RE: £100K Garage: Eric van Spelde

[Theallotmentman]

Wow that's boring! What a lack of imagination. Don't get me wrong, I love the Sagaris but really, 2 cars that are in many ways very similar!

[Alex_6n2]

Theallotmentman said:

Wow that's boring! What a lack of imagination. Don't get me wrong, I love the Sagaris but really, 2 cars that are in many ways very similar!

lolwut?

V12 luxury GT Car is the same as a straight six bare bones sports car?

About the only similarity is that they are both British!

[dirty boy]

Don't often enjoy these "pick" threads, but I have had a moment of contemplation.

£26,995
Noise - Power - Individuality - Top down motoring (almost)


£17,994
Top down motoring - Connection - Handling


£29,000
Lugger - Versatility - Can put my boards in

£26,011 left...

Something to clog the school roads on

[smilo996]

With no one else to consider, cannot fault choice 2. Well argued and almost certainly the pinnacle of TVR's cars.

Spending £50K on a 2004 DB9?
Can understand the reasoning for an Aston but £50K just for a V12.

Spend 30K on a younger Vantage V8 or a softtop and leave 20K for some other guilty pleasures. Or blow the 50K on a much newer and very low milage N400. Not as if crossing Europe in a V8 Vantage will be much less of a pleasure.
http://www.pistonheads.com/classifieds/used-cars/a...

http://www.pistonheads.com/classifieds/used-cars/a...

Top name!

[900T-R]

smilo996 said:

Spending £50K on a 2004 DB9?

Um, look again.

[Turbobanana]

Finally, someone who buys into the idea that a £100,000 garage should be just for cars you want, not school run / shopping cars etc.

And someone who shares my love for Saab 900s

[Leins]

This isn't about needing something for the shopping, but many people (myself included) desire fast saloons, estates & hatches, yet never use them for anything remotely practical. As lovely as those two choices are, I'd still prefer to see something like an Integrale, 190E 16v, 205 GTi, RS2 or 968CS there too just to mix it up a bit

OK these threads are very much each to their own, but is the next one going to be just a single £150k car with a bank loan?

[macky17]

"...and cars for the daily grind should be more or less disposable and bought for beer money - and as such, have no place in my 'dream garage'."

Of course this makes some sense - maximise your affordability for the fun stuff. However, I've always struggled to drive around in a shed when I know I can afford better. After all, it's where you'll spend the most time so shouldn't it be special as well? Decent hot hatch at least, surely?

[Tomatogti]

macky17 said:

"...and cars for the daily grind should be more or less disposable and bought for beer money - and as such, have no place in my 'dream garage'."

Of course this makes some sense - maximise your affordability for the fun stuff. However, I've always struggled to drive around in a shed when I know I can afford better. After all, it's where you'll spend the most time so shouldn't it be special as well? Decent hot hatch at least, surely?

Exactly. Never really understood why you'd choose a crap car for 90% of your journeys and something special for 10%. I want something I enjoy all the time even if I'm in a traffic jam! Life's too short!

[hufggfg]

Along this same vein as Eric's choices, I'd like to submit the most honest "How I'd spend £100K" yet:

http://www.pistonheads.com/classifieds/used-cars/c...

and:

http://www.pistonheads.com/classifieds/used-cars/p...

If PHs wants me to actually write it up then I happily will do. I personally think it's a pretty unbeatable combination of Pistonhead cars.

[900T-R]

Tomatogti said:

Exactly. Never really understood why you'd choose a crap car for 90% of your journeys and something special for 10%. I want something I enjoy all the time even if I'm in a traffic jam! Life's too short!

Thing is, I deem £30K worth of Audi S-Line something estate to have no discernable value over the decade-old MG I have now, at least that's a bit less inert and comes in non-monochrome liveries... Did the 'decent hot hatch' thing near the end of my tenure in the corporate treadmill - almost lost me my license in the one bend that I could exploit maybe half its capability in on my daily commute, and was still strangely unrewarding compared to my TVR. Would've cost entry-level Aston money (say early V8V) to, had I bought it myself.

[900T-R]

hufggfg said:

Along this same vein as Eric's choices, I'd like to submit the most honest "How I'd spend £100K" yet:

http://www.pistonheads.com/classifieds/used-cars/c...

and:

http://www.pistonheads.com/classifieds/used-cars/p...

If PHs wants me to actually write it up then I happily will do. I personally think it's a pretty unbeatable combination of Pistonhead cars.

I like

[macky17]

900T-R said:

Thing is, I deem £30K worth of Audi S-Line something estate to have no discernable value over the decade-old MG I have now, at least that's a bit less inert and comes in non-monochrome liveries... Did the 'decent hot hatch' thing near the end of my tenure in the corporate treadmill - almost lost me my license in the one bend that I could exploit maybe half its capability in on my daily commute, and was still strangely unrewarding compared to my TVR. Would've cost entry-level Aston money (say early V8V) to, had I bought it myself.

Agree on the Audi but how about a GTi/Type-R/Cupra/Renaultsport as the daily hack. Cheap and fun if you go 3-5 years old. Life is indeed too short. Would have thought you could exploit them to an extent even on the daily grind. I do.

[900T-R]

macky17 said:

Agree on the Audi but how about a GTi/Type-R/Cupra/Renaultsport as the daily hack. Cheap and fun if you go 3-5 years old. Life is indeed too short.

TBH I'm a bit past that stage. I've even resisted giving the MG that 20 or so extra hp that it arguably very much needs by means of a simple remap. After a dozen years of having driven just about every new car as part of my work I've come to the conclusion that having a 'fast' but otherwise fairly regular car doesn't interest me anymore, as 95% of times it feels so very disappointingly normal and you tend to get frustrated at not being able to get in that part of the envelope where you get your 'money's worth'. That's how I ended up almost losing my license - maybe 5-10 seconds of WOT in a motorway bend and ending up too close to the car in front that I'd anticipated to go out of my way beforehand...

The TVR OTOH is an event from the moment you start the engine, I don't even have to go fast in it. And all the Astons I've driven had a feel good factor that was off the scale.

[dinkel]

DSR 2009:




The car should run even better and wilder now.

[Krikkit]

900T-R said:

macky17 said:

Agree on the Audi but how about a GTi/Type-R/Cupra/Renaultsport as the daily hack. Cheap and fun if you go 3-5 years old. Life is indeed too short.

TBH I'm a bit past that stage. I've even resisted giving the MG that 20 or so extra hp that it arguably very much needs by means of a simple remap. After a dozen years of having driven just about every new car as part of my work I've come to the conclusion that having a 'fast' but otherwise fairly regular car doesn't interest me anymore, as 95% of times it feels so very disappointingly normal and you tend to get frustrated at not being able to get in that part of the envelope where you get your 'money's worth'. That's how I ended up almost losing my license - maybe 5-10 seconds of WOT in a motorway bend and ending up too close to the car in front that I'd anticipated to go out of my way beforehand...

The TVR OTOH is an event from the moment you start the engine, I don't even have to go fast in it. And all the Astons I've driven had a feel good factor that was off the scale.

I'm starting to agree with this kind of thinking. I still think you should have a decent daily, but the priorities are much different to a fun car.

Comfy seats, good stereo, a bit of poke, nice to look at. Save the savagery for your weekend/summer evening special.

[chungasarnies]

Worst one yet

[Armen]

Original Vanquish (2001-2007), can only be the right choice !!!

[MPoxon]

Good choices Eric