350k budget, 1 or 2 cars ... But which?

[Kong]

Damn you, I have literally spent an hour thinking up my reply to this thread! Here goes:

Aventador brand new to my spec with aftermarket sports exhaust naturally.


SLS Roadster (nearly new) - roof down thrills.

[k-ink]

Twin turbo Ultima (circa 1200 bhp). Swap the RR for a Nismo GTR (sensibly tweaked to 750bhp) as the daily hack. Bank the change.

[RobM77]

kiteless said:

First off, the RRS would be sold post-haste and replaced with an Audi B5 RS4 as the daily.

The remainder of the budget?

At the moment, this:



JUST within budget I think?

Nice choice

[billzeebub]

Ferrari 458 Spider
Aston V12 Vantage S

[AyBee]

Firstly, awesome dilemma to have Do you have a family?

- Ferrari FF (so you can take the nice car on family days out)
- Ford GT

[richs2891]

Assuming I kept the Range Rover, and not swapped it for a Porsche Cayenne Turbo S, which I probably would after a time.
Would probably have an Audi R8 V10 spyder then swap that when the Porsche (991) 911 turbo convertible become available. Then Lambo Aventador Convertible - when available. Then 918 Spyder.
Then rest on a modifying a Merc G wagen to make it better on the road without destroying its character and off road ability (probably impossible - but fun trying it)

Edited by richs2891 on Wednesday 8th January 22:05

[folos]

Brand new Aventador to my own spec, Brand new C63 AMG 4-door with my own spec. The rest on drugs + hookers. Probably.

[yellowtang]

Can one of these be had in budget?

[mascord05]

Keep the range , type R mugen, fez F12, lob me a Maserati quattroporte aswel. Bagsy not paying for tyres!!!!

[Ozzie Osmond]

S1M VP said:

Assuming a 5.0 Supercharged Range Rover.......

First thing I'd do is sell that truck and buy a Dacia Duster. Then I'd start thinking about proper cars.

[S1M VP]

Wow ... It's going to be impossible to respond to all those ideas - appreciate all the ideas!

Re the Range Rover ... Fully understand some of the comments re changing it, but for me (and my family), it's the ideal choice and has both punch when required and is very luxurious and can't half get a lot in it. It's also acceptable to visit customers and suppliers. Yes it's not a cheap motor, but the badge doesn't have the same impression as a Bentley, RR, or similar. The only time I ever put anything on the roof of my old sport was the bikes when we went to centre parcs and I got the sliding Thule roof bars and just threw some steps in the boot .... so most of the time it's just a comfy, lazy car that ticks so many boxes, so it'll be staying (also took me 6+ months to get from spec'ing & placing the order back in May, and only had it c2 months so a bit too soon to think about changing it.

Re the classic ... etypes/eagles, retro 911's etc etc aren't my cup of tea (just yet, but maybe in a few years), although I do appreciate their place and if I had more than 2 spaces in the garage it may be different.
An F40/F50 on the other hand ...... But they are getting silly money!

The Atom, BAC Mono, Radical etc ... Hmmm now they're interesting.
I have never been a fan of the Westfield look, but the mono ... Now that's something very different!.

The LFA seems to have got a lot of mentions which is a surprise ... Epic car, but didn't think it'd feature so much .... Rare, so viewing one would be a challenge, but that red one does look nice. Just a shame I haven't seen any RH drive ones.

..... Best read the replies again as there's lots I've missed ...

Thanks again guys ... Always useful to get other ideas!!

[4154QLD]

This please.



http://www.pistonheads.com/classifieds/used-cars/m...

what's weird, is that car is for sale at a garage just down the road from where I used to live as a kid in the 70's/80's and it used to sell BL products. My mum bought an brand new Mini-Metro City from this place in the early 80's which wouldn't go into reverse gear.

[RobM77]

Ozzie Osmond said:

S1M VP said:

Assuming a 5.0 Supercharged Range Rover.......

First thing I'd do is sell that truck and buy a Dacia Duster. Then I'd start thinking about proper cars.

Now you're talking. If we can have a proper daily driver rather than an overweight Land Rover on stilts then this thread gets a whole lot easier. I think I'll stick with the Evora S and perhaps an F3000 car. My daily would be an E92 M3 and with the change I'd buy a 916

[RobM77]

S1M VP said:

Wow ... It's going to be impossible to respond to all those ideas - appreciate all the ideas!

Re the Range Rover ... Fully understand some of the comments re changing it, but for me (and my family), it's the ideal choice and has both punch when required and is very luxurious and can't half get a lot in it. It's also acceptable to visit customers and suppliers. Yes it's not a cheap motor, but the badge doesn't have the same impression as a Bentley, RR, or similar. The only time I ever put anything on the roof of my old sport was the bikes when we went to centre parcs and I got the sliding Thule roof bars and just threw some steps in the boot .... so most of the time it's just a comfy, lazy car that ticks so many boxes, so it'll be staying (also took me 6+ months to get from spec'ing & placing the order back in May, and only had it c2 months so a bit too soon to think about changing it.

Re the classic ... etypes/eagles, retro 911's etc etc aren't my cup of tea (just yet, but maybe in a few years), although I do appreciate their place and if I had more than 2 spaces in the garage it may be different.
An F40/F50 on the other hand ...... But they are getting silly money!

The Atom, BAC Mono, Radical etc ... Hmmm now they're interesting.
I have never been a fan of the Westfield look, but the mono ... Now that's something very different!.

The LFA seems to have got a lot of mentions which is a surprise ... Epic car, but didn't think it'd feature so much .... Rare, so viewing one would be a challenge, but that red one does look nice. Just a shame I haven't seen any RH drive ones.

..... Best read the replies again as there's lots I've missed ...

Thanks again guys ... Always useful to get other ideas!!

Sorry mate, I had no idea this was a half serious What Car thread!! No idea at all. I think your present car choices are pretty spot on if you like the RR, but I'd definitely try out a lightweight track car for some fun to complete a trio - Caterham, 2-Eleven or KTM would be my recommendations. I think it's Bookatrack that have an R300 for hire at about £800 per track day.

[yellowtang]

If a 288GTO isn't in budget then I'd have a XJ220 and DB6.

You've had as good as it gets regarding modern cars

[yellowtang]

[Coldfuse]

Difficult topic this.

If you had to keep the Range Rover it would be:
SLS (black series if they come in right hand drive, just normal if not)and
Brand new Audi RS6 Avant.

If we could ditch the Rangie. Then the RS6 would become the Daily:
Lexus LFA and
Ferrari 430 (scuderia if its in budget)

Any other money out of those two options i would pour into making the house better

[Itsnotagsr]

The question to the OP is whether he wants to see some sort of return from his money or is happy to see it all go away in depreciation.

My personal choice would be a Ferrari Daytona.

[carinaman]

Jandywa said:

This


and this

All that fussiness on the flanks of that Ferrari makes the Caterham look uncluttered:



The shield is a different colour yellow. Those badges need to come off and the indicator repeater needs to be hidden behind clear lenses in the door mirror. I realise the repeater may be a nod to stuff like Daytonas and 308GTBs, but IMO there's too much going on there. It has two prancing horses on the front so not sure why it needs them on the wings too.

They could hide the indicator repeater behind the shields like on a BMW Z4 but that would make removing them with a hair dryer more involved.

soad said:

DubZeus said:

http://www.pistonheads.com/classifieds/used-cars/t...

My gosh, that Cerbera is a proper beast!

It is. Even the bare chassis looks great!

[TuxMan]

Noble M600 Carbon Sport , British built , only proper manual gearbox super car , proper drivers car !






F type jag for sunny days