Best car for sub £1,000 a month!?
Discussion
Divorcing my psycho ex wife, currently own an M235i with all the trimmings. Looking to make a stupid purchase on something EPIC to take my mind off things, yes it's stupid, do I care? No.
Have around £1,000 a month for either HP or PCP. Huge petrol head, the more exciting the better and don't mention the M4 please as its crap. Any ideas? Happy to blow money on something stupid for a couple of years, saves her getting her hands on it during the divorce anyway.
What do you recommend? Currently considering...
Used Audi R8 V10 PCP
C63 AMG 507 HP
Caterham brand new (with a £1,000 shed to run around in)
Audi RS6 used or new
Have around £1,000 a month for either HP or PCP. Huge petrol head, the more exciting the better and don't mention the M4 please as its crap. Any ideas? Happy to blow money on something stupid for a couple of years, saves her getting her hands on it during the divorce anyway.
What do you recommend? Currently considering...
Used Audi R8 V10 PCP
C63 AMG 507 HP
Caterham brand new (with a £1,000 shed to run around in)
Audi RS6 used or new
Definitely not buying a car to pull women, couldn't think of anything worse. As far as divorce goes I should be ok, as she is willing to do a deal I think so the new car shouldn't be a problem. I have three heads on at the moment...
Fun head says = Go buy a new caterham
Sensible head says = Go buy something that will hold it's value as a decent investment like a mint 1M COUPE
Stupid head says = Go buy something utterly insane that you're going to lose a ton of money on, but it'll keep you grinning for years to come!
The C63 AMG is really appealing, especially the 507 but they are starting to look dated now, and again I am just going to lose money on something that sounds like the best thing in the world but presence wise isn't much further on than my M235, which looks pretty mint with the full kit on in white.
My dream car is a 911 GT3 RS 2007 plate, but they are too expensive at the moment, it's the viper green and that's about 130/145k for a decent one. The 991 GT3 is an amazing piece of kit, but again how is the value on that going to hold up and I also doubt I would be able to get into that for £1,000 a month, not without a huge deposit.
So ultimately it's probably leaving me with cars in the range of 55k - 85k. Which leaves either something that could potentially bankrupt me with bills like a used supercar, or classic. Or I pile it into something new like the M4 (which i would never buy but just as an example) which again leaves me losing tons in depreciation, so it's tricky.
The R8 V10 Spyder is appealing, but then to spend 80k on a car I really want something I am in ore of, and I just see so many R8's that as beautiful as they are they just become a bit normal looking. I like the idea of buying something incredible that wouldn't lose much money or go up in value, but to me it seems to do that you have to be looking north of 200k on something new for a short time in limited supply like a McClaren, or something classic which you basically can hardly drive, or if you do then you have to be super careful and maintain the crap out of it.
Any more ideas guys?
991 GTS looks very appealing, again 100k so possibly out of budget for me but looks amazing. Anyone here own one?
Fun head says = Go buy a new caterham
Sensible head says = Go buy something that will hold it's value as a decent investment like a mint 1M COUPE
Stupid head says = Go buy something utterly insane that you're going to lose a ton of money on, but it'll keep you grinning for years to come!
The C63 AMG is really appealing, especially the 507 but they are starting to look dated now, and again I am just going to lose money on something that sounds like the best thing in the world but presence wise isn't much further on than my M235, which looks pretty mint with the full kit on in white.
My dream car is a 911 GT3 RS 2007 plate, but they are too expensive at the moment, it's the viper green and that's about 130/145k for a decent one. The 991 GT3 is an amazing piece of kit, but again how is the value on that going to hold up and I also doubt I would be able to get into that for £1,000 a month, not without a huge deposit.
So ultimately it's probably leaving me with cars in the range of 55k - 85k. Which leaves either something that could potentially bankrupt me with bills like a used supercar, or classic. Or I pile it into something new like the M4 (which i would never buy but just as an example) which again leaves me losing tons in depreciation, so it's tricky.
The R8 V10 Spyder is appealing, but then to spend 80k on a car I really want something I am in ore of, and I just see so many R8's that as beautiful as they are they just become a bit normal looking. I like the idea of buying something incredible that wouldn't lose much money or go up in value, but to me it seems to do that you have to be looking north of 200k on something new for a short time in limited supply like a McClaren, or something classic which you basically can hardly drive, or if you do then you have to be super careful and maintain the crap out of it.
Any more ideas guys?
Edited by HypeM135i on Thursday 25th August 01:03
991 GTS looks very appealing, again 100k so possibly out of budget for me but looks amazing. Anyone here own one?
Edited by HypeM135i on Thursday 25th August 01:07
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