You’re old school and want a proper Porsche. Should you?

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So Great Aunt Mildred has left you some cash and rather than do the proper thing and save it, or put it towards a mortgage, or buy the wife that massive rock she always wanted, you have chosen to blow the lot on a Porsche. But not just any Porsche, you have chosen to go back to its air cool days and to those magic numbers, 993. 

Should you buy a Mercedes Benz 500 SL R129?

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Under the bonnet you get a fuel injected, double overhead cam, 32 valve, 5 litre V8 that produces 320 bhp / 240 kW, and 450 Nm of torque. When new, it could drive all day at the limiter, 155 mph (250 km/h). It hit 100 km/h in around 6 seconds and 160 in under 15. Not bad for a car that weighs a fat man short of 2 tonnes.

Alfa Romeo GT, hmmmm, mmmm

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I say hmmm because it’s the first thing that comes to mind. “It’s an Alfa,” for those un-initiated in the Alfisti, is synonymous with it’s a piece of shit, let’s face it. Not to look at mind, but with respect to reliability.

Should you buy a BMW 635 CSI?

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As far as I was concerned, Bruce Willis could never top being David Addison. As a 16 year old, I didn’t know that receding hairlines and patterned jumpers could be so cool. I tried to emulate him, but it became obvious that such a look only suited someone 25 years my senior and what self respecting teenage girl looks twice at a boy sporting a wooly crew neck sweater?