400 as a daily?

[gareth h]

Is this a silly idea? At the moment my Elise is a weekend car, doing 5-6k miles a year, I'm considering selling it and our mini, keeping the f31 beemer and buying a 400 which would do 12k / year, would depreciation be epic over 3 years?
Any other things to consider as a daily?
Thanks
G

[gareth h]

Thanks Greg, Ken at Snows has offered me a full day in their demo (I think he knows it will sell itself!)

[gareth h]

alex_gray255 said:

Depreciation will be a b***c

I'm looking at a 2016/2017 demo car at £60k so it will have done the first chunk of depreciation

[gareth h]

anonymous said:

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Might be worth a call to Ken at Snows, his demonstrator is available, I was quoted £62k.

[gareth h]

Thanks for all the advice, I've decided that I would be putting too many miles on an Evora as a daily, so have px'ed the Elise against a 350 sport at silverstone.
Can't wait collect tomorrow.

[gareth h]

MrJingles705 said:

Buy it, drive it, enjoy it - I get the theory of values etc but this is a car, not a house..... if you aren't going to actually get enjoyment out of it, go get an ecoboost and drive a sensible (if uninspiring) car.

Well, there's driving and theres driving, and I decided that one car would be a compromise, the exige does the fun stuff and the beemer the practical.

[gareth h]

MrJingles705 said:

Sorry, should have explained - wasn't meant as a critique - to be fair, if I didn't need rear seats I'd have an Exige Just a general observation that depreceation/resell values seem to get in the way of people buying what they actually want.

In my case having a 2+2 as my daily means that, on the very infrequent occasions I'm diverted to assist in kiddy runs (or god forbid main family car has a wobble) that I have an option. But because it's a fun 2+2 I don't feel like I've give up as much. Hopefully that makes some kinda sense?

Perfectly😀
Another concern was whether an Evora would still feel special if it is being used everyday. Although silverstone lotus had a black 430 in the workshop when I collected mine yesterday, I can't imagine that would ever not feel special!

[gareth h]

gareth h said:

Thanks for all the advice, I've decided that I would be putting too many miles on an Evora as a daily, so have px'ed the Elise against a 350 sport at silverstone.
Can't wait collect tomorrow.

All change! I made the mistake of test driving an Evora while the Exige was having some warranty work at Silverstone, was so impressed I started tyre kicking and was offered a great deal by JCT600 to trade the Exige against a 2015 400 in green (empire is what I think Lotus call the colour but looks like BRG) with red leather.
The 4 1/2 hour drive up in the Exige left me a bit sore, but was fresh as a daisy after the drive home, in fact I could have turned round and done the same again.
The exhaust noise is epic with the valve open, unfortunately with several track days booked for the summer I will have to fit something quieter😞