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Thu 4 Feb 2010 22:45
lotto win car (on a budget) - k9dan
Was killing an hour on the 'puter and looking at a well known car selling site, did some searching for dream buys. a few years back there was a local guy who blew 10 mil, and is now bust. He did the usual mega ferrarri etc, and was quoted at the time as being bored with nothing to do. His downfall was buying into a football team. Anyhow although I like cars I couldn't see myself going into six figure sums for any car no matter how good. So I looked at reasonable buys. Obviously a nice garage with a lift and nice tools would be a first buy, to keep the budget supercar nicely fettled, and goes without saying a large barrel of waterproof grease and same size brush to apply underneath as per Oilrags most sensible ideology. What I found was a nice Lotus Carlton, with a genuine 12k on the clock for 40k, and various lotus elite, both with good on-line owner sites to help keep nicely spannered. So just in case I win the big one on Friday can anyone point me in a similar direction must be below 6 fugures, discreet, and classy, no bling bling please, just class. Of course if I win, a similar will be purchased for whom who suggests the appropriate.
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Thu 4 Feb 2010 22:50
lotto win car (on a budget) - George Porge
Discovery shed now, BMW 8 series 850CSI
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Thu 4 Feb 2010 22:50
lotto win car (on a budget) - Old Navy
Audi A8 or R8 depending on how many seats you want, or both!
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Thu 4 Feb 2010 23:00
lotto win car (on a budget) - Robin Reliant
A Mondeo with a rear bumper that wasn't held on by a bungee cord and a cat in hell's chance of getting through it's next MoT.
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Thu 4 Feb 2010 22:59
lotto win car (on a budget) - dsuk81
Mercedes-Benz R107 SL - For cruising

Ariel Atom - For fun

Audi A8 W12 - General driving (W12 to annoy green brigade)

Land Rover Discovery - For getting around the estate

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Thu 4 Feb 2010 23:19
lotto win car (on a budget) - SteelSpark
Some kind of Aston Martin for me please...

Maybe a V8 Vantage, I think you can get one of them for under 100K

I am not really "into" cars in a big way, if you know what I mean, and you won't find me oohing and aahing over Ferraris, Lamboughinis and then like...but something about an Aston has always done it for me...
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Thu 4 Feb 2010 23:30
lotto win car (on a budget) - CraigP
Poor guy :( daily record did a thing on him not long after he won they were saying £300+ / day in interest? I'd just save up and buy stuff off the interest, £3k/10 days. t'was the record right enough...

Love the 850i suggestion above. A post '97 (alusil engine with the square exhaust tips...) is *almost* affordable as a commitment to some serious fun on the weekends even without a lotto win. Future classic...

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Thu 4 Feb 2010 23:50
lotto win car (on a budget) - Stuartli
No matter how much or little I'd won, I wouldn't seriously consider spending £40k on a Lotus Carlton, genuine 12k mileage or not.

Mind you I did enjoy driving one on the Lotus test track some considerable time back....


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Fri 5 Feb 2010 09:36
lotto win car (on a budget) - Alanovich
VW Phaeton W12. Oh no , here I go again..............

Edited by Dynamic Dave on 05/02/2010 at 10:22

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Fri 5 Feb 2010 10:04
lotto win car (on a budget) - oldnotbold
S6 Avant and the rest I'd spend on aeroplanes (yes, all £85m.... ;-) )
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Fri 5 Feb 2010 10:16
lotto win car (on a budget) - Hamsafar
Probably an Audi A8, when I get bored of that I can get something better. There's no point getting the best thing straightaway, as you will never know such pleasure again. It would be like eating a feast until you are full and then being offered another feast.

I would also like to have a fabulous no-expense spared workshop and restore some classic cars as a hobby and be able to farm out the work such as painting to decent places.
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Fri 5 Feb 2010 10:25
lotto win car (on a budget) - AshT
Classic Range Rover V8 - always wanted one, and could afford one now, but I think without 6 numbers behind me the running costs would leave me in poverty very quickly.
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Fri 5 Feb 2010 10:37
lotto win car (on a budget) - mr.freezer
Alpina B5 for day to day.

Porsche Cayman S, but only in the toxic green colour that you sometimes see in car mags but is not on their website. Who cares about selling it on.

Both of the above would only be bought subject to a £1m plus win.

A smaller win would result in a second hand Audi RS4 Avant.
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Fri 5 Feb 2010 12:17
lotto win car (on a budget) - NickS
RS4 and a Range Rover Vogue TDV8 for me

"Treat" SWMBO to an Aygo. If she's lucky.

Fazer FZ1 for my best mate, and a Phaeton for the parents.

Should come in at a nice round £100k :-).
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Fri 5 Feb 2010 12:19
lotto win car (on a budget) - Alanovich
"Treat" SWMBO to an Aygo. If she's lucky.


Steady on. You can spoil them, you know.

S-reg Escort should do the trick.
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Fri 5 Feb 2010 13:22
lotto win car (on a budget) - turbo11
A close friend of mine, who is loaded to say the least, doesn't drink or smoke or wear designer clothes(jeans and flip flops mostly) spent £400K in one year on cars. Its the one thing he is interested in.
A Ferrari 430 with personalised interior, Maserati Gran Tourismo S, Porsche Cayenne Turbo,
BMW M5,TVR Tuscan Race prepped track car,Mini Works cooper and an M3 convertible for the wife.The live in Butler,Housekeeper and Nanny share a provided VW Golf. None are garaged, they are for use not show.He has also had Lamborghini's Gullardo,Ferrari's 550 & 612,2 Bentley Continentals.
But Is he happy- Course he is.
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Fri 5 Feb 2010 13:28
lotto win car (on a budget) - Alanovich
A close friend of mine who is loaded to say the least


Sounds like he needs a fleet manager to run that lot. Full time.

Tell him I'll do it for 50k per annum.

Imagine the paperwork, remembering to tax them, MOT them, insure them, valet them etc etc.

I think my proposed rate is very reasonable, if he throws in a company provided Phaeton.
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Sat 6 Feb 2010 20:57
lotto win car (on a budget) - Martin Devon
>> A close friend of mine who is loaded to say the least. Tell him I'll do it for 50k per annum.

49.5k plus a Triumph Vitesse Convertible. 2 litre of course!!

MD.
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Fri 5 Feb 2010 13:18
lotto win car (on a budget) - Mick Snutz
discreet and classy no bling bling please just class.


Trouble is if you go discreet you may end up with a faster version of an ordinary mass produced car.

What about a Maserati Quattroporte S?

or one of those low volume retro car makers like
www.vanwallcars.com
or a good GT40 replica?
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Fri 5 Feb 2010 23:18
lotto win car (on a budget) - frazerjp
Apart from buying a luxuary pad in the country...
The original BMW M5 ???
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Fri 5 Feb 2010 23:36
lotto win car (on a budget) - Rattle
A Lada Riva for old times sake
A brand new Mondeo in top trim
A Fiat Panda 1.1 for err.
An early 60's Mini for the lounge
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Fri 5 Feb 2010 23:55
lotto win car (on a budget) - teabelly
A 4wd 2cv with a hidden supercharger to put a smile on your face.

Quite fancy a maserati ghibli cup though. And maybe an old Bentley Turbo R as it is shaped like a brick and it would be fun to have such a quick drawing room.

Not many of the modern cars make me want to buy them. Only exception is the new Skyline GTR-35 as it has the speed of most supercars without the stupid price tag. Would have to have a custom body kit that made it look less Halfords though. Lexus Soarer style maybe. Wonder if I could get it in Allegro brown.... :-D
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Sat 6 Feb 2010 02:11
lotto win car (on a budget) - Hugo {P}
The odd thing is that now I've got the Discovery TD5 I just want to spend a few quid geting the minor problems sorted. I can't think what else I would want.

I've driven the new Discovery last year (Series 3 I think). It was the G4 spec at the Land Rover Centre in Devon.

I would probably use the money to buy a large house with a wooded area, build an offroad course, and a decent workshop with ramps etc, keep my old 200TDI and totally replace the shell for a proper offroading set up. Nothing wrong with the chassis or mechanics.

After I sorted that out, I would probably find another 200 or 300 TDI and do the same to that.

Nice as the new Discovery was, I couldn't help feeling that all the gizmos took the skill out of offroad driving.
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Sun 7 Feb 2010 09:43
lotto win car (on a budget) - DP
Jaguar XFR (or possible the V6 diesel S).

The XF is my new favourite "non exotic" car. Makes you feel good just sitting in the thing. My boss has a 3.0 V6 diesel and it's luuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuurvely.
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Sun 7 Feb 2010 22:31
lotto win car (on a budget) - Vauxpop
Nissan GT-R 3.

Never has a car looked and performed above it's station like the GT-R.

Beautiful, edgy, £50k for £150k performance.

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Sun 7 Feb 2010 23:08
lotto win car (on a budget) - Dave_TD
Jaguar XFR


Firmly seconded (just watched it on a re-run of Top Gear).
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Mon 8 Feb 2010 09:32
lotto win car (on a budget) - Armstrong Sid
Even back in the 1970s I always liked and wanted a Jensen Interceptor. Still do. They don't seem to have dated as much as most cars from that era.
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Mon 8 Feb 2010 12:48
lotto win car (on a budget) - apm
Tricky. Modern car-wise, Volvo V70 whatever the top spec is.

And a MKII escort RS2000 in white with blue pinstripes, a la Doyle from the Professionals.

And a Ducati Monster with fat Termignonis.

:-)
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Mon 8 Feb 2010 12:57
lotto win car (on a budget) - Mick Snutz
I could easily go for this:

tinyurl.com/yfyt8sn


a real stunner
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Fri 7 Aug 2020 15:23
lotto win car (on a budget) - Zuzanand

Audi A8 or R8 ?

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Fri 7 Aug 2020 15:31
lotto win car (on a budget) - Xileno

I assume after ten years the OP still hasn't won the lottery then....

It's strange reading an old thread, somehow the content seemed odd and then I realised it's ten years ago.

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Fri 7 Aug 2020 22:50
lotto win car (on a budget) - Trilogy.

BOTB

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Fri 7 Aug 2020 23:42
lotto win car (on a budget) - SLO76
Old thread it may be but an interesting question it still is. I’ve often thought about the contents of my 5 car post lottery win garage. It changes daily but today I’d include.

123 series Mercedes 230TE Auto - restored
Peugeot 205 GTi 1.9 - restored
McLaren 570 Spider
Range Rover 4.4 SDV8 Autobiography
Ford Fiesta ST3 5dr

It’ll be different tomorrow, I’m changeable like that but today this is my ideal 5 car garage.

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Sat 8 Aug 2020 08:13
lotto win car (on a budget) - Trilogy.

Some of mine would change daily too.

156 Sportwagon 2.0 TS

W124 E300D estate

Range Rover Autobiography - that's going to have to go, just too pretentious and a b***** to park. A Jimny would be much better.

Commodore SS-V Redline with Baillie tips

Porsche 911 Carrera

Edited by Trilogy. on 09/08/2020 at 11:18

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Mon 10 Aug 2020 09:10
lotto win car (on a budget) - Sofa Spud

I would choose a Jensen Interceptor too. It was my dream car when I was a boy. Thirsty mechanical dinosaurs they might be, but if I had one I'd only use it occasionally and drive it sensibly. The Jensen would be metallic sky blue.

With the lotto-win money left over (from not not buying a Ferrari or Aston Martin!) I'd choose a Tesla Model 3 as my day-to-day car, which would more than compensate for the Jensen's dreadful environmental credentials. When the Tesla Model Y becomes available here, I might swap the Model 3 for one of those. The Model 3 would be red.

For outdoor adventure - camping weekends, carrying bicycles etc. I'd go for a 1990's Land Rover 110 300TDI hardtop, plus lots of spare parts (as it's a Land Rover!). The Land Rover would be dark green with a white roof.

Edited by Sofa Spud on 10/08/2020 at 09:16

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Mon 10 Aug 2020 10:53
lotto win car (on a budget) - gordonbennet

Landcruiser 200 series, plus an unbreakable grey import 70 series LC for knocking about in.

2018 on Toyota Century for the sheer beauty of its quietly handsome design where european top line cars have become a caricuture.

So called foreign exotica or supercars do nothing for me, last Aston Martin to set my heart racing was the V8 Vantage, i took one among a full load of older metal to the classic show at NEC, in dark blue with matching polished grill inset, a wonderful car you could spend a lifetime drooling over.

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Wed 12 Aug 2020 16:24
lotto win car (on a budget) - John F

A lottery win might not be enough for very special cars which are rarely for sale. I would really like the Graber bodied Duesenberg cabriolet but will just have to make do with my TR7.

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Thu 13 Aug 2020 00:38
lotto win car (on a budget) - edlithgow

A lottery win might not be enough for very special cars which are rarely for sale.

Like a Mini Marcos. Might have to buy up the rights and start a company making them,

That'd make the money go away pretty quickly.

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Thu 13 Aug 2020 07:28
lotto win car (on a budget) - veloceman
Alfa SZ for me.
Il Monstro as it was nicknamed.
Total Marmite car but I love it, with gorgeous 2.5 V6 Busso.
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