[Closed] How to finance an exotic car

Haha! The Ved was just intended as an example of how model research can potentially save some money. But interesting to hear people's good and bad stories, keep email coming

Was chatting to one of the chaps round our way. Loads of silly cars round us.

He was saying the really nice stuff is going up in price and going abroad. Mainly India & China where they didn't have many 355s sold orginally but now loads of people want them for 'thier collection'

One of these fine modes of transport is mine 😉

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Although all 4 of my last 'fun' cars have gone up in value and have been very cheap to run

Pre March 2006 VED is £295 not £500

I didnt realise Audi RS5's were now considered "normal"

Do you think my Galaxy falls into this [i]exotic[/i] category ?

All this talk about monetary cost, what about the environmental cost? Do none of you care?

Odd to come on an exotic car thread to spout this handwringing nonsense.

I did 35,000 in my (diesel) car at 120g CO2. I did 3,500 miles at 254g CO2 in my Boxster. Which was worse for the environment?

I did more than 3,500 miles on my bike last year. Using the power of offsetting, I must be a fully fledged earthmuffin?

£1000 for 4 tyres isn't out of the ordinary for 'normal' cars these days.
A builder friend was paying north of £300 for one tyre for his Q7

That's not that outrageous really - a set of tyres for our old 330 wasn't far off this and those wheels were on 318 M Sports.

[quote=ScottChegg ]I did 35,000 in my (diesel) car at 120g CO2. I did 3,500 miles at 254g CO2 in my Boxster. Which was worse for the environment?

Building two cars so one can sit on your drive?

Neither was bought new. So they were already built when I came along. And I only drive them one at a time, so the impact isn't double, whatever your schoolboy maths might tell you.

And I have 4 bikes, should you only have one at a time? Or am I destroying the ozone layer with my insatiable lust for variety?

Don't do it, invest the money in your pension pot so your kids don't have to pay for your care.

Get a 911 996 for £12k, more real world usable. And it will still be worth that when you sell it.

stumpy01 - Member

and a TVR 'project' car that seems to have been a 'project' as long as I've known him (about 4.5 yrs).

Clever man- worst thing you can do with a project is finish it, then all you've got is a car.