GT8 buyers guide
Discussion
With my 2 delightful little girls driving me out to the [empty] garage, I've started to look for a long term weekend blast and am beginning to focus on the GT8. There seem to be a fair few to choose from which gives me some decent options on spec - I'd love to pick up some pearls of wisdom from anyone with experience of them.
cheers
Al
cheers
Al
alphonso]With my 2 delightful little girls driving me out to the [empty said:
garage, I've started to look for a long term weekend blast and am beginning to focus on the GT8. There seem to be a fair few to choose from which gives me some decent options on spec - I'd love to pick up some pearls of wisdom from anyone with experience of them.
cheers
Al
First idea would be to PM me.cheers
Al
alphonso]With my 2 delightful little girls driving me out to the [empty said:
garage, I've started to look for a long term weekend blast and am beginning to focus on the GT8. There seem to be a fair few to choose from which gives me some decent options on spec - I'd love to pick up some pearls of wisdom from anyone with experience of them.
cheers
Al
Hi Al, if you send me a private message I, and the other members of the GT8 Club, will be happy to guide youcheers
Al
To be honest there’s not a huge amount to say beyond:
1. There’s a thriving GT8 WhatsApp Group, I would guess we have pushing on for 50% of the UK cars on there (that are in private hands) as well as some of the International owners.
2. The benefit of that is there are always one or two owners looking to buy/sell. Far better value buying direct...
3. Spec-wise. It’s really more personal choice. There are very few (maybe only 2/3 in the UK) cars with SS. Overwhelming majority of cars are manual. It’s a collectors car so I think the manuals will hold their value better and indeed the SS cars already trade about £10k cheaper
4. The same is true of the aero pack. If you think the GT8 looks better without it, then a GT8 is almost certainly not the right car for you. Understandably I can only recall see 2 non-aero pack cars. Both LHD
5. I personally would look for a car with the Titanium exhaust (iirc a £7k option). One of the key characteristics of the cars is the fabulous noise (the loudest of any factory stock car?). And we’ve found they get louder with mileage (coking?). But the non Ti exhaust cars seem as loud
6. Everything else is cosmetic. For example the CF roof only saves 1.5kg or so in weight (iirc), so don’t pay up for it unless you like the look of it
7. Wheels. The majority of cars have one of the two 5-stud options. There were also two centre lock options, including magnesium centrelocks (@£18k). Again I’d regard it more as a cosmetic choice than anything else
You can’t too far wrong with colour schemes. It’s not a car for subtlety so it copes with bold colours as well as the more traditional silvers/racing greens.
As a weekend car it’s brilliant. With the lighter V8staffie engine it handles well. All the Alcantara gives it a special feel inside. It looks great and it sounds great; guaranteed to put a smile on your face when you drive it - which is what a weekend car is all about, surely?
Could it do with another 50bhp? Probably. But as it’s more a less a standard V8 engine the option of changing manifolds/ECU etc seems to be available from Appleby/BR (no-one has felt the need to do that yet it seems). Or of course you could go full monty and get GMRs Supercharger joy and 600bhp; the car with that on is by all accounts superb.
1. There’s a thriving GT8 WhatsApp Group, I would guess we have pushing on for 50% of the UK cars on there (that are in private hands) as well as some of the International owners.
2. The benefit of that is there are always one or two owners looking to buy/sell. Far better value buying direct...
3. Spec-wise. It’s really more personal choice. There are very few (maybe only 2/3 in the UK) cars with SS. Overwhelming majority of cars are manual. It’s a collectors car so I think the manuals will hold their value better and indeed the SS cars already trade about £10k cheaper
4. The same is true of the aero pack. If you think the GT8 looks better without it, then a GT8 is almost certainly not the right car for you. Understandably I can only recall see 2 non-aero pack cars. Both LHD
5. I personally would look for a car with the Titanium exhaust (iirc a £7k option). One of the key characteristics of the cars is the fabulous noise (the loudest of any factory stock car?). And we’ve found they get louder with mileage (coking?). But the non Ti exhaust cars seem as loud
6. Everything else is cosmetic. For example the CF roof only saves 1.5kg or so in weight (iirc), so don’t pay up for it unless you like the look of it
7. Wheels. The majority of cars have one of the two 5-stud options. There were also two centre lock options, including magnesium centrelocks (@£18k). Again I’d regard it more as a cosmetic choice than anything else
You can’t too far wrong with colour schemes. It’s not a car for subtlety so it copes with bold colours as well as the more traditional silvers/racing greens.
As a weekend car it’s brilliant. With the lighter V8staffie engine it handles well. All the Alcantara gives it a special feel inside. It looks great and it sounds great; guaranteed to put a smile on your face when you drive it - which is what a weekend car is all about, surely?
Could it do with another 50bhp? Probably. But as it’s more a less a standard V8 engine the option of changing manifolds/ECU etc seems to be available from Appleby/BR (no-one has felt the need to do that yet it seems). Or of course you could go full monty and get GMRs Supercharger joy and 600bhp; the car with that on is by all accounts superb.
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