Didn't he say that it'd hit 126K pounds before he took possession? That's $218,358 US dollars according to the currency converter I just tried online, and more importantly, that's more than a new Ferrari F430 would run him in the UK. You're kind of running out of "bargain" arguments when you get into that territory.

"Think of it, if you like, as a librarian with a G-string under the tweed." Clarkson on the Mondeo.