StuartW
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I wonder why the 2 seat has a 3 scoop bonnet. It's extremely expensive and you'd have to be someway short of the full deck to pay that much for an extra air scoop. It would be enough to make me look elsewhere. Redline don't have the best reputation is it was on sale there. It smells off to me somehow.
The 2 seaters seem to be sitting mid 60s right now with the 4 seaters at 72+ so there is still a 10-15% difference. I think mine has gone down about 3-5k since I bought it which is not too bad. I'd be very happy with that throughout the lifetime of my ownership. Every car depreciates from the list price quickly and them settles down, it looks to me like that's been happening in the past 18 months or so and hence why I'd still say that the Stradale makes the best ownership proposition. The GTS, by contrast has recently dipped to £32+ which is now bargain territory. They where £40+ when I bought the Stradale.
The Romans car looks like great value however the mileage is getting into clutch territory for the Stradale. Matt and I were discussing this and it seems 20-25k miles for a Stradale and 35k miles (ish) for a GTS. It doesn't mention whether this has been done but I'd be wanting a £3k discount if it's not. Otherwise, looks like a nice one indeed and the seller is very well known too.
I was thinking the same about the bonnet - surely the original bonnet suffered some damage?
Agreed about the clutch, although mine would have had a harder life than most with a few of the journalists doing their 0-60 tests and it still lasted until 21k miles. I will be challenging myself to get 30k out of this one as I am the only one to have driven it on this clutch and I try not to be stupid with it too often