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dan wrote: Tue Feb 11, 2025 11:01 pm

Matty wrote: Tue Feb 11, 2025 10:53 pm "Must be RWD" - here's some 4WD cars for you
"Not ruinious" - what about an old Maserati or Aston?
"Wasn't fussed about a BMW I drove" - he's 12 different BMW's on Autotrader
"Budgets £20k" - you should buy this £35k car

Plot twist. I already bought a car this morning

what an odd way to announce a new car.

Just wondered if anyone would come up with anything I hadn’t.

dan wrote: Tue Feb 11, 2025 10:44 pm I clicked the link but didn’t see any rear wheel drive sports cars.

Leans more on the sensible, proper car to do mileage side of the brief for sure, but is sporting with drive to the rear

dan wrote: Tue Feb 11, 2025 11:22 pm Just wondered if anyone would come up with anything I hadn’t.

Well you’ve whored for attention now, what have you got?

dan wrote: Tue Feb 11, 2025 11:22 pm Just wondered if anyone would come up with anything I hadn’t.

The ad's still up; https://www.facebook.com/marketplace/it ... =undefined
Unless I've got the wrong Toyota; https://www.facebook.com/marketplace/it ... =undefined

Rich B wrote: Tue Feb 11, 2025 11:27 pm

dan wrote: Tue Feb 11, 2025 11:22 pm Just wondered if anyone would come up with anything I hadn’t.

Well you’ve whored for attention now, what have you got?

20 years in and I still don’t get this place, I was just interested in what people would think of to fit my criteria but not interested enough to consider it before I made my choice. Hardly attention whoring.

dan wrote: Tue Feb 11, 2025 11:32 pm

Rich B wrote: Tue Feb 11, 2025 11:27 pm

dan wrote: Tue Feb 11, 2025 11:22 pm Just wondered if anyone would come up with anything I hadn’t.

Well you’ve whored for attention now, what have you got?

20 years in and I still don’t get this place, I was just interested in what people would think of to fit my criteria but not interested enough to consider it before I made my choice. Hardly attention whoring.

i was a bit taken back by your sneering comment about people suggesting “luxobarges” to be honest - which suggestion was that?

Starting a discussion on a forum is attention whoring now

i’ll cheerfully retract the whoring comment because yep, starting a thread about cars i’d never a bad thing. it was a bit tongue and cheek anyway, but i clearly didn’t word it well.

Making out that all we could come up with is luxobarges (when no one suggested any luxobarges) was a bit rude though!

Could’ve sworn I saw one at just under 28k, but guess not! Anyway, evonomics 101.. especially if you hadn’t found anything with your previous searches that you fancied

If I was building a weapon of an Elise I’d have something like this. Can’t think of a more different driving experience.

https://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/356540003373 ... media=COPY

Don’t think it’s Dan’s cup of tea though.

With the tiniest bit of haggling

https://www.pistonheads.com/buy/listing/16033966

plenty of budget to fix it up…

https://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/196488407559 ... media=COPY

This is a new take on asking for suggestions then just buying what you really wanted anyway - pre-buying the actual car

370Z, Mustang or M2 would be my choice, or go full on barge as a polar opposite to the Elise.

Not a BMW, suits the road trip constraint, potential for financial ruin but if you’re able to do the labour yourself is anything that ruinous? http://www.autotrader.co.uk/car-details/202501228275903

Matty wrote: Tue Feb 11, 2025 10:53 pm "Must be RWD" - here's some 4WD cars for you
"Not ruinious" - what about an old Maserati or Aston?
"Wasn't fussed about a BMW I drove" - he's 12 different BMW's on Autotrader
"Budgets £20k" - you should buy this £35k car

Surely if you know your way round a set of spanners not many things are that ruinous to run?! That was my logic!

Also, he's looking for things that he's not thought of, so whilst some of the suggestions are pushing the envelope of the brief, if we didn't it would be a very short thread full of things he'd already thought of!

Marginally over budget, but ad specifically invites offers so you never know. RWD with significant downforce. CLICK

Happy to join in late and say a supercharged or turboted GT86 or MX5, look forward to seeing what you've actually gone for (996 surely)

Dan, I feel guilty that I haven't made good on my offer of a drive in my MX5 already - but it's not as if finding one to test drive is difficult. It is the obvious, so I am wondering if that's what you bought.

The 124 version hasn't been made for a few years and, of course, some parts are now hard to get despite most of it being MX5 underneath.

I dunno, I should imagine even before labour some of the parts prices for those could still be eye-watering! Especially the Maser.

Having access to your own ramps and tools will significantly reduce the TCO though, I agree....

I suppose in the spirit of the thread I should post something I know Dan wouldn't buy which fits the criteria

https://www.autotrader.co.uk/car-detail ... 2058782941 - SLK 250d. This is the later model with Adblue so can be driven into Birmingham without triggering the clean air zone tax. May not quite fit the 'not a wallowy old man barge' requirement but it's more of an old woman's barge.