Explore new and used car deals with Carwow: https://bit.ly/Change-Your-Car-0505 Did Mat make a huge mistake buying a Bentley Continental GT for just £10,200? In this video, we’re putting our bargain-basement Bentley head-to-head with a pristine, well-maintained version of the exact same car, but this one is worth £30,000! Is the "mint" example really worth three times the price, and if so, is it worth Mat pouring in the cash to get our car to the same level? Well, here’s the thing: we already know from a previous video that there are a whole load of issues with our car. We need to replace the front suspension, replace the handbrake motors, change warped brakes, and it also needs a major service and a new MOT. All in, the fix everything, it would cost over £25,000 to fix them all! What’s more, the 6-litre W12 should be producing 550hp, but in this instance ours is only putting down 320hp, so to get it back to producing what it should would cost an additional £8,000! So we now have a massive decision to make. Do we cut our losses or double down? Here is how we tackle this dilemma: For starters, we see how much the car is worth if we simply strip it and sell it in pieces. We then get the car professionally valeted to see if "looking the part" is enough to fool a specialist when compared to the £30k version, and then finally we attempt to fix only the bare essentials required to get it road-legal. Can you actually save £20,000 by buying a "fixer-upper" Bentley, or did we just buy a very heavy, very expensive paperweight? Stick with Mat to find out! Thanks to https://www.instagram.com/flyingspares for helping us with this video!
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Jeremy Clarkson: "can you spend $10k on a supercar? Yes, but for the love of God, don't"
To paraphrase Top Gear: just because you can, doesn’t mean you should
I think the most important message of this video is: we're all better off decorating our mancaves and living rooms with nice, beautiful and comfy Mulliner seats, rather than heading to Ikea for cheap sofas
She supposedly checks 150 cars, a day!? That isn't quality control, that's a stroll past and a tick box.
1000£ in parts and 25.000£ in labour 😅…
Having to take the engine out to replace a sensor is the stuff capital punishment was invented for. Get whoever designed that in front of the wall.
No such thing as a cheap Bentley. You pay for it in purchase price and maintenance.
I'm going to be looking for secondhand Bentley seats for my next car project now. 😂
£200 each for those seats. That “specialist “ is having a laugh.
There's nothing more expensive than a cheap Bentley.
What other cars would you like to see Mat buy in the future?
It is near criminal that such expensive cars don’t hold up better than that….
Petition to bring Mat Armstrong for a drag race on his inhouse repaired cars
I'm sure in Poland you would get pure professional repairment and it would cost less, and back to UK.
15:10 - 150-200 Cars a day? How long does she work? 480min(8h)/150cars=~3min per car?
The inspection was a load of crap and one of the worst product placement adverts I have ever seen, if she is checking 150 day she ain't checking that closely
How did both you and AutoAlex buy cheap Bentleys at the same time. What a coincidence. This deserves a collab!!
Dream car - for a mechanic to make money ! 😂
250 for those seats is a straight up LIE
nice to see Nick doing a proper presenting job in front of a camera. seems like a natural