Cars for Cancer, a hypothetical :)

[flappist]

The latest cars for cancer lottery is about to close (25/11) and there are a few tickets left if any of you are keen www.carsforcancer.com.au

The prize is a choice between some strange looking boganmobile with a dinosaur pushrod V8 and a shiny FG F6.

My second F6 was actually a cars for cancer prize that I bought off the dealer as the winner didn't want it (they wanted a RAV 4 instead).

SO:

If you won the cars for cancer prize what would you do?

That the F6? Take the R8? Trade it for cash? Trade it on a different model FPV/HSV? Trade it on a completely different car?

To make it easier for the hypothetical, trade for car is 80% of new value, cash is 70%

And just for something completely different there is a poll.....

[76ZG]

My vote is to take the cash, buy something like an XP or XM to fix up and put the rest on the mortgage....if there's any left

[SLO AU XR8]

I'd take the cash, simply because I honestly could not afford the Insurance on an F6. If I was in a position where insurance was affordable, F6 no doubt.

[sneaky]

was going to say take the F6 hands down as i want to buy a xr6t next year anyway.. but then i thought of the blown 8 and couldn't pass up the chance to buy one of them for only 20% of the retail price

[glavas]

id take cash. id use it to help pay off my 4th house. i own a e2 maloo a 09 wrx and a 09 ssv wagon. i dont need another car. maybe even take the misses to croatia for a couple months...

[Nikked]

Right now...cash.

Need a house. :-)

[Franco Cozzo]

Cash and buy a property.

[Paxton]

I'd keep the car (F6, obviously) . You never look a gift horse in the mouth.

At the end of the day, when it comes time to replace the car, you will still have a car worth something.

[TheInterceptor]

If i dont fall in looovvee with the F6, id trade it in for a dual cab F250 V8 Diesel 4x4 booyah babey.

[flappist]

I am rather dismayed that the majority would take $50k cash instead of $77k worth of F6 (or R8).....and you call yourselves car enthusiasts.....

[Sorted]

HSV or FPV easy choice - Take the F6 orsm looking car and power to match

[|||]

take the cash. as we know the F6 will be lucky to be worth $50k 2 weeks after you drive it off the lot.

[vztrt]

Take the F6, still an absolute ball tearer.

[flappist]

Originally Posted by |||

take the cash. as we know the F6 will be lucky to be worth $50k 2 weeks after you drive it off the lot.

Where do you think the cash is coming from?

It is from selling the prize, they don't actually give you a cash alternative...

[XCwillo]

Trade the F6 on a F6 ute
Untill they release a coupe, im just not really that into the sedans. The utes look much sexier ;)

[|||]

Originally Posted by flappist

Where do you think the cash is coming from?

It is from selling the prize, they don't actually give you a cash alternative...

my mistake. i read the question incorrectly

[Jason[98.EL]]

I'd take the f-6

I don't think i could see myself in a HSV

Jason

[hiper]

Originally Posted by flappist

I am rather dismayed that the majority would take $50k cash instead of $77k worth of F6 (or R8).....and you call yourselves car enthusiasts.....

i voted cash because there are a few things id like to do to my current car

[trippytaka]

Man I just want to win SOMETHING, just once :(

[Powdered Toast Man]

I'd take the F6, keep it for a couple of years and then sell it to either buy a house or help pay off a house depending on if I own one by then. Even if it's only worth 40G in a couple of years thats still 40G more than I have now.

How cany any true blue blood pass up owning an F6 (assuming they don't already or haven't in the past), even if it's only for a little while?

[pottery beige]

Cash Neville.. wheres the bloody cash..??.. got enough cars i take the $$$.....

[noosacuda]

Originally Posted by trippytaka

Man I just want to win SOMETHING, just once :(

Ain't that the truth!!! I'd trade for a Chrysler 300C SRT8 or take the money!

[Nickxb]

Cash with the money being spent on the coupe

[SteveJH]

Cash.

Get through uni now, buy car later.

[Smoke Pursuit]

Id take the cash and used it as a deposit to buy another rental... Ive already got a GT :P

[Scott]

Originally Posted by flappist

I am rather dismayed that the majority would take $50k cash instead of $77k worth of F6 (or R8).....and you call yourselves car enthusiasts.....

Perhaps if you had of asked the same question two years ago you would have had a different answer. I'd like a new F6, I'd love a new GT but $50k would pay to finish my reno's - without me doing it all. Add one sweet little bundle of joy that has retired my wife and the cash would be nice to have... I used to know what that was like!!

[Fev]

Trade for a new GS Manual sedan, use the rest of the cash to buy myself another Ford Escort MKII (this time with good brakes)

[UNR8D]

F6 without a doubt, sell my lexus and clear some debt no way in hell would I be trading a new F6.

[Nikked]

Originally Posted by flappist

I am rather dismayed that the majority would take $50k cash instead of $77k worth of F6 (or R8).....and you call yourselves car enthusiasts.....

Well, not everyone is rich did you think of that? I would love a F6, but i still have a lone to pay off, a need to buy a house and furnish it.


Of course i could keep the F6 and live with my parents untill im 40...

[Franco Cozzo]

I'm a P plater, so I couldn't drive it anyway, lol.

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