Ever worry that you have all your bases covered?!
Discussion
Hi all.
Well I've been lucky enough to run a few nice cars in my time, but for every car I've had I've always had that thought in the back of my mind that I will not have it forever and I still want to run a *insert car type here, ie V8, roadster, 4x4 etc.
However the other day it dawned on my that my current car fleet seem to cover all the bases I could ever need and it scared me a little bit, I think I've stumbled on the perfect combination of cars and I don't know where to go from here!
Let me explain, I currently run 3 cars, they are :
For trackdays, sprints, hill climbs nurburgring trips and general pretending I'm a real racing driver, I have a Ford Racing Puma which my dad and I stripped and rebuilt about a year ago have a lot of fun in. The whole build thread is here if you are interested, or if not some pics are below
http://www.pistonheads.com/gassing/topic.asp?h=0&a...
I love this car, it's raw, handles amazingly, so much fun, sits in storage until we fire it up, take it to a track, hammer it all day and take it home again. I have a lot of fond memories in this car of trackdays and nurburgring tris with good friends and family and I'll never sell it.
That's the track car covered.
For every day slog, motorway miles, trips to the tip, slinging a muddy mountain bike in and generally shed motoring I have a mondeo 2.2 TDCI in fetching gold.
In its own way, I also love this car. With a 2.2 tdci it's acceptably rapid for normal driving, it's got a magic carpet ride quality, it does 49mpg and it costs peanuts to run.
I love shed motoring, I can park it anywhere, not wash it for months, if it gets scratched I don't care. The mrs can drive it easily, we can fling rubbish in it. It's just brilliant.
So that's the track car and the shed covered. Now we need a fun weekend car right? So I looked at the ever popular MX5, and every other option out there, S2000, MR2 (crud!), 370Z, and ended up wanting a Porsche Boxster.
Man maths told me I had about £7k to spend which would get me a nice 986 3.2s. Anyway after a month of searching I ended up adding another £10k to the budget (thanks Barclays) and brought this
It's a 2007 3.4S with a lovely spec and my favourite colour combo and its one of the nicest cars I've ever driven and been lucky enough to own. It's just so accomplished in every way, the ride on those 19' wheels is still decent and compliant, the handling so neutral and grippy but progressive on the limit and beyond, it goes like stink, it's easy to drive, I love the looks, and the sound. It's perfect.
So that leaves me in a happy place, I have a car for every occasion. But... What next?! Sort of just upgrading the cars to newer versions of the same thing, where to go from here?!
I'm in now rush, only had the boxster a month, and it may be a car ill keep a longtime (we all have that romantic idea of keeping a car 'forever'!)
Anyway, anyone else in the same boat?!
Thanks for reading
Ross
Well I've been lucky enough to run a few nice cars in my time, but for every car I've had I've always had that thought in the back of my mind that I will not have it forever and I still want to run a *insert car type here, ie V8, roadster, 4x4 etc.
However the other day it dawned on my that my current car fleet seem to cover all the bases I could ever need and it scared me a little bit, I think I've stumbled on the perfect combination of cars and I don't know where to go from here!
Let me explain, I currently run 3 cars, they are :
For trackdays, sprints, hill climbs nurburgring trips and general pretending I'm a real racing driver, I have a Ford Racing Puma which my dad and I stripped and rebuilt about a year ago have a lot of fun in. The whole build thread is here if you are interested, or if not some pics are below
http://www.pistonheads.com/gassing/topic.asp?h=0&a...
I love this car, it's raw, handles amazingly, so much fun, sits in storage until we fire it up, take it to a track, hammer it all day and take it home again. I have a lot of fond memories in this car of trackdays and nurburgring tris with good friends and family and I'll never sell it.
That's the track car covered.
For every day slog, motorway miles, trips to the tip, slinging a muddy mountain bike in and generally shed motoring I have a mondeo 2.2 TDCI in fetching gold.
In its own way, I also love this car. With a 2.2 tdci it's acceptably rapid for normal driving, it's got a magic carpet ride quality, it does 49mpg and it costs peanuts to run.
I love shed motoring, I can park it anywhere, not wash it for months, if it gets scratched I don't care. The mrs can drive it easily, we can fling rubbish in it. It's just brilliant.
So that's the track car and the shed covered. Now we need a fun weekend car right? So I looked at the ever popular MX5, and every other option out there, S2000, MR2 (crud!), 370Z, and ended up wanting a Porsche Boxster.
Man maths told me I had about £7k to spend which would get me a nice 986 3.2s. Anyway after a month of searching I ended up adding another £10k to the budget (thanks Barclays) and brought this
It's a 2007 3.4S with a lovely spec and my favourite colour combo and its one of the nicest cars I've ever driven and been lucky enough to own. It's just so accomplished in every way, the ride on those 19' wheels is still decent and compliant, the handling so neutral and grippy but progressive on the limit and beyond, it goes like stink, it's easy to drive, I love the looks, and the sound. It's perfect.
So that leaves me in a happy place, I have a car for every occasion. But... What next?! Sort of just upgrading the cars to newer versions of the same thing, where to go from here?!
I'm in now rush, only had the boxster a month, and it may be a car ill keep a longtime (we all have that romantic idea of keeping a car 'forever'!)
Anyway, anyone else in the same boat?!
Thanks for reading
Ross
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