Stupid car

damn - the pitfalls of owning a high performance car... just shelled out 700 big ones for a service.

owning a car that is high performance and less common on the road seems to equate to high cost replacement parts. so many components on my car seem to need specialist parts, e.g.

gas discharge headlight bulbs - 100 quid each (these are just the bulbs! normals bulbs are like 3 quid for a normal car)

platinum sparkplugs - 60 quid each compared to prob 1 quid for a normal car

sports tyres - i paid 75 quid each, actually not too bad, as the honda garage charges 150 quid normally!

starting to make me reconsider owning a performance car, the M5 will definately cost much more to service! looking around asia, they seem to really favour mini MPVs, the new Mitsubishi Space Wagon looks nice... maybe I am getting old but there's something to be said for comfort and lounging space in a car over hard suspension and an eager thristy engine. TBH you can't really appreciate a performance car in London all that often and the extra money saved would come in handy.... however being outpaced by Vicki in her CTR would be the death of me. I'll wait and see what she buys first i think!!