Best built best driver-focused GT car

[Tforme]

What is it? What would you buy? Money no object? Note the brief: no rattles or trim issues, excellent road-holding, effortless power, decent comfort.

[kambites]

Can the answer really be anything other than a Lexus LC500? Not the most agile of cars but you really can't question the build quality.

[Tickle]

911R maybe

• Note, based on no experience of my own.

[Bill]

Driver focussed?

GT86, MX5? Well built Caterham...

[The spinner of plates]

Bentley Continental.
I'll take my GT V8 in Verdant green over Saddle / Beluga split hide with contrast stitching and seat piping please.
Standard Five Tri-Spoke wheels painted silver will be fine.
Probably go for a dual veneer - dark stained burr walnut over grand black would be just lovely.
And please remove the 'Bentley' boot lettering.

Sounds splendid, just drop it round with a full tank when it’s ready!

[anonymous-user]

kambites said:

Can the answer really be anything other than a Lexus LC500? Not the most agile of cars but you really can't question the build quality.

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An LC500 will still be running perfectly and worth real money when any of the European alternatives have been melted down and turned into razor blades, the only sign they ever existed being the oil stains they left behind and the swollen bank balance of the dealers and specialists that helped them limp on in an ever diminishing state of function as they were passed through a dozen or more owners, like the ticking bomb they are once out of warranty.

[Tforme]

Wins on build I’m sure. Not sure about the other criteria.

[Tforme]

The spinner of plates said:

Bentley Continental.
I'll take my GT V8 in Verdant green over Saddle / Beluga split hide with contrast stitching and seat piping please.
Standard Five Tri-Spoke wheels painted silver will be fine.
Probably go for a dual veneer - dark stained burr walnut over grand black would be just lovely.
And please remove the 'Bentley' boot lettering.

Sounds splendid, just drop it round with a full tank when it’s ready!

So this sounds fabulous - but what is the real owning experience of a GT V8 owner?

[NDA]

Tforme said:

So this sounds fabulous - but what is the real owning experience of a GT V8 owner?

Good actually. I had a W12 GTC which I took across France. Very comfortable and unrelenting luxury. Great GT car.

[Tforme]

But you “had it”. Do you still have it? Fully appreciate if you sold because you had to but did you sell because you got tired of it instead?

[av185]

Tickle said:

911R maybe

• Note, based on no experience of my own.

For driver interaction and reasonable comfort a 991.2 4.0 GT3 manual with 9k rev limit Cup Car engine is really hard to beat.

[Tforme]

This sounds on the mark - thank you.

[MightyBadger]

Bill said:

Driver focussed?

MX5? Well built Caterham...

[Tforme]

Caterham fabulous but not a car to tour Scotland or Wales on a wet winter’s day.

[Mr Tidy]

kambites said:

Can the answer really be anything other than a Lexus LC500? Not the most agile of cars but you really can't question the build quality.

Yes, it's just another instalment of wallowy Jap cr*p IMHO!

I'd love to try an XKR, M6, 911S or many other options, but no Lexus thanks!

[Ivan stewart]

Corvette , and have some cash left over for some other fun

[cayman-black]

Aston Martin DBSS ?

[Chubbyross]

My choice would be a 992 Turbo. Solidly built, comfortable, can waft if you want to but turn into a complete hooligan if you fancy some fun.

[Baldchap]

Evora GT. Lotus chassis and steering, magic carpet ride quality, fantastic noise for the tunnels and all day comfortable.

Our old W12 Bentley was a nice car, but it felt a bit like willy waving. And God it could sup...

[Pan Pan Pan]

Tforme said:

Caterham fabulous but not a car to tour Scotland or Wales on a wet winter’s day.

A Caterham can be a bit dicey when it is hot too! In a trip across the USA, I had some of my ablutionary items melted, such as my toothbrush, and hair brush, when they were inside my luggage, in the passenger footwell. and that was near Huston, and not when crossing the Mojave desert near Las Vegas!