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Stunning. I’ve done about 5000km in a Grancabrio and it’s probably the best car I’ve ever driven. Only thing I couldn’t get on with was the infotainment which felt like it was out of a 2002 Vauxhall Omega, but I could forgive it that when everything else was so fantastic. That noise....

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^^ You are mental moving from there to Mexico :D

You’re not the first person who’s said that :p

It’s the most fun I’ve ever had, and I feel incredibly lucky to have had that experience. However, it’s just not remotely sustainable: no job security, 70 hour weeks in the summer, on call in the winter 7 days per week, unable to go far from the house, etc etc.

The main advantage of the job, for me at least, was that I was able to drive the cars as I wanted. I’ve always liked driving fast, and I was aware that if I spent years doing the same thing, one day I’d probably have issues with the police or similar. I saw several colleagues come and go because they were less careful than me. There’s no fun in driving a Ferrari at 90kph on a beautiful, wide mountain road, or at 130kph on a flat, straight autoroute, and very little fun for my customers either.

No other job I could have done around there would have paid me remotely the same salary, so without that I couldn’t have stayed and enjoyed the same quality of life. The door’s always open for me if I want to come back - I got on well with my boss and ended up running the activity, so he was very sad to see me go.

I’m very happy where I am now, but never say never ;)
 
Got a little bored of the C63 and wanted something a bit more ‘special’ again. Lo and behold the Maserati Granturismo it has 55k on the clock. It is epic, sounds epic just is epic. Yea it’s not as quick / savage as the C63 but it’s glorious in every other single way and sounds INSANE compared.

Dodgy petrol station pic :

Absolutely fantastic! Not the quickest or most nimble, but so beautiful and the engine noise is incredible.

/goes off to google prices of Maseratis
 
I probably shouldn’t be asking strangers for more photos of their willy online!
Haha here's a few more from when we picked it up a few years ago... It's done any 500 miles since lol







Bonus points if you know who this chap signing the car is. My wife told him about her car and he insisted walking half a mile as he was so keen to see it!

Love the Clio Williams!
Thanks buddy, this is my second one... Kinda. My wife owned it before we met and has had it some time, then we decided to get it restored.
 
Mine had a quick clean at work last week. I might as well of not bothered and I have only put 20 miles on it since. Stupid winter.
 
Chiming in with the roof down in the cold brigade.

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Only thing I couldn’t get on with was the infotainment

General consensus for almost all OEM infotainment systems to be honest :p

Good news is the 2018 Ganturismo and cabrio range use Android Auto, it's about time more luxury cars adopted 21st century ICE.
 
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Stunning. I’ve done about 5000km in a Grancabrio and it’s probably the best car I’ve ever driven. Only thing I couldn’t get on with was the infotainment which felt like it was out of a 2002 Vauxhall Omega, but I could forgive it that when everything else was so fantastic. That noise....

It's actually not that dreadful, my Audi R8 2008 Model I had was absolutely shocking though for the type of car it was.

It has a Parrot car kit built in which allows me to Bluetooth my phone and play music through so that's enough to keep me happy and the screen gives me all the info I need etc.
 
I don't know if Tom's one is the 460BHP version or not, but it's their unofficial gentleman's agreement with Ferrari. That and the fact that it's a Maserati grand tourer rather than an out and out circuit basher for outright speed. It's not trying to compete with any other car, because there isn't another car it needs to compete with in this segment. There's no reason why they could not have eeked 500BHP from the 4.7 v8 otherwise, considering the likes of Porsche can get 490 from N/A 6 cylinders at 4 litres.
 
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