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peterattheboro said:
I'd suggest the Monaro because that's what you said you wanted initially. Plus it would be funny to see a guy who is 4ft tall and having to use a booster seat in charge of a V8 RWD monster :p
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Lol ...if it has a good array of seat adjustments this wouldn't be necessary, a midget could have had the seat set-up fine in the Jag I had because it had such a vast array of adjustments, along with a fully adjustable steering wheel and pedals ...yet it was a big car.

My sister is smaller than Princey and shes manages fine with an Audi A4 :)
 
I don't know about the VXR 6.0, I can't help feeling you'd tire very quickly of it's less than impressive economy - and the fact that it is a heavy, big old barge at the end of the day.

Depends what you want I guess though! Something that's light on it's feet, engaging to drive and properly sporting or a big 'ol fairly bland (or ugly, depending on your opinion) barge, that goes around corners quite well, with a V8 in it :)

A decent 330i or 335i would seem much more appealing if you were going to spend that much....

On the flipside, however, it can seat 5!

I can't help being horrendously badge-ist but if I were looking for something I could really enjoy, cherish, and be proud of (and stop people in their tracks down the streets) - I know what I'd be making a bee-line for.

As a bonus, a C5's done all it's depreciation for the most part so if you take care of it, and it is a Z06, you won't stand to lose much.
 
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It's definitely something I am going to look at Lashout, can you recommend me some insurers to try. I'm 23 with 2 years ncb. I'd do around 3000 a year as I have a company car.
 
Adrian Flux would be my first port of call (well, they were who I was with for 3 odd years), maybe Brentacre, Performance Direct, that kind of thing.....

Club membership only costs £30 IIRC and usually nets you a 10% discount :)

Always worth digging out a copy of Classic American from WH Smiths as they will list insurers but also have an excellent classifieds section for you to puruse :)



Z06 Vs. M3 Vs. Boxter S - just to give you some perspective :)

I suppose the one drawback though is that it may take time to find a Z06 in budget - or if you do find one, it may be an older car. A 'plain' C5 would probably be much easier to buy in budget for a later car - although the majority of them tend to be low mileage anyway, so some are still very 'new' in appearance.

Still, only one way to find out really, and that's get through the classifieds :D
 
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Princey said:
It's definitely something I am going to look at Lashout, can you recommend me some insurers to try. I'm 23 with 2 years ncb. I'd do around 3000 a year as I have a company car.
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MCE are currently offering an American Car policy via Norwich Union that doesn't require any NCB, when looking for a renewal a couple of weeks back it looked to be a rather good deal, although I ended up staying with Flux as they worked out a little cheaper with the mods I have declared.

A few numbers to try and as mentioned above get yourself registered with an owners club for nice insurance discounts:-

Adrian Flux
Tel: 0800 369 8590

a-plan
Tel: 01635 874646

RH Specialist
Tel: 01277 206911

Stevenage Insurance
Tel: 01438 313251

MCE Insurance
Tel: 0844 338 68 98
 
burns said:
Really? Or are you just converting straight from dollars and ignoring the fact cars are cheaper in the states, especially ones where they haven't had to pay import taxes on them.
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Are cars cheaper in the States? I never knew that!
Peerzy said:
Having sat in a 2006 Mustang GT Premium I'd say it was well built, the new 2010's get praised for how well built they are in fact and one review I read that it was almost of par with some of the big German cars.
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You honestly think it was well built? Are you using a Dodge Neon as your benchmark?
MrLOL said:
he is of course referring to the base model, price in the US converted to GBP without any importation - arguing the reason its relevant is that the base model will share the same dashboard and build quality as the bigger engined models, and that the price of the base model is a reflection of how poorly built the car is.
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The build quality of the higher end models is not significantly different from that of the base models. Better materials are used in places that you normally touch/feel, but there are still the nasty plastics and badly attached parts in others. This is because the Mustang is a cheap pony car. Everyone here who tries to think they are anything but a cheap attempt at a sport cars, with some cool performance versions, should probably go to the US and chat to the guy working in Wal-Mart who drives a new one.
MrLOL said:
not especially :D but theres no convincing the american car haters in here.
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I don't hate American cars. In fact, I like them - I like them quite a lot. I like the style and the almost primal automotive energy they have. However, I have the industry knowledge, expertise and experience to form an objective opinion, so I don't place them on a pedestal that they do not deserve. It is absolutely laughable that one can consider a Mustang "well built". Is it poorly built? No. It is built pretty much as you'd expect a car like that to be - to a very tight cost, designed to appeal to the American consumer who wants some horsepower, a brand, and not a lot else.
 
I would choose the E92 but I do not beleive that £17k buys a really lovely one yet, you need a 57 plate or later really, ideally a 58 plate and you can't get these for this budget. So if you want one, then do what I am doing and wait until you can.

Otherwise as you've yet to become accustomed to Germanic levels of quality you can probably enjoy some pretty great yet cheaply built cars like the Monaro :)
 
yeah like only petrolheads buy proper sportscars.

Not like the women on Detailing World that bought a 911 997 GT2 to pop to the shops in :/

the motoring knowledge of the owner tells you nothing about the car.
 
MrLOL said:
the motoring knowledge of the owner tells you nothing about the car.
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However, the woman who bought a 911 997 GT2 to pop to the shops may have a pretty well built car, and she paid for it. The guy in Wal-Mart paid for his car, too, and it isn't as well built.

Go and find me someone working at ASDA who drives a "well built" reasonably new car.

I think you need to explain to Ford that they have accidentally built the Mustang to a very high quality, and accidentally destroyed their profit margin in the process.
 
PMKeates said:
However, the woman who bought a 911 997 GT2 to pop to the shops may have a pretty well built car, and she paid for it. The guy in Wal-Mart paid for his car, too, and it isn't as well built.

Go and find me someone working at ASDA who drives a "well built" reasonably new car.

I think you need to explain to Ford that they have accidentally built the Mustang to a very high quality, and accidentally destroyed their profit margin in the process.
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What’s the fascination with car owning chain store employees? I'm still not seeing neither the point nor understanding what said person would say to me if I started a conversation with them?
 
My brother had no problems going from his Audi's/BMW's to lowly Fords/VXs, but then he's not anal about such things, he currently is back in a BMW, but that certainly wasn't because of the E46 interior..

OP, go and try these things out, only an anal BMW snob will try and convince you that only a BMW has such great interior build/quality/finish that any other car is simply for poor people.. ;) :p :p :D

(Yes, it is tongue in-cheek!)... But slightly valid... :)
 
GSXRMovistar said:
What’s the fascination with car owning chain store employees? I'm still not seeing neither the point nor understanding what said person would say to me if I started a conversation with them?
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The content of the chat isn't the point. It's the fact that there's a guy working there with a new-ish Mustang. The car is inexpensive. It's designed to be inexpensive. It's designed to sell in large numbers. Build quality doesn't come for free.
Demon said:
My brother had no problems going from his Audi's/BMW's to lowly Fords/VXs, but then he's not anal about such things
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This is something totally different. The fact that a lower quality of build and finish doesn't bother him, doesn't make it the same. It's not an imperceptible difference.
 
Demon said:
My brother had no problems going from his Audi's/BMW's to lowly Fords/VXs, but then he's not anal about such things, he currently is back in a BMW, but that certainly wasn't because of the E46 interior..

OP, go and try these things out, only an anal BMW snob will try and convince you that only a BMW has such great interior build/quality/finish that any other car is simply for poor people.. ;) :p :p :D

(Yes, it is tongue in-cheek!)... But slightly valid... :)
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We get the point, you place no value on nicely made things. Some do, get over it.
 
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