Fast car/sports car... what do I want?
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I think you need to try and work out what ulyou want from a car.
I've had a few of the suggestions so will give a view.
An MX5/MR2 handle fantastically and have a great feel but their engines are reeeeallly uninspiring. The MR2 MK3 has the worst engine of any sports car I've driven.
The BMW and 350Z by contrast have fantastic and exciting engines but are not quite as good for handling feel.
So I'd think about the kind of driving you do. I rarely ever see a b road a 350Z was perfect as it sounds great and you can flick the backend out for a little fun even on 30 mph roads.
I've had a few of the suggestions so will give a view.
An MX5/MR2 handle fantastically and have a great feel but their engines are reeeeallly uninspiring. The MR2 MK3 has the worst engine of any sports car I've driven.
The BMW and 350Z by contrast have fantastic and exciting engines but are not quite as good for handling feel.
So I'd think about the kind of driving you do. I rarely ever see a b road a 350Z was perfect as it sounds great and you can flick the backend out for a little fun even on 30 mph roads.
Edited by rotaryjam on Friday 21st April 17:34
It needs to have a turbo then you can tune it to the moon. Something like this
https://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/325620109475?mkcid=16&a...
https://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/325620109475?mkcid=16&a...
CrippsCorner said:
Hi, I woke up the other day thinking... I need to own a 'really fast' car one day. Fastest I've had was an Impreza STI with a 0-60 of 5.2 seconds. Now AutoTrader tells me a 'really fast' car is 0-60 under 5 seconds, so the Impreza doesn't count, right!
I started looking on AutoTrader filtered from cheapest. First cars you come across are 650i which doesn't make sense to me; just not special enough. I thought yeah, if this is going to be a third car (between me and the wife) it'd have to be manual for an engaging weekend blast. So changed that parameter. First results come in with TVR... now I know there's a lot of love for them here, and I love them too, but I am not particularly mechanically minded, nor do I have the space/time/equipment/patience to be continually tinkering; it's just not what I need from such a car. So, onward the search went, until I came across M235i/M240i - Wonderful cars I'm sure, but just not special enough for that sense of occasion. I realised as I continued scrolling, the price range was getting ridiculous.
So, back to the drawing board. What do I really want... as said, special, weekend blasts, different to what I have (a hot hatch and boring family MPV) okay how about a coupe or even convertible, which I'd never considered before. So I knocked the price back down, and changed the 0-60 time to under 8 seconds instead, and started again.
I came across MX-5 (obviously) but... my brother has one of those, and I want to be different. Boxster? Most of the cheaper ones seem to have issues. Audi TT V6? Is it really a sports car, not sure and just doesn't have that wow factor to its looks. Then I saw something that jumped out at me; Z4 - Specifically the 3ltr. 0-60 in 5.9 seconds is definitely nippy enough. Look great, roof down, bit of a classic?
This is only entering the thought stage at the moment. However I now have the image in my head of driving the missus around at the weekend with the wind in my hair (which is pretty impressive for a bald bloke)
I managed to find 4 of these cars under £4.5k which seems pretty decent. The tax would be a bit painful mind you for a car that would be doing under 2k miles a year.
This is 'what car' and I've just said what car... but what I'm asking is, is this the experience I'm missing? Is this what I really want lol. Not a bullet in accelleration, but a different experience from a weekend blast. I've only ever had hatchbacks apart from that Impreza. I've always loved buying and modifying cars, but other than a few track days here and there over the years, can't say I really 'enjoy driving' as I never go for a drive for the hell of it. Maybe this is what I'm missing?!
Any advice appreciated, or other cars I've overlooked!
370Z (Just at 5.0 seconds)I started looking on AutoTrader filtered from cheapest. First cars you come across are 650i which doesn't make sense to me; just not special enough. I thought yeah, if this is going to be a third car (between me and the wife) it'd have to be manual for an engaging weekend blast. So changed that parameter. First results come in with TVR... now I know there's a lot of love for them here, and I love them too, but I am not particularly mechanically minded, nor do I have the space/time/equipment/patience to be continually tinkering; it's just not what I need from such a car. So, onward the search went, until I came across M235i/M240i - Wonderful cars I'm sure, but just not special enough for that sense of occasion. I realised as I continued scrolling, the price range was getting ridiculous.
So, back to the drawing board. What do I really want... as said, special, weekend blasts, different to what I have (a hot hatch and boring family MPV) okay how about a coupe or even convertible, which I'd never considered before. So I knocked the price back down, and changed the 0-60 time to under 8 seconds instead, and started again.
I came across MX-5 (obviously) but... my brother has one of those, and I want to be different. Boxster? Most of the cheaper ones seem to have issues. Audi TT V6? Is it really a sports car, not sure and just doesn't have that wow factor to its looks. Then I saw something that jumped out at me; Z4 - Specifically the 3ltr. 0-60 in 5.9 seconds is definitely nippy enough. Look great, roof down, bit of a classic?
This is only entering the thought stage at the moment. However I now have the image in my head of driving the missus around at the weekend with the wind in my hair (which is pretty impressive for a bald bloke)
I managed to find 4 of these cars under £4.5k which seems pretty decent. The tax would be a bit painful mind you for a car that would be doing under 2k miles a year.
This is 'what car' and I've just said what car... but what I'm asking is, is this the experience I'm missing? Is this what I really want lol. Not a bullet in accelleration, but a different experience from a weekend blast. I've only ever had hatchbacks apart from that Impreza. I've always loved buying and modifying cars, but other than a few track days here and there over the years, can't say I really 'enjoy driving' as I never go for a drive for the hell of it. Maybe this is what I'm missing?!
Any advice appreciated, or other cars I've overlooked!
911 996, or maybe a 997?
V8 Vantage?
Evora?
Granted these are more expensive buys, but they'll hit the mark and hit it consistently. Otherwise if outright speed is the name of the game, Z750 makes for a fun alternative.
BoRED S2upid said:
It needs to have a turbo then you can tune it to the moon. Something like this
https://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/325620109475?mkcid=16&a...
I had a BBR 185 before going turbo - cracking car with a crisp throttle response.https://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/325620109475?mkcid=16&a...
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