Went to see Top Gear Live at Earls Court today which was great fun plus lots of fantastic cars to look at.

Highlight for me car wise was the Mustang used in the film Gone In 60 Seconds and a couple of new Mustangs with the Cervinis body conversions and various Rausch tuning goodies which has got me back into the frame of mind of potentially owning one of these cars again given the perfomance and dramatic change to the handling characteristics.

The presence these have in simply awesome and in no way can come close to the pic off their web site. The silver one with the bonnet scoop off the red car does it for me.



More money than the standard car but £36k gets you 450bhp, uprated brakes, suspension and super charger plus the body kit, respray, 20" wheels and side exit exhausts and a brand new car.

A friend had the saleen mustang supercharged with over 500bhp on tap. Absolutely immense. I love the mustangs. Sure the drive train is a little antiquated and sure it's not as refined as some of the Euroboxes, but boy does it sounds good, look amazing, and scared old people! For cruising in London I can't see anything else much better without looking like a cock. I'd certainly support your decision on this purchase.

Alex wrote:
More money than the standard car but £36k gets you 450bhp, uprated brakes, suspension and super charger plus the body kit, respray, 20" wheels and side exit exhausts and a brand new car.

Awesome - whats the MPG on them? Id take either of them! Must shift like shit off a shovel

The manual is a little better than the auto and all the GT's are manual.

£40K will see you up to 500bhp and thet were also touting an 800bhp.

I think for a new car compared to anything else they're extremely good value.

Mustang's have always been good value for money - their problem has always been they have American, not European, handling qualities- Not good when you're belting down country lanes - But they look good

MPG will be low 20s. They're not designed for economy!

I'm very tempted by an old school American musclecar - I can do most of hte work under the bonnet myself to keep it tip top, so much easier than all the computers modern cars have... however it's just the cost of running it that would rule it out for me. I have my motorbike for hair raising thrills, however a big bloc 350 cubic inch hemi - yes please! Prefer the late 70s models, but some of the late 80s were pretty decent too

The chassis can be worked on, however they still have live rears, which are fine, but just need to be treated with more caution than independents. A decent LSD can help too.

Ader, Thats pretty much what was putting me off before but 2 things have changed my mind:

The weight of the car is only 1500kg, which isn't that bad and lighter than I anticipated.

The Rausch handling kit is very good and tested against an Elise there was very little between them.

Will, they quoted that for the conversions which is better than my Impreza will be so not an issue. I have my smart for that

so you going to get one Alex?

kp1512 wrote:so you going to get one Alex?

In theory but depends on selling my Impreza and what we're planning to do house wise next year.

true say - house or car lol. I think house might win it!

kp1512 wrote:true say - house or car lol. I think house might win it!

Possibly both depending how certain things may work out.

Been looking at plots of land at the moment for doing self build which is working out to be pretty cost effective. The land has been at around £150k for 6 bedroom property sized plots that have been approved for planning.

Mate do it! If you have the opp now def do it...only thing is getting the right builders and managing it right but Id say a 6 bed would cost to build and erect around £100k-£140k depending on how fancy you get with the materials and what else you have in it?

My mate is doing two right now near Brentwood - bought the land for £60k and is putting up 2 x 3 bedroom places. Each house is costing him £70k which as you know is peanuts even with the next 15-20% price crash.

OK, so what I know about cars can be written on a postcard, but daaaammmn that's one sexy car. I vote buy it.

i had vip tickets for mph and top gear live :/
couldn't go though, that really pissed me off :<

You're a jammy bugger Alex, closest I got to top gear live was Max Power Live at the NEC - They may have had girls wrestling in gunk and a strippers rave tent but the cars were just Fing chav-mobiles. I'd defo have that car - get rid of the chavvy imprezza regardless and Build your own house - I wish. Is there anything you can't have?

One of my dream cars, if you get it Alex, i will become your gimp, earning money to keep the missus happy with housing renovations. But you have to let me live in the boot

Self build isn't that expensive, it's just finding the land that's tricky and not a complete rip off. I'd say most home owners could easily up size for the same money with self build but it's the inconvenience that sets it apart.

I also don't have the expense of having kids at the moment.

Alex wrote:Self build isn't that expensive, it's just finding the land that's tricky and not a complete rip off. I'd say most home owners could easily up size for the same money with self build but it's the inconvenience that sets it apart.

I also don't have the expense of having kids at the moment.

You planning a few baby monsters?

At some point soonish.

Oh hell yeah!

http://www.fquick.com/videos/2008_Cervi ... Clip_/7226

You'll have to build a house if you have that...the neighbours would hate you!