**Two Years and Three Months of Ownership: A Look Back at My Experiences with the Amg GT-R and 911 GT3**

It's hard to believe that I'm writing this article three months short of two years old, which is roughly two years old. It feels like yesterday that I literally picked up one of these incredible machines, but completely not so nearly two years old on the LTUM for comparison by the way. The focus RS has done 28 miles per gallon over my ownership, and I'm impressed with how well it's held up.

The blue one which is about to be sold because the red and my heritage edition are literally around the corner so here's a bit of bit about the cost. I'm thinking for future cars the Ford GT before GT's claimed fuel economy is pretty horrendous and I know tons of you at the moment are actually asking me about the GT and I am going to give you an update about that very very soon, I promise watch this space there is some news to come about the car. Now what I'm actually driving in the GT3 just to touch on other elements of daily driving a supercar there are cars that are appropriate for this and there are cars that are not.

This is not one of those cars that's suitable for daily driving, at least not in my opinion. This is more of a weekend warrior car, something you'd only take out when the mood strikes you. The seats are way too straight, the harnesses and buckle between your legs are immensely frustrating, and there are clangs and weird noises galore that come out of this car. There's a cage right behind me which is almost impossible for squeezing luggage through if you want to put anything more than you can fit in just the front of the car - it's an absolute nightmare.

The gearbox is great, though. You do have a lift system so you can get over bumps at the front, and you can just slide it straight across to the left if you want to go manual. Do a bit of this and have a bit of fun, and the shift noise is wonderful when you do. But, of course, if you're driving around like London, I'm not trying to be a hero of any sort. You know this is not the kind of drive to be making noise and being anti-social in any way. There's no point at all.

It's a smooth drive, but it's not appropriate for this environment. I think when you might have seen my video where I drove a manual GT3 at Ascari Circuit in Spain, I decided and concluded at the end that whether you had a manual GT3 or a paddle shift PDK GT3, you'd be very happy with your choice - both of them are fantastic setups.

But the reality is the car is not necessarily the best car for daily driving. Which is where often the PDK is useful - I'm going to use it that way because I'm just weird and strange in that respect, but for most people if it's a pure fun car then maybe you go manual. I mean, if I'm driving the Nordschleife, don't get me wrong, I like the PDK for that as well.

**The Cost of Running These Cars**

Well, I think that's probably most of it. I'm just going to pull over for a second here and pop the car into park and uh park up for a moment there we go switched off and just while we are here let's have one last little glimpse is there anything I have forgotten to tell you? Yes, I suppose this is quite relevant as well.

You need to think about the cost if anything goes wrong - daily driving a supercar you know the parts cost more. The labor rate at dealerships costs more so if let's say you bash the front it's going to be a lot more painful especially if it's a carbon fiber car like the McLaren. So, the GT-R and the GT3 fit into this performance price bracket - where to me at this stage it feels more like I can use them for this purpose whereas if they were hugely more expensive I might be pushing it a little bit further.

This car actually has that lower plastic front splitter which is actually quite cheap to change - it's about 250 pounds, 300 euros that kind of thing. Um but I think yeah I think that's pretty much all bases covered about the cost of daily driving a supercar so those of you who have wondered you now know roughly how much I've spent in a disturbingly short time driving the Amg GT-R and the 911 GT3.

But this is not the end - these cars are going to be used plenty more because not only is it fun but I think it also makes cool videos that you guys can watch and enjoy as well. So, thank you very much as always for joining me for the FFT today if there's anything else you'd like to know about or any topics we can talk in more detail about please do by all means pop your questions down below.

I'll be happy to answer them and provide more insight into my experiences with these incredible machines.

"WEBVTTKind: captionsLanguage: enhi guys i'm smee hello to you welcome back to the channel and welcome today to a return of my fuel for thought video series the fft videos are back now if you're not familiar with these it's where we pick a topic and discuss it in more detail about the supercar world from my experiences the cars i get to drive and what it's like in some cases to own some of these cars in particular what we're going to be talking about today so before now for example we've discussed buying your first supercar we talked about having a supercar collection versus running a single hypercar we've also discussed the process to secure allocations on the limited edition versions of cars but today in response to a lot of the driving that i've been doing recently i'd like to talk about what it costs to daily drive a supercar so for example in my amg gtr that is literally right now six months old i have already done 10 000 miles that's about 16 000 kilometers in this car the 911 gt3 which is about five weeks now since i drove it for the first time it has just shy of four thousand miles on the dashboard six thousand kilometers i don't think anybody can call these two cars garage queens at all so let's talk a little bit more now about some of the costs behind that the fuel for example that i've used in them the storage the insurance the transport you know already a little bit because we've talked about it about the buying decisions financing how you secure the best deal the depreciation of the cars and obviously there's a lot more to the specific cars i have in my garage for example it kind of splits two ways on one hand we have the mclaren 675 lt spyder and the aston martin vantage gt8 which are cars that you see that i still use very regularly for example on the ring wing ting we took them around the nurburgring gp around the nordschleife drove them from london via paris to even get to the ring so even though they're cars that might not be at the forefront of my content they're not going anywhere in a hurry they're still being used but those slightly different perspective to their costs behind them the amg gtr and the 911 gt3 even though we've not had necessarily the best weather are very very quickly clocking up the miles now the thing you might notice is that i'm currently sat in the gt3 my only left-hand drive car in london the right-hand drive country now the reason behind that is because i've driven it here via brussels to bring the gt8 home bring the gt3 over as well but also for a few things while i'm here as well as letting my dad take the car out for a bit and he's going to take it on a road trip to bring it back towards frankfurt eventually but while we're sitting in the car let us just start it up and i can tell you this is gonna bring up one thing to talk about minimum oil level reached now that's not actually a problem if you run the oil measurement it just tells you to top it up a little bit and it's still okay to drive so obviously i will top it up before we head off on a significant driving adventure but that's just one of the things you have to think about in these kind of cars it's not so simple as just going from service to service so the cost behind that before we go anywhere let me just bring up on my display here while we're still in the car park um some of the costs so the amg gtr in 10 000 miles has averaged 17.3 miles per gallon now that means i have used 2628 liters of fuel at a cost of 3 700 pounds in six months and i'm not gonna lie that is terrifying however i've traveled a lot obviously to get between different venues events activities put the car on show and enjoy filming and shooting these videos for you guys so it all kind of balances out at the end of the day the gt3 has done just better 18.4 miles per gallon ahead of the 17.3 4 000 miles 988 liters 1 400 pounds in just over a month oh goodness me so yes if you bought a much more efficient practical car you would spend an awful lot less money on fuel and i would probably recommend that that's the uh the not so fun bit let's get on the move though go for a little drive keep the car rolling as it as it should that's the whole point of the fuel for thought videos right to go for a little drive and have a bit of a discussion about them so it is a very funny sensation driving left-hand drive car in england it's definitely gonna take me some getting used to before i fully know what i'm doing now i'm not gonna lie obviously these two cars actually maybe not quite so much when i bought the amg gtr i was aware that i would do a lot of miles with it but i don't think i knew how many it would be but the car is so supremely usable as well as being really cool for these videos i think you guys are loving all the different things i'm shooting with them i'm certainly massively enjoying driving it particularly now with the rentec downpipe where it just sounds absolutely mental bonkers crazy yeah there we go please measure oil level we can push that away for the moment this car i didn't think i would drive so much obviously the track days are still ahead of it those will come in future the weather today by the way bringing the cyclists out but it is crazy the sun just pops out between a cloud and the next thing you know you're standing in the sunshine with rain falling um welcome to london in april hey so i knew i would do track days and things but i didn't think it would add up quite so fast but obviously we took this car and the gtr down to monaco for top marks to cars and coffee pressure and that kind of drive through the alps and like the like brings up the miles very very quickly but let's now break into some of the other costs so i talked a little bit about the gtr and the gt3 and their purchase prices when i compared the two cars directly to one another because they were basically spot on the gtr was 159 000 pounds and this car bought in euros translated back at the current exchange rate was about 159 and a half thousand now i did spec some more options on this car versus the gtr but near enough the same money which is quite an interesting comparison then between them if you haven't already seen that video so you have to think a bit about depreciation on the market right now gt3s are trading at roughly list probably not if you do this mileage amg gtrs at very low mileage you're actually still trading at a small premium if you do 10 000 miles in it you probably lose a lot so i'm very aware of that in my calculations before taking delivery of a car and how it's going to you know end up and obviously behind cars is the purchasing decision the amg gtr i actually did some finance on to make the purchase more i suppose attainable approachable with my money tied up and some of the other cars i own and deposits being or being aware of deposits for future cars you probably know about that are coming and other things so i had to calculate all of this and then you have to be aware of your finance rate whether it's four five six percent and what that's going to add up to be and that is very different from case the case so it'd be impossible for me to give you an exact number but loosely speaking if you're buying a car for 160 grand and you put a quarter of the value in 40 grand you're financing maybe an 80 grand balloon at the end and 40 grand that you're paying off along the way so you've got payments of in pounds about one and a half thousand a month so that is roughly where it comes in on both cars when you work it out at the end of the day servicing on them servicing on these kind of cars daily driving them means you're going to hit that service point sooner in both cases i think it's about 20 000 kilometers that they need their first service so the amg gtr is about to get there it's going to be there very soon actually and then the gt3 will take quite a lot longer but when they do it's going to be roughly a thousand pounds a thousand euros each time so if i do that every six months that adds up very very fast then we can move on to talk about tyres tyre cost is relevant the michelin sport cup twos are worn by both cars actually tires that are good for the track and driving on sticky or sorry sticky driving on nice country roads not so much for poodling around the city this is a totally impractical car for this kind of drive gently and slow around the city center that's a whole different topic but the tyres are maybe 1200 1300 pounds of time and you know they won't last forever obviously i've also got winter tires the pirelli soto zeros that i drove on the amg gtr so that's another consideration another just over a thousand pounds to have those in the garage then you get to insurance insurance is an interesting one because this again varies massively from person to person i've got a very good history and track record and obviously i park my car securely and look after them a lot and i've built up my relationship with my insurer with the broker that i use so that means it's roughly between these two 2 000 pounds per year per car for a pretty good coverage policy and i think that's quite important especially um with the kind of you know usage that i that i have out of these cars you could spend more depending on the track days you do depending on the mileage as well as a relevant factor it goes up the more mileage you intend to do with the car the more drivers obviously lots of other guys drive my car so it's a big thanks to my insurer actually that it's possible to do that so storage another part of this storing the cars in central london i actually pay for a number of parking spaces i have a couple in the basement underneath my apartment building that you've seen before i also have a couple in the storage the long-term storage that i use to park up the car so i have two in my garage three in storage and i also have two in my garage in frankfurt so i'm paying for seven parking spaces frankfurt is a lot cheaper than london you won't be surprised to hear at all um a lot lot cheaper about a third of the price london is around 200 to 300 pounds per month per space so even if the car is off on a road trip still got to keep the space running and that's another you know 3 000 pounds a year so you can quickly see how this is adding up the amg gtr for example ignoring the depreciation and financing elements we've had well potentially if i do 20 000 miles in a year i might do seven seven and a half thousand pounds of fuel in it um it might do three thousand pounds for its parking spot two thousand pounds for its insurance two services at a thousand pounds each um it will probably get through twenty thousand miles is at least one and a half sets of tires so in terms of total tire wear we can talk about 2 000 pounds maybe of tyre wear so you guys can probably add this up a little bit better than i can while i'm driving um but it's it's probably a bit over 10 000 pounds in cost to do 20 000 miles now 20 thousand miles in any car even if it's a diesel bmw is still going to have some cost associated parking insurance um servicing maybe less for the servicing uh but if you're driving a 320d you'll still need um new tyres eventually you'll still need a service at some point you'll still need to store it you'll still be spending something on fuel just maybe not quite so much now the lt and gta is actually quite interesting because i don't do so much by way of motorway journeys with the cars their fuel economy or average economy over the time i've owned them is actually quite substantially lower so the gt8 is now uh what is it a year and four months old um since i picked it up a year and three and a half months since i showed it at the auto sport show in birmingham since then it's done about 5 600 miles it's averaging 15.8 miles per gallon in total but obviously the way the mileage gets brought down on average is by doing motorway runs and it's not done quite so many motorway runs it's done some truck journeys to italy sardinia um up to scotland and that kind of thing the lt unsurprisingly it's uh i think you could say fuel economy is in some way linked to power and the more powerful the car is the less well it's going to do the lt's running count is 13.4 miles per gallon which is seriously painful to think about it's not exactly the uh best number in the world and that is over it's done ten and a half thousand miles now coming up what is it three months short of two years old which is i guess that time just flown by it feels like yesterday that i literally picked it up but completely not so nearly two years old on the lt um for comparison by the way the focus rs has done 28 miles per gallon over my ownership um the blue one which is about to be sold because the red and my heritage edition are literally around the corner so here's a bit of bit about the cost i'm thinking for future cars the ford gt before gt's claimed fuel economy is pretty horrendous and i know tons of you at the moment are actually asking me about the gt and i am going to give you an update about that very very soon i promise watch this space there is some news to come about the car now what i'm actually driving in the gt3 just to touch on other elements of daily driving a supercar there are cars that are appropriate for this and there are cars that are not this is not these seats are way too straight the harnesses and the buckle between your legs is immensely frustrating there are clangs and weird noises galore that come out of this car there is a cage right behind me which is almost impossible for squeezing luggage through if you want to put anything more than you can fit in just the front of the car it's an absolute nightmare the gearbox is great you do have a lift system so you can get over bumps at the front you can just slide it straight across to the left if you want to go manual do a bit of this and have a bit of fun and the shift noise is wonderful when you do but obviously if you're driving around like london i'm not trying to like this around london i'm not trying to be a hero of any sort you know this is not the kind of drive to be making noise and being anti-social in any way there's no point at all um it's a smooth drive but it's not appropriate for this environment i think when you might have seen my video where i drove a manual gt3 at ascari circuit in spain i decided and concluded at the end that whether you had a manual gt3 or a paddle shift pdk gt3 you'd be very happy with your choice both of them are fantastic setups but the reality is the car is not necessarily the best car for daily driving which is where often the pdk is useful i'm going to use it that way because i'm just weird and strange in that respect but for most people if it's a pure fun car then maybe you go manual i mean if i'm driving the nordschleife don't get me wrong i like the pdk for that as well still same conclusion at the end of the day so what else can i tell you about the cost of running these cars well i think that's probably most of it i'm just gonna pull over for a second here pop car into park and uh park up for a moment there we go switched off and just while we are here let's have one last little glimpse is there anything i have forgotten to tell you yes i suppose this is quite relevant as well you need to think about the cost if anything goes wrong daily driving a supercar you know the parts cost more the labor rate at dealerships costs more so if let's say you bash the front it's going to be a lot more painful especially if it's a carbon fiber car like the mclaren so the gt-r and the gt3 fit into this performance price bracket where to me at this stage it feels more like i can use them for this purpose whereas if they were hugely more expensive i might be pushing it a little bit further this car actually has that lower plastic front splitter which is actually quite cheap to change it's about 250 pounds 300 euros that kind of thing um but i think yeah i think that's pretty much all bases covered about the cost of daily driving a supercar so those of you who have wondered you now know roughly how much i've spent in a disturbingly short time driving the amg gt-r and the 911 gt3 but this is not the end these cars are going to be used plenty more because not only is it fun but i think it also makes cool videos that you guys can watch and enjoy as well so thank you very much as always for joining me for the fft today if there's anything else you'd like to know about or any topics we can talk in more detail about please do by all means pop your questions down below if there are any other comments or questions relating to the costs i'll do my best to answer your comments so again pop them down below and we'll see what we can do so thank you very much for watching guys i appreciate your support as always it's very very very much appreciated and i will catch up with you again next time cheers youhi guys i'm smee hello to you welcome back to the channel and welcome today to a return of my fuel for thought video series the fft videos are back now if you're not familiar with these it's where we pick a topic and discuss it in more detail about the supercar world from my experiences the cars i get to drive and what it's like in some cases to own some of these cars in particular what we're going to be talking about today so before now for example we've discussed buying your first supercar we talked about having a supercar collection versus running a single hypercar we've also discussed the process to secure allocations on the limited edition versions of cars but today in response to a lot of the driving that i've been doing recently i'd like to talk about what it costs to daily drive a supercar so for example in my amg gtr that is literally right now six months old i have already done 10 000 miles that's about 16 000 kilometers in this car the 911 gt3 which is about five weeks now since i drove it for the first time it has just shy of four thousand miles on the dashboard six thousand kilometers i don't think anybody can call these two cars garage queens at all so let's talk a little bit more now about some of the costs behind that the fuel for example that i've used in them the storage the insurance the transport you know already a little bit because we've talked about it about the buying decisions financing how you secure the best deal the depreciation of the cars and obviously there's a lot more to the specific cars i have in my garage for example it kind of splits two ways on one hand we have the mclaren 675 lt spyder and the aston martin vantage gt8 which are cars that you see that i still use very regularly for example on the ring wing ting we took them around the nurburgring gp around the nordschleife drove them from london via paris to even get to the ring so even though they're cars that might not be at the forefront of my content they're not going anywhere in a hurry they're still being used but those slightly different perspective to their costs behind them the amg gtr and the 911 gt3 even though we've not had necessarily the best weather are very very quickly clocking up the miles now the thing you might notice is that i'm currently sat in the gt3 my only left-hand drive car in london the right-hand drive country now the reason behind that is because i've driven it here via brussels to bring the gt8 home bring the gt3 over as well but also for a few things while i'm here as well as letting my dad take the car out for a bit and he's going to take it on a road trip to bring it back towards frankfurt eventually but while we're sitting in the car let us just start it up and i can tell you this is gonna bring up one thing to talk about minimum oil level reached now that's not actually a problem if you run the oil measurement it just tells you to top it up a little bit and it's still okay to drive so obviously i will top it up before we head off on a significant driving adventure but that's just one of the things you have to think about in these kind of cars it's not so simple as just going from service to service so the cost behind that before we go anywhere let me just bring up on my display here while we're still in the car park um some of the costs so the amg gtr in 10 000 miles has averaged 17.3 miles per gallon now that means i have used 2628 liters of fuel at a cost of 3 700 pounds in six months and i'm not gonna lie that is terrifying however i've traveled a lot obviously to get between different venues events activities put the car on show and enjoy filming and shooting these videos for you guys so it all kind of balances out at the end of the day the gt3 has done just better 18.4 miles per gallon ahead of the 17.3 4 000 miles 988 liters 1 400 pounds in just over a month oh goodness me so yes if you bought a much more efficient practical car you would spend an awful lot less money on fuel and i would probably recommend that that's the uh the not so fun bit let's get on the move though go for a little drive keep the car rolling as it as it should that's the whole point of the fuel for thought videos right to go for a little drive and have a bit of a discussion about them so it is a very funny sensation driving left-hand drive car in england it's definitely gonna take me some getting used to before i fully know what i'm doing now i'm not gonna lie obviously these two cars actually maybe not quite so much when i bought the amg gtr i was aware that i would do a lot of miles with it but i don't think i knew how many it would be but the car is so supremely usable as well as being really cool for these videos i think you guys are loving all the different things i'm shooting with them i'm certainly massively enjoying driving it particularly now with the rentec downpipe where it just sounds absolutely mental bonkers crazy yeah there we go please measure oil level we can push that away for the moment this car i didn't think i would drive so much obviously the track days are still ahead of it those will come in future the weather today by the way bringing the cyclists out but it is crazy the sun just pops out between a cloud and the next thing you know you're standing in the sunshine with rain falling um welcome to london in april hey so i knew i would do track days and things but i didn't think it would add up quite so fast but obviously we took this car and the gtr down to monaco for top marks to cars and coffee pressure and that kind of drive through the alps and like the like brings up the miles very very quickly but let's now break into some of the other costs so i talked a little bit about the gtr and the gt3 and their purchase prices when i compared the two cars directly to one another because they were basically spot on the gtr was 159 000 pounds and this car bought in euros translated back at the current exchange rate was about 159 and a half thousand now i did spec some more options on this car versus the gtr but near enough the same money which is quite an interesting comparison then between them if you haven't already seen that video so you have to think a bit about depreciation on the market right now gt3s are trading at roughly list probably not if you do this mileage amg gtrs at very low mileage you're actually still trading at a small premium if you do 10 000 miles in it you probably lose a lot so i'm very aware of that in my calculations before taking delivery of a car and how it's going to you know end up and obviously behind cars is the purchasing decision the amg gtr i actually did some finance on to make the purchase more i suppose attainable approachable with my money tied up and some of the other cars i own and deposits being or being aware of deposits for future cars you probably know about that are coming and other things so i had to calculate all of this and then you have to be aware of your finance rate whether it's four five six percent and what that's going to add up to be and that is very different from case the case so it'd be impossible for me to give you an exact number but loosely speaking if you're buying a car for 160 grand and you put a quarter of the value in 40 grand you're financing maybe an 80 grand balloon at the end and 40 grand that you're paying off along the way so you've got payments of in pounds about one and a half thousand a month so that is roughly where it comes in on both cars when you work it out at the end of the day servicing on them servicing on these kind of cars daily driving them means you're going to hit that service point sooner in both cases i think it's about 20 000 kilometers that they need their first service so the amg gtr is about to get there it's going to be there very soon actually and then the gt3 will take quite a lot longer but when they do it's going to be roughly a thousand pounds a thousand euros each time so if i do that every six months that adds up very very fast then we can move on to talk about tyres tyre cost is relevant the michelin sport cup twos are worn by both cars actually tires that are good for the track and driving on sticky or sorry sticky driving on nice country roads not so much for poodling around the city this is a totally impractical car for this kind of drive gently and slow around the city center that's a whole different topic but the tyres are maybe 1200 1300 pounds of time and you know they won't last forever obviously i've also got winter tires the pirelli soto zeros that i drove on the amg gtr so that's another consideration another just over a thousand pounds to have those in the garage then you get to insurance insurance is an interesting one because this again varies massively from person to person i've got a very good history and track record and obviously i park my car securely and look after them a lot and i've built up my relationship with my insurer with the broker that i use so that means it's roughly between these two 2 000 pounds per year per car for a pretty good coverage policy and i think that's quite important especially um with the kind of you know usage that i that i have out of these cars you could spend more depending on the track days you do depending on the mileage as well as a relevant factor it goes up the more mileage you intend to do with the car the more drivers obviously lots of other guys drive my car so it's a big thanks to my insurer actually that it's possible to do that so storage another part of this storing the cars in central london i actually pay for a number of parking spaces i have a couple in the basement underneath my apartment building that you've seen before i also have a couple in the storage the long-term storage that i use to park up the car so i have two in my garage three in storage and i also have two in my garage in frankfurt so i'm paying for seven parking spaces frankfurt is a lot cheaper than london you won't be surprised to hear at all um a lot lot cheaper about a third of the price london is around 200 to 300 pounds per month per space so even if the car is off on a road trip still got to keep the space running and that's another you know 3 000 pounds a year so you can quickly see how this is adding up the amg gtr for example ignoring the depreciation and financing elements we've had well potentially if i do 20 000 miles in a year i might do seven seven and a half thousand pounds of fuel in it um it might do three thousand pounds for its parking spot two thousand pounds for its insurance two services at a thousand pounds each um it will probably get through twenty thousand miles is at least one and a half sets of tires so in terms of total tire wear we can talk about 2 000 pounds maybe of tyre wear so you guys can probably add this up a little bit better than i can while i'm driving um but it's it's probably a bit over 10 000 pounds in cost to do 20 000 miles now 20 thousand miles in any car even if it's a diesel bmw is still going to have some cost associated parking insurance um servicing maybe less for the servicing uh but if you're driving a 320d you'll still need um new tyres eventually you'll still need a service at some point you'll still need to store it you'll still be spending something on fuel just maybe not quite so much now the lt and gta is actually quite interesting because i don't do so much by way of motorway journeys with the cars their fuel economy or average economy over the time i've owned them is actually quite substantially lower so the gt8 is now uh what is it a year and four months old um since i picked it up a year and three and a half months since i showed it at the auto sport show in birmingham since then it's done about 5 600 miles it's averaging 15.8 miles per gallon in total but obviously the way the mileage gets brought down on average is by doing motorway runs and it's not done quite so many motorway runs it's done some truck journeys to italy sardinia um up to scotland and that kind of thing the lt unsurprisingly it's uh i think you could say fuel economy is in some way linked to power and the more powerful the car is the less well it's going to do the lt's running count is 13.4 miles per gallon which is seriously painful to think about it's not exactly the uh best number in the world and that is over it's done ten and a half thousand miles now coming up what is it three months short of two years old which is i guess that time just flown by it feels like yesterday that i literally picked it up but completely not so nearly two years old on the lt um for comparison by the way the focus rs has done 28 miles per gallon over my ownership um the blue one which is about to be sold because the red and my heritage edition are literally around the corner so here's a bit of bit about the cost i'm thinking for future cars the ford gt before gt's claimed fuel economy is pretty horrendous and i know tons of you at the moment are actually asking me about the gt and i am going to give you an update about that very very soon i promise watch this space there is some news to come about the car now what i'm actually driving in the gt3 just to touch on other elements of daily driving a supercar there are cars that are appropriate for this and there are cars that are not this is not these seats are way too straight the harnesses and the buckle between your legs is immensely frustrating there are clangs and weird noises galore that come out of this car there is a cage right behind me which is almost impossible for squeezing luggage through if you want to put anything more than you can fit in just the front of the car it's an absolute nightmare the gearbox is great you do have a lift system so you can get over bumps at the front you can just slide it straight across to the left if you want to go manual do a bit of this and have a bit of fun and the shift noise is wonderful when you do but obviously if you're driving around like london i'm not trying to like this around london i'm not trying to be a hero of any sort you know this is not the kind of drive to be making noise and being anti-social in any way there's no point at all um it's a smooth drive but it's not appropriate for this environment i think when you might have seen my video where i drove a manual gt3 at ascari circuit in spain i decided and concluded at the end that whether you had a manual gt3 or a paddle shift pdk gt3 you'd be very happy with your choice both of them are fantastic setups but the reality is the car is not necessarily the best car for daily driving which is where often the pdk is useful i'm going to use it that way because i'm just weird and strange in that respect but for most people if it's a pure fun car then maybe you go manual i mean if i'm driving the nordschleife don't get me wrong i like the pdk for that as well still same conclusion at the end of the day so what else can i tell you about the cost of running these cars well i think that's probably most of it i'm just gonna pull over for a second here pop car into park and uh park up for a moment there we go switched off and just while we are here let's have one last little glimpse is there anything i have forgotten to tell you yes i suppose this is quite relevant as well you need to think about the cost if anything goes wrong daily driving a supercar you know the parts cost more the labor rate at dealerships costs more so if let's say you bash the front it's going to be a lot more painful especially if it's a carbon fiber car like the mclaren so the gt-r and the gt3 fit into this performance price bracket where to me at this stage it feels more like i can use them for this purpose whereas if they were hugely more expensive i might be pushing it a little bit further this car actually has that lower plastic front splitter which is actually quite cheap to change it's about 250 pounds 300 euros that kind of thing um but i think yeah i think that's pretty much all bases covered about the cost of daily driving a supercar so those of you who have wondered you now know roughly how much i've spent in a disturbingly short time driving the amg gt-r and the 911 gt3 but this is not the end these cars are going to be used plenty more because not only is it fun but i think it also makes cool videos that you guys can watch and enjoy as well so thank you very much as always for joining me for the fft today if there's anything else you'd like to know about or any topics we can talk in more detail about please do by all means pop your questions down below if there are any other comments or questions relating to the costs i'll do my best to answer your comments so again pop them down below and we'll see what we can do so thank you very much for watching guys i appreciate your support as always it's very very very much appreciated and i will catch up with you again next time cheers you\n"