Car Thread II

[BOR]

Drove to Manchester yesterday to pick up a new car. Gone for a Corolla as a second, smaller car to the Rav for the person that doesn't have the baby basically. 69 plate with 13k on clock, pretty happy with it!

Nice colour.

Is it hybrid or full electric?

[False]

nice colour

enjoy

[Tomous]

Drove to Manchester yesterday to pick up a new car. Gone for a Corolla as a second, smaller car to the Rav for the person that doesn't have the baby basically. 69 plate with 13k on clock, pretty happy with it!

Nice colour.

Is it hybrid or full electric?

Hybrid. Did about 73 mpg on way home.

[Poser]

Hybrid. Did about 73 mpg on way home.

I'm switching jobs soon, with a longer commute, so looking for a car that could potentially sit on the drive alongside the Legacy. Those Corollas tick most the boxes, tbh. Alternative would be like a tiny EV - Smart ForTwo or something on a lease.

[BOR]

Drove to Manchester yesterday to pick up a new car. Gone for a Corolla as a second, smaller car to the Rav for the person that doesn't have the baby basically. 69 plate with 13k on clock, pretty happy with it!

Nice colour.

Is it hybrid or full electric?

Hybrid. Did about 73 mpg on way home.

Impressive.

The hybrid cars are improving all the times.

[Tomous]

Hybrid. Did about 73 mpg on way home.

I'm switching jobs soon, with a longer commute, so looking for a car that could potentially sit on the drive alongside the Legacy. Those Corollas tick most the boxes, tbh. Alternative would be like a tiny EV - Smart ForTwo or something on a lease.

Sounds like you have the same boxes to tick as I did, obviously have only had it a few says but seems a great fit so far.

[Robbo-92]

How do you decide on a new car, I’m constantly trawling auto trader looking at all sorts before thinking “sod it, I’ll stick with the Civic a bit longer”

Plus with the way Covid has pushed up second hand car prices too.

[Victor Mildew]

How do you decide on a new car, I’m constantly trawling auto trader looking at all sorts before thinking “sod it, I’ll stick with the Civic a bit longer”

Plus with the way Covid has pushed up second hand car prices too.

You keep the existing car and just buy another like every strawberry floater on my road seems to have recently done. Why a 2 person household needs 5 cars I'll never understand.

[BOR]

It's easy.

1. Your current car is in a good value.
2. Part exchange at the right time.
3. The car you like and want it.
4. If the deal is a very good offer and hard to turn it down.
5. Do it.
6. The job's done.

If you leave your current car too long, the value will be drop down and you will have to spend more money towards to the new car. I aim to change my car every 4-5 years if I can.

[Robbo-92]

It's easy.

1. Your current car is in a good value.
2. Part exchange at the right time.
3. The car you like and want it.
4. If the deal is a very good offer and hard to turn it down.
5. Do it.
6. The job's done.

If you leave your current car too long, the value will be drop down and you will have to spend more money towards to the new car. I aim to change my car every 4-5 years if I can.

Dam, fallen at the first hurdle with my 57 plate Civic ‘sport’ I know what my problem is though, I’m massively indecisive and basically can’t even commit to one or two cars to narrow down my search!

How do you decide on a new car, I’m constantly trawling auto trader looking at all sorts before thinking “sod it, I’ll stick with the Civic a bit longer”

Plus with the way Covid has pushed up second hand car prices too.

You keep the existing car and just buy another like every strawberry floater on my road seems to have recently done. Why a 2 person household needs 5 cars I'll never understand.

I don’t see the point either in having more than one car (unless you have a classic car garaged until it’s a nice day for a drive for example, something I’d be very tempted by if I had a garage to store a car in), you can only drive one car at a time.

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Got my new car yesterday. The Fiesta has served me well, but I needed something more practical.




Plus with the work I've been doing over the past couple of years to improve my financial situation, I was able to get a MUCH better finance deal on this, so it works out less per month than the Fiesta was, even with the negative equity I'm paying off. And I got it with 3 years warranty, breakdown and servicing/MOTs.

[False]

tight brother, congrats

looks very tidy

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tight brother, congrats

looks very tidy

I may have made a 40-mile round trip to buy a Magic Tree today, because I wanted to give it a good dual carriageway run. It's almost twice as powerful as the Fiesta was, so overtaking is SO much nicer, and with the 6th gear, motorway driving is a much more civilised experience.

[False]

[Dual]

[Victor Mildew]

Ffs falsey

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After a week with the Insignia, I'm getting more used to it now. It's much bigger, and at first I'd always end up with a bit poking out because I wasn't getting it all the way in to the space, but now I can get it all the way in on the first attempt. I adapted to the electronic handbrake quicker than I thought, too.

[andretmzt]

My neighbour has just picked up a 1979 Corvette. 5.7L engine. Shakes my whole house when he revs it.

[jiggles]

My work’s introduced a salary sacrifice scheme for EVs recently so I ordered an Audi Q4 e-tron Quattro to replace my 2017 Hyundai Tucson about 5 weeks ago. Of course, with the semiconductor shortage right now, it’s not going to be ready until mid October, but that hasn’t dampened my excitement one bit.

It just seems like an absolute perfect alignment of timing right now when:
a) The sale value of my current car has gone through the roof. (Like, up by 80% since the scheme was introduced and I first priced it)
b) The BiK on EVs is almost zero at the minute.
c) Audi have a deal offering a free 7kW home charger installation
d) All public charge points in NI provided by the electric network are still free to use for now
e) They’ve just installed a 50kW rapid charger round the corner from my house which is also free.

The scheme includes insurance, annual service, any tyres you need, breakdown cover etc. Literally the only thing I’ll have to pay for is the juice, and even then, I can get that for free for now. Buzzing.

A little annoying that I had to tax, MOT and insure the Tucson again this week when any other year I’d be shot of it by now, but I’ll at least get any owed money back on the tax and insurance.

[Poser]

My work’s introduced a salary sacrifice scheme for EVs recently so I ordered an Audi Q4 e-tron Quattro to replace my 2017 Hyundai Tucson about 5 weeks ago. Of course, with the semiconductor shortage right now, it’s not going to be ready until mid October, but that hasn’t dampened my excitement one bit.

It just seems like an absolute perfect alignment of timing right now when:
a) The sale value of my current car has gone through the roof. (Like, up by 80% since the scheme was introduced and I first priced it)
b) The BiK on EVs is almost zero at the minute.
c) Audi have a deal offering a free 7kW home charger installation
d) All public charge points in NI provided by the electric network are still free to use for now
e) They’ve just installed a 50kW rapid charger round the corner from my house which is also free.

The scheme includes insurance, annual service, any tyres you need, breakdown cover etc. Literally the only thing I’ll have to pay for is the juice, and even then, I can get that for free for now. Buzzing.

A little annoying that I had to tax, MOT and insure the Tucson again this week when any other year I’d be shot of it by now, but I’ll at least get any owed money back on the tax and insurance.

I'm starting a new job next week that has said they'll be launching something similar soon. I find company car tax utterly bewildering, but I'd definitely be interested. That does seem amazing.

I don't actually want to get rid of the Subaru, I just never bought it as a commuting car , and new job isn't on the Metro line so I'll have to drive.

I'd potentially be interested in something much smaller and tun it as a third car.