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2000 TVR Tuscan 4.0 Speed Six

Posted: August 25, 2008 by The Car Spy in General, TVR
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We collected a Paris Blue TVR Tuscan the other day to sell on behalf of the owner and this entailed a stop-start slog across the best and worst parts of South London. It was a Friday and it was 5.30 pm. Nice. Tuscans are not made for life in the slow-lane. Everything about them is manic. The looks, the noise – it’s a kind of Hannibal Lecter of sports cars. Even when it’s parked up all quiet quiet and docile it looks like it could bite your head off. Fire it up and it gets tetchy and angry with its cammy exhausts cackling and spitting daring you to let it off its leash. So it ain’t no wallflower and don’t expect to go anywhere unnoticed. We have driven all sorts of exotic dream-machines (it’s a job and somebody has to do it!) and inevitably some people will often stop and stare either to admire or in some cases express their feelings with a gesture of derision that is recognised internationally and in some countries you can get arrested for. So flash cars stir all sorts of emotions. Drive the Tuscan and the first thing you notice are people waving and smiling. My colleague who was following in a rather expensive, tasty 911 was able to witness all of this from his vantage point. The Porsche was completely ignored – he may as well have been driving a Transit van. On one occasion when the Tuscan was parked at a red light a hooded young lad ran up and knocked on the driver’s window – I thought we were going to get robbed. “Nice car, Mister!” he shouted with a smile as wide as a mile. Even the muggers fall for this car’s charm. So the Tuscan made a whole bunch of new friends South of the river and for a car that started life at the turn of the millennium it has bags of street credibilty. Everyone loves ’em and they look incredibly good value these days. This stunning Paris Blue example has only done 18,000 miles with two owners and comes complete with the all-important TVR service history. What else can you buy for less than £14k with 360 bhp, can do 0-60 mph in 3.6 seconds and has as much respect as any £100k ‘supercar’ available today? Click here to see Hannibal for yourself.

Brand New Aston Martin V8 Vantage Roadsters and Coupes!

Posted: August 20, 2008 by The Car Spy in Aston Martin, General
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TheCarSpy.Net are delighted to announce the availability of a few select examples of Aston Martin’s fantastic V8 Vantage with huge savings! Be quick because we expect these to go fast! All are UK cars and main dealer supplied…we are even able to supply a very few limited production N400 examples! The N400 was built to commemorate the company’s racing successes at the famous Nürburgring circuit. The car was also first unveiled at the 2007 Frankfurt Motor Show. The N400’s 4.3L V8 is tuned to produce 400 bhp, hence its coded name, and the car also features a sports pack which includes lightweight graphite-finished wheels, uprated springs and dampers and a new rear anti-roll bar. The N400 is available in three special paint colours; Storm Black, Lightning Silver and Karussell Orange (aptly named after the Karussell on the ‘ring’). Every N400 also comes with perforated leather trim, including a map of the Nürburgring stitched on the centre armrest, and a numbered plaque…in fact Aston Martin tested the car at the Nurburgring Nordschleife circuit where it was able to complete a lap in under eight minutes. Fortunately the N400 is available in both Coupe and Roadster form, so at least those who like a bit of wind-in-hair action will be able to take up a fantastic opportunity too!

For more details on the availability of these fantastic examples please call Mark on 0845 643 2047 or email sales@thecarspy.net 

2000 Audi B5 RS4 Avant

Posted: August 17, 2008 by The Car Spy in Audi, General
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There is no doubting the RS4’s massive appeal. The car’s towering ability as a performance car has been confirmed in countless tests and reviews the world over. The car is brilliant, period. But there is something wrong. Audi just don’t make enough of them. The first ‘RS’ was the RS2 introduced in 1994 and a handy little weapon it was too. Over 300 BHP and 0-60mph in less than 5.0 seconds was pretty heady stuff for an ‘estate car’ back then so cult status was assured from day one.  The RS2 was discontinued in 1996 after a measly 2891 examples were built. This was not because the RS2 was in any way a sales flop for Audi but the company just decided to stop making them. It’s a bit like ending a football match at half-time. It then took the company another 4 years to launch their next teaser, the B5 RS4. This time Audi went to bed with Cosworth to produce the very lively 375 BHP V6 Bi-turbo that gets the car to 100 mph in less than 12 seconds. Once again the RS version only came as an ‘Avant’ but the appeal was forever present as the market gobbled up all 6030 units made between 2000 and 2001. Then suddenly the ref blew the full-time whistle and this time the market was starved of the RS4 until the arrival of the B7 RS4 nearly FIVE years later! The upshot is this – if you want an RS4 either buy a brand-new one while they are still in production or trawl the ads for a used model. Don’t expect a huge amount of choice in the pre-owned market though particularly if you are looking for an earlier example such as the B5 we are selling on behalf of the owner. This lovely example is finished in Goodwood Green – how rare is that, for goodness sake! The Recaro seats are trimmed in black leather and the specification is pretty impressive with SatNav, BOSE speakers and an electric sunroof included. For more information just click here.

2008 Audi R8 R-Tronic

Posted: July 31, 2008 by The Car Spy in Audi, General
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It’s an impressive car the R8. Even in photos the car doesn’t have bad angle. Standing there in front of one though you get the whole package of eye-candy all at once. You spend ages walking around the car looking at the detail of the design marvelling at how it all hangs together so well and then appreciating that it looks bigger and has more presence than it appears in the photographs. It’s a car that looks like it’s doing a ton when it’s standing still. The build-quality is superb too and so it should when they use lasers to scan the car’s gaps and joints during the build process. R8’s used to fetch huge premiums when they were first launched and although pricing has now settled down you will still have to join a waiting list for a speccable car. However, if you want one today with nice low miles we have just added an Audi UK supplied Ice Silver example that we are selling on behalf of the owner. This one has the sought-after Magnetic Ride Option and the R tronic sequential gearbox. The sideblades are exclusively painted to match the body colour and the interior is in matching grey Leather with Alcantara panels. With only 500 miles on the clock this R8 is barely run-in and the condition is as you would expect for a car with such low miles. For full details of this stunning R8 please click here.

2008 BMW M3 DCT Cabriolet

Posted: July 22, 2008 by The Car Spy in BMW, General
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Whenever BMW launch a new version of the M3 the world holds its breath in anticipation of how on earth the company could improve on a car that is so good at what it does. And yet they have done it again. The E90-93 series moves the game on with its lightweight V8 420 hp power unit (that’s a awful lot more than the outgoing E46 version) and a choice of Coupe, Saloon, Estate and Cabriolet. A car indeed for all reasons! The cabriolet version is only just starting to ship to BM dealerships and we know of a brand new Jerez Black example that will be available for some lucky individual to purchase for this September. This is the DCT version that will come with a Bamboo leather interior plus SatNav, 19″ M-Spoke Alloys, Electronic Damper Control, Electric Mirrors, Mirror Anthracite Dash Trim, Through-Load System, Heated Front Seats, USB Bluetooth, Telematics, DAB Radio and Hi-Fi Loudspeaker System. Price £62995. Did you know that the DCT (Double Clutch Transmission) or DKG (Doppel-Kupplungs-Getriebe in its native tongue) gearbox is faster than the SMG version it replaces and reduces shift-changes to less than one tenth of a second. Trivia: When Usain Bolt broke the world 100m sprint record in 9.72 seconds each step touched the ground for less than one tenth of a second. So it’s very quick indeed. If you would like more details of this forthcoming M3 cabriolet please email sales@thecarspy.net or give us a call on 01474 854490. For those that can’t wait for the real thing download BMW’s M3 Challenge PC game here. It’s free, takes about 10 minutes to download and install but its well worth it if you fancy flinging a nice white shiny new M3 around the Ring with great abandon!

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