£50,000

[Sterillium]

Let's say you have £50,000 sat in the bank, doing nothing at all, therefore you decide instead to buy something fun to drive, with the hope that a year or so later you could sell it and recoup most of the original £50,000.

What do you buy?

[WonkeyDonkey]

For me personally either an Elise, Exige or a 4C.

[Walter Sobchak]

A late TVR of some description, a 997 Turbo or a Model 3 Performance.

[Welshbeef]

V12 Aston
Ultima
Caterham of some description
Ferrari 328
928 GTS
Healy 3000
R8 Audi

[EvoSid]

Add a little more and buy a newish 718 Cayman 4.0GTS. Fun car with (hopefully) strong residuals
Could be cheap motoring for 2-3 years

[jimmy_wrxsti]

Think you will be adding a lot more to get a 718 4.0 GTS, about £15k at least, and then you are in 981 GT4 (among others) territory and residuals on them will be better albeit older car.

To add to list:
981 GTS
AMG GT
997 Turbo
996 GT3
Ferrari 360

[aponting389]

M3 CSL
Alfa 4C
1M coupe

[Jefferson Steelflex]

Faced with the same ‘dilemma’ recently, i managed to get into a manual 997.1 Turbo. I figured this was a positive choice, and i was right.

[CraigJ]

Had the same budget and recently bought a Ferrari 360.

[ZX10R NIN]

I'd put it into a house you're much more likely to see all of your money back, now if you don't mind potentially losing some of that 50k then get a car & enjoy it.

[Deep Thought]

ZX10R NIN said:

I'd put it into a house you're much more likely to see all of your money back, now if you don't mind potentially losing some of that 50k then get a car & enjoy it.

Hes proposing taking it back out again after a year or so. ie, running the car for a year, reselling and recovering most or all of the money.

[Sterillium]

Deep Thought said:

ZX10R NIN said:

I'd put it into a house you're much more likely to see all of your money back, now if you don't mind potentially losing some of that 50k then get a car & enjoy it.

Hes proposing taking it back out again after a year or so. ie, running the car for a year, reselling and recovering most or all of the money.

Also, I don't really like the way my house handles on twisty roads.

[ZX10R NIN]

Sterillium said:

Also, I don't really like the way my house handles on twisty roads.

Just being practical, if you want something for the twisties & you should see most if not all of your money back then buy this:

https://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/DUCATI-DESMOSEDICI-GP-t...

[Sterillium]

ZX10R NIN said:

Just being practical.

I don't want to be too practical, it's mostly going to be a smokescreen to evade the wrath of my other half.

[Graveworm]

Sterillium said:

Let's say you have £50,000 sat in the bank, doing nothing at all, therefore you decide instead to buy something fun to drive, with the hope that a year or so later you could sell it and recoup most of the original £50,000.

What do you buy?

A classic Lotus Elan Sprint. Incredible fun to drive and very unlikely to lose anything.

[ZX10R NIN]

Sterillium said:

I don't want to be too practical, it's mostly going to be a smokescreen to evade the wrath of my other half.

glad to hear it get the Desmodeci you'll love it, or look for a Corvette ZR1, you shouldn't lose a thing.

[Fastlane]

A well-equipped Ariel Atom 3.5 supercharged or this lovely 2018 450 mile number 4 of 10 Ariel Atom Mugen advertised at £52.5k on the Ariel website.

[mcg_]

996 turbo and keep the change just encase

[Peter911]

For a very limited period, my extemely attractive and desirable 964 C2. Just getting annoyed at my lack of income and the fact the world is st

[AllyM]

EvoSid said:

Add a little more and buy a newish 718 Cayman 4.0GTS. Fun car with (hopefully) strong residuals
Could be cheap motoring for 2-3 years

Yes, he’ll just need another 40% on his budget.