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Hardcore running costs

Posted: Fri Jan 26, 2007 9:29 am
by Stuart
We all lick our wounds from time to time, mulling over the pain of running our cars properly. Ben and I did a comparison not so long ago about our GTR's and that was a humbling experience (If Tanya and Jo ever get hold of that thread, we are doomed)

Anyway, my point~ I picked up an issue of Octane magazine when at the Autosport show, therein was a buyers guide on a Lamborghini Diablo.

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Those of a financially fragile disposition may want to make up a cup of tea and sit down.

Major service (every 6k) can cost around

Posted: Fri Jan 26, 2007 10:04 am
by duncan
and we moan about our costs :o

Posted: Fri Jan 26, 2007 10:08 am
by mike-payne
dynamix wrote:and we moan about our costs :o
Ahh... but if you add in all the money we spend modding our cars so that they perfom like these, then the difference is not so much!

Posted: Fri Jan 26, 2007 10:44 am
by Ben
Blimey - they are quite pricey - makes the GTR sound like a runaround.

Joking apart I guess if you are in the financial ball park of being able to buy one, I would expect you have the pennies to maintain it ....

Posted: Fri Jan 26, 2007 3:59 pm
by sdminus
murano3 wrote:Blimey - they are quite pricey - makes the GTR sound like a runaround.
Your GTR is a runaround LOL LOL

Posted: Fri Jan 26, 2007 4:52 pm
by Stuart
The Diablo is a lot of money, but no more than you would pay for a good GT3 Porsche.

So. Any more titanic running costs (don't include girlfriends :D )

Posted: Sun Jan 28, 2007 12:44 pm
by Bladerider
The Bomber cost me an average of

Posted: Sun Jan 28, 2007 4:25 pm
by trackday addict
Bloody hell :o
But then again dont we all spend too much on what we've got :D

Posted: Sun Jan 28, 2007 9:11 pm
by MichaelH
I daredn't work out what mines cost me over the years! :o

Posted: Mon Jan 29, 2007 11:02 pm
by Muffleman
MichaelH wrote:I daredn't work out what mines cost me over the years! :o
Good idea :wink:

I remember seeing an advert for a Ferrari 328, it was sensibly priced and it got me thinking. Then in the advert is said, just had