I may be in a good place in the new year to be able to afford 2 new cars with a budget of about 100 ish.....I have some ideas about what I might like...but some help/opinions would be good. Ok must say that I prefer to buy pre owned....

1. Second hand 3.0 RRS and a Merc 280 SL Pagoda

2. Aston Martin Vantage Roadster and RRS (as before)

3. BMW M3 Convertible and RRS

4. Merc SL500 (new shape) and RRS

As you can tell a convertible and RRS is on the list (and a white RRS at that)

Any other thoughts? Cars I may have missed.....

No 2 All they way  MY10 3.0 HSE Santorini Black, Ivory Premium & extended leather, privacy, paddles, diamond turned alloys, Ipod lead that charges, tasmods, rrsport.co.uk stickers

Jeep 4.0 High Output XJ 94 6" teraflex lift, c/w rear coils, 9500lb winch, 35" TSL super swamper boggers, safari snorkel, custom made bumpers, tom woods custom double cardon driveshaft, twin electric fans. Don't follow it..............you wont make it. The first 4 x 4 by far.

Check out new Merc SL Night vision... quite nice. Although M3 is a very beautiful car, I think it is becoming a little overused. Vadim A.

Your more specific requirements are needed... Such as, how old do you want the convertible to be, is it a weekender, or daily runner... This will flow through into driving your running costs budget: insurance, maintenance etc etc..

I'm not into UK prices these days... However, if its a weekender, maybe you can consider an 'older' Ferrari if they tickle your boat... maybe even as new as a 360?

Or of course for reliability (if more of a daily drive) you could look at a porker... a newer 911 CAB 4S, or an older (996) turbo Cab??

Don't fancy a Ferrari or a Porsche, although I do like the Targa..but too expensive.

I was in BMW dealers the other day and they had an M3 in a silver grey that was a Matt paint, it looked like it was wrapped but wasn't. It also had black wheels, but crazy money at 60K.

I used to have a Merc Pagoda when I was younger and loved it, and thought it would be a great weekend car to go away with, driving to Italy or France...love the idea of that.

The RRS would be an everyday car and the other just at weekends and I guess the split on cost would be early 40's for the RRS and 60k for the other.

The Vantage worries me re reliability....and also the costs. In addition I want the sports shift model, as I don't want a manual, and they are more expensive. And DB9's look a little old to me, in my opinion anyway.

Thanks guys

And I even toyed with the idea on a Nissan GTR too......

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My heart would say n.2 but my head n.1 With tn.1 you cant go wrong, a classic car which if looked after can only go up in value. I did a similar thing with my bmw, mine is a limited edition, so far lost 25% of what I paid in 5 years of ownership and if it continues as it it is, I might have lost less!! RRS TDV8 HSE 2007- JAVA Black/Black interior,
UK BMW M3 CSL SB- now sold
1968 Innocenti mini

Nick for your weekend car have you thought about a Jaguar XK drophead - they are all autos and you know the local dealership...................... and for your 60k you would get a very recent car. OR if it has to be a classic then what about a white Triumph Stag, which would probably be tax exempt too! 2020 Pangea Green 1st Edition D240 New Defender 110 is here and loving it
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Triumph Stag? How about an MG?.....think an SL is a little more classy...

Jag...not my ideal choice.....not a big Jag fan.......

Nick, I know of a beautiful Alfa Romeo spider from 1973

But on a serious note, classic cars is a very interesting route, the SL's are good investments although the prices in recent times have gone up so quickly that they may stagnate for a few years, though this it true for most of the classic car market as people seem to have invested their money more in classics than banks, I wonder why

If your looking for classic convertibles, you have a range of english cars, MGA's are nice, simple and reliable, I know your not fond of Jags but the XK-120 or XK-150 are amazing cars or if you want a bit more modern there are the E-types.

If you can find one for the budget, why not a classic Aston...... http://www.pistonheads.com/sales/1941354.htm

or a Austin Healey 3000m ..... http://www.pistonheads.com/sales/1769057.htm RRS TDV8 HSE 2007- JAVA Black/Black interior,
UK BMW M3 CSL SB- now sold
1968 Innocenti mini

Looked at V8 Vantage too....the 70's type...

I would love a Lambo, but that's just a fantasy..and not sure I could handle a manual Gallardo.....and reliability scares the crap out me as well as running costs.....

NickM wrote:

Looked at V8 Vantage too....the 70's type...

I would love a Lambo, but that's just a fantasy..and not sure I could handle a manual Gallardo.....and reliability scares the crap out me as well as running costs.....

AAhh thats how you found that pile of sh t on fleabay  MY10 3.0 HSE Santorini Black, Ivory Premium & extended leather, privacy, paddles, diamond turned alloys, Ipod lead that charges, tasmods, rrsport.co.uk stickers

Jeep 4.0 High Output XJ 94 6" teraflex lift, c/w rear coils, 9500lb winch, 35" TSL super swamper boggers, safari snorkel, custom made bumpers, tom woods custom double cardon driveshaft, twin electric fans. Don't follow it..............you wont make it. The first 4 x 4 by far.

Haha......think it was Autotrader!!

I'm going crazy looking at cars.......still have no idea other than the RRS!

NickM wrote:

Looked at V8 Vantage too....the 70's type...

I would love a Lambo, but that's just a fantasy..and not sure I could handle a manual Gallardo.....and reliability scares the crap out me as well as running costs.....

The lambos i.e. Gallardo are reasonably reliable and many specialist in the UK have reasonable pricing for servicing, but word is to stay away from the manual version especially the early models as they were very hungry for clutches...

On the modern cars there is also the beautiful Maserati Granturismo Not personally a fan but what about the Bentley continental GT, RRS TDV8 HSE 2007- JAVA Black/Black interior,
UK BMW M3 CSL SB- now sold
1968 Innocenti mini

So it was  MY10 3.0 HSE Santorini Black, Ivory Premium & extended leather, privacy, paddles, diamond turned alloys, Ipod lead that charges, tasmods, rrsport.co.uk stickers

Jeep 4.0 High Output XJ 94 6" teraflex lift, c/w rear coils, 9500lb winch, 35" TSL super swamper boggers, safari snorkel, custom made bumpers, tom woods custom double cardon driveshaft, twin electric fans. Don't follow it..............you wont make it. The first 4 x 4 by far.