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Old 07-21-2012, 08:44 AM
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Just popped in to my local Toyota dealer to have a gander at the GT86 and took my eldest to see if the back seats were useable (they're not unless I can drive with my knees touching my ears).

Bloody nice looking in the flesh, nice inside too. Let's see what tomorrows test drive is like.

And by heck they're cheap for what you get.
Old 07-21-2012, 10:49 AM
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A friend of mine test drove one last weekend, and wouldn't stop talking about it. Likened it to how he remembered feeling riding a motorbike years ago, and loved the engine sound (i do need to take him out in mine)

Very tempted to test drive one for myself, considering it as my next car.

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It's an S2000 crossed with a (rather cramped) Prelude. It's really that good.

Just drive the bloody thing! Toyoda-San can stop crying now.
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My brother is thinking about getting one of these, seen one in the metal the other day, looks nice
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I really like the look of them and the Subaru BRZ. Price is pretty attractive too.
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so how much do you have to pay for one with a decent spec?
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They're about £25k all in. The only extras are alcantara seats and stripes. Less than £25k with cloth and plain colours.
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I'm trying to figure out how bad the depreciation can possibly be on a car like that.

30% over 3 years?
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You cannot pay more than about £27K for the heated part-leather seat version.

Well, you can if you start putting stupid stuff on it.

Depreciation? Who cares? If you sell a bought-new car after three years, you deserve to be bum-raped. If it loses 40%, it's 16 large, if it loses 60% it's ten large.

It'll be worth five forever almost...
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In my head depreciation has got worse, people don't like older cars.

I've not driven one but they sound better than most of the stuff being churned out currently, light, agile, NA, simple. S2000 like Could do with a bit more power IMHO though


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