£70k everyday sports/supercar

[hven]

Got a 70k budget, want something special but practical. Only need two seats but will be my main car and must have enough luggage space for a trip to tesco.

Don't want something that looks dated inside and out and also would like something that's gotten rid of most of it's depreciation and will not lose me tens of thousands if I only own it for a couple years.

Obviously been looking at R8's but what else should I be looking at? Not sure Carrera S's really do it for me looks wise

[hven]

jas xjr said:

Beat me to it

the mc stradale looks great and is in my price range but aren't the robot gear boxes supposed to be crap in the same way the R-tronic is?

[hven]

divetheworld said:

Vantage or Vantage S

yea, considered them but few things put me off, they're quite slow and depreciate more than R8's. Think a 2012 Vantage S would lose me a lot more than a 2011 V10 manual R8. Still think the aston looks really special but would choose the R8 probably.

Edited by hven on Saturday 2nd May 20:58

[hven]

Would go V10 or V8 R8? Alot of the v8 cars seems to be quite blandly spec'd and by the time you find a nice one you're into V10 money. So maybe a pre facelift V10 with the oval exhausts is the current sweet spot?

I know the new one is around the corner but I'm not certain it will affects the values much given it's so expensive and personally, I prefer the looks of the old one.

[hven]

whoami said:

What do you drive now?

rs4

[hven]

Is a 430 a practical everyday car?

[hven]

craigjm said:

Rubbish! GT4 maybe but the GTS will depreciate no slower than an S over the next few years. Facelift model coming soon too

I'm quite tall and know for a fact I couldn't fit inside a cayman mark 1. Not sure if that's changed for the current model.

[hven]

whoami said:

You're not far away from an early V12 Vantage.

I know but I'd have not much choice. Also not clear how V12 Vantage holds value? I don't think the normal V8's hold value that well, vantage's now start at £30k and they look the same in 2005 as they do today. Still look great but you get my point.

[hven]

Benbay001 said:

Evora for me, if i was in your position.

You would? don't do anything for me I'm afraid.

V12 Vantage does, but just not many around within range.

[hven]

I never said I expect to avoid depreciation, I said something that's not going to lose tens of thousands in 2 years. )

[hven]

One of the appeals with the audi is the running costs are no more than a RS car, can get it serviced anywhere etc. As I have no experience with Maserati and Aston, how do they compare running cost wise? Assuming it's a fair bit more.

[hven]

I just don't like the look of them, and the interior is not even close to being in the same quality as aston/audi etc...

[hven]

DonkeyApple said:

Personally, I don't like the look, I think it needs a few tweets to make it look less dumpy and the grill makes it look special needs. But the interior is very good and not at all trying to be a generic family car to appeal to the masses. And it certainly drives better than a lot of cars mentioned.

But, I've never thought of the Audi interior as being quality. To me it's just the same sort of interior you get in any cheap, generic German car. It wouldn't cross my mind to compare it with something like an Aston interior.

Why not the Gallardo instead of R8?

practicality, running/servicing costs.

Audi make quality interiors, no question about it. Yea you don't get as much leather as you do in some of the higher marques but everything is such high quality imo, especially compared to the equal BMW.

[hven]

Some great suggestions. R8 and V12V still top of the list. I know this is totally different to all the other cars I've mentioned but I'd consider a new RS6 as well, starting to creep toward £60k.

[hven]

mikey k said:

You're just about in to manual V12 Vantage money
Those are MUCH rarer and holding value well

Guess ur right. Came across this on youtube, shows a 59 plate in a showroom with 8k miles up at £75k, and that was in september 2013.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9hmyj8weQKI

[hven]

mattf93 said:

My pick - always been a goal to own an aston, and at your budget I would opt for a v12 vantage over a DBS, although the DBS will be far more compliant in town etc.
http://www4.autotrader.co.uk/classified/advert/201... Here is the red one..

http://www4.autotrader.co.uk/classified/advert/201... Grey (hammerhead silver) slightly above budget but I'm sure could be haggled down.

r8 v10 manual http://www4.autotrader.co.uk/classified/advert/201... Be careful when looking - you'd be surprised at the amount of R8s that don't have cruise control (sounds odd but if you're in areas with loads of average speed cameras it makes sense to have them!

I noticed that, especially on V8 cars. It's a £500 retrofit as well. It's a shame more weren't ordered with bucket seats, makes the car a lot more special. Looked at both them aston's, both lovely.

[hven]

How much haggle room is there on a lot of the cars mentioned in this price bracket? if a cars up a £70k, how much would you expect to get off or does it simply depend from dealer to dealer? Was offered £3k off a facelift R8 the other day, was up £83k but was still too much.

[hven]

mattf93 said:

I like the fact the chap has had the wheel retrimmed in alcantara - think it looks much better!

red aston is local to me - dealers are good chaps. If you're a driver you'll prefer the buckets as those that drove the comfort seats said they don't offer enough lateral support.

Nice decision to have to make, I think a lot of the R8s are poorly specced, Id love carbon blades and carbon engine bay but not many have it, along with carbon interior, bucket seats (wish they did them in cream). Theres all sorts of missing things on cars.... How do you feel about spiders though? Seems to be quite a few round your budget as well?

agree about the R8's, must have's for me are carbon blades, carbon interior trim, B&0, heated seats. V10's get a lot more standard spec the V8's.

Not into spider's, not a roof down kind of person.

[hven]

what are servicing costs of maserati ?

[hven]

I have no experience of Maserati, it's a different class of brand to Audi, so questioning the service cost is hardly time wasting. http://www.autotrader.co.uk/used-cars/maserati/gra... suggests the service costs is a lot more than the £700 you pay at Audi.

Edited by hven on Monday 4th May 08:33