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I'm going to put maintenance costs aside here for a minute, but from what I've heard the V8 manual R8s are pretty reliable.
But I can find two R8s within distance of me for $100,000 CAD. Driving one of these around, everyone thinks you're a rich showoff. But drive around in a Denali Ultimate pickup (starts at $107k) or a F150 Platinum (starts at $103k) and nobody thinks twice. For work I understand an expensive truck, but these people who drive to their office job, I don't see how a flashy sports car is seen as extravagant but a new pickup truck is normal.
I'm sure they have some use in mountainous countries or areas without roads etc, but in the UK, both of those ridiculous, fat micro-lorries would also be seen as extravagant and flashy - possibly even more so than a sports car.
They didn't seem to even exist ten years ago, and (to my knowledge) no new mountains or volcanoes have sprung up in the UK since, so I'm pretty sure for most cases a normal van would work, and it would fit in a parking space :)