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Location: An island off southern Tasmania. | I love the GTL model of 380's.....a bit of history and a rant?
We have two in the family this one and the other one shown on the forum in members area...
anyway, wife's brother worked as an engineer at the factory, because of that family members could get company cars on his sal;ary sacrifice...so... I was getting a lease 380 for 100 dollars a week all expenses paid.
When it got 7000 k's on the clock I would take it to nearest dealer and get a new one with zero k's again...over and over and over...
One Gt I put 7000k's in 2 months...LOL
Did that for nearly 10 years with magnas and 380's...had every possible model, verada, sports, Gt, GTL, VRX...dedicated gas etc.
When we put 7000 k's on them we were offered first pick to buy them as "executive driven"...
The GT was 44000 new...after I put 7000 k's on it I was offered it for $22500....shit the Satnav option was 4500 bucks!
You can understand why I bought every family member one...and always with all the options like sunroof, satnav, towbar etc.
The last 380 I got was a GTL on the day the factory announced closure...I had just driven it home...had 80 kilometres on the clock and was told I could have it without putting 7000 k's on it.
But it went to an 85 year old family member as it wasn't suited for twin turbos....LOL
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| Administrator - 18/10/2013 09:48
I love the GTL model of 380's.....a bit of history and a rant?
We have two in the family this one and the other one shown on the forum in members area...
anyway, wife's brother worked as an engineer at the factory, because of that family members could get company cars on his sal;ary sacrifice...so... I was getting a lease 380 for 100 dollars a week all expenses paid.
When it got 7000 k's on the clock I would take it to nearest dealer and get a new one with zero k's again...over and over and over...
One Gt I put 7000k's in 2 months...LOL
Did that for nearly 10 years with magnas and 380's...had every possible model, verada, sports, Gt, GTL, VRX...dedicated gas etc.
When we put 7000 k's on them we were offered first pick to buy them as "executive driven"...
The GT was 44000 new...after I put 7000 k's on it I was offered it for $22500....shit the Satnav option was 4500 bucks!
You can understand why I bought every family member one...and always with all the options like sunroof, satnav, towbar etc.
The last 380 I got was a GTL on the day the factory announced closure...I had just driven it home...had 80 kilometres on the clock and was told I could have it without putting 7000 k's on it.
But it went to an 85 year old family member as it wasn't suited for twin turbos....LOL
Very cool. You're lucky to have such a great model of car so readily available! Very lucky indeed. |
380GTL -Going to Qld
