Your Attainable Dream Car?

BigglesPiP said:
Not such a fan that you know that the HF3000 did actually post a time once they replaced the engine, and that the time was made up, and that the engine blew up because the Stig ragged it from cold after being brought out of storage, and that the lap footage was made up of a series of deliberate spins achieved through several takes each.
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nope. barely read about top gear, but i watch it WAY too much, and have nearly every episode of the new format recorded to DVD

however, i thought they did the spins on purpose, because i figured it couldnt be THAT bad in the wet and road legal
 
Hmm cant really pick one. I have lots of dream cars so it really does depend on what the future holds but if my life works out it will go something like this in the vehicle department.

350z
Monaro VXR
Saleen Mustang or S5 OR M3!!!
Maserati Granturismo
Audi R8

:( Goddam stupid money.
 
ghop said:
I really fancy an Alfa Romeo 156 2.5 V6 at the moment. I'm seriously considering buying one at some point (probably not until I have at least 2 years NCB) but the reliability scares me a bit, although someone told me the V6 ones were actually fantastic engines and nowhere near as unreliable as the twinsparks?
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Having run both over substantial mileage, the V6 has been much more reliable for me, but no cheaper due to parts costing more, and having more parts.

For example; a bad tank of fuel could cost me up to 6 injectors, 4 lambda probes and 4 CATs!

Same story for any big car really.
 
I don't see why I can't get a the in about 5 years,
I'm fully aware of the 12k for that ridiculous bonnet thing as well,
And of the eye watering service costs, who knows maybe I won't, either way I will be wanting a m3 or something by that time, not in realistic really, given the fact I should be doing fairly well by then, I don't give a monkeys about the size of my house. I could afford the fuel now, the 306 does 25 to the gallon most of the time on the motorway and I can afford it easily. what does a gtr do mpg wise about 15?
I imagine when my salary has been multiplied by about 5 in this time I should be fine.
but hey its a dream car still, that's what this threads about..
just because its attainable does mean it has to be the most likely, if you want most likely, then a 335i I thik is what I expect
 
Eliot said:
I don't see why I can't get a the in about 5 years,
I'm fully aware of the 12k for that ridiculous bonnet thing as well,
And of the eye watering service costs, who knows maybe I won't, either way I will be wanting a m3 or something by that time, not in realistic really, given the fact I should be doing fairly well by then, I don't give a monkeys about the size of my house. I could afford the fuel now, the 306 does 25 to the gallon most of the time on the motorway and I can afford it easily. what does a gtr do mpg wise about 15?
I imagine when my salary has been multiplied by about 5 in this time I should be fine.
but hey its a dream car still, that's what this threads about..
just because its attainable does mean it has to be the most likely, if you want most likely, then a 335i I thik is what I expect
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That post was awful to read, half of it makes no sense at all. You don't see why you can't get a the? Yea, me neither :confused:

If you honestly think you are going to multiply your salary by 5 over 5 years you might need to become a tad more articulate :p

Definately a thread worth coming back to in 5 years, some people have enormously over optimistic expectations :p
 
[TW]Fox;18547534 said:
That post was awful to read, half of it makes no sense at all. You don't see why you can't get a the? Yea, me neither :confused:

If you honestly think you are going to multiply your salary by 5 over 5 years you might need to become a tad more articulate :p

Definately a thread worth coming back to in 5 years, some people have enormously over optimistic expectations :p
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You and a couple of others have made out like it is a completely impossible task, like he has gone and put down a Veyron or something. 'Attainable' to me stuck out as something that could be within reach given the right mix of skill, luck, hardwork, opportunity and sacrifice within the next 5-10 years. Something that is possible whilst a 'proper' dream car like a muti million quid Zonda or Koenigsegg is realistically not.
 
Joshy said:
You and a couple of others have made out like it is a completely impossible task, like he has gone and put down a Veyron or something. 'Attainable' to me stuck out as something that could be within reach given the right mix of skill, luck, hardwork, opportunity and sacrifice within the next 5-10 years. Something that is possible whilst a 'proper' dream car like a muti million quid Zonda or Koenigsegg is realistically not.
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I've no idea what car he's after as he hasn't mentioned it in his post.

I'm more laughing at the idea he appears to think multiplying your salary by 5x over the space of 5 years is an automatic thing for somebody who can attempt to make a simple post telling us what car he wants yet fail to actually tell us in any sort of literate way :p

MrLOL has probably worked it out, it probably is a GT-R, but blimey he's going to need to be a bit more articulate if he's going to sell himself enough to increase his salary 5 fold :eek:

People who do manage to increase salary by 5 times either:

a) Are very talented and do so because they stand out and are genuinelly leaders at whatever they do

or

b) Currently work part time or something :p

a) is the exception not the norm. There are rather less on the internet than there are people claiming they are. No, I'm not one either :)

Everyone on internet forums is convinced they are going to be really wealthy and succesful and/or own an exotic car. Yet hardly anyone on the internet is either really wealthy or owns an exotic car. Odd isnt it? Well no, not really :D

We live in a country where the average wage is circa £25k - and even this is a figure skewed upwards by the huge earnings of a small proportion. Yet despite this the majority of people seem to beleive they'll be earning a fortune. The maths dont work - the reason why is that people on the internet generally have an overinflated sense of their own ability - be that at driving, earnings potential, or what.

I guess nobody wants to accept the realism that for most of us, an average salary with a Focus diesel company car is probably what beckons, statistically speaking.

Except rypt, who will be Chief Design Engineer for Ford Europe in 2 years time, and also Member of Parliament for Whitney.
 
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[TW]Fox;18547668 said:
I've no idea what car he's after as he hasn't mentioned it in his post.

I'm more laughing at the idea he appears to think multiplying your salary by 5x over the space of 5 years is an automatic thing for somebody who can attempt to make a simple post telling us what car he wants yet fail to actually tell us in any sort of literate way :p

MrLOL has probably worked it out, it probably is a GT-R, but blimey he's going to need to be a bit more articulate if he's going to sell himself enough to increase his salary 5 fold :eek:
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It is a GTR (and he did mention it in his post ;)).

I think you're reading far too much into how people post (excuse the pun). Just because his sentaces on an internet forum aren't great doesn't mean that he doesn't have the skills and ambition to pull it off :)
 
Joshy said:
Just because his sentaces on an internet forum aren't great doesn't mean that he doesn't have the skills and ambition to pull it off :)
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It doesn't, though its more than likely. Stories about the guy who couldn't write a sentence to save his life yet is in the top 5% of earners in the country are stand-out stories often rolled out to counter an opinion like mine for a reason - they are rare enough to be noteworthy.

We can't all be rocket scientists.

Interestingly I wonder how many of the genuinelly succesful people - we have a few on here - went around aged 20 telling strangers how they were going to increase salary by 5 times inside 5 years? Not many, I'd wager.
 
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Eliot said:
I don't see why I can't get a the in about 5 years,
I'm fully aware of the 12k for that ridiculous bonnet thing as well,
And of the eye watering service costs, who knows maybe I won't, either way I will be wanting a m3 or something by that time, not in realistic really, given the fact I should be doing fairly well by then, I don't give a monkeys about the size of my house. I could afford the fuel now, the 306 does 25 to the gallon most of the time on the motorway and I can afford it easily. what does a gtr do mpg wise about 15?
I imagine when my salary has been multiplied by about 5 in this time I should be fine.
but hey its a dream car still, that's what this threads about..
just because its attainable does mean it has to be the most likely, if you want most likely, then a 335i I thik is what I expect
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Wow, reading that was hard work, but I don't see why you can't get a the in about 5 years either.

How were you planning on quintupling your salary over 5 years?
 
Sorry about the post my desire was lagging like a *****
A) I'm working part time,
B) I can run a car as thirsty as a focus st on said job
C) I expect to be earning 5x what I am yearly about December ish, not unrealistic given the average salary of a graduate
D) 5 years time I should be on quite a bit more, given the fact that I'm a very driven person
E) I fully understand the cost of a gtr, I don't expect to have one, its an attainable DREAM not an attainable car, there's a important distinction.
F) I never mentioned my current salary did I :P
 
Westfield or Lotus 7 caterham any of those.

after driving a friends around europe i defo want one. and i will have one..... one day :)

hopefully within the next few years. but that depends how much work i get obviously!
 
A caterham would be fun. They only have a small engine but with what they weigh they don't half shift. I was watching one the other day and it looked great.
 
redrooster303 said:
A caterham would be fun. They only have a small engine but with what they weigh they don't half shift. I was watching one the other day and it looked great.
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the one i took across europe was a 2l vauxhall red top, with uprated cams, and beast of an exhaust was putting out 250bhp in something that weighs about 700kg 0 - 60 was about 3.5seconds and is by far the most fun i have ever had driving a car, the grip and sheer control you have over it, and when it does let go its just so easy to hold and play with! :eek:

id love one!!
 
redrooster303 said:
They are actually within a reasonably attainable price aswell. Do you have to build them yourself or can you get them pre built (but cost more)?
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you sure can :) its cheaper again (obviously) to get a second hand one as then someone else has already done the tuning and you can hunt for one with the bits on that you want.

id want to build my own i think, so that i could have the pride in knowing its my dodgy spanner skills that have built it :)
 
Yeah I saw the top gear episode where they had to build one in a certain amount of time.
I'd love to build one (I'd take my time though) as like you say theres something about building your own stuff.
 
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