15K Fast saloon - What you having?

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Afternoon all,

To be blunt, all this talk of electric cars etc has me craving more and more moving some savings into some metal!

I have around a 15K budget, running costs arent really a concern as it will be more of a weekend car so low miles but nothing temperamental that has me worried every time i drive it.
I do have a littlen (<1 year old) so i reckon a saloon would be the best shout, here are some of the cars ive looked at recently to fill the bill

I dont want anything thats going to drop much in value, and an increase would be ideal over the coming years

Jaguar XFR - not a lot of choice, but 500+ BHP V8 with a super charger sounds ideal
E90 M3 - not really a fan of the looks, prefer the saloon but thats out of budget
JDM impreza STI - bit of a wild card but seen some nice looking Blob/Bug eyes
VXR8/Monaro - Are they quick? or is it all noise, certainly has the rare factor, but again budget doesn't allow many options, very few for sale
C63 - ropey in this budget and also not a fan of the looks (love the noise though)

I feel like it has to be something a bit special, so i keep coming back to the Jag....am i missing anything? is there anything else that im not considering?

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Triumph Man said:

Will £15k buy any of those? I thought they were all up around the £20k mark (except maybe the Subaru and the Jag) - I would be willing to be proven wrong though!

If it was me, I'd buy the Jag. I very seriously considered an XF (a vanilla one though) and there seems to be something about them...

Surprisingly yes, albeit some higher mileage examples but certainly within reach on autotrader!

I think currently its waiting for the right specced Jag XFR which seems the favourable option

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SarlechS said:

fairly confident you wont get an E90 M3 at that price, maybe one that's been twisted or through the meat grinder

Theres quite a few, some with good history around that mark, but higher mileage examples
But i think ive already talked myself out of the M3

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ingenieur said:

Going by your reason for wanting an antidote to the electric craze it sounds as though you'd be best off with something loud. So probably the Monaro.

Yeah, agreed i think im not convinced that the monaro will deliver the whole package, they do sound lovely though

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Skyedriver said:

TBH, reading that list, there's a lot of "don't really like" etc That being the case discount them now as you'll only wish you'd bought something more special.

Agreed…..but what

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the cueball said:

You could get a lot of fast Audi saloons for that kind of money?

S4/6/8

some older RS models maybe too..

I’ve got german daily’s and always have done tbh
I think it needs to be a bit more special than that

I did look at a nice c5 rs6 but that comes back to the being nervous it would break every time I drove it

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ZX10R NIN said:

You have some good reliable options at your price point.

The VXR8 is a good bet, they're a very good steer quick & feel special at low speed as well as high: They won't be as quick as an XFR but they won't cost as much to run & have pretty much stopped depreciating.

6.2 VXR8:

https://www.autotrader.co.uk/car-details/202201171...

6.0 VXR8

https://www.autotrader.co.uk/car-details/202112100...

6.0 Monaro VXR

https://www.autotrader.co.uk/car-details/202201061...

You can get a decent gen1 C63 which is one of the best V8's ever made & it'll map out to 500bhp, you'll have to haggle though:

https://www.autotrader.co.uk/car-details/202201121...

https://www.autotrader.co.uk/car-details/202110148...

4.7TT CL500 435

https://www.autotrader.co.uk/car-details/202112090...

https://www.autotrader.co.uk/car-details/202109297...

If you're feeling a bit of a brave pill there's the CL600:

https://www.autotrader.co.uk/car-details/202108296...

RS6

https://www.autotrader.co.uk/car-details/202108096...

https://www.autotrader.co.uk/car-details/202110309...

https://www.autotrader.co.uk/car-details/202107175...

XFR:

https://www.autotrader.co.uk/car-details/202201010...

https://www.autotrader.co.uk/car-details/202110058...

Thats some serious choices there! thanks!

I dont think im brave pill worthy so the RS6 and CL600 are no gos

I think youre right VXR8 wise, i think i need to drive/passenger in one...im also wondering weather to stretch to 20K to really open up the choices and waiting a few months

C63 that youve linked also has me thinking

its not a bad place to be, at the end of the day its a 3rd car so in reality i could buy and sell and work through the list without losing too much

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aaron_2000 said:

If you have balls large enough to play 5 a side with then £15k just about gets you into a Conti GT. It's where my money would likely go because I'd convince myself that it'd be bulletproof, it likely wouldn't be.

https://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/284595370918?hash=item4...

i work at Bentley, and im driving the latest versions regularly, because of this i dont think i could own the older one as its too dated.

But i have considered it

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Mr Tidy said:

If I had balls of steel I'd get a Maserati Quattroporte - I just love them.

But Monaro, VXR8 and Chrysler SRT options would probably be a safer bet in terms of repair bills.

Agreed i love them too, but for me it would have to be the Gran turismo! and thats out of budget (for now)

Definitely one ill own within the next couple of years

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aaron_2000 said:

If you don't mind miles, no description so it could be a non runner for all I know

https://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/324880345848?hash=item4...

If you can stretch a little more

https://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/324964950065?hash=item4...

https://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/384566093568?hash=item5...

GT is lovely….not the cheap one but that grey one…that’s back on my list and actually thinking I might save up to 20k and get a better c63 (2010 saloon)