How to spend £5000 on a fun car #209

The Intercooler

Dan Prosser and Andrew Frankel

Cars, The Intercooler, Car, Motorsport, Supercar, Leisure, Automotive, Intercooler, Driving

4.8 • 868 Ratings

🗓️ 29 April 2024

⏱️ 49 minutes

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Dan Prosser and Andrew Frankel have been trawling the classifieds looking for the best cars that can be bought for £5000 or less. From hot hatches to sports cars and even luxury saloons, you can still buy plenty of interesting cars for a reasonable four-figure sum. There are sensible and practical options at that money, but plenty of more ambitious avenues the more gung ho among us may choose to wander down...

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0:00.0	Welcome to the Intercooler Podcast.
0:05.0	Hello everybody.
0:07.0	Welcome back to the Intercooler Podcast with me, Dan Prosser,
0:11.0	Andrew Frankel, my co-host.
0:12.0	This is episode 2009.
0:14.4	Yeah.
0:15.4	We're talking about fun for five grand.
0:17.6	Yeah.
0:18.6	The used cars, the fun used cars that you can buy for 5,000 pounds.
0:21.4	Yes.
0:22.4	We'd like to bring it back down to earth sometimes
0:23.6	don't we? Because in this line of work it's so easy to find yourself talking about very
0:29.6	very, very expensive cars very, very often. McLaren's of Ferraris.
0:32.6	Yes.
0:33.4	But also, even when we're talking about modern hot hatches
0:36.4	or sports cars, everything seems to become so expensive
0:40.3	that you're talking about 40 grand cars, aren't you?
0:42.4	Yeah, yeah, and you know you know well we don't spend an awful lot of time talking about
0:46.7	EVs, but you know, but also you know it's really sort of you know not fun not sporting not recreational just modern everyday what we might call bread and butter cars
0:56.7	they are so expensive these days yeah yeah they are yeah so let's not talk about them anymore
1:02.4	no let's talk about how much fun you can have for five grand. Yeah, and you can that's the point isn't it? Yeah, you really can. Yeah, I was I was pleased actually with what what what's out there for 5,000 pounds? What I did was right right, I went on the piston-heads classifieds, I selected all makes and all models.
1:17.2	Well, blime. Then it's very clever, actually, the sort of filtering you can do on the piston-ess Classified. I selected manual gearbox.
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