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That sounds Dammit expensive.
It needn’t be if you do your research. There’s a repair cost risk in any performance car. Newish Audis and Golfs that have been owned on 3 year leases will have been mercilessly ragged and VAG cars are both unreliable and massively expensive to repair these days. Every little electronic thing that fails, and they do fail, costs >£1k to fix.
What there isn’t with an old 911 is significant depreciation. Your £30k golf or BMW will be £12k in 3 years. Your £30k 911 will be £25k.
Financially speaking only a fule would drive anything other than a 15+ year old 190mph Porsche.
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I did not realise these had back seats and spent last night looking. The bit that scares me is nearly all at or around 70k miles have ‘full engine rebuild’ in the description. That sounds Dammit expensive.
I’m not sure I can live with the ‘Fisher Price’ dash. But there are a couple local to me for sale. Sounds like I might need a test drive when my shoulder heals up and I can change a gear…
10 years ago absolutely, yes. It’s unfortunately just not my thing now.
I’d enjoy the extra cylinder for sure. But they’re all pre facelift :( Maybe I’ll save more cash, but having just lost a bunch in this incident I’m inclined not to.
This is true, but not in this case. I was driving to the conditions and well within the speed limit, low revs - oil temp wasn’t even there yet and I’ve taken this seriously since ownership. Literally left the house 5 minutes before and drive through town.
Now to that point; everything was cold. Including the tyres. Was that a factor? Perhaps. But I’m not going to dwell on it.
The M140i I bought because it ultimately wasn’t a ‘point and squirt’ car. I wanted something at the time that required some thought when being driven not just mashing the accelerator at exit of a corner or an overtake. My view having had an accident has changed…