We Bought 3 Cheap Exotic Cars For Less Than A C8 Corvette (And Found Out How BROKEN They Are)

Some things in life are absolutely certain, death taxes, the unquestionable expertise of Internet commentators, and the fact that if you say something good about a high-performance car today,

they

will quickly step in and let you know that the Corvette c8 It's the best thing ever done. We complained about this a lot to each other, but no one else seemed to listen to us until we met the guys from Auto Tempest. Auto Tempest is a website where you can have all the top car classified sites in one search. in fact, their slogan is all the

cars

a search and Auto Tempest told us to put our money where our mouth is, use Auto Tempest to buy our own

cars

for

less

than AC eight Corvettes, something

exotic

and exciting and then show up at the swampy Central Florida rule for a series of challenges when you say it like that I lived there IMed bullion by Ben wiki I'm Tyler Hoover from Hootie's garage I'm Freddy Tavares Hernandez and this is auto Trek Florida, the land of sunshine, timeshares and things that They can't wait Killing you is arguably not the best place to start a supercar adventure, but I made sure to bring the only car that made any sense.

Say hello to my beautiful Ferrari 360 Spider, a 2002 model, and please forgive the fact that it looks like it has been in operation. an episode of Pitt my trip because I was working on a budget here was much

less

than a new Chevrolet Corvette c8 has only 29,000 miles on the odometer even though it's almost 20 years old and has a clean Carfax now I know I'm not known as the person who makes sound purchasing decisions, but you really can't go wrong with a Ferrari 360 Spider; It is the best value for an

exotic

car that exists and when you proposed to me to post this challenge, it was the The first car that came to mind I immediately went searching on auto timis to find a car and this one was on eBay and it turns out to be the Ferrari Cheapest 360 spider with a clean title in the US I felt pretty good until I heard the sound of EDD no it didn't, how beautiful it is, where in the world are we?

Well, a swamp, aka Freddy's backyard, have you been here long enough to get addicted to crystal meth? No, but I feel like I'm high right now because how did you get this for less than a CA Corvette? Well, you've made an excellent choice. I love a 360 Spider. Thank you. Lovely car and great value compared to a CA, unless of course you can find the

cheap

est Lamborghini Guyardo in the world. These are over 100 grand for the good guys most of the time, yes, but the best thing about Auto Tempest is that you can add additional search terms to whatever you're trying to find, like damaged, salvaged, or even flooded, no, yes, delight your eyes.

Here in my passenger seat and you'll notice some marks indicating the previous water level of this fine car, but it's now a perfectly running and driving 2006 Lamborghini Gallardo Spyder with only 12,000 original miles, yeah, what do you think the nice thing will have brought to the table? ? I have no idea that guy is weird, actually what I

bought

was the complete opposite of weird, what do you think? What is it? So this is a 2015 Aston Martin v12 Vantage S yeah oh okay yeah so this is good it's possibly the most beautiful car in the world it has the golden ratio of two thirds everywhere there are no bad angles in this car I'm 90% sure you cheated I'm 100% sure you cheated because this is a five year old Vantage v12 right, duh, there's no way it's

cheap

er than the base price of a Corvette CA.

No way, what is the base price? Yes, fifty-nine thousand dollars, right, no, I paid fifty-nine thousand. Oh, what did you pay for this? Okay, I paid fifty-four thousand dollars, much less. than the CA Corvette No, so we said CA Corvette, you didn't say anything about the base price, so CA Corvette no one is buying the base model, what

they

are buying is the upgrade package with the nice seats and the nice arrow, this was 69 thousand , which is exactly what someone would pay for air conditioning, a Corvette cheated and thinks a c8 costs 59 grand, right, we weren't alone in this assumption, he definitely cheated.

I don't believe him in this video, you know, does it have a clean title? Yes, that's how it was. It's not because Tyler got too excited riding it, that water line is pretty high, so yeah, you know, but I'd like to think that was what was on one end, it was pretty obvious that we wouldn't agree on who did it. the best car purchase. So what we decided to do was take our keys, put them in the ignition and do the only thing these cars were born to do. It's a beautiful day in Central Florida and I'm driving my closed manual 2006 Lamborghini Gallardo Spyder, which honestly could be any Better than this now, the Lamborghini Gallardo is generally heralded as the best exotic supercar or entry-level sports car because, honestly, they tend to be quite bulletproof.

When he

bought

Lamborghini in 1998, his influence didn't become apparent until the Guyardo. It came out for the 2004 model year in the United States, the 2003 model year, in the rest of the world and in 2006 they removed the roof, so now we have the Gallardo Spyder sports car, it should be manual, this car is manual and it Best of all this is that I'm not driving one of their cars with a paddle shifter I love the sound of the shifter maybe it's not as fast maybe it's not as track worthy or whatever but Oh my god, there is nothing like it and the 360 ​​came out and everyone loved it.

They praised the performance, the engine, you see everything except one person, a very important person, and that was Jeremy Clarkson, he didn't really like the look of it, he said this bigger, more practical car was not a Ferrari, they should not It won't be comfortable or practical and the power-to-weight ratio is the same as the old 355, but for most of his Christmases he said he hated the automated manual transmission, the F1 transmission or whatever he called it and coined the phrase. a paddle shifter as much as I like a closed manual transmission that I can roll myself, this makes sense, it's the first of the modern era, but unfortunately they have a tendency to eat up the clutches very quickly at $5 or $10,000 each, and I'm sure Ed and Freddie are arguing the same thing, but they cheated, they cheated.

I didn't cheat. This is easy to find well under the budget of a new Corvette and offers just as much fun, if not more. Oh boy this is what I'm talking about this is an Aston Martin v12 Vantage S. I love this car this is not only my favorite car but my favorite form of anything. I love the original Vantage. I think they did it right the first time and the v12 is a bit more. muscular, a little more aggressive and makes the best noise. Oh, many people consider this transmission to be from the early years of new technology, which is generally not as good as the later years of old technology.

I think that's pretty much the other way around because This is actually the best single clutch automated manual on the market, it's actually very responsive and there's a little trick: you press the sport button and it makes the gear changes much sharper and it makes the car sound, oh, it makes it so much more agile. and Tyler, they bought the wrong car, they bought the wrong car. I love this thing and while we all spent the morning loving our cars, my Lamborghini decided to do something completely out of the ordinary for an Italian supercar. Oh, speed up, speed up, speed up, come on, I've got it. absolutely nothing damn okay guys we gotta stop and shoot Tyler Tyler pulling behind me I got nothing dead cars dead cars now dead cars it was like the clutch was slipping but honestly the clutch is new so I really can't buy a Lamborghini Guyardo for less than a Corvette c8 that is really worth buying, well this is what it could be without gas, like actually yes, it has just under half a tank.

I feel good, well, yes, a little less than half. a tank is empty for you, yes, gas stations right there, I'm helping you, how are you? You ran out of gas, everything happens except the gas station, yes, you know, hey, they put them very loose from the factory, there's something I haven't told you. Gentlemen, okay, and it is that occasionally Lamborghini dr-two refuses to accept, yes, they use it a lot, they do, but putting it on is a challenge, so obviously the filler neck is quite short and then there are two saddle tanks and they can go at any kind of speed oh wow the slowest you can put it as less than Samantha you need to watch out for the hundreds of oh boy this is really dangerous honestly it takes about 30 minutes a very long time afterwards my car was full of fuel. and I even employed some fire safety measures that would have been approved by Valentino Balboni and the entire Lamborghini factory, probably sorry gentlemen, thanks for the push.

I guess my course isn't as reliable as we all thought, that's a bit of an understatement, thanks. I appreciate the exercise, but clearly we can't trust your fuel gauge. Wait, ding ding. I got a text from the car. They are working well. You all bought the wrong cars. Now it must be a modern supercar. Being all things to all people They are no longer the fragile, fire-prone prima donnas of the past Today they must be fast, attractive, comfortable, convenient and reliable to prove that you should have bought a C8 and that you are going to take your cars in a series of tests designed to expose your aging poop, these mini flaws, that's you, you just have it.

Each test is passed or not, the man with the most passed tests will keep his car and the losers will have to put them up for sale in Auto Tempest, their first test begins now. You will take your cars to a professional exotic car mechanic to perform the pre-purchase inspection that you should have performed on your cars before purchasing them. A repair estimate will be generated. Any estimate less than $5,000 will be approved. well, 5 thousand dollars is alive, my car is basically perfect, I don't have a prayer. I am, good luck gentlemen, let's do it. Wow, to do our post-purchase inspections, they took us to an old hangar in the middle of nowhere and despite our reservations, everyone felt good about their cars, they helped, maybe not everyone, it's behaving well more or less, mostly less well.

I know this place, look here, yes, different actions. I wonder if they work better than hey, hey guys, yeah, I'll meet you. Nice to meet you, yes that's me, absolutely 2002 Ferrari 360, yes, yes, the first thing we noticed was the grease sleeve on the tie rod, there at the top end, oh yes, it's

broken

so it's leaking fat, whatever is left in it is probably gone. Now the same with the lower ball joint, it's not a weird thing, it's a 360 hmm thing, so you change them in time when we check the wheels for plaque, it's not on it now, so that's good, but it's okay, it's coming. they got a little mystery oh yeah we do let's not drop the frying pan they got bullets ha ha ha oh boy that's fun belt service looks fresh it looked cool yeah last week , very good, the engine mounts generally look amazing. they're falling off cars that's 360 things but yours seem to have been changed well done minor yes minor cam oil leaks Cobra it's not the end of the world ok this minor the driver can do that, you can see a little bit above.

Here, oh yeah, it's a pretty decent link, there is a minor F1 fluid leak in one of the lines, just give it some love and everything will be fine. I'll tighten it a little. kinda good, it's not pouring rain or anything which is a good sign, excellent, yes excellent, not a very nice shape, totally unexpected, but right next to the computer it's fine, clutch and everything That should be fine now, I think, I think that's it in general. I have a good car so far, very good, thank you, very good, very good, so far, nothing serious, no, no, this little stop, which is good, but there is one thing that I know will be expensive.

Let me show you this top. deal, that's good, huh, that's a great sound, okay, it's a little temperamental and warned, so you see that side over there, it's pretty unpleasant, well, yeah, it's better day, right, okay, such Maybe you want a real clutch where if it's worn out and you need to replace it. They are very very expensive on these cars so I hope not as I am facing the top so how do you see the flaws? How is the clutch so far? So good, you don't have any faults, it's amazing, that's good, okay, the clutch wear looks very.

Well, it's about 41% worn, which means you roughly have about 50% left, so it starts running about 20% down or around when you're about 75%, which is when the car will start to miss gears or the clutch will slip. or start acting out or misbehaving, okay, lots of warning lights and stuff like that, but yeah, you're totally good at that, so that's a good thing, well, well, that's not too big of a list, no, Tom will be one kind of estimate, yes, you. Let me know,I will, sir, absolutely, you have some other cars to inspect, although they are going to be much worse.

I already know that next up the lift was the Aston Martin, a car that Freddy, the double cheater, cursed all day. it was absolutely perfect, okay, luckily we don't see anything as far as leaks go right now, we're really going to do something incredibly obvious, there was something there, but there's no engine mount there, you see the fluid dripping right there , oh yeah, the engine mount leaked a little bit, yeah, interesting, yeah, some food in there, a little bit of fluid, a little bit, I don't know what, it might be okay, yeah, there might be some components that aren't there in stock here, maybe you'll see what's so good about buying an old, exotic car, right?

I have to do things like this before I take it on a trip and let's just call them extra experiences, that's what it's really about, yeah, who needs a guarantee? With cars like this you can use your own gear I mean instead of being clean and having fun this works too there's a lot of bulls here there's some clutch fluid that just leaked because I guess there was too much in this car, you know, sometimes there's too much fluid in cars and they just let you know, okay? Yeah, yeah, it had nothing to do with the fact that we had to replace two

broken

lines.

Okay, it's a cool engine, right? Oh it is beautiful. Okay, great. In fact, it is a beautiful work of art. Do you like the amount of armor, everything that went into this engine, I didn't do that, everything is greasy, everything is super greasy, so a detailer went a little crazy. I would assume that yes you have a noisy power steering pump, yes we will check that the fluid level is ok and the fluid level. Yeah, it's full, okay, so with the liquid, oh boy, maybe it's just a loud pump. I'm not sure how so I would have to address that and see what's going on with that of course so this has had 32,000 miles on it and no.

I don't think the spark plugs have ever been changed, so that has to be done on these, of course, yes, and it's kind of a major operation, the top intakes have to be removed to get to them, there's a lot going on, none of this looks cheap unfortunately. no it's all talking we're on a side note mm-hmm it's an Aston Martin okay it's very labor intensive so one thing I've noticed and I'm being completely honest with you when I drive this car specifically when I drive it hard. I have a clutch smell coming into the car, it's not very obvious but I smell it, it's coming right, that usually means it's not me, so how much does a clutch work?

Probably between seventy-five and eight thousand and up, depending on what. You need eight thousand dollars, okay, yes, yes, more or less, sometimes you get lucky with the price of parts, but okay, they are expensive, so let me leave this car, which is perfect, okay, perfect, 100% need a power steering pump, you need a motor mount. possibly needs the clutch which means the transmission has to come out and the torque tube and all those new tires checked. I mean, other than that, don't really go there, she's a creep, he's perfect, he's perfect, he's fine, I'm NOT expecting that estimate.

I don't have check engine lights, I mean we can put it on the computer, but your computer can't read Aston Martin clutches or anything, no, unfortunately not at the moment, okay, I think that's enough, you've got enough to continue, so it's okay. Alright, wow, and then it was Idi Aquaman Bolian's turn, who at this point was as surprised as all of us when the cars met on this floor. Okay, so I just made tires, so I know they're good. We noticed some slight curves. in the rear what I do notice is a very strong vibration around 80 miles per hour it goes away the faster you go the faster that's what I am that's the approach I've taken that's fine and you'll find a good a little mud ah down here very interesting yes, there is a lot of corrosion up there look a lot of mud things Wow amazing, don't take your Lamborghini swimming known, as it turns out Oh, what we have here, holy cow that is actively leaking, yes, it is oh it's dirty it's oil yeah we just changed the oil okay yeah it's quite a cake.

Wow, yeah, I could see things like here, how many miles would you think we are on this car from its substance underneath? eighty to one hundred, but the odometer shows otherwise, of course, yes, it was 13,000 hard miles and a poor car, so this is the fourth bottle of water that's come in, so it's taking in water almost as fast as it's going through gas, so when you try to fill it with fuel it will go out about every two tenths of a gallon so it takes a little bit there we go ok it takes about 30 minutes to fill a tank of gas maybe the container should be a Well, yes.

They are known for that but I replaced it before I came so it was an extra part I had to find, unfortunately they are on infinite factory backorder so we only had a new Marcos but we checked it and the power switch fuses fuel pump are OK, but the assumption is that since we had half a tank in the gauge, maybe one of the sending units is not reporting, hopefully that doesn't mean the whole thing is simply malfunctioning, which would involve the other fuel pump, yes, but you I can see the water line got pretty high here, we had Aman Aman here, a lot of mud but it didn't get to the control modules, so maybe you can tell me what they have to say about the check engine lights on the... oh.

Absolutely, once we scan, we'll see if they're alive and well and go from there. Oh, fingers crossed, how about they check the engine lights? Here we go. The evaporative emissions control system pressure sensor is malfunctioning. I think that has to do with your fuel problem being potentially so and I have a secondary evaporation fault. I see that yes, the secondary air injection system has insufficient flow, it could be a valve stuck nearby, the travelers back off and deal with it, they will let the air flow, so nothing. tremendously alarming, no, these jet engine lights probably won't leave me on the side of the road as long as I don't run out of gas, that probably doesn't worry me, it's like the fuel gauge you know.

Is it a module, I mean, or is it the foam. It's true that the bomb itself seems because we know we got away, how to do one and that's the other one that we didn't get to, so that's the likely suspect, yeah, okay, another one, okay, okay. thank you sir, it's a pleasure to be humble no, no, let's get everything together, let's get all the guys together and we'll meet in the office for the magic estimates, thank you sir, thank you, I appreciate it, that's good sir, thank you sir, thank you for you sir. You can keep that, thank you very much, thank you for being gentle, thank you, it's okay, oh, it wasn't, it wasn't gentle, it's okay, it's okay, everyone say that your ear repair cost at the same time one, two, three, $13,000, yeah, that's 13 grand if you get it. that call hole again, is it cute?

I thought the cars were perfect, oh yeah, yeah, I heard you say perfect many times and that's so perfect it's less than a third, well it's less than more the big ones, your clutch, uh, yeah, so that's the clutch. That's probably going to have to cost you $6,000 geez, so yeah, I had your love. I'm $8,000 yeah, wait, I hope not, yeah, I mean, it's a lot of little things, but okay, no, there's an Audi underneath, there's no way, okay, okay, well. only at $2,600 technically mechanical eyes what possible technicality well it's technical because it's mechanical issues but the $8,000 cap is my big problem the key so technically if I didn't have any of this on the list I would be at zero, so technically I won and technically if there was no flooding in April of last year in Santa Monica, but then it would be $100,000, so how much did you spend fixing your car before I came here and we don't need to talk?

If they see. come on, $12,500 $500, so how much are you into this repair thing with everything else? That's 60 plus a plus about 80 80 80 thousand dollars yeah yeah so I mean that's a good amount of money to spend on a car and you were way over. in the budget and now you have a penalty in the budget, I'm never on a t25 investment, but since I only bought the car for $54,000 and then spent $2,300 on the timing belt, I'm on 66 thousand nine hundred dollars Corvette I I'm the only one which still has less than C eight Corvettes Lenny was at least my clutch is above 50% unlike yours which is dead the card still works so let's leave it at that well I can tell you how much of this my car will get. a few more bottles of water to fill the coolant tank and forget about it, guys.

I just got another text from Auto Tempest, hmmm, say it, it says that now that they know exactly how trashed their old exotics are, they're going to do something they need to do. If you have no warranty and are bankrupt, you will work on your cars yourselves, this would not be a problem for a Corvette owner, so you must prove wrong the stereotype that super cars like the ones you have are difficult to fix in your garage. Your next challenge is to save some money and fix an item on the repair bill you just received on your own.

You have until midnight. I'm a lousy mechanic, but I'm just as good. You don't turn right, so I don't. I don't know which way you turn, so this will be fun, let's go to my store. Guyardo owners around the world will soon adopt the Edge Shield, of course the marketing version will probably fit a little better, but I think I've solved my problem and now I'm off to check on Tyler's progress.