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Originally Posted by 5ABI VT
I have owned a few german cars, VW and a BMW. I sold them because like you mentioned.. they require a fair bit of $$ for maintenance. Im a DIY kind of guy so none of my cars has ever seen a dealer or shoppe (fingers crossed) for the last 15 or so years and hopefully never will. Turning rotors is a fraud in the auto industry in my opinion. it should never be done. $2300 sounds like a lot but if it were me and priced out accordingly I probably could have picked up a used brembo kit or retrofit from another vehicle for the car for that amount scavenging the forums for those cars. Of course I will admit that I do appreciate the level of refinement they provide, its just not in my income range to be able to just drop one off at a dealer and say service it. I have yet to drive anything american that compares to even my e46 M3 in terms of refinement. Even my passat wagon.. puts my ctsv to absolute shame in terms of design, engineering and refinement. But I chose to buy a ctsv because its a pickup truck drivetrain in a 4 door chassis and its cheap to maintain and modify/upgrade when repairs are needed and is a more diy friendly vehicle.
If I had a LOT of money.. I would buy a blue c6 ZR1, paint the roof and b- pillar blue, lower it on coilovers and add some HREs. I would pull the LS9 and sell it to someone looking to do a restomod, and I would plop a fully built no expense spared LT5 in there  . i would also enlarge the window on the hood for obvious reasons  |
If you had a LOT of money, why not just go all the way and install a Mercury Racing QC4v?
That would be a pretty quick 'Vette.