Under £20,000, over 500hp, 0-60 under 5 seconds. Choice of 5
Under £20,000, over 500hp, 0-60 under 5 seconds. Choice of 5
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Tim Searson

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5 posts

37 months

Tuesday 29th August 2023
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I found 5 cars on Pistonheads in the UK for less than £20,000, with over 500hp, 0-60mph in under 5 seconds and with less than 50,000 miles. Is anyone else surprised how rare such performance cars are? What is the best performance car under £20,000, with over 500hp, 0-60 under 5 seconds and less than 50,000 miles? I'd love Pistonheads to do that story. Only three such cars on Pistonheads can carry a family of five. Your thoughts are invited. I say a 2010 AMG E63 with performance pack and all the fruit.

fatboy b

9,665 posts

245 months

Tuesday 29th August 2023
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XFR for sure.

andy43

13,126 posts

283 months

Tuesday 29th August 2023
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CLS55/E55 with the supercharged 5.5 litre V8, if you can find one with sensible miles.
It’s only 475 bhp but feels like more…

E63eeeeee...

5,766 posts

78 months

Tuesday 29th August 2023
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E63.

(May be slightly biased)

Cobracc

3,520 posts

179 months

Tuesday 29th August 2023
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Nissan Skyline gtst, Subaru Impreza wrx sti..Vauxhall vxr8..?

andy43

13,126 posts

283 months

Tuesday 29th August 2023
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Autotrader throws up a few Bentley Continentals but apart from that it looks like it’s Jaaaag or Merc E63.. or there’s one SL600 with a shonky body kit.

Glenn63

3,908 posts

113 months

Tuesday 29th August 2023
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Does it have to be stock? An M140 with some light fettling. VXR8/ E90 m3 with a supercharger plonked on top.

Gordon Hill

2,412 posts

44 months

Tuesday 29th August 2023
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Flying Spur

Cold

16,642 posts

119 months

Tuesday 29th August 2023
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The current edition of Autocar mag has a feature on this exact subject.

CraigyMc

18,369 posts

265 months

Tuesday 29th August 2023
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Tim Searson said:
I found 5 cars on Pistonheads in the UK for less than £20,000, with over 500hp, 0-60mph in under 5 seconds and with less than 50,000 miles. Is anyone else surprised how rare such performance cars are? What is the best performance car under £20,000, with over 500hp, 0-60 under 5 seconds and less than 50,000 miles? I'd love Pistonheads to do that story. Only three such cars on Pistonheads can carry a family of five. Your thoughts are invited. I say a 2010 AMG E63 with performance pack and all the fruit.
For the clicking impaired, here

https://www.pistonheads.com/buy/search?acceleratio...

Alex_225

7,720 posts

230 months

Tuesday 29th August 2023
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I bought my CLS63 with 17k on it for £21k and those prices have remained fairly close.

I'd say CLS/E 55 or 63. 475bhp or 510bhp respectively, more torque from the supercharged 55 though. Easy to pick up for under £20k but mileage may be over 50k. You'd probably find the likes of CL63s or CL600s in that price range but a much riskier and more expensive car to run.

That's just my Merc interjection haha

Mr Tidy

31,233 posts

156 months

Tuesday 29th August 2023
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I bought my BMW Z4M in 2019 for well below £20K.

It doesn't have 500bhp, but doesn't need it to get to 60 in 5 seconds!

E63eeeeee...

5,766 posts

78 months

Wednesday 30th August 2023
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Mr Tidy said:
I bought my BMW Z4M in 2019 for well below £20K.

It doesn't have 500bhp, but doesn't need it to get to 60 in 5 seconds!
Doesn't really seat 5 either, barring the liberal use of a crowbar.

ATM

21,313 posts

248 months

Wednesday 30th August 2023
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CraigyMc said:
Tim Searson said:
I found 5 cars on Pistonheads in the UK for less than £20,000, with over 500hp, 0-60mph in under 5 seconds and with less than 50,000 miles. Is anyone else surprised how rare such performance cars are? What is the best performance car under £20,000, with over 500hp, 0-60 under 5 seconds and less than 50,000 miles? I'd love Pistonheads to do that story. Only three such cars on Pistonheads can carry a family of five. Your thoughts are invited. I say a 2010 AMG E63 with performance pack and all the fruit.
For the clicking impaired, here

https://www.pistonheads.com/buy/search?acceleratio...
For me it has to be an estate. If you add estate to the above search conditions it shows no results. Maybe this needs a different thread of its own.

Jamescrs

6,345 posts

94 months

Wednesday 30th August 2023
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Why over 500bhp?

If you take out that criteria there's a lot of variety which will do 0-60 under 5 seconds.

andy43

13,126 posts

283 months

Wednesday 30th August 2023
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ATM said:
CraigyMc said:
Tim Searson said:
I found 5 cars on Pistonheads in the UK for less than £20,000, with over 500hp, 0-60mph in under 5 seconds and with less than 50,000 miles. Is anyone else surprised how rare such performance cars are? What is the best performance car under £20,000, with over 500hp, 0-60 under 5 seconds and less than 50,000 miles? I'd love Pistonheads to do that story. Only three such cars on Pistonheads can carry a family of five. Your thoughts are invited. I say a 2010 AMG E63 with performance pack and all the fruit.
For the clicking impaired, here

https://www.pistonheads.com/buy/search?acceleratio...
For me it has to be an estate. If you add estate to the above search conditions it shows no results. Maybe this needs a different thread of its own.
Estate would be CLS63 or E63 with the 5.5 engine unless you can get a supercharged jag estate..
or a V10 RS6 would be almost there but that’d need slightly higher budget and/or miles. ETA M5 estate with the V10 nearly makes it. Getting into bankruptcy territory here hehe

Edited by andy43 on Wednesday 30th August 08:27

Glenn63

3,908 posts

113 months

Wednesday 30th August 2023
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The 204 c63 will remap to over 500bhp, pick those up fairly cheap now in either coupe/saloon/ estate to suit your needs.

DaveyBoyWonder

3,853 posts

203 months

Wednesday 30th August 2023
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320D

ChocolateFrog

34,954 posts

202 months

Wednesday 30th August 2023
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5.0 XKR.

Edit. I see they made the list.