Lets Talk About Expensive Cars.

[phatzo]

I looked for a CTSV when I traded my SLK last year. Not surprisingly, there's not many used CTSV for sale but you can find the 6cyl all day long. I'm not a GM fan and they're they are butt ugly, but the horsepower could make me jump country real easy.
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Looks like a Holden

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Looks like a Holden

6.2 L S/C LSA V8 (556 hp), top speed 198mph.

[Curval]

You'd be disappointed. It's fine in a straight line, but it handles like a bathtub. It's a $40K+/- car here.
You'd be better off buying a Camaro.

Ding! Ding!

Hell, I was all set to buy something expensive in Florida but didn't want to only have 2 seats in the car.  I settled on a Maserati GT.  I couldn't justify buying a new one so I was looking at second hand ones.  Then I drove past a Chevy dealer, did a U-turn and test drove the (then) new 2010 6.2l V8.  At less than HALF the cost of a second hand Maserati and about 1/10th the cost of maintaining one I got a completely loaded Camaro brand spanking new.

The looks we get when the whole family piles out of it at a restaurant are pretty priceless.  They never valet it outside the restaurant or hotel, as they do with Ferraris and Masteratis etc. but I couldn't care less.  Love the car and really glad I didn't drop a bomb on something crazy expensive.

[phatzo]

6.2 L S/C LSA V8 (556 hp), top speed 198mph.

I just checked into it, it's based on a Holden Statesman.

[rpm]

I just checked into it, it's based on a Holden Statesman.

I think the front end is Holden based. Doesn't hurt to use the better idea. The rest is Detroit. I could be wrong.
Like I said I'm not a GM fan, but they have a strong package with that engine. Hard not to be impressed.

Curval, Maserati's lose value faster than 3 day old unrefrigerated squid.

[Dragon]

I'd like a DB9. 

New Stingray looks nice too.


How about a lovely Bentley?

[Curval]

Curval, Maserati's lose value faster than 3 day old unrefrigerated squid.

lol

Another reason I am glad I "didn't go there".  I have seen many Maseratis in Miami, frankly I think the Camaro looks way cooler.

Hell, I have posted these before but it does give a degree of perspective:

Aston Martin DB9, Ferrari 430 and my Camaro.  You be the judge:

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You'd be disappointed. It's fine in a straight line, but it handles like a bathtub. It's a $40K+/- car here.
You'd be better off buying a Camaro.

same thing was said about the original Challengers, its as untrue today as it was back then.......

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same thing was said about the original Challengers, its as untrue today as it was back then.......

Ink, I wish it wasn't true... but it is. Fine looking car, decent horsepower, turns like a bathtub.

[rpm]

Aston Martin DB9, Ferrari 430 and my Camaro.  You be the judge:

DB9! Sorry, Curval.

[Dragon]

lol

Another reason I am glad I "didn't go there".  I have seen many Maseratis in Miami, frankly I think the Camaro looks way cooler.

Hell, I have posted these before but it does give a degree of perspective:

Aston Martin DB9, Ferrari 430 and my Camaro.  You be the judge:

At least you got the cool factor in the correct order.

[danny76]

The title says it all. Lets talk about really expensive cars that we all want, but cant have.


For me, I want only 3. I wished for these very cars on Christmas but Santa obviously didn't deliver. Cheap bastard...


1: Lotus Elise
2: '69 Ford Mustang Boss 302
3: Mercedes Benz CLK GTR


Those 3 cars are very expensive, and are highly wanted by a lot of people. The sad thing is that only the Boss 302 is street legal in the US, so I might have to move to Canada so I can get my hands on that Lotus. Its a small list and I don't ask for much, but I like to keep it simple. Now that i'm done with my list, lets hear what stupidly expensive cars that you guys want.

Lotus Elise not street legal?

If I had my choice it would have to be a Vanquish, maybe a Lotus Exige, and a 2004 blue and black 954 fireblade

[Rob52240]

+1 Phatzo

The high performance atom gets my vote.  I'd like to see them use one of these Holden motors.

http://www.Jegs.com/i/Edelbrock/350/47550/10002/-1

[Curval]

DB9! Sorry, Curval.

Quite alright sir.  I must admit it is a rocking car.  The guy who owns that one has a Vanquish in London. 

I haven't driven it.  I have driven the Ferrari, that was alot of fun.

But, hey....for alot less bucks mine can hang out with the big boys. 

[Rob52240]

I'll point out that unlike the Veyron, no Hennessey has ever been intentionally driven off of a highway and into a lake while some teenagers happened to be filming the "Lamborghini" with their mobile phone.