What should I do with £30K?

[pbrettle]

All,

Purely hypothetical question here , but if I were to have £30K at my disposal, what should i do with it? currently have a Chimaera 4.0HC and might like to consider something a little "newer". So, what would you buy for £30K?

a) Second-hand Cerbera 4.5 thats a couple of years old?
b) Second-hand Tuscan 4.0 thats one of the early ones?
c) Nearly new (or even new) Tamora 3.6?
d) New T350C (though this would extend the finance!)
e) Upgrade the Chimaera with rolling road and better handling - keeping the change for gadgets!

Suggestions please. Not sure if I want to do this, or have access to the money at the moment, but worth a consideration or two though....

Cheers,

Paul

[Alex]

How much can you afford for running costs? Budget at least £1k for about every 5000 miles in any of those cars (on top of fuel, insurance, tyres, brakes etc.)

I'd buy a 4.5 Cerbie for £20k and save £10k for running costs.

[plotloss]

Ramp up the finance and get a T350C - go on, you know you want to!

Matt.

[Roadrunner]

If you have a fixed budget of 30k only, is it wise to risk the cerbera or speed six instead? Is it not best to have a 20k ish car, like yours, and sit on the 10k spare for a safety margin?

[pbrettle]

Alex,

Running costs arent a concern at the moment!?!?!?! Had to cope with a horrendous Vectra that cost £2K in a year and the TVR cost be around the same (blown ECU) so running costs can only really go down - including getting an engine rebuild potentially... but then again I am just unlucky.


So this is the reason why I am considering something a little more "tasty" so to say.

Cheers,

Paul

[shadowninja]

I'd go for the 20k Cerbera 4.5 option. one > 98R from what I've read. With a sports exhaust, of course

then again £30k might get you a chevy v8 producing 400bhp in a chimaera

>> Edited by shadowninja on Monday 25th November 17:30

[Roadrunner]

I was going to ask the other day, has anyone put an american V8 in a TVR. Will it fit? Would be good to pick up a cheap as chips tuscan, bin the six, and pop in a real reliable thumper. A few companies are doing +4oobhp crate engines now. Cheap 'n' reliable tuscan - sounds good to me!

[rthierry]

Roadrunner said: I was going to ask the other day, has anyone put an american V8 in a TVR. Will it fit? Would be good to pick up a cheap as chips tuscan, bin the six, and pop in a real reliable thumper. A few companies are doing +4oobhp crate engines now. Cheap 'n' reliable tuscan - sounds good to me!

Noooooooo not again! Would you have a Chevy V8 in a 911 or in a Ferrari? Not? So why in a Tuscan? . I think most people here would agree that an engine is an integrale part of a car's identity, so why rip the Tuscan of its identity?

[Roadrunner]

Well, how about a cerbie then?

[shadowninja]

rthierry said:
Noooooooo not again! Would you have a Chevy V8 in a 911 or in a Ferrari? Not? So why in a Tuscan? . I think most people here would agree that an engine is an integrale part of a car's identity, so why rip the Tuscan of its identity?

um (someone's gonna hate me for saying this...) thats one of the reasons i wouldnt buy a tuscan. it's engine. have you heard one?

[Hut49]

rthierry said:

I think most people here would agree that an engine is an integrale part of a car's identity, so why rip the Tuscan of its identity?

I didn't know Lancia made a suitable engine for a Tuscan

[simpo one]

'So why in a Tuscan?'

Because it has two cylinders missing and the rest are joined together wrong!

www.chevroletls1.com

[bjwoods]

Hawthorns had a last 100 Griff 500 @ £32k at the weekend. Moonraker black /gray interior 5k miles.

Very very nice.

You could also have the pick of 1 - 2 year old Griff 500's for less than 30k, have you checked out autotrader.co.uk

B

[Froth]

I fell in love with the T350C at the motorshow and I reckon it's absolutely gorgeous. If there's anyway you could stretch to it then it gets my vote.

[ocean1]

100 hours with a high class call girl. Sorry Petrolted will probably remove this.

>> Edited by ocean1 on Monday 25th November 19:58

>> Edited by ocean1 on Monday 25th November 20:01

[apeebles]

Buy shares!

[Podie]

I think you should donate around half of the 30k to the "Podie is an underprivelidged lad" fund...

I'd go for a Griff 500... Cerbie if you fancy a tin-top, although I'd be tempted to go for a Marcos Mantis... (did I just say that on a TVR forum! )

[d_drinks]

ocean1 said: 100 hours with a high class call girl.

umm........... and you know that the going rate is £300p/h how??... !!

[flasher]

Plenty of good Tamoras around for sub £30K prices now. I would go for one of those or as late as you can get Tuscan. Cerb's are awesome (I still miss mine) but are not fun in traffic and have worse running costs per year than speed six engined cars. You ought to have a drive of a Tuscan and a Tamora and see which you like best. Tuscan is more comfortable and refined and altogether smoother. But the Tamora is like a go-cart in comparison with pin sharp handling. Of all the cars I have driven only an Elise and Noble M12 has the handling of a Tamora. (I'm not including Caterham's and Westies here)

The T350 should be awesome, but the price has now gone up another £1,000 making a standard colour one with aircon a whopping £42K inc vat and delivery.

[Podie]

I'd forgotton about the Tamora... one of them has gotta be tempting... especially if you could get a flasher spec one..!