If you had a million pound?
Discussion
What would your million pound garage look like. What vehicles?
I've done mine but I'll put it in comments. Just link to an image of a vehicle and quote the price, can be any price from any private seller or dealer but must be final price. Motorbikes, cars, lorries etc etc etc all permitted. What would you get?
I've done mine but I'll put it in comments. Just link to an image of a vehicle and quote the price, can be any price from any private seller or dealer but must be final price. Motorbikes, cars, lorries etc etc etc all permitted. What would you get?
So here goes, what I'd get if i won the lottery!
2017 Lamborghini Aventador LP 700-4
Think of the fun you'd have driving this through traffic in London as every bugger stares at you out of pure, male, unadulterated jealously. Or the joy on people's faces when you roll up to a track day to give this a bang round the lap circuit. Or imagine a European road trip; the main reason I chose to put this in the collection. If I could afford one of these the first stop would be the autobahn and carry on down through the mid-European mountain ranges. The car's beautiful to look at as well, could you really ever get bored of the view when opening the lock up door with this sat there? Not to mention the car has a pretty decent power behind it.
Cost: £260,040 brand new
2013 Ferrari 458 Italia DCT
The final big money purchase I decided to add to this collection, whilst the Lamborghini's are nice, a bit of variety in your supercars is always a good brucey bonus to have, and the Ferrari 458 has a nice wow factor both appearance wise and with a beast of an engine inside it for me. Whilst I'm sure some here would view owning a Ferrari and a Lamborghini as a sign of schizophrenia I'd be happy to have them both sat beside each other in the lock up and happy to drive either one through countryside in European climes. With the right road I could also find out for myself whether Lamborghini or Ferrari are faster (obviously either the autobahn or private).
Cost: £164,995
[url=]Original Peel P50 Model[/url]
What? Doesn't everybody need a micro-car they are probably going to struggle (at well above 6ft) to fit inside? The Peel P50 is a cult car of the highest order, whether that be through seeing Clarkson driving one into BBC TV Centre as part of a famous Top Gear bit or just through looking up worlds smallest car. Yes, I could buy the replica for 10k, but nothing is ever as good the second time round. At 100mpg it's got decent fuel economy as well (on par with the YBR-125 listed further down this book.) It's probably another rather extravagant purchase, but owning the smallest car in the world would have to be worth the initially outlay. Even better it is completely road legal, although I'm not sure how confident I'd be fighting buses out of junctions in inner city London with the thing, it does have a useful advantage of being able to drive right to the desk of an office block, as demonstrated in that wonderful clip on Top Gear by John Humphrey's. It might be more expensive than the Gallorda, but it's worth every bloody penny.
Cost: £120,000
Lamborhini Gallardo Superleggera
Oh wait? What? You thought one Lamborghini was enough for any garage. Not with this sort of money to play with it's not. The Gallardo is the Aventadors older brother in some ways, but I need both. Like I really, really need both in this lock up? For similar egotistical reasons to that above, anyway this goes in...
Cost: £119,995
Duryea Motor Wagon
The Duryea Motor Wagon might not make it to many lists but this being the first gasoline powered motor wagon built in the US of A I simply had to include it. A lovely machine, not quite a car, not quite a bike and built by the Duryea Motor Wagon company, owned by Charles and Frank Duryea. The automobile was used in the first US automobile race that had any finishers, and had a rather tame speed of 7.5mph during that race. It'd probably be kicked off today's roads for numerous inappropriate speed offences, but the Duryea Motor Wagon is truly remarkable a machine. Almost a decade ago it was sold at auction, I can't seem to find a more up to date price so I'll run with that it The machine was also distinguished as the vehicle in the world's first car accident, it appears bad driving is nothing new. It's a rare beast, and a vintage automobile. Looks pretty nice as well.
Cost: £53,900
2017 Kawasaki Ninja H2R
As far a super-powered bike goes, you need look no further. This upcoming bike is set to be the best motorbike released in a good few years. With 1000cc of power and a top speed of well over 200mph it's going to deal with any road in the UK easily and is ideal for world tours were speed cameras may be slightly less prevalent. A decent playboy bike as well as surely good fun to hop on. I wouldn't leave it out of sight in any major UK city for fear of moped thieves running off with her, but imagine the freedom on the open road with this little blighter. Doing 200mph on a motorbike could even be worth the driving ban perhaps. She looks f
king good, sounds amazing, although might guzzle fuel a bit. Fickle to buy a bike because it looks nice, but fickle is as fickle does.
Cost: £47,000 brand new
Del Boy's Reliant Robin
At first glance an exact car from a famous TV show or a film might seem a massive waste of money, but why pay a grand or two for any old conked out used reliant robin when you can buy the reliant robin used in the classic TV comedy Only Fools and Horses. It's sold last year for just over 40k, not bad for a piece of television history and a good ornament to have. Still runs as well, supposedly, so would always be fun to take it past the old biddies care homes and make them think that they really are losing their marbles thinking it's real after a few hours glued to Gold repeats of the show. A fine car, from a TV show. A luxury, but we've got a million quid to play with here, so let's be a little extravagant.
Cost: £41,625
1967 Jaguar MKII 3.4
You need a car for occasion right? Turning up to the country club in a Lamborghini might just get some very disapproving looks from the more elderly gentleman who think you're being flash or too boy-racery mightn't it? And you certainly wouldn't want to turn up to your grans house in the A3 or the Lamborghini; so here's a decent alternative to either, one gran will approve of but won't look to flash at the country club. A nice MKII Jaguar, also decent enough condition it could be taken down to classic car shows on the weekends as a bit of a side-hobby. The price isn't fantastic but who care's with a million quid to play with? Only 30k on the clock as well, not too bad for a 50 year old car.
Cost: £40,000
2005 Aston Martin DB9 V12
So this one is including because as a kid I saw an Aston Martin DB9, and aged 9, suddenly realised that cars were not just these horrible looking boxes that old people used to get from A to B, and they were not just old bangers that constantly needed taking in for servicing or flogged because they'd never pass their next M.O.T as I'd believed. Yes, I'd watched fast cars on telly but it had never clicked they existed in the real world, nobody I knew owned an Aston Martin DB9 for sure. So I have to include this car, for she changed the way I viewed cars, they weren't the metal traps I'd seem them as, convenient but ugly, broken, bitty and scrapheap ready, but frankly beautiful. I frankly don't care how well she handles, as I know that's been faulted (compared to some of the wrecks on here, well I'm guessing) she's simply beautiful and she changed my opinion on cars so she'd make the 100k garage, let alone the million pound garage. This is the car that made me actually look at cars rather than see cars. Seeing a DB9 being raced against a eurostar on a Top Gear repeat a while later sealed the deal.
Cost: £37,950
Nissan Leaf
Seen as the government seem to be hellbent on making electric cars mandatory by the time I'm geriatric I might as well get used to the idea of driving one now. The Nissan Leaf is expensive for a green-brigade car but it works well, it's one of less faff electric models and I'm happy to learn to get by with electric. It's also worth having just one electric car in case they ban everything else in this list.
Cost: £30,995
1973 Volkswagen Type 2 Campervan
Anyone who's ever had the pleasure of a campervan holiday will understand the pure beauty of it. Being at one with the elements and stranded in nature, but not so much so that you're tent gets flooded in the morning. Covering miles and miles of open road in little time compared to cycling or lugging your gear through the hills. Not having to worry yourself with booking accommodation; if it comes to it a lay-by or most of the year there'll be a site open until the dead of night. The VW Beetle is of course a campervan with it's own character, she might be scoffed at as a hippy mobile in some quarters but she's fun. This one comes already restored by it's owners, so not even many hours and thousands of hours down the local garage to fix her up as you might get with many over vehicles of a similar age.
Cost: £23,000
1990 Rolls Royce Silver Spirit II
Rolls Royce are of course one of the gold standards of British motoring and no million pound car collection should be complete without at least one rolls. That said, I'd have no intention of buying one of the extortionately over-priced versions, which is why the Silver Spirit comes in. Old enough to be cheap enough and a decent car in it's own right. A car for many an occasion, and possibly a wedding hire car for the couple who want something slightly less obtrusive and ugly.
Cost: £15,950
2006 Hummer H3 3.7 Luxury 5DR
When the aventador is just a little too flash, the ford focus and A3 a bit too tacky and the jag is just a bit too up yourself what are you going to role out of bed into? I suppose you could take the bikes, but what if you need passengers. Possibly been hired to off another russian oligarch by putin (if I'd somehow earnt these millions). The perfect replacement car is the huge Hummer H3, it might struggle with a few of Britain's back alleys and be a bit difficult to park, but it's a yet another fine machine to have in a garage that is starting to feel like a walk-in wet dream. It's a nice look to it and a would be perfect for an American road trip. I'm probably going to get an awful lot of st for many of the cars I've included in this imaginary lock-up but I'm barricading my down in case someone on here sends the men in white coats round for including this particular specimen. I like it, leave me alone. And it's a fraction of the budget. It looks nicer than the H2 anyway, but so would a AMC Matador and a Brubaker box if some blind D.I.Y bodger had cut them in half and fused them together....
Cost: £12,995
1963 Ford Zephyr Six MK III Police Car
A police car from the days before foreign cars that could actually run were needed. A regularly at Goodyear Revival and a canny car all round. I wanted to include a police car in this, but some of the classics were just too expensive to justify inclusion, this is a nice half-way house that allows me to fit a few of the other cars in here. It's also makes it two Fords in the list. Just shy of 8k smackaroonees for a decent specimen, as far as it looks from the online ad, is not bad.
Cost: £7,995
2018 Yamaha SR400
After quite a few years of being unavailable Yamaha's SR400 is back.,Modernised it is available from next year and by good is it a fine specimen of a bike from the little we know about it. A bit of oomph in the engine, but not enough to scare the old biddies on the footpaths and a fun bike all round; the Yamaha SR400 is beautiful, and a more up to date version is what many riders will be screaming out for, including me if I'd enough to spare to buy it, which thankfully in this imaginary lock-up I do. The perfect A2 bike for a wussy-pants like me who looks at sports bikes and craps themselves.
Cost: £5,200
2005 Audi A3 2.0 FSI Sports Hatchback 5DR
Once the car of little scrotes out thieving hubcaps everywhere in the late 90s and early 00s, due in much to the fact police cars hadn't quite kept up the pace; as shown and the countless repeats of Police Interceptors a used Audi A3 is probably not going to be the most reliable of cars, but it's going to have a bit of character about it at least, and surely make a much less conspicuous get around car now than it may have done a few years ago. It's probably one of the less expensive cars in here, but it's a nice addition to the collection.
2013 Peugot 208 Active
If I'm honest I had five thousand to spare after putting in all the vehicles I really wanted and this came up on the site I was looking at. I'd narrowed the last vehicle down to a peugot already though I'm not sure why, it's a nice car though and a bit more of a modern day to day get around than many of the other cars on this list. It's newer than a lot of the other cars in here, and probably somewhat more practical. Could easily drive it past a school or into the supermarket without and eyelid batted. There's nothing overly special about this...
Cost: £4.495
2018 Kawasaki Ninja Z250
Sometimes handling a 1000cc Ninja H2R is a bit too much for your average millionaire, but the 125s and below just don't have enough oomph. Step in the beautiful go-between of the Kawasaki Ninja Z250, a lovely bike that provides enough power not to feel like your fighting it, but a bit more thrill than the Yamaha SR400 to ride. A small bike with a lot of bang for your buck; this is a pretty decent bike to act as the middling go-between, and feels essential in my lock up.
Cost £3,499
Yamaha YBR-125 Custom
It's not going to break any speed records but the YBR is brilliant for cutting through traffic, one of the more comfortable 125s and also unusual among 125s is able to tolerate taller people semi-comfortably, unlike say a CBF125 (which will rust to death anyway). Anybody you know just needs to wang one of these - a training school staple - round a car park for a day and then possibly go back to take it on the road, or even do it that day and there free to terrorise you on the neighbourhood. These are the bikes every L Plate delivery driver probably started their journey into breaking every rule they were taught on. They aren't sport, they aren't exactly flashy, but they are lovely for a 125 and would make a nice change of pace from the the Ninja H2R listed somewhat further up the list.
Cost: £2,921
1960 Franciss Barnett Falcon
While the actual Franciss Barnett Falcon-150 from grandma and granddad mushy retro TV series heartbeat is not available for sale, going by a quick internet scan, other models of the bike are available. The Franciss Barnett is a beautiful looking machine, that would fit nicely on any country ride. The show might have been mush but any millennials will have a ragingly depressed soft spot for the show their parents seemed to love when they were kids, the all creatures great and small of our generation to some of the slightly older PHers on here. The bike probably won't get very far, due to age, but nice to have anyway. This isn't the exact one used in the cult show model wise, but she looks nice.
Cost: £2,100
2007 Aprilla RS50
The ideal garish bike for chavving it up round town - need to be derestricted to keep you alive on an A road - but nevertheless a decent bike for your wannabe Valentini Rossi to rag around the town until he gets a driving license. Anyway, I've got a soft spot for the things, as if I'd been allowed to ride at 16 rather than it being deemed to hazard by family it's the chav-mobile I would have went and bought. Garish, ugly, great for being an all round scrote; what's not to like about the RS50.
Cost: £795
Piaggio Zip 70cc
Included for purely juvenile reasons, as it exceeds 50cc, this is literally one of the slowest vehicles you can take on a motorway, whilst you'd probably do one junction and come off fearing for your life, with all this dosh it's a risk you'd be inclined to take, no? Why pad out a million pound garage with supercars when you can buy a Piaggio Zip 70cc for a few hundred and ride it down the M1 - with the correct licence (a minimum of A1). Suicidal or a good rule bend, I suppose the ambulance crew scraping up my body'll answer that one.
Cost: £550
2004 Ford Focu 1.8 deisels
My parents had st taste in cars, well somewhere between that and what they could afford budgeted them to st cars. It went, it wasn't the most comfortable of rides, like many other family cars it was sold because it was cheaper to buy another wreck than put it's through it's M.O.T by the time my father was done with it; I'm really not sure he should have ever been allowed to pass his test to be honest and I think if he hadn't took in the pre health and safety era of the sixties he probably wouldn't have done so on the whatever hundredth attempt it was, naturally I've also struggled deeply with learning to drive. But one of these cars had to be a fondly remembered childhood wreck, and this one is it. It might have the ugliest face in the history of cars, be far too long and be battered, but it's (although not the exact same car) very reminiscent of childhood memories. I think the old mans was a decade older than this, but they've probably all been driven to Barry the Scrappers by now and any that haven't I don't think I'd want to drive.
Cost £325.00
It's a few hundred quid under, but I suppose that's spare money could go towards the inevitably colossal insurance bill. What would yours look like?
2017 Lamborghini Aventador LP 700-4
Think of the fun you'd have driving this through traffic in London as every bugger stares at you out of pure, male, unadulterated jealously. Or the joy on people's faces when you roll up to a track day to give this a bang round the lap circuit. Or imagine a European road trip; the main reason I chose to put this in the collection. If I could afford one of these the first stop would be the autobahn and carry on down through the mid-European mountain ranges. The car's beautiful to look at as well, could you really ever get bored of the view when opening the lock up door with this sat there? Not to mention the car has a pretty decent power behind it.
Cost: £260,040 brand new
2013 Ferrari 458 Italia DCT
The final big money purchase I decided to add to this collection, whilst the Lamborghini's are nice, a bit of variety in your supercars is always a good brucey bonus to have, and the Ferrari 458 has a nice wow factor both appearance wise and with a beast of an engine inside it for me. Whilst I'm sure some here would view owning a Ferrari and a Lamborghini as a sign of schizophrenia I'd be happy to have them both sat beside each other in the lock up and happy to drive either one through countryside in European climes. With the right road I could also find out for myself whether Lamborghini or Ferrari are faster (obviously either the autobahn or private).
Cost: £164,995
[url=]Original Peel P50 Model[/url]
What? Doesn't everybody need a micro-car they are probably going to struggle (at well above 6ft) to fit inside? The Peel P50 is a cult car of the highest order, whether that be through seeing Clarkson driving one into BBC TV Centre as part of a famous Top Gear bit or just through looking up worlds smallest car. Yes, I could buy the replica for 10k, but nothing is ever as good the second time round. At 100mpg it's got decent fuel economy as well (on par with the YBR-125 listed further down this book.) It's probably another rather extravagant purchase, but owning the smallest car in the world would have to be worth the initially outlay. Even better it is completely road legal, although I'm not sure how confident I'd be fighting buses out of junctions in inner city London with the thing, it does have a useful advantage of being able to drive right to the desk of an office block, as demonstrated in that wonderful clip on Top Gear by John Humphrey's. It might be more expensive than the Gallorda, but it's worth every bloody penny.
Cost: £120,000
Lamborhini Gallardo Superleggera
Oh wait? What? You thought one Lamborghini was enough for any garage. Not with this sort of money to play with it's not. The Gallardo is the Aventadors older brother in some ways, but I need both. Like I really, really need both in this lock up? For similar egotistical reasons to that above, anyway this goes in...
Cost: £119,995
Duryea Motor Wagon
The Duryea Motor Wagon might not make it to many lists but this being the first gasoline powered motor wagon built in the US of A I simply had to include it. A lovely machine, not quite a car, not quite a bike and built by the Duryea Motor Wagon company, owned by Charles and Frank Duryea. The automobile was used in the first US automobile race that had any finishers, and had a rather tame speed of 7.5mph during that race. It'd probably be kicked off today's roads for numerous inappropriate speed offences, but the Duryea Motor Wagon is truly remarkable a machine. Almost a decade ago it was sold at auction, I can't seem to find a more up to date price so I'll run with that it The machine was also distinguished as the vehicle in the world's first car accident, it appears bad driving is nothing new. It's a rare beast, and a vintage automobile. Looks pretty nice as well.
Cost: £53,900
2017 Kawasaki Ninja H2R
As far a super-powered bike goes, you need look no further. This upcoming bike is set to be the best motorbike released in a good few years. With 1000cc of power and a top speed of well over 200mph it's going to deal with any road in the UK easily and is ideal for world tours were speed cameras may be slightly less prevalent. A decent playboy bike as well as surely good fun to hop on. I wouldn't leave it out of sight in any major UK city for fear of moped thieves running off with her, but imagine the freedom on the open road with this little blighter. Doing 200mph on a motorbike could even be worth the driving ban perhaps. She looks f
king good, sounds amazing, although might guzzle fuel a bit. Fickle to buy a bike because it looks nice, but fickle is as fickle does.Cost: £47,000 brand new
Del Boy's Reliant Robin
At first glance an exact car from a famous TV show or a film might seem a massive waste of money, but why pay a grand or two for any old conked out used reliant robin when you can buy the reliant robin used in the classic TV comedy Only Fools and Horses. It's sold last year for just over 40k, not bad for a piece of television history and a good ornament to have. Still runs as well, supposedly, so would always be fun to take it past the old biddies care homes and make them think that they really are losing their marbles thinking it's real after a few hours glued to Gold repeats of the show. A fine car, from a TV show. A luxury, but we've got a million quid to play with here, so let's be a little extravagant.
Cost: £41,625
1967 Jaguar MKII 3.4
You need a car for occasion right? Turning up to the country club in a Lamborghini might just get some very disapproving looks from the more elderly gentleman who think you're being flash or too boy-racery mightn't it? And you certainly wouldn't want to turn up to your grans house in the A3 or the Lamborghini; so here's a decent alternative to either, one gran will approve of but won't look to flash at the country club. A nice MKII Jaguar, also decent enough condition it could be taken down to classic car shows on the weekends as a bit of a side-hobby. The price isn't fantastic but who care's with a million quid to play with? Only 30k on the clock as well, not too bad for a 50 year old car.
Cost: £40,000
2005 Aston Martin DB9 V12
So this one is including because as a kid I saw an Aston Martin DB9, and aged 9, suddenly realised that cars were not just these horrible looking boxes that old people used to get from A to B, and they were not just old bangers that constantly needed taking in for servicing or flogged because they'd never pass their next M.O.T as I'd believed. Yes, I'd watched fast cars on telly but it had never clicked they existed in the real world, nobody I knew owned an Aston Martin DB9 for sure. So I have to include this car, for she changed the way I viewed cars, they weren't the metal traps I'd seem them as, convenient but ugly, broken, bitty and scrapheap ready, but frankly beautiful. I frankly don't care how well she handles, as I know that's been faulted (compared to some of the wrecks on here, well I'm guessing) she's simply beautiful and she changed my opinion on cars so she'd make the 100k garage, let alone the million pound garage. This is the car that made me actually look at cars rather than see cars. Seeing a DB9 being raced against a eurostar on a Top Gear repeat a while later sealed the deal.
Cost: £37,950
Nissan Leaf
Seen as the government seem to be hellbent on making electric cars mandatory by the time I'm geriatric I might as well get used to the idea of driving one now. The Nissan Leaf is expensive for a green-brigade car but it works well, it's one of less faff electric models and I'm happy to learn to get by with electric. It's also worth having just one electric car in case they ban everything else in this list.
Cost: £30,995
1973 Volkswagen Type 2 Campervan
Anyone who's ever had the pleasure of a campervan holiday will understand the pure beauty of it. Being at one with the elements and stranded in nature, but not so much so that you're tent gets flooded in the morning. Covering miles and miles of open road in little time compared to cycling or lugging your gear through the hills. Not having to worry yourself with booking accommodation; if it comes to it a lay-by or most of the year there'll be a site open until the dead of night. The VW Beetle is of course a campervan with it's own character, she might be scoffed at as a hippy mobile in some quarters but she's fun. This one comes already restored by it's owners, so not even many hours and thousands of hours down the local garage to fix her up as you might get with many over vehicles of a similar age.
Cost: £23,000
1990 Rolls Royce Silver Spirit II
Rolls Royce are of course one of the gold standards of British motoring and no million pound car collection should be complete without at least one rolls. That said, I'd have no intention of buying one of the extortionately over-priced versions, which is why the Silver Spirit comes in. Old enough to be cheap enough and a decent car in it's own right. A car for many an occasion, and possibly a wedding hire car for the couple who want something slightly less obtrusive and ugly.
Cost: £15,950
2006 Hummer H3 3.7 Luxury 5DR
When the aventador is just a little too flash, the ford focus and A3 a bit too tacky and the jag is just a bit too up yourself what are you going to role out of bed into? I suppose you could take the bikes, but what if you need passengers. Possibly been hired to off another russian oligarch by putin (if I'd somehow earnt these millions). The perfect replacement car is the huge Hummer H3, it might struggle with a few of Britain's back alleys and be a bit difficult to park, but it's a yet another fine machine to have in a garage that is starting to feel like a walk-in wet dream. It's a nice look to it and a would be perfect for an American road trip. I'm probably going to get an awful lot of s
t for many of the cars I've included in this imaginary lock-up but I'm barricading my down in case someone on here sends the men in white coats round for including this particular specimen. I like it, leave me alone. And it's a fraction of the budget. It looks nicer than the H2 anyway, but so would a AMC Matador and a Brubaker box if some blind D.I.Y bodger had cut them in half and fused them together....Cost: £12,995
1963 Ford Zephyr Six MK III Police Car
A police car from the days before foreign cars that could actually run were needed. A regularly at Goodyear Revival and a canny car all round. I wanted to include a police car in this, but some of the classics were just too expensive to justify inclusion, this is a nice half-way house that allows me to fit a few of the other cars in here. It's also makes it two Fords in the list. Just shy of 8k smackaroonees for a decent specimen, as far as it looks from the online ad, is not bad.
Cost: £7,995
2018 Yamaha SR400
After quite a few years of being unavailable Yamaha's SR400 is back.,Modernised it is available from next year and by good is it a fine specimen of a bike from the little we know about it. A bit of oomph in the engine, but not enough to scare the old biddies on the footpaths and a fun bike all round; the Yamaha SR400 is beautiful, and a more up to date version is what many riders will be screaming out for, including me if I'd enough to spare to buy it, which thankfully in this imaginary lock-up I do. The perfect A2 bike for a wussy-pants like me who looks at sports bikes and craps themselves.
Cost: £5,200
2005 Audi A3 2.0 FSI Sports Hatchback 5DR
Once the car of little scrotes out thieving hubcaps everywhere in the late 90s and early 00s, due in much to the fact police cars hadn't quite kept up the pace; as shown and the countless repeats of Police Interceptors a used Audi A3 is probably not going to be the most reliable of cars, but it's going to have a bit of character about it at least, and surely make a much less conspicuous get around car now than it may have done a few years ago. It's probably one of the less expensive cars in here, but it's a nice addition to the collection.
2013 Peugot 208 Active
If I'm honest I had five thousand to spare after putting in all the vehicles I really wanted and this came up on the site I was looking at. I'd narrowed the last vehicle down to a peugot already though I'm not sure why, it's a nice car though and a bit more of a modern day to day get around than many of the other cars on this list. It's newer than a lot of the other cars in here, and probably somewhat more practical. Could easily drive it past a school or into the supermarket without and eyelid batted. There's nothing overly special about this...
Cost: £4.495
2018 Kawasaki Ninja Z250
Sometimes handling a 1000cc Ninja H2R is a bit too much for your average millionaire, but the 125s and below just don't have enough oomph. Step in the beautiful go-between of the Kawasaki Ninja Z250, a lovely bike that provides enough power not to feel like your fighting it, but a bit more thrill than the Yamaha SR400 to ride. A small bike with a lot of bang for your buck; this is a pretty decent bike to act as the middling go-between, and feels essential in my lock up.
Cost £3,499
Yamaha YBR-125 Custom
It's not going to break any speed records but the YBR is brilliant for cutting through traffic, one of the more comfortable 125s and also unusual among 125s is able to tolerate taller people semi-comfortably, unlike say a CBF125 (which will rust to death anyway). Anybody you know just needs to wang one of these - a training school staple - round a car park for a day and then possibly go back to take it on the road, or even do it that day and there free to terrorise you on the neighbourhood. These are the bikes every L Plate delivery driver probably started their journey into breaking every rule they were taught on. They aren't sport, they aren't exactly flashy, but they are lovely for a 125 and would make a nice change of pace from the the Ninja H2R listed somewhat further up the list.
Cost: £2,921
1960 Franciss Barnett Falcon
While the actual Franciss Barnett Falcon-150 from grandma and granddad mushy retro TV series heartbeat is not available for sale, going by a quick internet scan, other models of the bike are available. The Franciss Barnett is a beautiful looking machine, that would fit nicely on any country ride. The show might have been mush but any millennials will have a ragingly depressed soft spot for the show their parents seemed to love when they were kids, the all creatures great and small of our generation to some of the slightly older PHers on here. The bike probably won't get very far, due to age, but nice to have anyway. This isn't the exact one used in the cult show model wise, but she looks nice.
Cost: £2,100
2007 Aprilla RS50
The ideal garish bike for chavving it up round town - need to be derestricted to keep you alive on an A road - but nevertheless a decent bike for your wannabe Valentini Rossi to rag around the town until he gets a driving license. Anyway, I've got a soft spot for the things, as if I'd been allowed to ride at 16 rather than it being deemed to hazard by family it's the chav-mobile I would have went and bought. Garish, ugly, great for being an all round scrote; what's not to like about the RS50.
Cost: £795
Piaggio Zip 70cc
Included for purely juvenile reasons, as it exceeds 50cc, this is literally one of the slowest vehicles you can take on a motorway, whilst you'd probably do one junction and come off fearing for your life, with all this dosh it's a risk you'd be inclined to take, no? Why pad out a million pound garage with supercars when you can buy a Piaggio Zip 70cc for a few hundred and ride it down the M1 - with the correct licence (a minimum of A1). Suicidal or a good rule bend, I suppose the ambulance crew scraping up my body'll answer that one.
Cost: £550
2004 Ford Focu 1.8 deisels
My parents had s
t taste in cars, well somewhere between that and what they could afford budgeted them to st cars. It went, it wasn't the most comfortable of rides, like many other family cars it was sold because it was cheaper to buy another wreck than put it's through it's M.O.T by the time my father was done with it; I'm really not sure he should have ever been allowed to pass his test to be honest and I think if he hadn't took in the pre health and safety era of the sixties he probably wouldn't have done so on the whatever hundredth attempt it was, naturally I've also struggled deeply with learning to drive. But one of these cars had to be a fondly remembered childhood wreck, and this one is it. It might have the ugliest face in the history of cars, be far too long and be battered, but it's (although not the exact same car) very reminiscent of childhood memories. I think the old mans was a decade older than this, but they've probably all been driven to Barry the Scrappers by now and any that haven't I don't think I'd want to drive. Cost £325.00
It's a few hundred quid under, but I suppose that's spare money could go towards the inevitably colossal insurance bill. What would yours look like?
Edited by revvingit on Tuesday 21st November 21:14
Ferrari F40
Because it'd be rude not to
£770k
Ferrari Testarossa
LHD for those pan-European road trips
£80k
Ferrari 328GTS
RHD and small enough for UK B-roads
£80k
BMW 440i Gran Coupé M Sport
Sensible, safe, daily driver
£45k
BMW 325i Sport E30
An itch I've always wanted to scratch
£15k
BMW 318iS Coupé E36
My existing car with a load of cash thrown at it to get it mint
£10k resto
NB. Ferrari prices based on non-perfect cars that are well exercised and ready to go. Not interested in concourse queens!
Because it'd be rude not to
£770k
Ferrari Testarossa
LHD for those pan-European road trips
£80k
Ferrari 328GTS
RHD and small enough for UK B-roads
£80k
BMW 440i Gran Coupé M Sport
Sensible, safe, daily driver
£45k
BMW 325i Sport E30
An itch I've always wanted to scratch
£15k
BMW 318iS Coupé E36
My existing car with a load of cash thrown at it to get it mint
£10k resto
NB. Ferrari prices based on non-perfect cars that are well exercised and ready to go. Not interested in concourse queens!
revvingit said:
What would your million pound garage look like. What vehicles?
I could spend ages listing all manner of vehicles I'd buy, ranging from practical to bonkers. That'd be boring though.Instead, the very first vehicle I'd buy is an Aston Martin. Preferably a DB9. Always loved them, always wanted one. Don't really care what I buy/drive afterwards as, presumably being a millionaire, I could chop-n-change at will.
Dangerous Dan said:
I could spend ages listing all manner of vehicles I'd buy, ranging from practical to bonkers. That'd be boring though.
Instead, the very first vehicle I'd buy is an Aston Martin. Preferably a DB9. Always loved them, always wanted one. Don't really care what I buy/drive afterwards as, presumably being a millionaire, I could chop-n-change at will.
I suppose different horses for different courses, I find it bizarrely cathartic to look at vehicles - so it's not boring to make these wish lists. The DB9 is an absolutely brilliant car and you're right; you could buy and flog at will as a millionaire, but that takes a bit of fun out the whole process. (I'd probably flog the supercars after a few weeks and buy a sInstead, the very first vehicle I'd buy is an Aston Martin. Preferably a DB9. Always loved them, always wanted one. Don't really care what I buy/drive afterwards as, presumably being a millionaire, I could chop-n-change at will.
t tonne of bikes and a tank if that was allowed). MitchT said:
Ferrari F40
Because it'd be rude not to
£770k
Ferrari Testarossa
LHD for those pan-European road trips
£80k
Ferrari 328GTS
RHD and small enough for UK B-roads
£80k
BMW 440i Gran Coupé M Sport
Sensible, safe, daily driver
£45k
BMW 325i Sport E30
An itch I've always wanted to scratch
£15k
BMW 318iS Coupé E36
My existing car with a load of cash thrown at it to get it mint
£10k resto
NB. Ferrari prices based on non-perfect cars that are well exercised and ready to go. Not interested in concourse queens!
Nice the list. The F40 though, even if I had it the money I'd feel so wrong spending that much on a single car, be scared of crashing it and writing it off....Because it'd be rude not to
£770k
Ferrari Testarossa
LHD for those pan-European road trips
£80k
Ferrari 328GTS
RHD and small enough for UK B-roads
£80k
BMW 440i Gran Coupé M Sport
Sensible, safe, daily driver
£45k
BMW 325i Sport E30
An itch I've always wanted to scratch
£15k
BMW 318iS Coupé E36
My existing car with a load of cash thrown at it to get it mint
£10k resto
NB. Ferrari prices based on non-perfect cars that are well exercised and ready to go. Not interested in concourse queens!
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