MSE Supercar ownership experience?

caprikid1

raptor2004 said:

https://www.autotrader.co.uk/car-details/202409063724061?sort=relevance&advertising-location=at_cars&body-type=Coupe&make=Ferrari&maximum-mileage=40000&model=458&postcode=ha72nh&year-from=2012&fromsra

What a stunning car. A good daily too.

Surely use it as a weekend car and keep the Yaris as a daily ?

raptor2004

caprikid1 said:

raptor2004 said:

https://www.autotrader.co.uk/car-details/202409063724061?sort=relevance&advertising-location=at_cars&body-type=Coupe&make=Ferrari&maximum-mileage=40000&model=458&postcode=ha72nh&year-from=2012&fromsra

What a stunning car. A good daily too.

Surely use it as a weekend car and keep the Yaris as a daily ?

In an ideal world where money was no object you can daily the 458, rain, wind or shine. 

For most however it’ll make sense to have the Yaris as a daily beater and 458 for the weekends

chrisw

raptor2004 said:

Anything that is RWD, enough power to have fun and maybe a LSD.

Had my fill of going backwards through hedges in the 80s. Anything which keeps all 4 wheels planted on the tarmac is fine by me.

motorguy

WellKnownSid said:

2024, a thousand miles on the clock, under 25 grand.  0-60 in 3.8 seconds.  7 year warranty.
https://www.autotrader.co.uk/car-details/202409164077361?sort=relevance&twcs=true&advertising-location=at_cars&make=&page=2&postcode=w1d 4dp&price-to=25000&year-from=2022&zero-to-60=TO_4&fromsra

Electric performance cars versus ICE performance cars is like a microwave versus a barbecue.

A microwave may cook a burger quicker from raw, but who wants a microwaved burger rather than a barbecued one?

Hoenir

Are modern day cars fun to drive though? All tech and no driver ability required. 

motorguy

chrisw said:

raptor2004 said:

Anything that is RWD, enough power to have fun and maybe a LSD.

Had my fill of going backwards through hedges in the 80s. Anything which keeps all 4 wheels planted on the tarmac is fine by me.

BMW do a very good job of providing RWD fun via an LSD with their M cars.

I went for the M2 as i dont need anything bigger and went for the "OG" rather than the Comp as it sounds so damn good and has a more characterful engine.



Not tail happy at all, unless you want it to be.

Not a supercar by any stretch but a super car.

motorguy

I think probably the easiest supercar to run is maybe the Audi R8.  

A friend of mine runs one and he budgets around £3K a year in maintenance, but thats offset by practically nil depreciation.

Its certainly possible to buy something low miles and well maintained for well under £40K

https://www.autotrader.co.uk/car-details/202408293432464

motorguy

For the Aston lovers, a cheaper alternative seems to be the Jaguar F-Type in 5.0 litre V8 guise.

£30K will get you a much younger Jaguar.....

https://www.autotrader.co.uk/car-details/202408152929002

motorguy

Lexus LC is another one.

You'd get Lexus reliability there, in something that looks pretty awesome and is an excellet drive to boot.

https://www.autotrader.co.uk/car-details/202312194930841

motorguy

raptor2004 said:

Nobbie1967 said:

Having followed a chap on another forum who is working through a list of super cars to own, the trick seems to be lots of research and patiently looking for a very specific car rather than a spur of the moment purchase of something that catches your eye on Autotrader or Collecting Cars. They got a well maintained Aston Martin Vantage and ran it for 18 months with pretty minimal running costs and lost about £3k in depreciation. They have now bought a Ferrari 360 in red and seem to be doing alright so far. You can reduce the risk of catastrophic bills, but with these sort of cars they are always a possibility.

If you can spanner yourself, a lot of old Porsches can be pretty economical to run with the aid of eBay and breakers. I ran a 986 for 7 years and made a profit breaking it at the end, you could probably do similar with a 911, although it depends how you’re defining ‘super car’.

Not a fan of the Vantage. Doesn’t excel in any one area, maybe except looks.

Ferrari 360 is a good MSE car, its value won’t ever drop, but may creep up. Can be used as a daily driver too. 

986 and 911s aren’t really super cars unless it’s the Turbo S or GT RS models. The Turbo engines in the 911 are bullet proof. 

What will get you with a Ferrari is the running costs.

They need to be impeccably maintained to maintain their value and the bork factor.

Lovely cars though.