Continental GT v Speed v Supersports

[UpTheIron]

Hi all, hoping for a little advice as a prospective CGT buyer.

It would be my "daily" driver - meaning it would usually live on outside, get used for a mix of short and longer trips but would often go several days or more without moving.

I dislike depreciation and unreliability (temper that with the fact that I've got 18 years of TVR ownership under my belt), and I'm not a huge fan of repeated, unexpectedly large service/maintenance bills with the seemingly regular replacement of components that should last a lot longer and not be consumables (again, see TVR!)

In an ideal world I'd be looking to part ex my Tuscan without getting my pants absolutely pulled down, simply to make it one easy transaction rather than having to offload the Tuscan first.

Budget wise everything up to the lower end of the Supersports market (say £55-60k) is within consideration. Part of me thinks that the base model will be 99% of the experience for 50% of the price, however part of me thinks "it will never be a Supersports".

Does the Supersports have significantly higher running costs compared to the base model?
Has anybody owned all 3 - standard / Speed / SS? How do they compare?

[UpTheIron]

Thanks guys. I'd want the Mulliner interior if I didn't get a Supersports, although the Supersports interior is nice. I agree that even the standard GT has adequate performance for 99.9% of the time.

The £2k... if nothing goes wrong what is that spent on?