New Car - Quick - Handles - £3500-£5000 budget
Discussion
Hi All,
I've got a friend who currently owns an FN2 Type R, late plate car, low miles and typical honda reliability.
He is bored of it.
So he's been looking at r53 mini cooper s as a new alternative. But he can't make up his mind - mainly as i think the mini doesn't set his world on fire either.
So the criteria is as follows
Any make or model - nothing is out of scope.
Limiting factor is a budget of between £3500 - £5000.
Manual
Quick(ish) - 0-60 under 7 seconds.
Petrol
Handling - Needs to be a good handling fun car. Lots of Grip. Fairly chuckable. Ride wise doesn't really matter much as will be short ish journeys and weekend blasts. But nothing spine shattering i guess.
No preference on drive type. FWD.RWD.AWD - all welcome.
He's open to any type coupe/saloon/hatch. But something easier to drive around a town would perhaps be easier.
Can be two - five seats.
Its a wide criteria and i thought where best to ask than with you lot as you always come up with some great leftfield ideas.
thanks in advance.
I've got a friend who currently owns an FN2 Type R, late plate car, low miles and typical honda reliability.
He is bored of it.
So he's been looking at r53 mini cooper s as a new alternative. But he can't make up his mind - mainly as i think the mini doesn't set his world on fire either.
So the criteria is as follows
Any make or model - nothing is out of scope.
Limiting factor is a budget of between £3500 - £5000.
Manual
Quick(ish) - 0-60 under 7 seconds.
Petrol
Handling - Needs to be a good handling fun car. Lots of Grip. Fairly chuckable. Ride wise doesn't really matter much as will be short ish journeys and weekend blasts. But nothing spine shattering i guess.
No preference on drive type. FWD.RWD.AWD - all welcome.
He's open to any type coupe/saloon/hatch. But something easier to drive around a town would perhaps be easier.
Can be two - five seats.
Its a wide criteria and i thought where best to ask than with you lot as you always come up with some great leftfield ideas.
thanks in advance.
Butter Face said:
Whilst im sure he'd like teh SC for the FN2 - there is more to it than the initial payment on the work and i'm pretty sure that he is also just not wanting to drive the Honda anymore - he gets bored easily. For me i think the 350z is probably a good choice or an R26 F1 - but i've broached both with him and he seems stuck on the idea of an r53 cooper s.
Thank you for the advice guys. I wonder what he'll go for.
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