[lamborghinifan]

So after some second third or even fourth opinions on a little dilemma I have popping around my head. I'm tossing up buying a seven seater.

I currently own
-a beautiful wm2 caprice with the 6l. Performs flawlessly for family and touring duties. Lively enough and obviously comfortable and big enough.
- a fun zippy supercharged Mini Cooper s for school runs and relatively cheap town duties.

I'm toying with
- keeping the caprice which has been mechanically a1 and getting a boring diesel territory or xc90 diesel for local duties, but still pretty cheap to run.

Or

-keeping the mini for fun, and getting a big petrol v8 Audi Q7, or territory turbo Ghia To replace the caprice

Fuel isn't cheap enough to burn in a big daily, so it's mainly ok highway economy that matters for the long trips (by that I mean circa 10l-12L/100) in one of the big girls. Looking at approx 20k for a caprice replacement, 12k for a mini replacement.

The way I see it is
-Terri turbo ghia. Nice, powerful, thirsty. Not as many or as good creature comforts as the caprice. Average third row. Cheap repairs. (Owned non ghia previously)
- diesel Terri. Adequate but boring. Average 3rd row space, and boot behind 3rd row. Comparable running costs to sc mini. Cheap to repair. Titanium diesel likely out of price range, so basic equipment options only.
- diesel xc90. Good value, well equipped, reasonably economical, but repairs questionable. Great 3rd row and boot. Better features than later model ford. Is fwd/awd .
- Audi Q7. 4.2 petrol, nearly as quick at TTG. thirsty. Very good equipment. Good third row and boot. Great towing. Very risky for repairs.
-v8 xc90. Slowest v8 of them all. But good equipment. Questionable repairs.

For all this, I do count myself privelaged to have owned the caprice, possibly the pinnacle of Aus motoring, and already owned 4 big fords.

Give me some comments to chew on!