"R" registration means the car is from Britain, where for some really
really dumb reason they put the year of the car on the obnoxious licence
plates they have here. In this case, R means the car was registered
from between Aug 1, 1997 until July 31, 1998.
If this is a car in the US, I wonder who is going to perform the
warranty work on the car?
The price, 18,000 pounds, is quite reasonable. You'd be hard pressed to
find any 406 coupe here for that cheap. There's a 97 406 SE coupe that
I'm going to drive one of these days at a dealer that has 6,000 miles on
it and is 26,000 pounds.
The 2 litre in the 406 coupe advertised is a revised version of the
infamous XU9J2, as seen in the US 405 DL and S. I believe it is now the
XU10J2.
- Robert Cullemore
London, England