Mid Life Crisis car - £10,000 ish

[Ditchfinder]

Roads are too shit for sports cars these days, wife's SLC has knackered funny suspension and it's only done 20k

[dern]

What do you want to achieve... recreate some aspect of being young that you either lived or missed out on, be part of a 'scene', do you want it to look the part or drive in an entertaining way or some combination of these?

If you like the big bmws and mercedes I assume it's the look the part option where the 'part' is 'tragic golf bastard'

[Mussels]

What do you want to achieve... recreate some aspect of being young that you either lived or missed out on, be part of a 'scene', do you want it to look the part or drive in an entertaining way or some combination of these?

If you like the big bmws and mercedes I assume it's the look the part option where the 'part' is 'tragic golf bastard'

I'm struggling with this, I think it's about time I had a mid life crisis but I can't think of anything I feel I missed out on or want to go back to.

[Mr. Dazzle]

Maybe you missed out on having a mid life crisis.

[KungFooBob]

I've had a pre-midlife crisis, then got old before my time.

[dern]

What do you want to achieve... recreate some aspect of being young that you either lived or missed out on, be part of a 'scene', do you want it to look the part or drive in an entertaining way or some combination of these?

If you like the big bmws and mercedes I assume it's the look the part option where the 'part' is 'tragic golf bastard'

I'm struggling with this, I think it's about time I had a mid life crisis but I can't think of anything I feel I missed out on or want to go back to.

Ignore the midlife crisis bit then and just get something you fancy.

[demographic]

As Fiat X19s are thin on the ground nowadays I reckon nothing screams midlife crisis harder than a Merc or BMW soft top with half the optional electric gubbins not working so I say get one of them

[dern]

Can you get an original mini for 10k? That would be excellent.

I’d suggest a 2cv s they are superb but if you don’t already want one and have a good idea what they’re about, it’s highly likely you’d think it was shit

[KungFooBob]

Up the budget, buy this, pretend you're James Bond.

https://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/225666999935

[dern]

Slightly breaks the budget but trouser tent tastic...



https://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/175817582128 ... R6qe0YW1Yg

[Ant]

What are we calling mid life now? What is the average life expectancy then?

[weeksy]

What are we calling mid life now? What is the average life expectancy then?

When's your birthday?

[KungFooBob]

You're perfect, yes, it's true, but without me, you're only you.

[Taipan]

What are we calling mid life now? What is the average life expectancy then?

81.77 years.

[Count Steer]

Someone mentioned the MX5 and it reminded me about the Honda S2000's. They have a lot of fans and my petrol-head neighbour had one. I rather like that VTEC engine too. So I looked at the prices. Woah...they really do have their fans, pretty pricey for the later ones - £20k for a 55k miles, 2008, £12k for a 116k miles 2005.

[KungFooBob]

Someone mentioned the MX5 and it reminded me about the Honda S2000's. They have a lot of fans and my petrol-head neighbour had one. I rather like that VTEC engine too. So I looked at the prices. Woah...they really do have their fans, pretty pricey for the later ones - £20k for a 55k miles, 2008, £12k for a 116k miles 2005.

The later ones are less likely to kill you. The earlier models didn't have traction/stability/anti-yaw, that combined with a peaky v-tec engine meant that if you were an average driver the chances were if you tried to push on, or it was wet, you'd be going through a hedge backwards.

Crazy amount of power out of an NA engine tho'.

[MrLongbeard]

https://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/166249969618 ... p_homepage



Or maybe;
https://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/374798022948 ... p_homepage

[Ant]

What are we calling mid life now? What is the average life expectancy then?

81.77 years.

Ok so we're talking 40 as midlife. There's a lot of cars you can get away with at 40 or so.

[Pirahna]

There's a couple of VX220's on Auto trader.

[Ant]

I saw one of those earlier, I remember how much fun they are.