£1,000,000 to spend on a car

[SSpongey]

Hey guys,

what'd it be if you had £1,000,000 to spend on a (collection of) car(s)?

I'll get the ball rolling...

- The road converted orange Mclaren F1 GTR (sold now)
- A cheap Diablo or Ultima.
- An M5, M3, CLS or something similar.

[Grodecki]

TVR Speed 12 and a fund to make it work
Alpina B7
Seven style car.

[F1GTRUeno]

You wouldn't be able to afford an F1 with £1,000,000. They're all trading for well above nowadays.

At a stretch I'd go for an F50, a 355 and something wafty like an E38 750iL.

Top quality nineties metal.

[soad]

Would decide if I had the funds - why dream?

Probably a collection of 10-odd cars, something like that. Nothing too mega expensive

[SSpongey]

F1GTRUeno said:

You wouldn't be able to afford an F1 with £1,000,000. They're all trading for well above nowadays.

At a stretch I'd go for an F50, a 355 and something wafty like an E38 750iL.

Top quality nineties metal.

Yes I know but there was a GTR that sold a few months ago for £900k, I woulda bought that.

[snoopstah]

Ferrari F50
Ferrari California
Lamborghini Gallardo
Mercedes G55 AMG
Dodge Viper SRT10
Top-spec S2 Exige (with soft-top conversion)
KTM X-Bow
BMW 760i (pre-facelift)
Honda NSX
Nissan GT-R
Caterham R500
Vauxhall VXR8
Jeep Wrangler (new shape, SWB, off-road prepped)

Takes me to pretty much bang on the 1,000,000 mark according to the classifieds (with some sensible second-hand buys of course). I assume we don't need to include insurance or running costs?

Edited by snoopstah on Sunday 5th September 17:34

[Schermerhorn]

Mercedes CL420 and other big Mercs from that era.

For some reason I love them.

[MATT427]

buy a mclaren m8f can-am race car use the rest to campaign it and build a team, then hopefully gain sponsers then.

[McSam]

MATT427 said:

buy a mclaren m8f can-am race car use the rest to campaign it and build a team, then hopefully gain sponsers then.

*observes galactically-proportioned solid-titanium cojones from outside radius of possible crash*

[Cock Womble 7]

soad said:

Would decide if I had the funds - why dream?

Probably a collection of 10-odd cars, something like that. Nothing too mega expensive

I've always thought that if my numbers came up, I'd have a "base fleet" probably consisting of an Audi RS6 Avant, an old Series III Landy and the most bonkers Caterham known to mankind, probably a 260bhp CSR.

Then, I would buy one decent, second-hand example of every car I've ever wanted to drive/own, run it for a couple of months to get it out of my system, sell it on for pretty much what I paid for it and move onto the next.

I'm thinking Alfa SZ, Lancia Delta Integrale, 2.8i Capri, AM Virage V600, Mk2 Escort RS2000, Rocket, Lotus Esprit, etc etc etc...

[pilchardthecat]

MX5

[pilchardthecat]

I think i'd buy the rights to some old motors and build something myself.

Something like a Citroen CX on the outside with modern/race underpinnings that could do the ring in 8 minutes....

[MiniMadMike]

For me it would be:

Carrera GT
Original Mini (A mint one of course, maybe an original rally spec one)
MINI JCW WC50
Panamera Turbo
Caterham R500 with sequential box
GT2 RS
Ferrari California

And I'd spend the rest on an entry level race car and go racing for a bit, or maybe a rally escort or something like that for a bit of historic rallying.

[alsem]

I hope this one is for sale:

[russy01]

Lp560 Spyder
Q7 V12 Tdi, (For the hell of it!)

That would be me for starters, everything else would have to be driven and then decided. Still leaves me a healthy 750k.

[vryes]

For me its:

Honda NSX Type-R
Ferrari F50
Merc S63
Range Rover TDV8 (Proper one not the footballers special sport)
Mini Clubman 1275 GT
Ferrari Dino 246GT
Shelby Daytona Coupe
TVR Griffith 500
Ferrari 275GTB (to be kept at the house in south of France just off Route Napolean)

That'll keep me going nicely

Edited by vryes on Sunday 5th September 18:28

[Killer2005]

F40
Ferrari 458
Caterham R500
Maserati GranTurismo S
Camaro
Murci LP640

[Emsman]

Maserati Sebring
amg g55
Ferrari 512tr
f50
db5
original DBS
atom supercharged

whatever was left would go on the best range rover classic I could have

Oh, and a supra

and a jensen interceptor convertible

[thinfourth2]

A brand new unimog with a nice hiab and tipping back body
A JCB3CX
A nice car transporter
A brand new zero turn Kubota lawnmower with grass catcher and hydraulic tip
Re chassis the land rover i have
Build the chalet in the back garden
Do the extension
Pay off the mortgage
Knock down the garage
Build the new garage


And spend whats left on nice morgan aero and a caterham 7

Oh and if enough cash left i might trade my 12 year old ford focus in against a new one

[RB26DETT]

Ford Sierra Rs500
Ford Sierra Rs Cosworth
Ford Escort Rs Cosworth
Opel Kadett C City (Manta running gear)
Opel Kadett C Coupe 1.2S
Opel Kadett Caravan (Redtop)
Mk2 Ford Granada 2.8 Converted to a Pick-up
Ford Racing Puma
Nissan Skyline R32 GTR
Mercedes 190 Cosworth
Ford F350 Heavy Duty
Ford Anglia (Cosworth running gear)
Massey Ferguson 135 (With Rover V8)
Vauxhall Cavalier GSi
Ford Capri Rs3100

Ohh and mayby something otter nutty, like RedVictor's but id use a Mk1 Transit as a basis.



And plenty of change left over for running costs ect..