Guidelines;

1) Budget: £50k total
2) Neither car can be older than 3 years old
3) One will be your daily driver, whereas the second is a toy

ok, whats your choice? I'm not decided yet, however I thinking along these lines;

Daily Driver: AUDI A8 3.0tdi Quattro (55 Plate) - £25k
Toy: Lotus Exige (06 Plate) - £25k

Still thinking through the options

What would you go for?

btw this is just for fun - something my friend and I do regularly

RRS TDV8 12 months old

Plus a

Ford Ka brand new for £3,995 ! RRS TDv8 HSE Rimini
Disco 4 TDv6 HSE Ipanema
Defender 90, 200tdi CSW

should have expected that one really

Daily driver - late plate used Volvo C30 2.5T SE Lux (that's the one with Focus ST engine) for <£20000
and for playing a shiny new Defender2 90 CSW in Silver or White, with all the offroad toys for the other £30k 2020 Pangea Green 1st Edition D240 New Defender 110 is here and loving it
2018 Melting Silver Mini Countryman PHEV - soon to be replaced
2015MY Corris Grey SDv6 HSE Dynamic, the best car I have ever owned, totally reliable only a cou0le of rattles in 3 years, now no longer in my care
Also in my garage is a 1996 TDi300 Defender 90 County HT made into a fake CSW

Have a look at

Day to Day:Lexus GS 450h 3.5 Hybrid (06 Plate) £26,995

Toy Car:MITSUBISHI Lancer EVO IX FQ-360 (07 Plate) £25,990

Just have to haggle on price a little

By my abacus that's more than £2k more than the £50k budget NP................................... you would have to get an older Lancer 2020 Pangea Green 1st Edition D240 New Defender 110 is here and loving it
2018 Melting Silver Mini Countryman PHEV - soon to be replaced
2015MY Corris Grey SDv6 HSE Dynamic, the best car I have ever owned, totally reliable only a cou0le of rattles in 3 years, now no longer in my care
Also in my garage is a 1996 TDi300 Defender 90 County HT made into a fake CSW

when i said you would have to haggle a little


i might have meant a lot

or go for the lower powered EVO as they do different engines, and have a little extra power added at a later date

Should be able to get a RRS TDV8 and a Defender for that budget  2002 Discovery Adventurer LE
1998 Freelander xedi
Ertl limited edition RRS model number 817

Tim - you need to throw you abacus away and get yourself a calculator - its actually 3k over budget

I did say MORE than £2k over Kaine................

Well Andy that would have to be a pretty elderly Defender.......................... even my well abused 1996 CSW is still worth an agreed £7500 with 70000 miles on it and a new chassis last year. Either that or you would be buying a very early TDv8. Having tried the Def2 offroad now, I would love one, it's just so much better in all respects than my Tdi300 - apart from the fact that it has so many easily drowned electronic bits that my 300 doesn't have! 2020 Pangea Green 1st Edition D240 New Defender 110 is here and loving it
2018 Melting Silver Mini Countryman PHEV - soon to be replaced
2015MY Corris Grey SDv6 HSE Dynamic, the best car I have ever owned, totally reliable only a cou0le of rattles in 3 years, now no longer in my care
Also in my garage is a 1996 TDi300 Defender 90 County HT made into a fake CSW

Last edited by Tim in Scotland on Sat Apr 26 2008 5:59pm. Edited 2 times in total

There aren't enough beads on my abacus to get it to total more than 2500, so anything more has to be a guess! 2020 Pangea Green 1st Edition D240 New Defender 110 is here and loving it
2018 Melting Silver Mini Countryman PHEV - soon to be replaced
2015MY Corris Grey SDv6 HSE Dynamic, the best car I have ever owned, totally reliable only a cou0le of rattles in 3 years, now no longer in my care
Also in my garage is a 1996 TDi300 Defender 90 County HT made into a fake CSW

Last edited by Tim in Scotland on Sat Apr 26 2008 7:28pm. Edited 1 time in total

might change my toy option to a Defender and then go for more speed on the Daily Driver front

Daily Driver: AUDI RS4 Avant (07 Plate) - £44k
Toy: LR Defender 90 - £6k

might have to go that way instead

Daily-Disco 3 (40K)
Toy-Defender 90 (6K)

Spend the rest on Mods for the 90!

EDIT-Oops, HAS to be two cars! Maverick off disco3!
Drives white 1996 Defender 90 300TDi

R.I.P. Smudge! 24.10.08
R.I.P Hesko! 29.4.09

wouldn't you fancy two different types of car?