Hi,
I'm Colin and I'm fairly certain we're going to be buying an E85 fairly soon.
I currently have a 28 year old Mazda Eunos Roadster (MX5) which I love dearly but my wife doesn't like driving. She has trouble seeing over the pop up headlights.
I hadn't considered ever replacing it but we want to replace our other car, a Jaguar S Type 3 litre, and we've decided that a sports car that we'll both like will be the right way to go so both the Mazda and the Jag are going to go and we think we're also going to get an EP3 Civic Type R as a nod towards practicality.
To that end we've been looking at various options.
I like the RX8, an absolutely gorgeous car that will fit into our budget, but the reliability of the rotary engine worries me so I've ruled that out.
The TT convertible is just too common and to be honest to my eyes looks very bland.
We've also considered the 350Z, we've always liked those but they look best as a coupe and we both want a convertible.
The other contender was the Porsche Boxter 3.2S but our budget (about 5 grand for the sports car) would necessitate a high mileage one and the cost of spares for a Porker frightens me. Apparently a replacement engine costs about 13 grand.
Finally we've pretty much settled on the 3 litre E85 so I'm here to do my due diligence and find out as much as possible about the ownership experience, running costs, reliability, fun factor etc. We're going to try and find one to test drive next weekend. We obviously need to know if we're going to like driving it but I don't expect to be disappointed.
I'm Colin and I'm fairly certain we're going to be buying an E85 fairly soon.
I currently have a 28 year old Mazda Eunos Roadster (MX5) which I love dearly but my wife doesn't like driving. She has trouble seeing over the pop up headlights.
I hadn't considered ever replacing it but we want to replace our other car, a Jaguar S Type 3 litre, and we've decided that a sports car that we'll both like will be the right way to go so both the Mazda and the Jag are going to go and we think we're also going to get an EP3 Civic Type R as a nod towards practicality.
To that end we've been looking at various options.
I like the RX8, an absolutely gorgeous car that will fit into our budget, but the reliability of the rotary engine worries me so I've ruled that out.
The TT convertible is just too common and to be honest to my eyes looks very bland.
We've also considered the 350Z, we've always liked those but they look best as a coupe and we both want a convertible.
The other contender was the Porsche Boxter 3.2S but our budget (about 5 grand for the sports car) would necessitate a high mileage one and the cost of spares for a Porker frightens me. Apparently a replacement engine costs about 13 grand.
Finally we've pretty much settled on the 3 litre E85 so I'm here to do my due diligence and find out as much as possible about the ownership experience, running costs, reliability, fun factor etc. We're going to try and find one to test drive next weekend. We obviously need to know if we're going to like driving it but I don't expect to be disappointed.
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