You've got 200K to buy a car - what do you get?

[Tman]

Question popped up on a previous 'Upgrade from Tuscan to what?'

Me: Gallardo Spyder.

What do you reckon?

[dnb]

Does it just have to be one car? I don't think I'd be as happy with one £200k car as I would be with say 4 £50k cars.

[Tman]

Any car or cars - but what would be the primary toy that you'd buy...

I'd personally be using the £50K change from buying the Gallardo Spyder to buy a Sag but that's a separate story!

[porkus]

A Sagaris, a Cerbera and a T350
Put the rest in the bank for goodies

[leorest]

Clear the mortgage and spend 50K on developing the Wedge into the most Ultimate BBW

[tvrorm5]

Tman said:

Question popped up on a previous 'Upgrade from Tuscan to what?' Me: Gallardo Spyder. What do you reckon?

Lambo -what a beautiful car. But I might consider the Porsche GT thingy.

[tvrorm5]

Changed my mind - Aston DBR9

[lundinoir]

Shelby Cobra

[Top Chimp]

A nice Lola T70 , with plates, and the neighbours thought the Chim was loud. Tvr's make fantastic sounds (old v8), but nothing next to a good 600hp Chevy .Or a nice factory built GTD40 with a nice westlake ford v8 for around £50,000 and buy a nice house with a pool overlooking the sea in St.Lucia Caribbean with the change.I could still not part with my daily 207,000 mile sierra thought and it not worth £50, it has no grip , no power and goes sideways at the same speed as the average pram is pushed,if it all goes wrong you can put your feet out to stop your going that slow, great fun .Makes every roundabout a laugh trying to keep up with old dears in Micra's.
Does anybody remember when the car mags used to split the handling and roadholding into 2 seperate sections in the road tests ?.

[Equinox]

Speed 12 & keep the rest to put towards running it

[dnb]

I'd keep my current cars and get the mods in planning finished to both, add a Sagaris & an E type, then join the P1 club (or similar) for a year or two to see what else I liked. The £100k or so left over would be invested wisely until I found the right car to throw it at.

[Dan]

A Late 80's Aston V8 Vantage with 7 litre conversion (dark blue or BRG)
Mk III Cortina with a Noble V6 turbo and sorted Chassis (Black)
RS4 Avant (for the family)
Early 00's Passat turbo derv estate (for if I need to park anywhere dodgy)

[OXBOW]

Sagaris, Landcruiser and Moggy Minor Convertible.

[J1mmyD]

DB9 Volante and a Range Rover (diesel - I *still* can't get my head around 8mpg for a 'family runaround'). There'll be just enough change left over to get the Ultima kit, methinks.

[bennno]

200k hmm...

110k F40
50k GT3
20k VW Phaeton
10k Griffith
10k Elise

200k

:>

Bennno

[jellison]

Does this relate to TVRs?

Sag on twin turbo Lingenfelter LS7 and rest on Partying and extension for house!

[smiler3929]

Dan interesting Cortina MK111 with noble V6, as said some serious chassis mods needed, don't fancy worn void bushes and 4 wheel steer with a mind of its own. !!
Quite fancy a 24v cos V6 in a sierra cos chassis.Do like the old oscar india Aston Vantage though 6.0lt X pack jobby.Or maybe a Mustang GT500.

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[ade355]

If 1 car - Murcielago Roadster (with custom carbonfibre roof)

But I would more likely go for 4 50K cars:

F355 Spider
Sagaris
Early Diablo
996TT

I love dreaming

[sideways mostly]

A properly built Typhon which I'll have to have made as a special as the TVR version is no where to be seen

Start of with a T440- get the S6 crank rods piston and head upgraded and turbo'd ,beg Quaife to build a sequential box for it,spend a large amount of money getting it set up properly the aerodynamics tweaked so its stable at 200 and then put the rest aside for maintaining the brute.If there is anything left of course.

It would be a stupid waste of money but then 200K an a car is-this way I'd have what I want and it would be unique.

[forthright mc]

hmmmm "only" 200K.
i would have an F40 and Cerbera 4.5 thats all i need.