The £15,000 Giveaway - Losers support thread
Discussion
So, Matt and John have been declared the winners of the giveaway and congratulations are due.
However there are 3,958 of us that will be sulking tonight, so pull up a chair, grab a beer and tell the rest of the group what you wanted and why.
I'll start:
There is an awful lot you can get for £10-£15k. I spent hours looking through the classifieds at hot hatches, barges, classics, muscle cars etc and had narrowed my choices to a Chimera or an e46 M3, as I'm sure of lot of people did. However I don't have a garage and leaving either of those outside at night would turn me into an insomniac, so I tried to think of something more sensible.
Much like Harris, I need an estate for lugging kit around the country. Prerequisites were RWD, normally aspirated, stealthy and comfortable - an e46 M3 Touring would have been ideal, except they didn't make them... Audi S6s were appearing in searches, but whilst they fit the stealthy criteria they have an Oliver Stone-ian thirst that I just wouldn't be able to justify. I then spotted an Alpina B3 Touring, the only one in the classifieds just as the comp was coming to an end and it seemed perfect - FSH, lowish miles, dark colour with cream interior, and a glorious, sonorous 3.2 straight six under the bonnet. Instantly enamoured I kept checking up on it in the classifieds, growing ever more excited as the comp neared its end, until it dissapeared, sold about a week ago. Gutted.
Like others I've spent today wearing down my F5 key, but a B3 Touring have definiately made its way into my theoretical 5 car garage, along with my DB9, Arial Atom and the others.
You?
However there are 3,958 of us that will be sulking tonight, so pull up a chair, grab a beer and tell the rest of the group what you wanted and why.
I'll start:
There is an awful lot you can get for £10-£15k. I spent hours looking through the classifieds at hot hatches, barges, classics, muscle cars etc and had narrowed my choices to a Chimera or an e46 M3, as I'm sure of lot of people did. However I don't have a garage and leaving either of those outside at night would turn me into an insomniac, so I tried to think of something more sensible.
Much like Harris, I need an estate for lugging kit around the country. Prerequisites were RWD, normally aspirated, stealthy and comfortable - an e46 M3 Touring would have been ideal, except they didn't make them... Audi S6s were appearing in searches, but whilst they fit the stealthy criteria they have an Oliver Stone-ian thirst that I just wouldn't be able to justify. I then spotted an Alpina B3 Touring, the only one in the classifieds just as the comp was coming to an end and it seemed perfect - FSH, lowish miles, dark colour with cream interior, and a glorious, sonorous 3.2 straight six under the bonnet. Instantly enamoured I kept checking up on it in the classifieds, growing ever more excited as the comp neared its end, until it dissapeared, sold about a week ago. Gutted.
Like others I've spent today wearing down my F5 key, but a B3 Touring have definiately made its way into my theoretical 5 car garage, along with my DB9, Arial Atom and the others.
You?
yes well done them. Of course, I like to think we all won really, so I'll have the Lancia on the 9th september if thats OK with the rest of you... 
I was thinking of the 944 turbo, 968 or, thanks to that top gear test from 1992, the XJR-S. I've been looking almost every day.
I want one more then ever now, so I might need to apply the man-maths to get one. Investment, look great on the drive etc etc. Todays favourite flavour is the 968. Newer then the 944, you see. And those headlights are retro, which is so "in" these days
I was thinking of the 944 turbo, 968 or, thanks to that top gear test from 1992, the XJR-S. I've been looking almost every day.
I want one more then ever now, so I might need to apply the man-maths to get one. Investment, look great on the drive etc etc. Todays favourite flavour is the 968. Newer then the 944, you see. And those headlights are retro, which is so "in" these days
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