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Kyle57

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Hi all

Im looking to buy a car i can have lots of fun in and take to the track but also take me to work on a daily basis, i have a budget of 8K but im only 19 so insurance might be a problem.

Any suggestions welcome.

Thanks Kyle
 
If you have 8k, you have 2 options at 19.

Buy a drift car for 4k and insure it or but a shitty volvo for a tow car ( daily) , a trailer and a drift car that you only use on track
 
Mr Greggles said:
Buy an mx5, insure it, shove it on coilovers, get the diff welded and blow the rest on hookers.
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this X 1000

mx5's are simple reliable cars and good fun to drift.
Cheap to buy and about as cheap as it gets to drift.
An mx5 is likely to get you the most seat time
 
Granada limo? They've got fucking loads of seats.

If you want a reliable drifter that'll be good to learn in and won't cost a fortune when you crash it, buy an mx5.

You could always invest in an s13? Then replace the bottom end twice a drift day and pluck all the rot out by hand while you're waiting for the AA.

Gaylord 318 E46? Lots of seats, cheap to buy, looks relatively smart and no-one will give a single fuck if you plant it in a wall.
 
get an E36 325 -328 or something manual from the Toyota stable. Non turbo MK4 Supra manuals are going for around the £2000 - 3000 mark and ultra reliable as well as practical. A lad at work younger than you got quite a good insurance quote on one too, but it's postcode specific most of the time :/ Worth a punt anyhow
 
Don't take your road car to the track unless you already have a lot of seat time under your belt. You'll be left with nothing if and when it breaks.
 
How about answering his question rather than what you would do with a grand? :wack:

Theres a dude just joined 350Z forum, hes 19/20 but has found decent insurance and is laughing, same goes for M3's, Supras, S2000's, sorted 200's, RX7's and all sorts - if youve got £8K and can insure them then why buy a ratty MX5 as a daily?
 
thing im doing at the min is looking at a generic car so say a s14 find one that is like what you would buy or how sorted youd liek yours ring insurance get a quote tehn when u know roughly how much it would be to insure you can see hwo much u can spend on a car but at the min no money and being 17 its even more killer than for you

Hope ive helped anyway Good Luck
 
^^^^ why are you doing this if you have no money? Your just wasting time talking to insurance companies about a car you cant afford.

sell you turbo diesel and buy a rwd rather than sitting at home dreaming.
 
Hunt for insurance prices on cars you want first. Waste of time saying car x y or z if you can afford much better. I insured my FD at 21 for much less than my s14 (£1200 vs £1800). Both import, both turbo but the FD was insurance group 20 and the 14 was 18...

at my age now I can get whatever I want but look into estates and 4 doors like altezza's. I bet you get some interesting quotes
 
docwra said:
How about answering his question rather than what you would do with a grand? :wack:

Theres a dude just joined 350Z forum, hes 19/20 but has found decent insurance and is laughing, same goes for M3's, Supras, S2000's, sorted 200's, RX7's and all sorts - if youve got £8K and can insure them then why buy a ratty MX5 as a daily?
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To be fair tho if it's going to be a learner skid car you've gotta expect it to get smooshed up at some point.
With a cheap MX-5 no matter how bad you bend it up, it will still cost less than a grand to replace.

Buy an M3 and bend it on your first session and there will be tears.

Besides with a cheap and cheerful car they will be more likely to take on track more and get more seat time, rather than a nice expensive car they're worried about damaging.
 
Thats a fair comment about bending it up, but my point is when youve got £8K to spend, why not actually spend some of it?

The alternative is two lots of tax, two lots of insurance and two lots of everything else and driving to work and back in a shitty car, only to get into another shitty car at the weekend to go tracking. Sure, if you cant get insured for less than the national debt of Uganda then wind back your expectations a bit but dont give up before youve started .........
 
im in the same seat as the original poster except im 25.
Iv owned a s14a staged 1a, regretted getting rid of it. i never drifted it tho but it was one of my dream cars. rust wasnt apart of my dream tho. haha.
im still looking for a well priced s-body to buy to get into drifting properly. dont want to use it on the roads really.

a question regarding MX5s, are they really easy to get sideways jsut as i know they dont have much power in them?
 
ive only messed around in mx5's but from what I can gather you have to drive them, eg,, they are not like a mega power S-body where you can just accelerate hard off the start line and its instantly drifting.in a 5 you have to plan your attack.
 
t2901 said:
bmw e36 328, complete all rounder
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For 8K, we have a winner.

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Munkuls got it, Jites has got it, the rest of the guys seem to be stuck on the usual question of "whats a good starter driftcar", TBF if you see it 15 times a week I suppose thats going to happen :D
 
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