So how fast can you go for £2k. Just curious.

[Lewis Kingston]

Leggy Subaru Impreza WRX also springs to mind, seen a few estates around that mark. About 6.0sec and a top speed of 143mph? Once, at that price, perhaps...

If you're going for top speed, though, any older exec with a substantial motor would be my port of call.

[amoeba]

You could possibly get a very old, ropey S-Type R (so the 4.2, but with a supercharger) for around 2k if you searched hard enough.

In theory they could do 175, if they weren't limited to 155.

[soad]

What's the cost to delimit a car, out of interest?

[jjwilde]

What about some of the V12 7s? I saw a 760i with 'battery issues' on autotrader for £2k. You could easily get an old 750 V12.

[shakotan]

Audi A8 4.2 Quattro.

0-60 in low 6s.
Remove the limiter and you'll see 170mph+

[Tyre Smoke]

shakotan said:

Audi A8 4.2 Quattro.

0-60 in low 6s.
Remove the limiter and you'll see 170mph+

Which bit of 'no fiddling' did you struggle with in the OP?

[M1C]

My £600 1999 SAAB 9-5 Aero (manual) had a quoted top speed of 155mph.

Great car for so little money.

I never got it to that top speed (never got anywhere near to be honest, PH card ready to be handed in if required) - but it struck me as one of the very cheapest, potentially 'fastest' cars around, and id think still would be.



EDIT:

I also had a 2000 W £399 S-Type 3.0 V6 Auto which could also 'hoof along' when required but the Saab was definitely both faster and quicker

Edited by M1C on Friday 16th February 10:19

[Tannedbaldhead]

If you are prepared to lose a couple of wheels and embark a major luck pushing exercise a big old bike (1000cc +) will see you tramping down motorways at a hundred and severalty.

[Shiv_P]

Derventio said:

No bikes! (turns out you can get surprisingly close to the double ton for a couple of grand if you go for two wheels!)

Tannedbaldhead said:

If you are prepared to lose a couple of wheels and embark a major luck pushing exercise a big old bike (1000cc +) will see you tramping down motorways at a hundred and severalty.

[murphyaj]

Tyre Smoke said:

shakotan said:

Audi A8 4.2 Quattro.

0-60 in low 6s.
Remove the limiter and you'll see 170mph+

Which bit of 'no fiddling' did you struggle with in the OP?

I'd say removing the limiter is bending the rule without breaking it. The idea of "no fidding" was to get out of the idea of buying a cheap turbo car and just remapping it to 1000bhp (for 10 minutes until the engine blows up). Delimiting is just allowing the car to do what it was already capable of out of the box.

[sparks_E39]

E38 750’s have shot up in value recently, £5k plus for a decent one nowadays.

[Lee540]

My £1750 97' BMW 540i 4.4 V8 wasn't that slow..

0-60 in around 6 seconds and top speed 155mph.

[Tim bo]

For 50 Yuan, or £5.61 by today's rate, you can go at 268mph (431kph ).

Cost of a ticket on the Shanghai to Shanghai Airport Maglev. Great fun.

Edited by Tim bo on Friday 16th February 12:00

[GroundEffect]

Tim bo said:

For 50 Yuan, or £5.61 by today's rate, you can go at 268mph (431kph ).

Cost of a ticket on the Shanghai to Shanghai Airport Maglev. Great fun.

Edited by Tim bo on Friday 16th February 12:00

It only went to 300kph when I used it

[Prinny]

GroundEffect said:

It only went to 300kph when I used it

For me, it’s actually more impressive being in a car on the road from the airport & watching it fk off past you into the distance! Rare in the UK to see straights of that length, so it’s a good watch. The relative speed difference is stagggering.

[Dapster]

Ok so not strictly on Autotrader but I've found this slice of meaty goodness for sale at €2,700. V12 and nicely run in on 300,000 km.



https://suchen.mobile.de/fahrzeuge/details.html?id...

[J4CKO]

slipstream 1985 said:

STILLJOE said:

a few older TTs with the 225 engine are under budget - apparently good for 6.4 0-60

I have one, really doesn't feel all that fast but then i have been spoiled by quicker cars in my life. It is however a great all rounder that i use as a daily and winter ski car. nuclear hot heated seats though mmmm toasty

Would agree with all that, especially the epic bum warmers, I sometimes wonder if there is a Breville sandwich toaster lodged in the seat, best ones I have ever had in a car.

They arent that fast as standard but can be put on a diet and a few more ponies released, I got another ecu with a map already applied for £120 which woke it up, they say it should be 260 bhp if running right, acceleration wise it is probably quicker than V8 S types from a standstill, nearly being as powerful once mapped and significantly lighter, plus the addition of putting all the power down via 4wd, will at least be on a par I would imagine, at higher speeds, think the V8 may start pulling on it but who knows.


The cheap old Japanese stuff that used to grace these threads is now expensive old Japanese stuff, the 15 grand 300ZX for example, plenty around in the past at this kind of money but everything has got pricier.

An S500 can be had under 2k, over 300 German ponies, that should feel fairly strong still.

Various turbo Saabs and Volvos in budget.

A few V8 Audis, A8 and sometimes early 2000s S4's get close, but not that many and not quite that cheap


Its basically a V8 barge that is the non R/AMG/M type or something with a turbo that can be fiddled with cheaply, so the TT, various Astras, the odd Impreza, Swedish stuff.

[deltashad]

0- 60 6.8secs
Top speed 148?

Audi S3 £1950

https://www.autotrader.co.uk/classified/advert/201...

[cobra kid]

How many of these cars would STILL do these figures now they are a tired £2k car?

[Integroo]

In terms of cars that you don't need to pop several brave pills before buying at that price (and I know that wasn't part of the initial question), it must be either a Saab 9-5 Aero HOT 2.3 (250bhp, 6.5s to 60) or a Jaguar X-Type 3.0 V6 (231bhp, 6.6s to 60).
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