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Ticked over 129k miles this week. For ref, bought at 62 :p

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Apart from the O2 sensor in bank 2 (post cat) being on its way and the hedgehog... all is well and dandy. The noise and aggressiveness from 4000 to 8000 is still highly entertaining.
 
mrk said:
Ticked over 129k miles this week. For ref, bought at 62 :p

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Apart from the O2 sensor in bank 2 (post cat) being on its way and the hedgehog... all is well and dandy. The noise and aggressiveness from 4000 to 8000 is still highly entertaining.
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Looks incredible mate and bet your happy with the way the values are rocketing on them. :)


Trip into the office in the Vette:


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Gibbo said:
50k is not buying you a supercar, that is stuff like entry level Boxster/Cayman, BMW M2 etc, last I heard those were not supercars. :p
Those sub 40k R8's will come with huge running cost, they are bottom of the pile R8's with high miles and generally shoddy examples, the yellow R8 is the modern R8 V10, starting price around 75k plus:
https://www.autotrader.co.uk/car-details/202107265458698?make=AUDI&model=R8&aggregatedTrim=FSI V10&sort=price-desc&onesearchad=New&onesearchad=Nearly New&onesearchad=Used&postcode=st87hf&advertising-location=at_cars&include-delivery-option=on&radius=1500&page=6

Anyone buying said car like you say with zero deposit even if possible would be insane, the moment they drive it out the garage they stand to lose 10-20k if they need to hand it back to trade unless they can quickly find a private buyer. Sensible thing to do with any supercar purchase is ideally a minimum of 30% deposit to just try and ensure that should you ever have to hand it back for whatever reason you won't have to pay money to do so.





But you originally also said low monthly payment and these kind of cars are typically 75-150k some a lot more, on a zero deposit scheme that does not come with a low monthly payment, unless your earning like 200k plus per year, well then that kind of person would see it as a low monthly payment, but to the average earner paying £1500-3000 per month for a supercar is not a low monthly payment.

Low monthly payment to most is £300-600 per month and that does not get you into a supercar or a car costing second hand around 100k.
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Like you say, depends on what you call "low" relative to earnings,. My old boss was paying £6,850 per month for his Aventendor ;
 
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Fixed the old banger's leaky sump and decided to put my Eibach pro spring kit on which I have had since may. Then decided to take the dog for a walk in the local woods :p. Now on 165K
 
Acme said:
Call me when its the cheapest M3 in the UK with 200K on it.
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So when it's nearly 80% rust and bits falling off, then I should call you? :p

Gibbo said:
Looks incredible mate and bet your happy with the way the values are rocketing on them. :)


Trip into the office in the Vette:


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Is there any video of that thing as I need to hear the noise it makes!

I've been noticing every month they go up a little bit lol. Funny story, well it's not really funny but normal I guess lol but was washing it one evening this week and a guy stopped his car outside the driveway, got out, lit a smoke and stood there looking, then a while later came to talk and ended up having a 15-20 minute convo about the E46s. Turns out he used to be a master tech at a London BMW dealer years ago but left due to poor wages. He knew everything about them, asked about big end bearings on mine, I laughed about the engine swap when the shells imploded... etc :p I think he had a moment of nostalgia as he drove past and had to stop and smoke it off :D

As time has gone on I've also noticed that more older people have shown higher levels of appreciation of this than younger which is fine by me. Seems the M4 and exhaust popping is all the rage with the latter. I was at a wedding this past weekend and part of the groom's convoy was M3 saloon, M4 all with modified exhausts revving at standstill popping and banging. James May would have words to say about that!

Gonna continue keeping it in as good a condition as I can.
 
mrk said:
So when it's nearly 80% rust and bits falling off, then I should call you? :p



Is there any video of that thing as I need to hear the noise it makes!

I've been noticing every month they go up a little bit lol. Funny story, well it's not really funny but normal I guess lol but was washing it one evening this week and a guy stopped his car outside the driveway, got out, lit a smoke and stood there looking, then a while later came to talk and ended up having a 15-20 minute convo about the E46s. Turns out he used to be a master tech at a London BMW dealer years ago but left due to poor wages. He knew everything about them, asked about big end bearings on mine, I laughed about the engine swap when the shells imploded... etc :p I think he had a moment of nostalgia as he drove past and had to stop and smoke it off :D

As time has gone on I've also noticed that more older people have shown higher levels of appreciation of this than younger which is fine by me. Seems the M4 and exhaust popping is all the rage with the latter. I was at a wedding this past weekend and part of the groom's convoy was M3 saloon, M4 all with modified exhausts revving at standstill popping and banging. James May would have words to say about that!

Gonna continue keeping it in as good a condition as I can.
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Did do an interior video but had roof off and so the MIC mainly got wind noise, got this one though of giving it some from a standstill:

 
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