TG's latest challenge, your choices please

[samdale]

when i first heard the criteria for the latest challenge it got me thinking. thats early S4 money non?


so go on, what would be your choice? c.5k family car, happy with the track days.

personally i thought hammonds m3 wasnt a bad shout, all be it a rather ropey example.




please try not to turn this into yet another TG bashing thread cheers

[MGZRod]

Nissan S14 Silvia

[williamp]

My e39 540i. 280-off bhp.
Or for utter daftness, M-B S600 from the early 90s.
half sensible choice would be jaguar XJR or even XJ12
Can you get a Bentlry Turbo R for that price?

[dan19evans]

Scooby

[physprof]

williamp said:

My e39 540i. 280-off bhp.
Or for utter daftness, M-B S600 from the early 90s.
half sensible choice would be jaguar XJR or even XJ12
Can you get a Bentlry Turbo R for that price?

does anybody see the M-B W140 series around on the road in the last few years?

for such a tank they seem few and far between.

[pilchardthecat]

XJR

[R1chy11]

Evo for me. Earlier ones are bargain prices and even a 4 can be had for £5k from what I remember.

[W00DY]

http://pistonheads.com/sales/1774996.htm

Spend the change on some tweaks and see 400hp. (Ignoring the fact that given the ridiculous weighting something like my £200 Jag would have walked it.)

[Gun MAQ84]

I'd probably go for a C36 AMG.

This is sold but something similar wouldn't go amis...

http://www.pistonheads.com/sales/1706299.htm

[pilchardthecat]

An Audi anything. The class, the looks, the power, the imagine.

[badger_royale]

pilchardthecat said:

An Audi anything. The class, the looks, the power, the imagine.

A3 2.0 TDI S-Line for Sir?

Jag XJR for me I think. Or a Lancia Thema 8.32, even if the handling's crap.

[topless_mx5]

pilchardthecat said:

An Audi anything. The class, the looks, the power, the imagine.

You need to have a word with S-Line-Luxury

[maniac0796]

R33 GTR skyline's are still too expensive

Probably Evo 4 or try and get an M5, not sure which gen though.

It's a shame because the cars they had are 3 cars i've loved the look of since i was a child, and I love the idea of sports or 'super' saloons.

[Wadeski]

Should have included an Evobaru.

[Shropshiremike]

maniac0796 said:

It's a shame because the cars they had are 3 cars i've loved the look of since i was a child, and I love the idea of sports or 'super' saloons.

You can get better examples of those for 5k though - I suspect half the problem was they had to buy in a hurry

[davepoth]

This.

http://cgi.ebay.co.uk/2001-Y-BMW-3-Series-330-spor...

[Atomic Gibbon]

How big is the family? I'd love a 928 if the family kids were little, but I think TG was 4 door.

TBH, I think you'd have to go some to beat the M3 - thee are probably faster options, but you'd need reliability as a huge priority as you;d be driving to / from track. However, I'd be sorely tempted by...

[Jayho]

mx5...

nah i was quite shocked no1 went for a Evo or Subaru aswell... but bearing in mind, think they were buying from germany, so dont know how there used market is compared to here... I'd had thought the sab 9-3 Turbo thingy would have been quite good...

[dan19evans]

Jayho said:

but bearing in mind, think they were buying from germany, so dont know how there used market is compared to here...

I don't think they bought the cars in Germany.. all 3 cars were on british plates and were right hand drive IIRC

[S3_Graham]

Jayho said:

mx5...

nah i was quite shocked no1 went for a Evo or Subaru aswell... but bearing in mind, think they were buying from germany, so dont know how there used market is compared to here... I'd had thought the sab 9-3 Turbo thingy would have been quite good...

MX-5 would be in interesting 'super saloon', also all the cars were UK registered i suspect like someone else said, they bought unseen from an advert due to them not wanting to draw attention to themselves. Ask the PH who they bought the Sierra Cossie from! Atleast they didnt do any pointless smashing up.

Me personally i probably would of gone for an M3 saloon also, Been offered one in much better condition for half the £4k he paid!

other options would of been:
C36/43, E55, Dog of an E34 M5.