Car appreciation... the aesthetics, the engineering, etc

For sale at a local sports car dealer... "Liquid rubber wrap applied then hand-painted adding rust, mud, dirt, grime & race track battle scars for a distressed-look of the famous Martini livery that racing Porsches wore in the 1970’s"

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Looked better on this GT4

Spoke too the 550 chap today, depending on how moving the contents of two rooms down to the garage (if anyone near to Forest Hill would like to earn my undying gratitude then please pop over on the weekend and help me move some boxes!) I'll go to see it.

Selling my Arosa, if anyone is interested.

That’s lovely. Mines a 1.8 carb auto. I’d love to do a manual conversion on it one day, I love how comfortable and useable it is as a daily driver, the only problem is it’s revving at 3500 rpm at 70mph because of the 3-speed.

Big bore Scando Wagen I hear you cry?

https://m.ebay.co.uk/itm/Volvo-v70-T2-5-SE/222698338096?ul_ref=https://rover.ebay.com/rover/0/0/0?mpre=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.ebay.co.uk%2Fulk%2Fitm%2F222698338096&rvr_id=0&_mwBanner=1

I must never look at new cars again.

Duration36 months
35 monthly payments of£743.97
Customer deposit£16,000.00

Any of you lot got any real world experience with LPG?

I'm in the market for a new landy and am considering either a td5 or a v8 running LPG as both should cost about the same to run but a v8 considerably cheaper to buy even with LPG system fitted. I'd really like a td5 because 5 cylinders are awesome but I'm not feeling too confident in buying a diesel right now.

Lol what have you bought?

Not even in the weeds?

Not sure what you mean.

it needs a hit with the slam stick.

Yeah, it would definitely get some street cred that way, but the problem is there are lots of speed bumps out there. Practicality wins.

Lol what have you bought?

I haven't, I simply allowed the thought process "maybe a new car would make sense in terms of maintenance etc" to turn into getting a finance example for this:

Which would have a circa 50k balloon at the end, also.

You should do it.

I agree.

Despite what Ian Fleming reckons it’s actually only once that you live.

Do you reckon you’ll ever look back and think ‘phew, I’m glad I didn’t get that fucken awesome car that time’?

This is true. However, you are talking to. someone who (when I still paid for my own phone) bought it with cash and had a 30 day rolling contract.

The prospect of owing ~70k on a car and being committed to paying for it over 3 years gives me The Fear. Plus, it's likely that I'd do ~3,000 miles per year in it, and that's potentially optimistic. I may end up paying 40k to drive 9,000 miles.

Which is why I come back to the 10k BMW, and the 911 as the awesome car, as it were.

Get the £26k BMW, using the Volvo as deposit as you planned. That way you have a silly car (911) and a sensible car (BMW), both of which will make you happy.

Rent a panamera for a weekend and spend the remaining £80k on a whole load of other awesome things.

If you’re going to be that sensible about it I’m not sure I can help much.

I dare you to buy it.

Bwaaark!

Ha

WBAC offer for that BMW is £5,100