£50k to spend help needed

[metsta]

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[mollytherocker]

Keep the merc and get a 997 GT3. That's what I would do, but it really depends what you like.

[metsta]

Oooohhh good call not considered one of those.
Will take a look, I'm loathed to spend any money on a family car as it sits outside the house all week and gets used to go to the park and once a week if that with the kids and once or twice a year to France/Germany/holland etc

[Shadow62]

What about the 997 GT3 on essentialcars.co.uk ?

997 GT3s look good value right now

[Nano2nd]

Keep the merc and spend £15k on a garage and the other £35k on a GT3, CSL, Exige S, R400, u choose

[slodge]

Keep the merc and get a GT3. If you go 996 you'll have a nice track budget too!!

Cheers

Slodge

[metsta]

ok so the merc sold today, took a small deposit and the guy is due to come back tomorrow so......
watcth this space, there is a nice 968 CS and a nice track spec sport on ebay at the mo for around £10k :-)

[mrdemon]

Cayman R with a few tweeks would be a nice shout.

[V8KSN]

OP get yourself booked on a few test drives and see which car you get a feeling for.

You need to decide on a max budget though. All £50k on one car or split it between two?

I would suggest the following as a list of cars to tick off....

Cayman R
996 GT3
997 GT3
996 Turbo
997 Turbo

[jamesogt]

I think this is what they call #firstworldproblems !

[Ash 996 GT2]

GT2

[BillTheButcher]

Ash 996 GT2 said:

GT2

I was just going to add this to the list.

There are a couple of nice ones on the market at the moment: one at RPM and one at 911 Virgin. I drove the RPM one a couple of days ago and it is mint.

[metsta]

its all gone a bit odd so this is what i have bought so far this week.... The 911T went today. made some money there so Im happy. The e-class went today made a little there too.

Today ive bought a 2010 Discovery 4 HSE, its a beautiful car and a monster family wagon, santorini black with almond leather, piano black trim, cameras,etc. its very nice. Thats the family car sorted. A silver 2003 Smart fortwo passion, lovely little go kart thing, ill use that for commuting every day. This leaves me with about £20k (i found some more money under the mattress) for a toy car if i want. Ive got a car loan to pay off; dont have to but its £12k so could do that and have £8k left for a cheap fun car? But top line budget is £20k

So new challenge is (and thanks so far all Porsche clearly) a couple of non porsche though too....

Early Boxster S
Impreza P1
Mk1 Focus RS
944 Turbo
968
running out of ideas now.....

[erics]

Supercharged elise

metsta said:

its all gone a bit odd so this is what i have bought so far this week.... The 911T went today. made some money there so Im happy. The e-class went today made a little there too.

Today ive bought a 2010 Discovery 4 HSE, its a beautiful car and a monster family wagon, santorini black with almond leather, piano black trim, cameras,etc. its very nice. Thats the family car sorted. A silver 2003 Smart fortwo passion, lovely little go kart thing, ill use that for commuting every day. This leaves me with about £20k (i found some more money under the mattress) for a toy car if i want. Ive got a car loan to pay off; dont have to but its £12k so could do that and have £8k left for a cheap fun car? But top line budget is £20k

So new challenge is (and thanks so far all Porsche clearly) a couple of non porsche though too....

Early Boxster S
Impreza P1
Mk1 Focus RS
944 Turbo
968
running out of ideas now.....

[DKL]

Your old 996t is still for sale....
If you want a 944t drop me a line.

[metsta]

I know it's a bargain too! Already considered as an option but not really feeling another 996 at the mo pm me some info on the 951

[g7jhp]

Garage and a nice Duratec Caterham 7 R400/R500 for the weekend! Plus some bikes for the kids (everyone's happy)!

[Triple7]

A new Range Rover Sport ......

[456GT]

That's pretty fast work going from £50k to spend on Sunday down to just £8k now!

You could get a nice(ish) 928 for that sort of money...

[anonymous-user]

456GT said:

That's pretty fast work going from £50k to spend on Sunday down to just £8k now!

You could get a nice(ish) 928 for that sort of money...

This. Especially if you can stretch to circa £10k.