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I would have thought so but you’ll need a lot more to go with it 👍
 

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New clutch ! Perhaps a more uprated one as the torque will kill your old one off !
 

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Don't waste the money buy an Aston lol, spent the afternoon working out if I can afford one, told Sharon she can have the R for12k. Nice one on Autotrader for £42k, 4.7 V8 Vantage mmmmmmm
 

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You'd be cheaper in the long run to sell your current RCZ and buy the R.
 

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They are good cars but...... I need new discs next MOT and they are £900 each :(
 

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You can just upgrade your turbo with R's
Not the same of course but good enough
 

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You can just upgrade your turbo with R's
Not the same of course but good enough
Arh but will the rest of the internals take the power? Just buy an R
 
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Arh but will the rest of the internals take the power? Just buy an R FFS!
I agree, my understanding is the R has components made of titanium? I had a 200 but would have liked an R. Very few for sale at any one point though so quite a rare thing. I think there was about 3/4 for sale at the time I looked.


Off topic, I'm from Grimsby too. You aren't the grey one I see about round Littlefield are you?
 

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14 plate, its been a great cat had hte GT86 before. That was awesome, not fat but allot of fun.
 

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grrr autocorrect sorry, also had a V6 MGZS that sounded awesome
 

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arh yes fab car and......I got hit head on by a 4x4. few cuts!! I'll try and find the pics. My partner said how the F@ck did you walk out of that? We wrote to Toyota and thanked them..... Next though mmmmmm Aston? You can get a vantage for 40k now.....
 

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i agree that byuing an r and selling yours is the best solution
all i am saying is that if you look for performance only, instead of swapping the whole engine upgreade your turbo
no it will not achieve the performance of the r because r has better internals but it will satisfy you
with more money and probably less than swapping engines you can upgreade your engine too and probably make more power than the r
 

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It really is what you want, all I would say is.....don't waste money! You can drive a number of supercars on a £500 track experience. :)
 

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It really is what you want, all I would say is.....don't waste money! You can drive a number of supercars on a £500 track experience. :)
If you're worried about replacing the discs on your R then I wouldn't go near owning a 40K Aston, yep it's £40K but it's still the £100K car to maintain......have you looked at the servicing, parts and ownership costs for those?! The £40K purchase is the 'easy part' (4yrs ago they were sub £30K)

e.g this:
  • They need an annual service for £600-£1000 depending on which service & where you go
  • Then there are a few bits that may or may not fail like door modules & lights, which can be pricey but wouldn't put me off & don't seem to be prolific failures - same on any car really
  • The big thing to watch out for are clutches which seem to have varied lifespan depending on usage, if you do mainly longer drive & treat it with sympathy they should be OK for 70-80k but driven badly in heavy traffic & town there are reports of far shorter lifespan. Obviously you can't tell condition on purchase of a manual and you don't know how driven before
  • Brake disks & pads are expensive but you don't have to use Aston Martin parts
  • There are some issues with paint bubbling especially round door handles on earlier cars and because of the type of car you'd want it to be sorted
  • Not good on tax and fuel if these matter, my friend had a 4.3 and got 12-14mpg round town and 18-20 on a run
  • Very mileage sensitive, they seem to drop in desirability once mileage is over about 35,000, not a problem if you buy cheap or don't use much
I worked out that to be safe I would need to budget about £2500 a year for service, a few bits, tires and brakes, over say 3-4 years I'd be amazed if this was that far out as inevitably knowing my luck it would need a clutch, about £2.5K. And a Bamford Rose £6k exhaust upgrade!

Supercars.......Yep do the experience day's I did and realised how underwhelming most 'supercars' are to drive, once the initial buzz it was a McLaren, Ferrari or Lambo etc wore off the thought of spending a huge wad for such a car to use on the UK roads was nonsensical (I'm not old, fat, 60 or middle-eastern and want to drive it round at 20-50mph posing, revving it every now and then in front of a load of twats with iphones and cameras) in driving terms I have had more fun and 'connection' in the R, an MGTF, Elise and a VX220 (but I'm bias). I tend to do reverse man maths having worked out the costs, think that is do-able, but then think what does the car actually do or give me in driving terms in return for the amount I'm spending that I don't have or performance I can actually use.......always ends there for me.

Discs for the R are now a snip at circa £700 a set from Fish Bros
 
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