I'd buy a secondhand porche boxter and stick a £250 private plate on it...then with the 0ther 35k pay off a lump of the mortage....

ok ok its a borring thing to do,,,but you never know how long a jobs going to last...and a car thats worth 50k this year and 40k 12months later won;t help if you need to sell it fast to pay house costs.....

friends just got a large redundacy payment and also landed a new job straight away and its closer to home,,,hes blowing 18k on a 4.2litre petrol Range Rover....as a 12mile run to work isn't really going to kill him on the fuel front, and at weekend his other half has a sensible car.....But if you really want to blow the cash..when I bought my latest car the garage had a db9 for 42k......(most expensive car on the lot.)

That's easy. A Corvette. New. In fact you can do that with $50k, and keep the difference.

Proper manual gearbox as standard-no Xbox style flappy paddles.

Fuel economy? A class leading 19/31 mpg (UK)-25 combined.

Cheers for that £50k, i'll shove it somewhere till later in the year then buy a new Prius plug in hybrid when they have finished proper long term trials...other makers take note, the customer is not part of your R&D.

The other £20k i'll spread through various ISA's etc and let it grow enough to outright purchase another super frugal proper car (Toyota) for the time in the distant future when the one on order dies in about 15 years time...hang on a minute i won't last another 15 years, don't worry though it will be put to good use.

Very much obliged for that i'll send you my bank details for the transfer.;)

I'd still go and buy a new-ish Mazda MX-5, which is what I'm hoping to do within the next 18 months. Some other so and so has taken the hit by buying it new and then I could look for one with all the options I want, like the hard roof.

Then I'd have money over to replace when it wore out it if I had the £50k.

A fine '55 F-100 or a Junior Zagato. unthrottled, I'm not surprised you've gone for an American, given you talk in cubic inches!

Well dribble & Drool, (& as seen elsewhere on this Forum)

I just might blag one o them new 3.0 BITDI Audis, 313BHP + oodles o torque.

An A6 Avant or Allroad fitted wit a tow bar of course.

Man Sur!, (we'ed be fair sucking diesel)

Why would you spend 50 grand on a diesel?

Im sure £30,000 on the used market would get you something quite decent which isnt a diesel.

If you want a 'blend of economy and performance' that can be had for £5,000.

Fuel economy is so boring and tedius.

30 years of boring & tedious fuel economy allowed me to buy a wee farm o land & build a decent house,, plus buy ourselves & wor Tiddles a new car, each, both diesels of course, all along with a reasonable standard of living, holidays included, all on 2 very ordaniry salaries.

Watch the pennies and the pounds watch themselves.

I'd have something like this:

www.pistonheads.com/sales/3112999.htm

Edited by Andy P on 01/02/2012 at 10:30

But a "Rover" V8 was really a Buick design was it not?

Origionally built under licence on an interim basis while Rover sorted out their own design?

Ah Ha Unthrottled!

I knowed that but did not want to get too verbose.

Anyway by inference if Rover continued to use the Buick design ( & they did, as we know) they obviousley therefore never continued with their proposed in house design.

cheers

M

This one has a 6.3l Chevy engine in it :-)