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Is this the ex press car that also featured on Top Gear?

Having been fortunate enough to have driven both, personally found the Audi R8 alot more like a 'supercar' in its feel and drive. The Stradale was superb but did still feel like a big GT car. An Audi R8 at £50k with that 5.2 V10 out of the Lamborghini is amazing value IMO.

On CC you have to keep your cool as a seller too as you get calls to lower/remove the reserve price set (close to the auction end time) if CC feel they may not achieve the sale. This is understandable as they are incentivised to make a sale happen so they get their 6%.

Had the Ferrari warranty on one of my previous cars, and having read the small print it pretty much only covered engine and gearbox. It was around £3.5k for a year, however despite its pretty woeful coverage I slept a bit better at night knowing the big ticket items were covered.

Agreed, not sure the article makes the dealer look great in this specific scenario. Having read the article if I had a rare car like a GTO or the like to sell or px, I would not want to approach this dealer given they are likely to offer me less than half my cars value in the hope I would be...

I agree, a 599 GTO I expect is anywhere between £400 - £600k, so if it was genuine no doubt they would have been laughing all the way to the bank when they then sold it on for a cool £250-300k profit.

If I am correct, I know this car. All the options are factory spec with the exception of the carbon look roof. It has the some pretty rare and no doubt expensive options like carbon fibre rear diffuser, carbon fibre exhaust tips and other interior ones like Carbon fibre instrument cluster with...

Thanks, I am forever grateful to have owned and experienced these cars but as is always the case with these things, the 'Still dreaming of owning....' list is even bigger :)

Good catch :) Yes, I meant LP560 although the Gallardo I had was remapped to circa. 600bhp when I had it. The Murcie LP640 is still very much on the bucket list!

good opportunity to reminisce about ones old flames!! My list, only going back 10-15 years or so in no particular order ..... Audi R8 V8 Lamborghini Gallardo LP560 Maserati Granturismo Sport BMW M3 (in E46 and E92 guise) McLaren 650S Porsche 911 Turbo Ferrari F430 Porsche 911 Carrera Mercedes...

Was bought from a Maserati Dealer (Nottingham) I believe around 6 months ago hence the warranty. Was available at between £60-65k when I spoke to sales there at the time, so I expect the current owner is trying to make a few quid on the back of the used car market being very strong at the moment.

Unfortunately seems white, black and grey are very popular colours when people bought these cars new. I for one haven't seen many with bits like the carbon exhausts and what looks like a different rear diffuser etc.

Thats good to know, so these options are available from factory. At approx £10k for that lot alone before other options I can see now why not many are available with that sort of spec.

I see this car has carbon fibre in places I haven't seen on others like the side sills, exhausts, mirrors, rear diffuser fins and carbon all over interior bits like instrument/dials and paddles. etc. Does anyone know how much this would cost to option or is it an aftermarket add-on? If it was...

I remember calling the Maserati dealer selling this very car a few months back, and with a bit of negotiation it was available at around £65-66k so I suspect the current owner who bought it is trying his luck :)