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Re: Recommend Me a Car - Performance Hatchback or Coupe for Less Than £20k
« Reply #15 on: March 20, 2012, 07:02:17 pm »
Cayman S you should be able to pick up an alright 06/07 example for £20kish now and if your only doing 5k miles a year maintenance shouldn't bee too costly either. Handles like a dream, sensible amount of power for the roads and sounds amazing at full chat.

Another one would be a 2010/11 low mileage factory jcw mini c211hp with a remap up to 260-80 is good fun in 1130kg car, raspy exhaust and again handles brilliantly.



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Re: Recommend Me a Car - Performance Hatchback or Coupe for Less Than £20k
« Reply #16 on: March 20, 2012, 07:04:17 pm »
20k lots of choices if age of car not an issue u could get a porsche, merc sl500 or aston martin db7 list is endless :signLOL:

SL500? You can get an SL55 for that money now. Driven one of those at Brooklands, God the noise, I nearly had a mancident!  :rolleye:

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Re: Recommend Me a Car - Performance Hatchback or Coupe for Less Than £20k
« Reply #17 on: March 20, 2012, 09:59:22 pm »
Facelift S3 or Focus RS  :party:

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Re: Recommend Me a Car - Performance Hatchback or Coupe for Less Than £20k
« Reply #18 on: March 21, 2012, 04:59:11 pm »
As a tuner I am in the fortunate position to get to drive most modern hot hatches/sports cars. I drove a 135i and loved it so I bought one. For your budget you could get a nice example with the later DCT box and the more economical n55 engine.

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Non-runflats, Quaife ATB limited slip diff, Remus exhaust, Sedox stg1 map and Bilstein B12 pro kit.

It does everything well, enough power for any situation (380hp) handles brilliantly, sounds great, traction is never a probem thanks to lsd, comfortable on a long run and not too bad on fuel. Also boot is huge! Comes with Brembo 6 pots as standard so no need fr brake upgrades.

335i is similar but feels fatter and more relaxed.

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Re: Recommend Me a Car - Performance Hatchback or Coupe for Less Than £20k
« Reply #19 on: March 21, 2012, 05:31:48 pm »
If you don't need 4 seats, ever, then a Cayman or Boxster S. Maybe a Z4M too.

I needed 4 seats, so I got a 135i.
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Re: Recommend Me a Car - Performance Hatchback or Coupe for Less Than £20k
« Reply #20 on: March 21, 2012, 05:46:35 pm »
Ive never been able to work out why, but for some reason i want one of these.  Think i just have a thing for ugly cars  :grin:




They seem to have held their money better than the normal M cars though, and are pretty rare, plus with 321hp it'll be rapido

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Re: Recommend Me a Car - Performance Hatchback or Coupe for Less Than £20k
« Reply #21 on: March 21, 2012, 05:47:39 pm »
I work with the owner of Juiced Up if anyone is looking for tuning parts/kit from the USA for their BMWs.
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Re: Recommend Me a Car - Performance Hatchback or Coupe for Less Than £20k
« Reply #22 on: March 21, 2012, 08:04:10 pm »
Ive never been able to work out why, but for some reason i want one of these.  Think i just have a thing for ugly cars  :grin:




They seem to have held their money better than the normal M cars though, and are pretty rare, plus with 321hp it'll be rapido


That's not ugly mate. I love the look of it! It's just very different, and super-quick to boot.  :happy2:

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Re: Recommend Me a Car - Performance Hatchback or Coupe for Less Than £20k
« Reply #23 on: March 21, 2012, 08:07:01 pm »
Proper hairy chested car that'll frighten you to death if you poke it. Just what you want from a toy!
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Re: Recommend Me a Car - Performance Hatchback or Coupe for Less Than £20k
« Reply #24 on: March 21, 2012, 08:47:49 pm »
Think ferrari liked it as well




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Re: Recommend Me a Car - Performance Hatchback or Coupe for Less Than £20k
« Reply #25 on: March 21, 2012, 09:08:57 pm »
Cayman? Sure you could get an early one for that kinda cash
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Re: Recommend Me a Car - Performance Hatchback or Coupe for Less Than £20k
« Reply #26 on: March 21, 2012, 09:37:31 pm »
I do like a cayman

But what a jaguar XKR


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Re: Recommend Me a Car - Performance Hatchback or Coupe for Less Than £20k
« Reply #27 on: March 21, 2012, 09:43:18 pm »
Hyundai i10.  :popcornsoda:

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Re: Recommend Me a Car - Performance Hatchback or Coupe for Less Than £20k
« Reply #28 on: March 21, 2012, 09:48:49 pm »

But what a jaguar XKR


Behave, the poor lad is only 24. An S5 would be bad enough.

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Re: Recommend Me a Car - Performance Hatchback or Coupe for Less Than £20k
« Reply #29 on: March 22, 2012, 10:27:12 am »

But what a jaguar XKR


Behave, the poor lad is only 24. An S5 would be bad enough.
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