Just a bit of mid-winter "what if" for fun

[ontheplane]

Your numbers come up tomorrow and you are £175,000,000 pounds richer.....

You are allowed by the SWMBO to buy 3 cars.... Can be new can be old, and something "interesting" like a van / motorhome etc....

2 boats - one to keep in UK and one for Abroad.



Assume you will spend £5m on a house with enough garage space to house it all, and £10m helping out friends / family etc and will keep a large chunk to save / invest.....

So lets say you have £100m to spend but obviously you don't have to spend all that........ Plus if you buy something huge you have to keep enough back to run the damn thing!

What would you get, and why?

Silly answers perfectly acceptable...... Just a bit of fun.....

 

[Mr Googler]

I’d buy Itama and change the name to “Noporto Speedboats”

 

[MapisM]

Nick_H already gave the ultimate answer to this conundrum 10+ years ago - see here.
I'm not positive on the Aston Martin, but it's impossible to argue about the rest.

 

[Dino]

Only 2 boats? That’s definitely not enough if the winnings were that big. I already have a cruiser, rib and half share in a racing keelboat.

 

[ontheplane]

Nah his answer is 10 years old - I think things have changed now! - 1 mil won't get as much boat as it did 10 years ago!

 

[Portofino]

Boat wise another Itama a 75 with classic blue hull white none teak top and keep that in the sea , Med .Not interested in crew etc .
Current boat refurb have done by the guys @ XL marine on the same old factory site , then plonk it at the bottom of my garden ( new found holiday home purchased tba ) a villa on an Italian lake .

We would use the 75 in the Med + hotels now and again if big groups , the boats dragged around .I will like that .

We would use my current boat the smaller Itama to nip to the shops esp in the summer to avoid the road traffic around the lake .

Should be enough boat “ fix “ .

 

[MapisM]

( new found holiday home purchased tba ) a villa on an Italian lake.

Do tell, are we going to be neighbours in the future?
Though on 2nd thought, maybe you'd better avoid Lake Como, unless you are prepared to be one of the slowest boats on the water...

 

[Portofino]

Do tell, are we going to be neighbours in the future?
Though on 2nd thought, maybe you'd better avoid Lake Como, unless you are prepared to be one of the slowest boats on the water...

Plenty fast enough for Mrs Porto thanks .In no rush in retirement. Comfort starts to figure in more and more .

 

[Megs20Burt!]

Cars:

1. Tesla, daily driver
2. VW 6.1 Transporter Kombi, family hack, dogs, children, trip to tip etc etc
3. Porsche 2.7RS. The special car tucked away for a little runout every now and then

Boats:

1. 35/40 ft hardtop cruiser with electric propulsion based somewhere south of Torksey, River Trent. Used as secret getaway location, floating caravan, gentle trips upstream.
2. Nordhavn N41. Based in Jersey, exploring the French coast and further afield as required.

Provide reasonable income stream for rest of life.

give the rest away...??

 

[Deleted User YDKXO]

and £10m helping out friends / family etc

Youre kidding I wouldnt give most of my relatives the steam off my s**t

 

[BruceK]

I'd buy a 75 - 120 foot expedition yacht with and cruise the world swapping the Maserati or whatever for something small that will fit and a couple scooters etc. Will need suitable tender etc. Land based home, no thanks. Just a platinum health insurance policy and I'm off.

 

[Sticky Fingers]

Hummm. 3 cars. Why only 3?

Daily, I'd stick to what I have now, Jaguar iPace
Convertible, something classic. Maybe an old Bentley, but not tooooo old... maybe an S2 continental.
Winter hack, the world's best 4x4xfar, the peerless Range Rover. Probably an Autobiography, 5.0 supercharged.

2 Boats. Why only 2?

Flybridge for the Med. Only two of us so not too big, Italian. More research needed but maybe the Feretti 670 with MAN 1200s.
Day / weekend boat for the UK. Something classic. Refurbished and re-engined Supermarine Swordsman maybe (MBY article inspiration), or I might try to acquire Surfury for a keel-up restomod.

Choices choices. But actually if I really had 175m I'd struggle to spend it...

 

[hinch]

only 1 boat for me probably a princess s60 thats it nothing more

 

[ontheplane]

Cars:

1. Tesla, daily driver
2. VW 6.1 Transporter Kombi, family hack, dogs, children, trip to tip etc etc
3. Porsche 2.7RS. The special car tucked away for a little runout every now and then

Boats:

1. 35/40 ft hardtop cruiser with electric propulsion based somewhere south of Torksey, River Trent. Used as secret getaway location, floating caravan, gentle trips upstream.
2. Nordhavn N41. Based in Jersey, exploring the French coast and further afield as required.

Provide reasonable income stream for rest of life.

give the rest away...??

Spooky - My daily driver / Transporter would be same choice (or 4wd Merc Vito / 4wd Transit custom combi) Tesla (or oddly the Kia Niro, so well equipped, nice to drive and really good car - even with all the money in the world - paying double for a car that does the same would stick in the throat.......

My "Fun car" would be the Aerial Nomad tho!



Boats - I'd have a Windy Tornado for the UK with as big engine as I could find to use as a dayboat / overnighter.

But then I don't know what boat I'd have for the Med. Never had enough money to think about it!! Something flybridge, air conditioned, and large enough to support a tender large / fast enough for watersports I think - one of the reasons I asked the question was to see what boats came up with an unlimited budget - but interesting such a diverse choice!

 

[ontheplane]

Boat wise another Itama a 75

Wasn't familiar with the Itama so went to have a look - gorgeous looking boat - dreadful website!! Then went to Ferretti - also a bad website - didn't load properly on my small laptop, no scroll bar! Odd that these clearly very prestigious brands have quite poor web design! Other pages work fine on the laptop so I don't think it's that!

Mind you, not sure I fancy walking to the bow on that 75 with no guard rails - I realise it's for the look - but not terribly safe!

 

[Gixer]

Cars
1. Lamborghini Countach
2. Subaru Impreza P1
3. Bentley Blower No.1

Boats
1. Biggest Southerly I could afford
2. Jet Ski

 

[ontheplane]

Watch top gear when \james May drives a Countach....... thats a real "never meet your heroes" kinda car!

 

[mil1194]

Watch top gear when \james May drives a Countach....... thats a real "never meet your heroes" kinda car!

I often think the same about cars like the Jensen Interceptor. A guy I know (a dealer in ‘odd/non-run of the mill cars) has an early 80’s Audi UR Quattro. I asked what it was like and he said that unless I really wanted it then he wasn’t going to let me out in it. His reasoning is that three of his friends who had taken it for a spin had been so disappointed by it and he didn’t want to burst my dream as well.

 

[ontheplane]

Yes,

I get the "desire" for the old classics - but actually cars are just "better now" and unless you have a reason to want the really old stuff (nostalgia, memories etc) they aren't always that great to actually drive.

Having said that - by "Now" I mean the 21st century, as opposed to stuff from the 60's or before..... There are some great cars from 2000 onwards I think would compare well to cars of today (CL55K from 2004 would be as comfy as anything made now, and more than fast enough for example.....).

Until Honda made the NSX the exotica manufacturers didn't care about things like driving position and so on, but Honda proved you could make a car that was "exotic" that could also actually be used.

 

[Portofino]

Wasn't familiar with the Itama so went to have a look - gorgeous looking boat - dreadful website!! Then went to Ferretti - also a bad website - didn't load properly on my small laptop, no scroll bar! Odd that these clearly very prestigious brands have quite poor web design! Other pages work fine on the laptop so I don't think it's that!

Mind you, not sure I fancy walking to the bow on that 75 with no guard rails - I realise it's for the look - but not terribly safe!

The guard rail thing is a none event ,they are cockpit orientated boats .
Just u tube around to see the use age patterns .
The 38 which Ferretti morphed into the 40 is / was the most popular.It’s now called the 45 s.
In the 12 year production of the 75 since 2008 ish they have made about 26 , same for the 62 about 26 hulls .
Med boats really .
Rumour has it Amarti the Co founder copied Don Aronows design for the 38 , after watching him clean up in offshore power boat races in the Med .Amarti overnight dropped fly bridge building and went straight into this ...

Reflect for a moment where Fairline and Sunseeker where in 1978 / 79 - pissing around with outdrive VP AQ Somthing s struggling to push out 200 Hp .

The rest as they say is history.

You won’t see many in the N sea ,only a handful.