Sporty Winter Car?

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R60BBA

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 London, United Kingdom
As per the title I am looking at purchasing a sporty motor for the winter months.

Budget is £10,000.

Would prefer RWD, but could manage with 4WD, just no FWD suggestions please.

What would you buy? I welcome your suggestions.
 
ok... this is beginning to narrow it down, any other requirements? my next suggestion is an E46 BMW M3, again with winter tyres...
 
ColinBR said:
Not quite in budget, but something like this maybe?

https://z4-forum.com/forum/viewtopic.php?f=42&t=120348
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Nice car that, been looking at them aswell.

But would prefer the newer shape M135i/M140i (2015 plus) which start from about £15,000...which is E92 M3 money! :headbang:

Ahh why is something which should be so simple, potentially quite problematic lol. :lol:
 
Well if it's a winter car then Overfinch do a nice little Defender 90, with a 6.2 V8, 450BHP.
But maybe £240k is a little over budget??
 
Maybe - instead of us just randomly shouting ideas that don't fit your criteria - you give us a hint as to what your criteria are:
  1. Less than £10k
  2. RWD or AWD
  3. 4/5 seater
  4. less than 5 years old (if it's a 1-series)
  5. not a Z4 or e46 M3
  6. sporty

:P
 
mmm-five said:
Maybe - instead of us just randomly shouting ideas that don't fit your criteria - you give us a hint as to what your criteria are:
  1. Less than £10k
  2. RWD or AWD
  3. 4/5 seater
  4. less than 5 years old
  5. not a Z4 or e46 M3
  6. sporty

:P
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I think you’ve done it for me :rofl:

Apart from the 5 year old point, I’m not too fussed on age.
 
These horrid things are popular for mostly the right reasons. You could almost forgive the under steer in the winter and just enjoy the fact that all your lovely rear wheel drive cars won't see which way it went.. Just don't ever drive it on a nice dry road. :wink:

https://www.autotrader.co.uk/classified/advert/202007050893456?postcode=pl124ty&model=S3&price-to=11000&price-from=8000&advertising-location=at_cars&radius=1500&sort=price-asc&onesearchad=New&onesearchad=Nearly%20New&onesearchad=Used&make=AUDI&page=1
 
buzyg said:
These horrid things are popular for mostly the right reasons. You could almost forgive the under steer in the winter and just enjoy the fact that all your lovely rear wheel drive cars won't see which way it went.. Just don't ever drive it on a nice dry road. :wink:

https://www.autotrader.co.uk/classified/advert/202007050893456?postcode=pl124ty&model=S3&price-to=11000&price-from=8000&advertising-location=at_cars&radius=1500&sort=price-asc&onesearchad=New&onesearchad=Nearly%20New&onesearchad=Used&make=AUDI&page=1
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Or just put winter tyres on your RWD car and have more fun.

I've never had winters on the Z4MC and that's never been stuck - but to be fair, it's never really been driven in more than about 3 inches of the stuff. It's even got an unused set of snow-socks in the boot, that I carry all the time (got them when I bought the car...in December 2008...for emergencies, but haven't had one yet).

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Those pictures are from when I drove from the office in Basingstoke, to the dealer in Cow Roast to pick up some missing service history. Then I drove all the way home to Liverpool.
 
BMW e63 650i Coupe? I think they are a lot of car for the money and £10k will get you a good, low mileage one.
 
I've been out of my car a number of times to help push rear wheel drive cars out of the way on Dartmoor in the winter. All BMW's as I recall :oops:

Tis one reason I have a small FWD car, a snow shovel and a pack of large tyre tie wraps, in the boot, those things have come in handy a few times. Never needed winter tyres though. :)
 
surely you'll not get better bang for your buck and winter capability than a subaru impreza wrx sti, with winter tyres, natch.

this ones right at the top end of your budget but there are cheaper examples.

https://www.autotrader.co.uk/classified/advert/202007131174050?keywords=sti&onesearchad=New&onesearchad=Nearly%20New&onesearchad=Used&sort=price-desc&make=SUBARU&radius=1500&model=IMPREZA&postcode=cv339re&advertising-location=at_cars&page=7
 
brillomaster said:
surely you'll not get better bang for your buck and winter capability than a subaru impreza wrx sti, with winter tyres, natch.

this ones right at the top end of your budget but there are cheaper examples.

https://www.autotrader.co.uk/classified/advert/202007131174050?keywords=sti&onesearchad=New&onesearchad=Nearly%20New&onesearchad=Used&sort=price-desc&make=SUBARU&radius=1500&model=IMPREZA&postcode=cv339re&advertising-location=at_cars&page=7
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Not my cuppa tea but cheers anyways.
 
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