Dream Car Choices
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spikeymikey12000

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96 posts

189 months

I realise choice is subjective. In a year or two I hope to be in a position to buy my dream car. For reference the car will likely do about 6k a year and will be used mainly for weekend duties, the annual pilgrimage to Le Mans, summer road trips with the Mrs - UK and Europe and might even be used for the odd bit of business mileage.

Looking at about £80k and my thoughts are one of the following:

Late 911 991.2 GTS
Early 911 992.1 Carrera S
Brand new/Ex demo BMW M4 comp
Early current shape Aston Martin Vantage

It will need to live outside most of the year - can be garaged for the worst couple of months over winter and my Wife will need to be comfortable driving it locally - she’s a decent driver and likes a sporty car.

I’ve had several M cars. They’re amazing and the Mrs loves them. Current daily is a new Porsche Macan 4S EV which is actually pretty impressive for what it is. My heart wants a 911, I think it would be a complete step up from an M car, though would be a few years old rather than new/nearly new. I’ve always harboured the idea of an Aston too.

Welcome thoughts on my ideas above and also any over ideas.

Countdown

48,581 posts

223 months

Great position for be in smile

If I had a cast iron warranty I’d go for the Aston purely on looks.

If not then it would be the 992 GTS

For me the M4 isn’t “special “ enough

Debaser

8,081 posts

288 months

It depends on how much you value having something new. If that’s not important I’d definitely go for a 911.

T1547

1,227 posts

161 months

Having just picked up one of these so clearly biased, I vote one of these.



Would imagine it would fit your usage case very well.

Oberheim

704 posts

18 months

Matt_T said:
That is lovely.

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13,237 posts

305 months

spikeymikey12000 said:
I realise choice is subjective. In a year or two I hope to be in a position to buy my dream car. For reference the car will likely do about 6k a year and will be used mainly for weekend duties, the annual pilgrimage to Le Mans, summer road trips with the Mrs - UK and Europe and might even be used for the odd bit of business mileage.

Looking at about £80k and my thoughts are one of the following:

Late 911 991.2 GTS
Early 911 992.1 Carrera S
Brand new/Ex demo BMW M4 comp
Early current shape Aston Martin Vantage

It will need to live outside most of the year - can be garaged for the worst couple of months over winter and my Wife will need to be comfortable driving it locally - she s a decent driver and likes a sporty car.

I ve had several M cars. They re amazing and the Mrs loves them. Current daily is a new Porsche Macan 4S EV which is actually pretty impressive for what it is. My heart wants a 911, I think it would be a complete step up from an M car, though would be a few years old rather than new/nearly new. I ve always harboured the idea of an Aston too.

Welcome thoughts on my ideas above and also any over ideas.
R8 V10, absolutely brilliant for what you've described.

Tracklover

98 posts

1 month

McLaren for sure. Some of the early ones are really affordable now.

Buddy of mine picked up one cheap last year and it's done 10k with no issues.


brillomaster

1,795 posts

197 months

Well, my dream car has long been an Audi r8 v10 manual, so id go for that. Im particular fans of naturally aspirated engines paired with ideally, manual gearboxes. Porsches would likely be my next choice.

M4 doesn't feel special enough to be a dream car. Too common, based on a fairly average bmw platform and so on.

How much can you get a v12 vantage manual for these days? That would be a special car.