These things are infectious, cost of ownership can be astronomical in relation to size and complexity.
It all depends on how many shiny bits, how much power you want and how well you want it to go around corners. Adding 25% to the base model price is quite easy.
An annual service at a dealers is £3-400.
All the early production problems have largely been sorted now as have most of the early cars by their owners.
I too was going to go the 4/4 route due to it being a little more practical but no a quarter the fun and lets face it that is what you buy a toy for, sod the practicality.
Just go for it, you won't look back.
