What should Horse buy to replace Godzilla?

I loved mine. Not a bad choice for you actually.

 

I am sure I was... a friend of mine bought one at the same time, he has 3 times the km on his for the same age... and it has now started to have the very same stresses. Except his is now out of warranty and VW are not being helpful...

The challenge with a DSG is that the clutch is a 'consumable' item, and having seen the invoices, the replacement is not for the faint hearted.

We have a Polo pool car for the PA to do her shopping... it has that 'false neutral' thing my R32 had... you try to take off at the lights, put the accelerator foot down, and nothing. Lift off the throttle, boot it to within an inch of its life as everyone behind blows their horns in anger... and it takes off... It too has loved visiting (a different) dealer a lot.

Even the one on long term test in Wheels has that stupid problem....

And we sont even talk about the shunting at low speed when the clutch wears a bit....

 

I always thought the clutches in those things are designed to last the lifetime of the car. Looks like I was wrong....again!

 

Great idea. If I were in your shoes it would be the first car I'd try.

 

Knowing me it'll be out of left field.
There is an 86(yes,that old)535 M5 5 speed on ebay that is up to $8K out of reserve.
He had it for sale for $9K privately.It's the right colour and they are an awsome old hotrod.
This car reads very well.

I had an auto standard car for a brief time and thought it pretty good.

 

Maybe BJ can broker the deal!

 

Well perhaps,but then again you'd have a(possibly)great car and $140K in the bank/Avco lending.

 

https://www.news.com.au/technology/innovation/motoring/motoring-news/nissan-to-build-15m-gtr50-by-italdesign/news-story/d16a6872c94f62b04af79855d2c5ff78

 

Looks great.

Cheap too.

 

Horse is loaded....he'll probably buy a fleet.

 

Hang on you mean they're not?

 

It will blow over.

So to speak.

NTTAWWT

 

Too many words, but I fixed it

 

So fast it doesn't look real.

 

Yeah

 

Who cares?
Put 2000hp in any car and it’ll be ridiculously fast.
Bit like a “really fast” Tesla: Yawn.
At least if it was in a Ferrari it would look good and be desirable.

 

.....that sounds like a Godfreys special...

 

Scott often refers to it as an "appliance"

 

How have the R35s held up? First gen are now ~10 years old. Have they all turned into grenades or turned out to be reliable?

 

Have you ever seen inside a GTR engine? They're truly built to race engine standards, beautiful engineering everywhere and no corners cut.

I've see grenaded straight 6's, but they were all boosted to ridiculous levels.