The debate raging over that incident Dimitri is how these scarily high repair costs are going to impact insurance premiums and affect residual values as potential buyers are scared off by high maintenance/repair costs when things go wrong. Your situation of being offered a car at a bargain price because of a transmission failure merelt reinforces this.

If you can get it fixed then it will give you a lot of fun I'm sure  I had a tussle with one in my Scud a couple of months ago and I couldn't shake him. These things are very, very fast but a bit soul-less to drive I'm told once the speed novelty wears off.