bid price!

Crumbs. That's a tricky one.

The photos are awful, inconsistent and incomplete.
And the wrap is simply hideous. Whether or not it comes off and leaves perfect paintwork underneath is another question.

But, it is potentially the last, low mileage 'man utd' spec car out there.

I think it could have been worth in the region of 12 -15K, but the Cat D would wipe off a good 25% off a normal car, but it somewhat ruins the collectability of this example making it virtually impossible to price.

Assuming he's already had an insurance pay out, asking 15K does seem both optimistic, and greedy.

10K does seem like a more realistic upper expectation, but I shall watch with interest..... +++

Highest Spec (but Bose instead of B&O?)

That said, it has a fridge lol

There was an insanely fine line between the availability of B&O (which came out in very, very late 2005) and the end of the SWB W12 (beginning of 2006).

The SWB W12 in the UK was a stop gap 'performance' model whilst they sorted out the S8. Once the S8 came along, the W12 SWB was no more.

Hence why the SWB W12 is a relatively rare model, making the high spec ones more desirable (or the low spec ones less so)

In 10 years, I've seen only one W12 short wheel base with B&O, and that one doesn't have a sunroof.... doh. ;)

How the hell do you know all this sh*t? do you have a stack of Audi press release brochures in the can for morning input/output reading post coffee? lol

Haha! Loving that!

And how grateful we all are that Ian does, I'm lapping up this sort of info.

I got my first D2 15+ years ago, co founded A8parts 10+ years ago and have had more A8's than you lot put together...... I also have an eye for detail, especially specs, so after a while its all 'obvious' lol....

Just look at his forum signature: The Past. :ROFL:

Now that's got to be the understatement of the year on here :)

Can't be many CAT D W12's out there so rarity value maybe.

Probably as rare as people prepared to pay that sort of money!

Seriously, like most things, it's worth what someone is prepared to pay and it only will get bought once. I guess if it is just what someone is looking for then it will go.

However, even for a newbie like me, for that money I could have that lush S8 on here and that's where my fifteen grand would go.

My thoughts exactly...."Mmmm, let me see, a near perfect D3 S8 or a Cat D W12?" :ROFL:

Why thanks! I can sell her to you for less than fifteen grand (not that much less) and save you some money :ROFL:

I'd love to mate! However it seems like getting an S8 as my first ever A8 would just be showing off!

Do you do finance?! :)

It was my first foray into 8 ownership and I spent about 8 months looking for a good one, its not showing off!

I agree, S8 ownership is quite simply an itch that has to be scratched!

The V10, and the W12 are both engineering master pieces in their own completely different way.

Both 450bhp and completely chalk and cheese. Both should be sampled really.

The trouble is, that after those 2, the rest of the engines do seem a bit mundane.... ;)