Right, what's your dream combination of model, year, colour, state of tune/history?. And what would youy pay for it?

Here goes with mine:
2000X Yellow 20VT Plus with the airbag recaros completely standard with the factory sunroof. Full service history by Motormech/Powerfiat/AutoItaliana(local specialist)
Sub 100,000 miles full history in mint condition.

I'd pay up to £8000 for such a vehicle and wrap it in cotton wool and only take it out on dry days

vince gray le 0 miles on clock and never left the forcourt only to come to my liveingroom by lowloader

It would have to be either a Vinci LE or Pearly white / electric blue plus.

A safe and reliable 300bhp with tons of low down torque, maybe a slight bit of subtle window tinting and lowering, 10mm spacers, but not too much.

Model: Plus

Colour: Sprint Blue

Year: Whatever year they started making the Sprint Blue Plus

History: Would be nice, especially if genuine

Tune: Standard, so I know it's only me that's been bodging things afterwards

Cost: Up to it's value? 6/7K ish?

Mileage: Don't care, the more it's done, the better, as most big jobs would have been done

Certainly wouldn't be wrapped in cotton wool though, it would be an every day driver, like my Coupe is now. A car is there to be driven whenever you need it, not just to look pretty and stay dry

The same as I spent on the the one on my drive. Actually the one on my drive would be it. SPRINTY all the way

Yellow Plus, all the way. Just a pipe-dream though.

The first and oldest 16v NA, in black metallic, nicely run in and regularly used, one owner from new... oh, wait...

I'm with Neil - I'd love one of the first UK press 16v N/A cars, probably in yellow, totally standard, with stupidly low miles. Classic in the making and probably the most valuable Coupe in the long run.

However, it would be nice to have a mint low mile 16VT of the same age in red parked next to it.

A Speed Red plus for me. Totally standard. Once that gets written off the i would get have an Energy green plus

Hmm would be a new Vinci 0 miles

Or a yellow or energy green plus again with 0 miles

Judging by the responses so far, am I in a minority of people here who actually own their ideal Coupe?!

I've got a '98 SprintBlue 20VT 92,0000 miles. Well looked after thanks to the two previous owners.

My dream is.......... after I pick up the lottery cheque, I'd get all the panels removed and remade to exact specs in a slightly thicker guage metal so that the doors don't dent all the time. Italian metal is crap and isn't fit for food use let alone car production.

A dodge viper... well it's a coupe

No, I agree with you - I've got my dream car. I've wanted one since before I could drive.
Ok, when I say dream I'd rather have a Murcielago, but I can't afford one...

Ahhh but that's because we both have impeccable taste in colour and spec

One thing that does worry me - this pointless predilection for low mileage... why?

It's a *car*. It's to *drive*. If you just use it as sculpture, what's the point? It's something that regularly winds me up in Classic and Sportscar - adverts for forty year old 'classics' with '4,000 genuine miles'... why bother?

Get in those cars and *drive* them, before the various governments decide you can't!

Agree, drive it like you stole it, just check the oil too though

Possibly - but I join you

*4WD or RWD
*better chasis
*400bhp+
*no rattles

£10-15k

One that's reliable! A dark coloured one (not fussy) with beige leather interior would suit me - 20vt obviously! As far as how much to pay, I would pay more for one that Paul at Motor-Mech had been running for a while (or someone at PowerFiat) but I suppose between £5-£7k.

or one that can drive on water

20VT LE with completely standard exterior in mint condition.

Stripped of all parts and rebuilt using new uprated parts where applicable eg suspension, brakes etc.

Maroon/Wine Red with Tan Hide.

Climate & all the toys

Second engine in the boot.

Both engines forged with dirty great turbos pumping ~400bhp each.

Then I'd have fun playing with 1L bikes, scaring the sh1t out of anyone in the passenger seat and then trying to make it handle corners.

Dream on...!

Nope I have mine just wish I was around when they were new!

You mean you weren't around in 1998?!

That makes you.. err.. nine years old then!!

Perfectly happy with mine, especially as I've started to mildly tune it.

My only regret if that's the right word, is how much prices have dropped over the past 12 months. So much so that Highwayman's selling his well modded coop for what I paid for my standard one 15 months ago. However, every future classic goes through this stage and I still intend to have mine when prices start to climb again.

have to be the vinci le i own a black one as it was cheap as chips at the time.Have to be absolutly standard with a few engine mods

I love my coupe its just how i want it (maybe with a new front bumper) but i would like a fault free engine with a forever warranty on it lol

One of those rare Sprint Blue Pluses with full specialist service history and about average miles I guess.
Oh, hang on... i join the people here who actually own their ideal Coupe too

I would get a cherished, black 20vt with Tan glove leather seats - Stunning

Model: Plus with the full monty including sexbag Recaros but no sunroof

Colour: A fresh coating of the finest Moon Grey mix which can possibly be dreamt up

Year: 2000/X on a private plate

History: I know it

Tune: Nowt but a chip and an Armval, 250ish BHP

Cost: In pound notes, probably/hopefully the most expensive (barring the 2.4s) on the forum. In reality - priceless!

Mileage: Whatever it's done

Availability: Soon? Please??