£10k for 2 cars, what would you do?

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Thought it’d be interesting to hear other peoples opinions on this.

I’ve got my Scooby up for sale currently and once that’s gone I’ll be getting rid of my Yaris too and I’m wanting to basically swap it around so I have a nicer car day to day and a cheaper ‘toy’ to thrash on trackdays and weekends. Currently I have a 2005 Sti worth about £8500 and a 2002 Diesel Yaris worth about £1500, I’m mostly set on a Seat Exeo estate for my new daily and perhaps something like an MX5 or MR2 as a weekend/track toy but I’d be interesting what other people would do as it may inspire me to do something I’ve not thought about yet.

Budget is 10k for both cars – I don’t want to borrow or add any more money for this
I commute 80 miles a day so the boring car needs to be economical
I’d like to be able to tow the fun car so the boring car needs to be big enough
I love estates so the boring car must be one
I do track days so the fun car needs to be able to handle that

What would you do? Would you spend 5k on each and get say a Honda S2000 and a Skoda Octavia estate? 9K on an Audi A4 and 1K on a MX5?

I’m just struggling in my head to spend the best part of 9-10k on a boring diesel estate car even though that’s where I spend 95% of my time and it makes the most sense.
 
8P1 A3 2.0 Tdi DSG + remap (not really needed, but nice)= £4.5k
EP3 Type R pre-facelift = £3k

£2.5k to mod civic to 250hp n/a
 
If you're planning on towing then this massively limits your options unless you get a particularly lightweight track toy. By the time you've added a trailer to the weight of most common track cars your going to be looking at needing something which is rated to 16-1800kg braked at least to be confortable. You're very much then looking at large estate cars or Chelsea tractors as the only options left and even then some manufacturers are quite stingy with their rated weights.

For the record I have a Volvo XC70 (2100kg braked capacity) as the tow car/daily and a mk1 mr2 (somewhere between 900-1000kg plus a tilt bed trailer) as the track toy.
 
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A4 estate 2.0 tdi then.

Failing that pick up a passat pd130 highline for under £2k and remap it - 180hp, 3**lb/ft, full leather, (dated) sat nav, etc.
 
Just throwing out the idea of a modded 306 Rallye or Clio 172 as a cheap trackday toy. Depends if you're keen on RWD or not :)
 
Don't think that works with weights as per above. That said if you had say an s2000 would you really be doing so much to it that it'd no longer be road legal?
 
Mk4 mondeo estate and a 306 gti-6 or a mx5 or any one of a hundred decent track toys
 
rodenal said:
Don't think that works with weights as per above. That said if you had say an s2000 would you really be doing so much to it that it'd no longer be road legal?
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It's not so much about it not being road legal more if you do stuff it into a barrier/blow the gearbox up on a track day it makes it a lot less hassle to get home. The Seat Exeos i've been looking at seem to be rated at about 1800kg braked i thought that would have been enough for a 1100kg MX5 + trailer?

adam cool dude said:
Why sell the Subaru?

£1.5k will get you a Saab 9-5.
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I really do love the scooby and would love to keep it but it's not that cheap to track really, however the devil you know etc as it's never let me down once. Also they still seem to be worth an almost comical amount for a 9 year old car so i kind of want to sell it while the going's good.

chanjy said:
Just throwing out the idea of a modded 306 Rallye or Clio 172 as a cheap trackday toy. Depends if you're keen on RWD or not :)
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My wife does have a Clio 197 which i could start modding and just buy her something else but i'm just not sure i'd enjoy a FWD as much :(
 
mjt said:
I'd get a Westfield and then a Passat/Mondeo
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This is the combination I first thought of when I looked at the OP.

Any of the sevenesque kitcars should give you a highly capable track car, with the balance spent on the repmobile, and I say repmobile as in comfortable, cheap to run, cheap to service, and reliable.
 
I have a feeling I might get slapped around the head for this but why not try fwd first. The problem you will have is that finding a good rwd will be hard due to the drift yobs as they would have taken most of the Clean cars that are around £1-3k. Why not get a saxso or similar?
 
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