Your Realistic Dream Garage?

[LeonOfTheDead]

isn't lotus kind of against V6's though

well the new Evora has a V6 so I guess that's fine.

[wwgkd]

Yes, but it also weighs a buttload more than the elise, so they needed something bigger/more powerfull.

[P4g4nite]

BA XR6T

Partly because it is a big, comfy sedan with almost unlimited scope for straightline grunt and partly to lord it over every other county that can't have one.
Aus$25k by the time I'll be looking.

Suzuki Alto works (RS/Z, ff, 5mt)

700kg, 8000+rpm tacho, easy turbo upgrade path, cheap as to buy and cheap as to run. That will be my living in Japan car.


I'd dearly love to slot a 1UZ into my E28, but that will probably never happen. I would love that car in ways that the evangelicals would protest about.

[2ndclasscitizen]

1 x SS Ute
1 x PRB Clubman 2ZZ
1 x Speed Triple or B-King or MV Brutale

[henk4]

1 x SS Ute
1 x PRB Clubman 2ZZ
1 x Speed Triple or B-King or MV Brutale

would not know any of those

[LeonOfTheDead]

trying to be realistic.

daily drive:

Fiat Panda 100HP


you can buy a recent one, with just a few miles, for less then 10.000 €, it's pretty fast and nimble, cheap to run, comfy enough in the city and even cute

week-end car:

Dino/Ferrari 208/308 GT4


it's about 15.000 euro for a 208 badged as a Dino, so before 1974 IIRC or something.
A lot of people say this is the ugliest Ferrari ever, but I actually like it, it's screaming "Seventies!" from every angle.
I don't care if it's going to be the 3.0 liter or the 2.0 liter, either about the badge.
the 2.0 it's cheaper to buy and run though.

if the Dino isn't available I would really appreciate one of these:

Alfa Romeo GT Junior 1.3


it costs about as much as the Dino, and it's even sexier.
Definitely a "must have" for all Italian guys (with just this much of brain and taste) older than 30 (even if I'm younger).

finally, the family car:

Mercedes-Benz R-Klasse (let's say the 280 CDI, perhaps 4-matic if available)


preferably a second hand one, with all the latest updates for the software.
It's a huge crossover, and just for this reason I shouldn't post it, but it's very comfortable, spacious, and actually worth the money (when you find one actually working).
it would be good for kids+luggages trips, for towing the Dino/Alfa to some circuits, or for carry over the grandma.
it should be the car you drive just when required.

being smart enough, the three cars should come for about 50.000 € in a couple of years (just because of the Benz). it's not something I could even dream about right now, but neither something impossible to reach.
I would be fine with just the Panda btw, kthnksbai.

[Revo]

Very nice list, Leon!

Oddly, that was already the third time when humble Fiat Panda is mentioned here. Who would have thought?

[teatako]

Very nice list, Leon!

Oddly, that was already the third time when humble Fiat Panda is mentioned here. Who would have thought?

So has the Honda S2000. I guess it´s because they´re nice cars you can really buy.

[LeonOfTheDead]

Very nice list, Leon!

Oddly, that was already the third time when humble Fiat Panda is mentioned here. Who would have thought?

thank you, being Italian could have helped (R-Klasse apart )

So has the Honda S2000. I guess it´s because they´re nice cars you can really buy.

but you can buy 3 Panda 100HP instead of one S2000

[wwgkd]

but you can buy 3 Panda 100HP instead of one S2000

Yes, but I know which I'd rather get.

[henk4]

Yes, but I know which I'd rather get.

ah, the Panda is finally getting the appreciation in the USA it deserves.

[Pando]

It was a tough decision to make, for sure, but there's just something about the Elise.

Personally it would been an easy choice for me - a Series 2 Elise is way over my (imaginary) budget for now!

Well, there certainly are cheaper ways to go off-road.
But not in something that nice

And a used LR3 can be had for about $18,000 which isn't bad.

Ok, you could find one here too for less than €20,000 which was cheaper than I thought, I guess I haven't been looking. Still, you know my choice.

-> And there is another 'Hybrid' Insight:
^ A K20A'ed Insight.

The S is pretty realistic to be honest, I got mine for USD$17.5K with 37K miles, 1-owner, K&N CAI, and Skunk2 CBE. So a 2003 AP1 can set you back 'round between USD$13K-15K.

Aaw, you guys seem to have some of the cheapest S2000's I've ever seen then. In Europe (most of it) you'd have to pay around twice that.

Alfa Romeo GT Junior 1.3

...

Mercedes-Benz R-Klasse

Talk about buzzkill introducing the R-Class after Junior...

[wwgkd]

ah, the Panda is finally getting the appreciation in the USA it deserves.

Honestly I think they could be fun if for no other reason than repeatedly rolling them.

Talk about buzzkill introducing the R-Class after Junior...

Leave it to Leon. Hey, that could be a cool TV show.

[henk4]

Honestly I think they could be fun if for no other reason than repeatedly rolling them.

because it has the same underpinnings as the 500 and its faster derivatives????

[Zytek_Fan]

Talk about buzzkill introducing the R-Class after Junior...

It's not entirely bad, despite being pretty much an MPV.
And the R63 AMG hauls serious ass