RE: £100K Garage: Max Berry

[colinrob]

My £100k garage is Audi R8 v10 spider cost me £56,000, Audi SQ5 cost me £34,000 and Mercedes C32AMG cost £5,500 will keep the £4,500 for fuel as the C32is nearly as bad as the R8 on fuel

[Honeywell]

Bizzare choices.

I’d go:

4.4 TDV8 Range Rover for £30k - huge luxury, does everything.

981 2.7 Porsche Boxster manual for £30k - just the best roadster out there and last of the breed.

Alfa Romeo Giulia 2.0 (280bhp) for £30k - everyday car perfect blend of design, performance, four doors and size.

BMW 1200GS motorbike - go to the shops, go to South Africa.


Now that’s a garage with some breadth.

[RedXYC]

I would have to take a V6S F Type over the V8 purely for the pops and crackles. Add in an RS3, CBR250RR (MC22) and a Lancia Delta HF Intergrale and were done. Simple and pretty sure it all comes under 100k without making the Internet look stupid.

[Turbobanana]

stavr0ss said:

Is 100k garage back to no holds barred?

Yes: no rules, provided most of the cars are German

[h0b0]

Honeywell said:

Bizzare choices.

We should nto forget the OP is a teenager and is not thinking about practical family cars.


Also, I can safely say that none of these would even come into my own consideration whereas the OP has hit a couple I would. So, for me, your choices are even more bizarre than his.

Honeywell said:

I’d go:

4.4 TDV8 Range Rover for £30k - huge luxury, does everything.

981 2.7 Porsche Boxster manual for £30k - just the best roadster out there and last of the breed.

Alfa Romeo Giulia 2.0 (280bhp) for £30k - everyday car perfect blend of design, performance, four doors and size.

BMW 1200GS motorbike - go to the shops, go to South Africa.


Now that’s a garage with some breadth.

[spikyone]

Tuvra said:

spikyone said:

If it is, they could've started with some more interesting picks. A 911 and a Golf R? There's a reason that most PH articles describe them as ubiquitous. The Jag looks lovely, of course, but two modern sports cars and a go-to hot hatch is a bit unimaginative. Each to their own, I guess...

Absolutely! I suppose your one of those people who would be cooing if the OP suggested 10-15 dross cars like "mint" overpriced Rover 800's and MX5's?

My garage would be similar to the above I reckon except I'd mix the third car up a bit:-

• Golf R / Audi S3 / Audi S1 (£20K)
• Audi R8 V10 / Nissan GTR / AMV8V (£60K)
• BMW 7 Series / Merc S Class / Audi A8 / Maserati QP (£20K)

I'm not sure why "not another Golf R and 911" equates to "Rover 800 and MX5".

FWIW, just from a quick scratch around:
TVR Tuscan (£32k)

Volvo 850R (£12k - no T5-R showing with a price so let's go with this)

BMW M6 GC (£37k)

Lotus Exige (£18.5k)

If I spent more time thinking about it I could probably swap those around a bit, and I know that the M6 GC isn't to everyone's tastes, but I still think they're great looking things and you can't really argue with 550 ponies. The only thing I feel like I'd be missing is a rough and tumble off-roader, but I'd probably throw in another few hundred quid and buy a knackered old Hilux to abuse. (EDIT: or just haggle those ad prices down a bit)

Edited by spikyone on Tuesday 11th September 14:04

[jhayward1980]

"First of all, it's a Porsche" and then "It's a GTI". Terrible.

Not to mention the imbecilic overlap of an S3 and a GTI.

[Mafffew]

Each to their own chaps.

[gstubbs010893]

Manual 997 GTS (70Kish)

Caterham Supersport (25kish)

5K on a diesel Passat estate 1.6TDI

Daily Smoker, Track Car and Practical Hack, all different and all equally brilliant at their intended role.

[Loyly]

Tiptronic 911? What a crap choice. Manual or PDK at a push, it's supposed to be a driver's car.

[davidc1]

lame choices here. that s3 look manky and same type of car as the golf. sorry...

fag packet choices , real world picks , as i have 3 kids :
SEAT leon st 290 20k
911 T 80k
simples.

or,
987 boxster spyder 50k
skoda vrs 245 wagon 15k
up gti. 14k(as u cant use the spyder everyday)
20k on a classic.

[anthonysjb]

its back! with no silly rules!

[anonymous-user]

Hey Max, you declared your hand! Good on you. I can see your point of view and I can see those with a few more yrs behind them having strong opinions. No matter, go for it. I really like the Jag, would personally complement it with a rusty 4x4 pick up of some sort and a topless TVR.

[Niffty951]

Money well spent that. Not sure I'd have them all at the same time but there's nothing I wouldn't enjoy driving there.

Just need to keep spare the £10k for the oval cylinders and intermediate shaft rebuild in your 997 Gen 1 and £10k for the differential, suspension, electrics etc etc in the F-Type

[B'stard Child]

Twoshoe said:

Turbobanana said:

Muncher said:

tektas said:

If I use 66k of my 100k I have 34k left, not 44k.

Just sayin.

This.

Incredible how this can get past the author and the proof-readers, isn't it? Or is it creative man-maths at its best?

PH: Basic arithmetic (doesn't) matter

Let's just call it the £110K Garage - simples!

I'll take the 10K approach every time

[Chestrockwell]

What the?

The S3 has 265 ish bhp i think, not 300, an early 997 auto carrera and a red gti? The Jag is a fair shout but even still.

I submitted a 100k garage years ago and didn’t get featured, mine had a FD2 Civic, SL63 and a 435d x drive with accurate descriptions, should have featured that!

[BarcelonaLewis]

Matt Bird said:

stavr0ss said:

Is 100k garage back to no holds barred?

Yes it is! Submissions dried up and we have Max in on work experience, so figured it would be a good time to resurrect it and use the original format for a bit. All submissions welcome!

Cheers,


Matt

He writes well!

[Toptrumps2]

Looks like a good choice, did you mean to choose 4 different power-train lay-outs?

FF + FR + 4WD + RR?

• *EDIT - I forgot they changed the rules from when mine was published! My bad***

Edited by Toptrumps2 on Wednesday 12th September 10:15

[ultrastapler]

anthonysjb said:

its back! with no silly rules!

I liked some of the rules, it makes the submissions require more thought and subsequently a bit more interesting.

Keeping the FWD, RWD, 4WD and adding another criteria like:

• red italians, no ferraris
• best sounding 6 cylinder engines
• fast fords
• BRG brits
• supercharged!

kept me amused browsing the classifieds on the train commute for hours*



*i am special, I know

[Zetec-S]

Nice Jag. Yes, there's a bit of "doubling up" with the Jag/911 and then the S3/Golf, but as it's not my garage it's not my choice.

Decent article and nice to see the feature back.