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Has anyone purchased a new car lately ?
just weighing things up and a new car used to be a definate loser, but these days it seems that overall a new one costs less than an 'arl one.
e.g. the mrs has a 206, 1.6 petrol, £230 to tax and she puts (i put) £20 a week in which gets about 100miles (decreasing weekly) the mot is due and it will need work.
alternative..... Fiesta Diesel brand spanking new, does 78 to gallon (55 urban) tax £20, no mot for 3 years.
straight away fuel bill halved, £500 per year but with that mpg it would get used for most journeys of any distance inluding matchday travel so +£500, 210 saved on tax. Mot price.
All of a sudden you have £750 saving, which tbh the finance for the new car isn't that much more for the year. The new one has a guaranteed by back price, if they sell it for more you get the excess knocked off the new new one so building equity. as opposed to.... buy a car for £3000 and after 2 or 3 years it's worth feck all.
I've never even looked at a new motor tbh as keeping them for a couple of years used to be a surefire way of losing money, but it seems that now it's kind of reversed ?
so it's drive round in a 12 y.o. 206 getting crap mpg and worth about £500
or
drive around in a spon newer that costs you not that much more really.
& thats not even considering what it will cost to get it through mot's and other things that go wrong with a 12 y.o. car.
Anyone been faced with this dilema ? what did you do ?
the mrs isn't wanting 'another monthly bill' but cant see that the arl one is costing as much.
the insurance woorks out the same btw, even though 1 car is worth £500 the other £10,000.
It's quite possible that if I went for a petrol one then the monthly payment would only be about £69 a month but fuel saving not as great.
just weighing things up and a new car used to be a definate loser, but these days it seems that overall a new one costs less than an 'arl one.
e.g. the mrs has a 206, 1.6 petrol, £230 to tax and she puts (i put) £20 a week in which gets about 100miles (decreasing weekly) the mot is due and it will need work.
alternative..... Fiesta Diesel brand spanking new, does 78 to gallon (55 urban) tax £20, no mot for 3 years.
straight away fuel bill halved, £500 per year but with that mpg it would get used for most journeys of any distance inluding matchday travel so +£500, 210 saved on tax. Mot price.
All of a sudden you have £750 saving, which tbh the finance for the new car isn't that much more for the year. The new one has a guaranteed by back price, if they sell it for more you get the excess knocked off the new new one so building equity. as opposed to.... buy a car for £3000 and after 2 or 3 years it's worth feck all.
I've never even looked at a new motor tbh as keeping them for a couple of years used to be a surefire way of losing money, but it seems that now it's kind of reversed ?
so it's drive round in a 12 y.o. 206 getting crap mpg and worth about £500
or
drive around in a spon newer that costs you not that much more really.
& thats not even considering what it will cost to get it through mot's and other things that go wrong with a 12 y.o. car.
Anyone been faced with this dilema ? what did you do ?
the mrs isn't wanting 'another monthly bill' but cant see that the arl one is costing as much.
the insurance woorks out the same btw, even though 1 car is worth £500 the other £10,000.
It's quite possible that if I went for a petrol one then the monthly payment would only be about £69 a month but fuel saving not as great.