If you have 38K to spend...
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It really does make you question why somebody thought it'd be a good idea to take a supposedly good car, gut some key components and then put the shell up for sell for some 40k less than what it could have been worth complete.
Aren't Turbo and GT2 engines pretty closely related anyway? Why not extract the engine from a crash damaged Turbo instead?
Aren't Turbo and GT2 engines pretty closely related anyway? Why not extract the engine from a crash damaged Turbo instead?
Really? Surely for it to have had such an effect wouldn't it need to be covered in dog poo, on fire and have a tramp pestering you for your spare change from the backseat.
I can't imagine the interior of a soarer or 205 is much to speak about either.
I think the key difference is that a decent 996 Turbo goes for about 25 times what a decent Soarer sells for these days. I found the interior of 996s to be disappointingly poor. It was uncomfortable for me and my 20 stone odd bulk and all of the interior plastics that I interacted with felt cheap and poor. If it was the choice between a Soarer and 24k in the bank or a 996 Turbo for the rest of my life I'd take the Soarer but I personally found it a more comfortable place to be, but there may be a slight degree of fanboyism involved in that statement
.For that sort of money you're within spitting distance of an early Continental GT that absolutely trounces the interior of the 996, and early GTs use noticeably (well, to me anyway) poorer materials for the interior compared to 06+ onwards cars, but it is still on another page quality and feel wise.
Surprising how someone who is content with smoking around in 21 year old Toyotas can be so much of an interior snob, eh?
I would really like to know the story behind this
It was bought by a race team for spares I believe.
People are talking about the interior as if it's something from a bloody Trebant! The interior was in keeping with cars of 1999 when it came out, the quality in my GT3 was fine and ergonomically all the bits you needed we perfectly placed and the quality was fine, nothing like people are suggesting. Also, if the interior of the car is THAT important to you a GT3 really isn't going to be the car for you, not even close. I did 20K miles in mine, in bucket seats and nothing broke, nothing rattled and my back, which I suffer with, never gave me problems like both my M3s and RS4 did!
Engine 20K or less
Suspension and brakes maybe 10K
Other bits 10K
Road car for 80K...most likely a lot less I suspect
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Buy it, spend £650 on a 3.3-litre flat-six Subaru SVX engine, bolt on two turbos, WIN. Go around confusing the hell out of everyone
I guess it all boils down to personal preference at the end of the day. I personally found it a disappointingly poor place to be and certainly not to the standard that one would expect from a car that must have been nearly touching six figures back in the day.
But the question still remains, if this car was so epic why is it not parked outside of your house and the owner recovering from his hand being bitten off for offering it up for what seems to be a reasonable price?
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Probably one of these for me:
http://pistonheads.co.uk/sales/3820584.htm
but would be more than happy to spend less on an S1 Exige
http://pistonheads.co.uk/sales/3820584.htm
but would be more than happy to spend less on an S1 Exige
And you've driven every £38k car on sale in the world? What's your point!
Stop with the willy waving, it's getting boring
But have you driven a GTR or an S1 exige! NO so you are not allowed to have an opinion
Is that a poor attempt at a joke?
The car is a massively, massively capable vehicle in every aspect that you judge a performance car on. Far more so than just another any production road car available at the budget being discussed With reasonable (in context of the sort of cars it can mix with) running costs to boot.
