Hello all, I recently joined as I've long loved the looks of the QPV and always wondered about owning one. It feels like if I'm going to do it, I ought to do it soon.
However, by any logical measure it would be an utterly stupid idea. I barely drive any miles at all these days as I work remotely, my only need would be for occasional trips to the office and occasional longer runs "up north". The car would have to live on the driveway too.
Yet I'm still tempted, even if it was just to own one for a year. I could say I'd owned a Maserati!
What are the pitfalls? From reading around on here, it sounds like the subframes are made of paper mache - is there any mitigation for that? And electrical gremlins? Any other things you'd be looking for when buying?
I understand these cars don't like being sat without a battery conditioner, is that because the battery is a bit under-spec or the alarm drains it? Again anything that can be done there?
Feel free to put me off
However, by any logical measure it would be an utterly stupid idea. I barely drive any miles at all these days as I work remotely, my only need would be for occasional trips to the office and occasional longer runs "up north". The car would have to live on the driveway too.
Yet I'm still tempted, even if it was just to own one for a year. I could say I'd owned a Maserati!
What are the pitfalls? From reading around on here, it sounds like the subframes are made of paper mache - is there any mitigation for that? And electrical gremlins? Any other things you'd be looking for when buying?
I understand these cars don't like being sat without a battery conditioner, is that because the battery is a bit under-spec or the alarm drains it? Again anything that can be done there?
Feel free to put me off