New Car Day Tomorrow - with a rail strike enforced twist

[Andy665]

Plan was for me to get the train down to Chandlers Ford from Shropshire tomorrow to pick a new to me car up but rail strike and a very happy coincidence (seller is picking his new to him car up tomorrow a mere 15 miles from where I live) means its being delivered to me tomorrow instead

Will provide updates as when I receive them tomorrow.

Previous cars include V8 Vantage, TVR Tuscan, Saab 9-3 / 9-5 Aero, V70 T5 (manual), Jag S-Type R, Mercedes CL500, GTV 3.0, 986 Boxster S, Westfield Seight, Clio 182 and quite a few more

Current cars are Velar P300 R Dynamic HSE, Alpine A110S

Budget was £15k but new car come in comfortably under that

[gf15]

Caterham / Westfield?

[Andy665]

No, more practical than that, 4 seats

[Mr Tidy]

That's a handy rail strike!

Probably wrong, but I'd love to think it might be a Maserati.

[V6Nelo]

Nice selection of cars owned, anything in one of them you mentioned that inspires the new purchase?

Does it have 2.9 litres?

Or are clues not allowed.

[RD-1]

Maserati GranSport?

[M.F.D]

Hard to take a stab, but stab I will.

Jag XK?

[Mr Tidy]

M.F.D said:

Hard to take a stab, but stab I will.

Jag XK?

Unlikely as they don't seem to have 4 seats!

[M.F.D]

Mr Tidy said:

Unlikely as they don't seem to have 4 seats!

They are a 2+2? Might not be awfully usable, but they are there.

[sutoka]

So a £15K budget and 4 seats, surely a Dacia Sandero

[Andy665]

Mr Tidy said:

That's a handy rail strike!

Probably wrong, but I'd love to think it might be a Maserati.

Having just sold the Vantage and Tuscan without incurring any unexpected painful bills decided to have a break from a high risk purchase - think that rules a Maserati out - for now

V6Nelo said:

Nice selection of cars owned, anything in one of them you mentioned that inspires the new purchase?

Does it have 2.9 litres?

Or are clues not allowed.

Seem to have a preference for niche and either larger luxury or decent performace, new one is 2 litre 4 pot

Edited by Andy665 on Sunday 11th February 07:08

M.F.D said:

Hard to take a stab, but stab I will.

Jag XK?

That was considered as was a rather lovely black Jaguar Super V8 in Portfolio spec, apparently one of only 100 made - decision to reduce risk ruled it out - having a Velar fulfils the risk part of the cars we have

Edited by Andy665 on Sunday 11th February 07:11

[Andy665]

New car just set off to me - picture received with it looking immaculate

[ingenieur]

Andy665 said:

New car just set off to me - picture received with it looking immaculate

That's probably enough for someone familiar with the car... not for me though. I'd say it looks Japanese?

[A500leroy]

HYUN-DAI?

[ingenieur]

Second guess is something VXR

[Andy665]

Its European

[ollyh1988]

Megane RS?

[Ambleton]

ollyh1988 said:

Megane RS?

RenaultSport Mégane 265 or 275 Trophy

[Andy665]

ollyh1988 said:

Megane RS?

Top marks

RS265 with Cup pack, Ohlins and leather Recaros, seems like a really well looked after car, current owner is a real enthusiast and keeping my fingers crossed that when it arrives its as described, must admit to being slightly apprehensive



Should compliment my other pretty well

[V6Nelo]

Ooh very nice.

No way sharing a headline photo on a site like this would not result in a correct guess

Curious, how do think it will compliment the Alpine? Which will you be grabbing the keys for X,Y,Z.

Hope the new car is as super as it looks.