Whats your daily drive , how lucky is this guy

lozcb

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Mrs Loz not planning on hooning around in them while you're off prospecting, then, Loz?
She will drive the GTC at some stage , but she hasnt driven for 9 months due her calf accident and subsequent Partial knee implant , poor gal has been through it and only now finding her feet again ....pardon the pun ................masser is a strict no no after her event in the previous gransport screaming up the road first into second no problem , all of a sudden forgot he left from right and surged it bac into first instead of third ................that put her right off and a few blue words from me didnt help
 

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This is my daily drive. Just 31,000 miles, imported it myself from Japan. Getting some mods done next week. Should be good for 400 BHP.

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Such great cars from Japan, undersides like new, unlike the typical rot of similar vintage UK cars. I have just returned from Bristol docks helping a friend with a couple of imports he is selling, a 20k mile BMW 525i Msport touring and a 55k mile Volvo V70 T6 polestar (4wd rocket ship Q car!). Both under 10k. They make great everyday cars as they take depreciation and ULEZ out plus 290 per year RFL. Great for every day use.
 
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Such great cars from Japan, undersides like new, unlike the typical rot of similar vintage UK cars. I have just returned from Bristol docks helping a friend with a couple of imports he is selling, a 20k mile BMW 525i Msport touring and a 55k mile Volvo V70 T6 polestar (4wd rocket ship Q car!). Both under 10k. They make great everyday cars as they take depreciation and ULEZ out plus 290 per year RFL. Great for every day use.
So true! All of my cars now are from Japan. The Jag, Alfa, and the Ghibli. It's remarkable how well preserved they are. I think apart from not salting their roads the Japanese have such strict rules around 'road-worthiness' plus (generalising here, but generally true) a sort of cultural mechanical sympathy that their 'exotic' (anything European and not home-market) cars are really looked after extremely well.
 

Guy

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So true! All of my cars now are from Japan. The Jag, Alfa, and the Ghibli. It's remarkable how well preserved they are. I think apart from not salting their roads the Japanese have such strict rules around 'road-worthiness' plus (generalising here, but generally true) a sort of cultural mechanical sympathy that their 'exotic' (anything European and not home-market) cars are really looked after extremely well.
I guess when you live in cities as densely populated as most Japanese people do, your car is not a tool for commuting but something to appreciate on more special trips, hence the low mileages. Many of the imports I have seen look barely sat in! On average I think the Japanese are a bit smaller of backside too! Their MoT also includes damage to paint so they drive cautiously and the annual RfL becomes the same as the car's value at 10 years old so at this stage they mostly go to auction. With shipping, agency fees, duty and tax it is amazing what we can buy for not a lot of money. Frees funds for the important cars, the Maseratis! This pic was taken of one of my BMW 750s I ran for a couple of years after 13 years in Japan....
 

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boomerang

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Same experiences here.
Bought a 500SL a few years ago, imported from Japan with only 37K kms.
Looked like a new one, inside, outside, bottom.
But still, i had my share of pain with it.
Cars that are used only incidental, have theire own problems to solve.

From Oktober to April our recent Ghibli is the daily drive, the other months are for the R230 SL500 and a R107 420SL.
( the Gransport still sitting there alone, looking beautifull every day)
R230 especially for our vacations to Itally, because it is a very comfortable and safe drive.
Top down, while driving the Stelvio- or Splugen pass with a growling V8.......looking forward to that.