Should I Get A Coupe/Convertible?

With my current car having been in the garage for coming up to 5 weeks whilst they try to work out a relatively economical repair for the gearbox, I have been wondering whether I should get a coupe. I like coupes.

The ones I would consider:

  • Audi TT/TTS
  • Lotus Elise
  • Lotus Exige
  • Mazda MX-5
  •  Toyota GT86 / Subaru BRZ

Of the 5 above, the only one I've never had is the Toyota GT86 / Subaru BRZ. There was a lovely GT86 for sale in like a blood orange colour, alas (or maybe good for me) it was sold on.

I honestly don't want to have two cars. My one car would sit outside my house doing nothing most of the time (two cars = doubly nothing), just work trips and family trips where it would be engaged, and these trips have been infrequent recently. But what if it turned out I was going to be without the car for yet another week!?

What should I do:

  • A: Rent a car
  • B: Buy a car
  • C: Get a courtesy car off the garage who has my car

Option C is the clear winner there. Get the garage who's had my car for nearly a month now to give me a courtesy car.

But if I decided, to hell with the family car, I'll get a coupe for me, what might I get.

What about this!? 😊

Of the 5 cars I mentioned in the list above. Lotus has the challenge of "who/where do I go to get it serviced?" and it is a specialist car, so some repairs may be very very expensive, and track days are something in my past. Mazda MX-5 - to be honest I find it a bit small. I've never had a GT86/BRZ and maybe it is too slow (a GR86, now we're talking, but that's way more money than I want to spend.) I loved my Audi TT, it was a Turbo Diesel but I loved it anyway. And I had an Audi TTS courtesy car once and thought it was fabulous. This Audi TTS (in the picture) is a Limited Edition.

In some ways I'm an Audi person!

Audi TTS 2.0 TFSI Limited Edition Coupe 3dr Petrol Manual quattro Euro 5 (272 ps) (2014) | HG Motors Ltd

13.February.2023 - Continued...

The TTS above had already been bought by a finance company when I enquired (seems odd a finance company would buy it.) Never mind. What is meant to be is meant to be.

Looking around further, I've seen a few interesting options:

It often happens that the cars that really take your eye, can be gone in a flash (because they've taken someone else's eye too.)

  • The sensible option is the £20000 one (the 2015 Gen.3 TTS)
  • My favourite option is the £16495 TTRS (it is £16495 on Auto Trader)
  • My bank would most prefer the £10500 Mazda option.

I've said before that I like Audi TT's and especially the Gen. 2 version. Maybe it is time to "Go big or go home!" and get a TTRS 😊!?

Or I just wait patiently to see what happens of my A3. Do I really want the responsibility of owning 2 cars!?

A couple of other options. One at the lower end of the TTS scale and the other if I would consider a convertible (I like it because it has the RS wing):

I think you really need to go for 2010+ as before they were Euro 4 and not Euro 5.

So, of the 7 candidates above, which is my favourite? Well, strangely I like the convertible. Forget the MX-5's as really I want a TT. Forget anything before 2010 (sadly, that includes the TTRS, but I had an RS product in the past and didn't really enjoy it, it was simply too fast for public roads, I've enjoyed my S models much more.) Forget the £11k one as it's not my favourite blue. Forget the £20k one as it's a Gen.3. So we're left with:

I would never have expected that would be my favourite. Hmmm... Should I put a deposit on it 🤣

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