What if..

dreaddan · Post by **dreaddan** » Tue May 13, 2008 1:04 pm

What if you won the lottery and didnt want the wife to find out (mines said she woudnt wanna know

, and no I havnt ) what car would you get?

I currently have a mondeo TDCI so 1st off the bat would be a ST without the body kit.. and then see about a old S8 after getting a 'bonus' from work

boxertricks · Post by **boxertricks** » Tue May 13, 2008 1:12 pm

youd get a mondeo st if you won the lottery??? lol

mate no need to wait look in the admag youll get one in jelopy corner

shen · Post by **shen** » Tue May 13, 2008 1:23 pm

same car as I have now....

only it would spend a little time at a garage for some supremely expensive tuning and respray to make it look like new and lowered a little... sporting huge amounts of horsies and ridiculously high spec brakes, suspension, braces, fully stripped and rebuilt with near new everything etc etc

'Some bugger ran in to the side of me dear...it's just at the garage getting a panel fixed up'

Sheaf · Post by **Sheaf** » Tue May 13, 2008 1:24 pm

I'd have difficulty changing the car and the g/f not noticing tbh.

However I could probably get away with getting a turbo'd prelude H22, with the A7 head on in the ATR. A switchable map ECU and EBC so I could set it to uber low when she's driving so she wont notice.

Either that or buy something silly fast and park it round a mates house...

xuk · Post by **xuk** » Tue May 13, 2008 1:27 pm

i'd get the missus a mondeo to keep her quiet.
buy a huuuuuge warehouse and get a veyron, caprio S1??, ferrarisssss.
mad three wheel car/bike thing i saw on top gear a couple of year ago
it had 2 wheels at front and 1 at the rear, leant over to some crazy angles,
all rover turbos(had to)

, R1, blade, hyabusa, blaster quad,
speed boat.........

i think you get the picture

the wife can smell a extra tenner in my pay packet tbh but the dreams there

dreaddan · Post by **dreaddan** » Tue May 13, 2008 1:32 pm

boxertricks wrote:youd get a mondeo st if you won the lottery??? lol

It's called subtly.

shen · Post by **shen** » Tue May 13, 2008 1:39 pm

'no dear ... it didn't cost me anything extra to have the paint work changed from that ordinary blue to full chrome and they did the windows as 2 way chrome looking mirrors free...good eh?'

Leo · Post by **Leo** » Tue May 13, 2008 1:44 pm

Are we talking the jackpot? Not just a tenner?

£1m doesn't go THAT far anymore so after I'd sorted family/friends/myself out, a *very* expensive car wouldn't be such a reality.

However, if I won £20m that may be a different story.

There would be a few cars in the fleet, I'm not sure exactly what they'd be but there would be a few categories:

- Big, showoff, obnoxious continent crosser car: Rolls Royce Phantom

- Fast, highly capable legend: last of the aircooled. Porsche 993 GT2

- For the music lover in me: (whoever thought a V8 could sound like that??!)

- For the classic/old car lover in me. BMW 507:

And of course:
- Keep the 420 turbo, do a full restoration and ~300bhp engine

I could go on...... and on and on.... but I'll be here all day with some justification or other for a whole host of cars....

Leo · Post by **Leo** » Tue May 13, 2008 1:47 pm

Hmm I didn't list anything which I could use to take all that pesky rubbish to the dump. Unimog ftw:

victor3 · Post by **victor3** » Tue May 13, 2008 2:44 pm

Maserati Quattroporte if it was the 'big win'!!

benno_bro · Post by **benno_bro** » Tue May 13, 2008 4:46 pm

Mini Cooper

-Alex- · Post by **-Alex-** » Tue May 13, 2008 5:02 pm

Lottery win (BIG win) Ferrari 430 / Murcialago LP 640 / New 911 Turbo / Ascari A10.
Any other kind of win which makes very nice things affordable - Ferrari 355 Berlinetta, TVR Cerbera, R34 GTR with some handy tweaks, Espirt 350 Sport.
Smaller win which just sorts things out a bit - 220GsiT/620ti

Leo · Post by **Leo** » Tue May 13, 2008 5:04 pm

benno_bro wrote:Mini Cooper

Proper one or a BMW not-so-mini Mini?

And if we're talking millions?

chrislandy · Post by **chrislandy** » Tue May 13, 2008 5:19 pm

VANQUISH

Leo · Post by **Leo** » Tue May 13, 2008 5:53 pm

Yeah but...

Oooh I would have to have a Citroen DS as well

And for when I'm feeling retro AND regal, a Pullman Benz:

Leo · Post by **Leo** » Tue May 13, 2008 5:57 pm

Hmmmmmm

Post by **Din** » Tue May 13, 2008 7:20 pm

victor3 wrote:Maserati Quattroporte if it was the 'big win'!!

Er no they are horrid, trust me.

155V6 · Post by **155V6** » Tue May 13, 2008 7:51 pm

BMW M5(E28)in matt black with steel wheels & no body kit,& a Metro 6R4 in Rothmans colours for going to the shops

shen · Post by **shen** » Tue May 13, 2008 7:53 pm

Din wrote:
victor3 wrote:Maserati Quattroporte if it was the 'big win'!!
Er no they are horrid, trust me.

look bloody nice to me

as for a mini .. i'd need one of those fully sorted with a nice type R engine and all mods to match

how could anyone think BMW shed when the word mini is mentioned

rovex · Post by **rovex** » Tue May 13, 2008 8:11 pm

Veyron. If BIGGG win. If just a big win then a new Nissan GTR.

Monk · Post by **Monk** » Tue May 13, 2008 8:27 pm

Would have to be an Aston Martin DBS for me!

dreaddan · Post by **dreaddan** » Tue May 13, 2008 9:02 pm

your not quite getting this.
This is a stelth operation..
IE what would you get away with before the misses started to think

Post by **Din** » Tue May 13, 2008 9:06 pm

Monk · Post by **Monk** » Tue May 13, 2008 9:13 pm

Aaaaaah.. Stealth operation...

fergy7197 · Post by **fergy7197** » Tue May 13, 2008 10:21 pm

M5 - best way to scare the missus and a weeks shopping!! lol

stealth.com

she will not know what an m5 is.

and the bmw badge, well its a given isnt it, just tell her its your new company brief

benno_bro · Post by **benno_bro** » Wed May 14, 2008 12:04 am

Leo wrote:
benno_bro wrote:Mini Cooper
Proper one or a BMW not-so-mini Mini?

And if we're talking millions?

proper one

and playing by the rules of the original post..........plus they are uncommon over here (added to the fact i've always wanted one)

bjrespect · Post by **bjrespect** » Wed May 14, 2008 12:05 am

would be a scooby 22b for me peeps

with a logger load of mods

Leo · Post by **Leo** » Wed May 14, 2008 12:15 am

Bugger, that'll teach me not to read and absorp the OP!
I guess the RR Phantom is out of the question then?

I'd have to go for one of these:

With a breathed-upon engine, of course. ~500bhp should do nicely. "It's just an old Audi, dear."

Sheaf · Post by **Sheaf** » Wed May 14, 2008 8:16 am

Sheaf wrote:I'd have difficulty changing the car and the g/f not noticing tbh.

However I could probably get away with getting a turbo'd prelude H22, with the A7 head on in the ATR. A switchable map ECU and EBC so I could set it to uber low when she's driving so she wont notice.

Either that or buy something silly fast and park it round a mates house...

Scrub that.

I think I'd probably buy an RS4 Estate, private plate to make it look older and try and convince her that it was a 1.8T S-Line.

Problem is she drives my car too, so I'm pretty sure she'd notice when she put her foot down. :drive:

I'd want to keep the ATR as well though, so I'd have to blag that I was running it on LPG and it was more economical than the saxo....

shen · Post by **shen** » Wed May 14, 2008 8:29 am

Sheaf wrote:
Sheaf wrote:I'd have difficulty changing the car and the g/f not noticing tbh.

However I could probably get away with getting a turbo'd prelude H22, with the A7 head on in the ATR. A switchable map ECU and EBC so I could set it to uber low when she's driving so she wont notice.

Either that or buy something silly fast and park it round a mates house...
Scrub that.

I think I'd probably buy an RS4 Estate, private plate to make it look older and try and convince her that it was a 1.8T S-Line.

Problem is she drives my car too, so I'm pretty sure she'd notice when she put her foot down.

I'd want to keep the ATR as well though, so I'd have to blag that I was running it on LPG and it was more economical than the saxo....

just get engine management with a hidden switch on any car to knock the performance down to super crap..then when you drive it's back to super horsie powers

-Alex- · Post by **-Alex-** » Wed May 14, 2008 10:08 am

Same as Leo I missed the point of the OP entirely and just dived in

E34 M5 or Audi S8/S4 for the win

Mondeo ST220's are nice cars mind you, looked into them before getting the MV6

Mr_James · Post by **Mr_James** » Wed May 14, 2008 12:03 pm

Leo · Post by **Leo** » Wed May 14, 2008 12:21 pm

Mr_James wrote:

Looks like Alex and I weren't the only ones to have missed the point in the original post!

200coupe · Post by **200coupe** » Wed May 14, 2008 1:08 pm

Id ither get the vitty restored and tweaked with 300 hp+ or get a zs 180 and tweak that.

No dear all these zs 180's are this fast

Unstealth well weve already disussed it and id be limited to 10 cars or id spend all the win on motors. lol

1st car id buy would probably have to be the new nissan gtr, then followed by a evo as the family run about

, mk1 mini cooper (original mini, no bmw mini for me!) then well i could go on for ages

shen · Post by **shen** » Wed May 14, 2008 2:19 pm

this bloody thread..made me dream this was sat outside my house last night.

ferrari 512 berlinetta boxer

think a lottery win would deffo mean a classic car if not being discreet...ok so theyre not the fastest things going but nothings cooler than a motoring icon...sexytime on wheels

i'd prolly have to have a group B rally car and something silly like an Xj220 to kill myself in aswell