Gallardo running costs please
Discussion
Ok guys,
Am after some genuine facts and figures. Am a total petrol head and curious as to the running costs of the Gallardo. I know the saying is 'if you have to ask, then you can't afford' but bear with me.
Putting aside that nasty word 'depreciation' what are the actual day to day running costs of keeping a car like this?
I'm 27 years old and in the enviable position of having paid off my mortgage. I'm a car nut and having sold my own motor a few months ago the family is down to just the 5 door family car. Now is the time to choose something for me. I've driven most cars, except the real super exotics (although I have driven a Gallardo once, but sadly not on roads which allowed me to do anything with it).
From a financial point of view I could afford to buy one tomorrow. But as much as I love these cars I don't like the idea of just burning money. So if the running costs are 'reasonable' then I'd more than happily consider it. But if we're talking services costing tens of thousands then I'd rather have my money elsewhere.
So, any Gallardo owners out there care to give me a glimps of the monthly/yearly costs associated with owning (in my opinion) the nicest car on earth?
Matt
Am after some genuine facts and figures. Am a total petrol head and curious as to the running costs of the Gallardo. I know the saying is 'if you have to ask, then you can't afford' but bear with me.
Putting aside that nasty word 'depreciation' what are the actual day to day running costs of keeping a car like this?
I'm 27 years old and in the enviable position of having paid off my mortgage. I'm a car nut and having sold my own motor a few months ago the family is down to just the 5 door family car. Now is the time to choose something for me. I've driven most cars, except the real super exotics (although I have driven a Gallardo once, but sadly not on roads which allowed me to do anything with it).
From a financial point of view I could afford to buy one tomorrow. But as much as I love these cars I don't like the idea of just burning money. So if the running costs are 'reasonable' then I'd more than happily consider it. But if we're talking services costing tens of thousands then I'd rather have my money elsewhere.
So, any Gallardo owners out there care to give me a glimps of the monthly/yearly costs associated with owning (in my opinion) the nicest car on earth?
Matt
thanks for your help guys - very insightful. I guess the reason I ask about running costs is not that I can't necessarily afford them, more that if we were talking £30k a year just to keep it ticking over then sorry, there are better ways to spend my cash. I'd rather have two 911's - one for day to day and one to rag the arse off at track days.
But I'm amazed how cheap you guys quote the basic servicing costs. No more than I have paid with the prestige, but ultimately mainstream, cars I've owned. I guess it's when stuff goes wrong that things start ticking up (I heard £5k for a clutch ????).
Depreciation sounds like the biggy then really. To be expected, and something I wouldn't feel so bad about - if I buy this car it'll be to keep forever (I say that now...) and I don't honestly believe it will leave me wanting for anything else. I guess we shall see...
Anyway, thanks a lot!
But I'm amazed how cheap you guys quote the basic servicing costs. No more than I have paid with the prestige, but ultimately mainstream, cars I've owned. I guess it's when stuff goes wrong that things start ticking up (I heard £5k for a clutch ????).
Depreciation sounds like the biggy then really. To be expected, and something I wouldn't feel so bad about - if I buy this car it'll be to keep forever (I say that now...) and I don't honestly believe it will leave me wanting for anything else. I guess we shall see...
Anyway, thanks a lot!
Thanks Guys.
Ade - yes, live in North London.
With regard to depreciation - it hits hard but I can see it coming and so can stomach it.
With regard to insurance - it's bound to be silly (the first year I had my TT I paid £1200) but unless I am hugely restricted on mileage I feel I can stomach it.
Maintenance - this is my only worry. Again, it's not so much down to being able to afford it - more whether I want to. I'm not filthy rich so enormous service costs would impact other aspects of my life I am only prepared to move on slighty.
It's a good point that the Gallardo is so new, and with so few there could be hideous problems not yet detected. I don't like the idea as much but I may just give a 360 a try to see if I can like it enough to go for one of those instead - they are at least much more plentiful and old enough for the vast majority of pitfalls to have been detected.
Ade - yes, live in North London.
With regard to depreciation - it hits hard but I can see it coming and so can stomach it.
With regard to insurance - it's bound to be silly (the first year I had my TT I paid £1200) but unless I am hugely restricted on mileage I feel I can stomach it.
Maintenance - this is my only worry. Again, it's not so much down to being able to afford it - more whether I want to. I'm not filthy rich so enormous service costs would impact other aspects of my life I am only prepared to move on slighty.
It's a good point that the Gallardo is so new, and with so few there could be hideous problems not yet detected. I don't like the idea as much but I may just give a 360 a try to see if I can like it enough to go for one of those instead - they are at least much more plentiful and old enough for the vast majority of pitfalls to have been detected.
dtmpower said:
Matt - I hope you dont mind me asking , but to have no mortgage at 27 and to be considering a Lambo - what do you drive now ? And do you have your own busines/who do you work for, I am 24 and would like to think I could do something in the next 3 years that would get me into this sort of position...no mortgage ! that would mean getting myself £180k in the next 3 years !
I currently drive a 2 litre Toyota diesel!!!!!! Bet noone would have guessed that!!! I've had some nice cars in the past, but nothing at the moment - we're down to just our family motor.
Sadly don't have my own business, though that would be the ideal. We just timed things right getting in and out of the house price boom. So I've ended up in a nice house, about to be mortgage free, with some lump sum cash to invest and spend. With all other expenditure covered and a tidy portion into savings each month that leaves me with ~ £1000 a month just to play with and this seems like a good point in my life to consider satisfying my petrolhead side a little.
Hence my questions on the Gallardo. I'm far from mega rich, and possibly not rich enough to consider running a Lamboughini ... but we only live once, right?
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