Considering a car change in March-April next year and looking to spend upto 45k

CS||nuTs said:
Gorgeous sound and look stunning, a bloke down the road has one and ive often been tempted to do arrestable things to it at night :) . They have the most stunning interior.
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I dunno i was so underwhelmed by the 4200 maybe its put me off them unfairly.
 
DiamondMark said:
See what is "fun" gonna go into one of my had a few rambles now.

Fun to me is doing 30mph down Tesco in the same car that kicks arse when it needs too, its a Porsche all day, i know Fett gonna be on in a minute and say they are boring, but sometimes boring is good.

Boring dont break down much and boring can be driven every day without a suspension reset.
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I mentioned in one thread that I found a vanilla 996 C2 uninspiring and a bit insipid in comparison to other cars that were being mentioned in that thread.

Do a quick search with my name and "porsche" and you'll see I think the GT3 and the GT2 are fantastic bits of kit. I respect the pedigree, the heritage and the package they offer and I love 964 and 993 etc.

And yes, boring can be good. The Porsche attributes you mentioned are exactly why I love my GT-R.
 
Fett said:
I mentioned in one thread that I found a vanilla 996 C2 uninspiring and a bit insipid in comparison to other cars that were being mentioned in that thread.

Do a quick search with my name and "porsche" and you'll see I think the GT3 and the GT2 are fantastic bits of kit. I respect the pedigree, the heritage and the package they offer and I love 964 and 993 etc.

And yes, boring can be good. The Porsche attributes you mentioned are exactly why I love my GT-R.
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Its the vanilla ones im suggesting he buys.
 
Begbie said:
Aston anyday.
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I'm going to be blunt here because so many of you (harmlessly) have no idea what it takes to run these kind of cars.

Do *not* take this out of context but he is *only* spending 45k, he's not sitting here asking us what he should spend his 100k+ cash on. Quite simply put, at *any* price range except for brand new, any Aston/Ferrari/Lambo or Porsche can be serious financial obligations, buying them is just the start. An out of warranty Aston would terrify me, and I've had a couple, which were both sold well before the warranty expired due to the hideous reliability and poor build quality issues we had.

If Gibbo was spending 100k, that puts him in a different league, he's comfortably able to afford the maintenance on these cars, assuming one isn't 100% financing it :p . At this price range, you do not want to get into a depreciating asset that you lose sleep over every night because of fear of things going wrong. Living your dream is one thing, your dream controlling you is another all together.
 
DiamondMark said:
Its the vanilla ones im suggesting he buys.
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I stand by my previous thoughts on them. But seeing as the GT-R is up (or was) for consideration and you like the idea of a car that "kicks arse" one minute, pootle downs to the shop the next with reliability and the ability to be a painless daily, the GT-R meets those criteria with ease.
 
[ui]ICEMAN;18057562 said:
I'm going to be blunt here because so many of you (harmlessly) have no idea what it takes to run these kind of cars.

Do *not* take this out of context but he is *only* spending 45k, he's not sitting here asking us what he should spend his 100k+ cash on. Quite simply put, at *any* price range except for brand new, any Aston/Ferrari/Lambo or Porsche can be serious financial obligations, buying them is just the start. An out of warranty Aston would terrify me, and I've had a couple, which were both sold well before the warranty expired due to the hideous reliability and poor build quality issues we had.

If Gibbo was spending 100k, that puts him in a different league, he's comfortably able to afford the maintenance on these cars, assuming one isn't 100% financing it :p . At this price range, you do not want to get into a depreciating asset that you lose sleep over every night because of fear of things going wrong. Living your dream is one thing, your dream controlling you is another all together.
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would the R8 not kill you also ?

I'd always imagined them to be quite expensive being Audi's Halo car.

Joshy said:
Absolutely stunning car, but the following sentence says it all:
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how much of that £20k has been spent tuning it to nearly 600bhp though ?

Thats not what would turn me off the GT2 however. The 996 GT2's reputation as "the widow maker" would.
 
Fett said:
I stand by my previous thoughts on them. But seeing as the GT-R is up (or was) for consideration and you like the idea of a car that "kicks arse" one minute, pootle downs to the shop the next with reliability and the ability to be a painless daily, the GT-R meets those criteria with ease.
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I dunno i just dont like Jap cars.

But thats just me, i still respect what they did with that car, its just not for me.

Iv still yet to drive one mind, but the look does me in.
 
MrLOL said:
Thats not what would turn me off the GT2 however. The 996 GT2's reputation as "the widow maker" would.
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Urban myth or legend whatever they are called, you got to drive like a **** to bin them cars.
 
MrLOL said:
would the R8 not kill you also ?

I'd always imagined them to be quite expensive being Audi's Halo car.



how much of that £20k has been spent tuning it to nearly 600bhp though ?

Thats not what would turn me off the GT2 however. The 996 GT2's reputation as "the widow maker" would.
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Apologies, the R8 was implied. However, the free maintenance on the R8 for the first 4 years over here is pretty awesome, helps keep some of the bills away. R8's are still quite new and as such the R8 tax hasn't really come into effect yet, most of the parts are actually cheaper than they are with Porsche, with the notable exception of anything carbon fiber!
 
DiamondMark said:
Urban myth or legend whatever they are called, you got to drive like a **** to bin them cars.
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No, no, the 996 GT2 is genuinely frightening, we had one for a while, there's a thread on it back a few years. I'm no driving god but I'm competitive on all the racing seasons I've taken part in and I found the GT2 a real handful, lairy and extremely entertaining. You could have put a Lambo badge (pre Audi Lambo) on it and I'd of believed it.
 
never driven one to comment !

But 490bhp RWD car with no form of electronic aids scares the crap out of me.


[ui]ICEMAN;18057646 said:
No, no, the 996 GT2 is genuinely frightening, we had one for a while, there's a thread on it back a few years. I'm no driving god but I'm competitive on all the racing seasons I've taken part in and I found the GT2 a real handful, lairy and extremely entertaining. You could have put a Lambo badge (pre Audi Lambo) on it and I'd of believed it.
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Interesting to hear its reputation isn't all myth then lol.
 
[ui]ICEMAN;18057646 said:
No, no, the 996 GT2 is genuinely frightening, we had one for a while, there's a thread on it back a few years. I'm no driving god but I'm competitive on all the racing seasons I've taken part in and I found the GT2 a real handful, lairy and extremely entertaining. You could have put a Lambo badge (pre Audi Lambo) on it and I'd of believed it.
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Im talking about on the road, 1 in 100 explore those cars to the limit, wouldnt you agree?

Maybe im wrong, im a boot it in a straight line, slow down for corners man myself :)
 
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