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yah, i've not thought of that. i wonder what the rates would be where i live. i've been surprised how low they are for other pie-in-the-sky things I've been interested in (like mid-80s Maserati BiTurbo sedans, RR Silver Cloud IIs, etc). Collision/comprehensive would probably be hideous, near-unimaginable.

The Kevlar is a great idea. sure beats having your lip spoiler reconstructed on a yearly basis!

-Luke

I pay $900 every 6 months for that car (New York State), and $400 for my BMW which just has liability. I added the car in 2005, before insurers in North America knew anything about it, and it's listed as a "LOTS" instead of a "LOTUS". So maybe their computer just hasn't caught up with me. I don't plan to shake that tree.

In some US states (e.g. Wisconsin) it could be possible to insure it for as little as $500 every 6 months with full coverage, clean record and high FICO score.

I'm thinking of switching the Lotus to liability on the "don't insure anything you can afford to lose" principle.

That, my friend, is a Maybach. The one pictured is a 57, though the one I want is a 62. It's an ultra-luxury saloon car, usually chauffeur driven, made by the company that runs Mercedes.

Here's the interior:

I know what a Maybach is. I just haven't seen many of them. My next question would be, are you hiring?

Well, I'm also curious about maintenance cost on that car.

I don't actually have one, its my future car really, and I do have every intention of buying one eventually.

The maintenance cost, from what I know (this is one of my main obsessions), is high in terms of parts, but the cars themselves are very reliable and rarely go wrong. So, it's usually fine, but when something goes wrong you'll be paying out lots.

Though, this is a ~£300,000 car, people who have that money to spend on such a car shouldn't have much of a problem running it

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i have been released from n00bie purgatory - here's an approximation of my car, with its clamshell hood opened. This is an 84, mine's an 85 - pretty much the same except that mine's black with a white pinstripe, and has steel wheels with the stainless-steel dog-dish hubcaps instead of alloys.

See:

[img][650:421]http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/c/c3/1985-SAAB900CD-front.jpg/800px-1985-SAAB900CD-front.jpg[/img]

schweet, eh?

-Luke

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wow, there's a pipe-dream! a Maybach!

i'm biased, though. i prefer Crewe-built Bentleys.

-Luke

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I don't have a car, but my family's car is a silver PT cruiser, last time I checked, with some duct tape holding the mirror to the car since it fell off when a tree branch hit it. Stupid tree branch took out the car's mirror and the telephone wire. We then proceeded to take out the tree.

Bentleys are very nice, too. I like the Continental GT and the Azure. I plan to buy one of these to drive in Monaco:
[img][650:600]http://sanchez92.blogdiario.com/img/bentley-azure.JPEG[/img]

Well, been driving this 98 Grand Prix GTP around for a while now (and still under 100k miles )
A real pic of the car (well only pic I have of it)




as for some better pics to show on angle (same car but not mine)

I have had this car since 1992, used to be yellow but I recently took it apart and rebuilt it.
3 ltr V8 for those who dont know a Staaag

This is my Toyota IQ. Economical, efficient, quiet. In fact a very clever car, as the name suggests ...

Secondhand with audiovisualrentals on the sides, which I find funny.