Yeah but next car is gonna be electric or plug in hybrid.
I’d be willing to bet that if you bought a Tesla now it would depreciate far less than any similarly priced petrol/diesel car. The technology will continue improve over the next few years but realistically there aren’t going to be any truly significant changes any time soon. Manufacturers are gearing up in a big way for EVs and they’ve bet big on the current formula of lithium-ion batteries. But in any case even current EVs will be more desirable in a few years than petrol/diesel ones. Batteries really aren’t that much of a concern until the car gets pretty old by current standards.
More or less on a whim I did a deal to swap a Type R for a Nissan Leaf last year. We have two cars between us so this one does everything except any very long trips, which means it does 95% of the mileage in a year really. They wanted £10.5K for it when I got it and it’s worth the same now, it also saves me 80% of the fuel bill and no road tax.
It’s hands down the ugliest car I have ever owned and a complete departure, before the Type R I’d had all sorts but usually something manual and RWD. I actually love it, though. It’s completely effortless to drive, eerily quiet, surprisingly fun and just not a lot to go wrong on it really.
It was frosty the other day so I pressed a button on my phone while I was eating my shreddies and I went out to a warm car with no ice on it. Neighbour was scraping theirs, felt smug as fuck. I got it thinking bollocks to cars, cba any more, I just want something to get about in shitty traffic on crappy roads with the least fuss but now I’m actually interested in them again. Don’t see me ever getting anything except another EV now, though.
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First experience of this was when a taxi arrived to pick me up from somewhere. It wasn’t until he pulled away that I noticed this.
Such an odd sound and sensation.
The car was ugly, a Prius, but still, it was strange being in a car without an engine noise, or gears, auto or manual.
That CyberTruck is dope, look like a complete cunt driving it and get to pull the saving the earth card
I need a job that pays what I’m worth.
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Im used to having older cars. First car was a 1986 mini city e, with a mg metro engine and some other bits done when i bought it. Bare shelled it, and new panels etc respray blah blah. Then I’ve had another automatic mini we got for the Mrs to learn to drive but lost interest. Then we got rid of it because we needed something more reliable as we were expecting. I replaced it with a BMW Mini and it was a lemon worst car I’ve had. I’ve also had a mk1 fiesta and a mk2 fiesta xr2. I’ve still got a clubman estate I’m returning to the road. My mondeo is the newest car I’ve had and to me it feels new compared to a 40 year old mini.
Cyber trucks and super electric charging make this seem dumb…
But here a plastic disc with videos on…
massively underrated comment
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I remember you asking a little while ago about overseas moves etc. Just wanted to point out that both the US and Aus have higher salaries (for e.g. while I was waiting for Aus visa, I was contracting to the UK office of the same company but getting paid about 10% less as ‘people just get paid more in Australia’).
LMK if you want any info on options (visas etc).
That’s probably worth the time you’d put into it even more as they’re appreciating quite a lot now I believe.
I don’t really get why so many people are so happy to spend so much on extortionate lease deals on new cars as others have said, there are just so many reliable, low mileage, used cars on the market. If you’re prepared to travel to buy one then it’ll be even better as you’ll have so much to choose from.
I recently got a very dull ford focus instead of an ultra cool and much older volvo v40.
Tax is dead cheap on the ford even though its diesel and only has 34000 on the clock. The amount of miles I need to do for work made it the more sensible choice.
Yeh I bought it for 3.5k same car is probably worth 5k now. Its got a modified metro turbo engine I swapped from my other mini before selling as a rolling shell. So if it came to it I could break that for parts etc and would be worth more.
We could probably stretch to leasing or financing a car but it would be at the expense of us trying to clear debt/save, couple the cost of the car with insurance tax etc it soon ramps up.
I only use my car for commuting to work 15 miles each way and food shopping. We tend to walk where possible to town etc. I would love to be able to walk to work or cycle but I work on my own doing shifts, so it’s not even possible to car share.
Got a feeling I’ve not got the best deal, but 2015 Golf SV 2.0 diesel for £8500 at the beginning of the year. Had about 30000 on the clock. It’s perfect for the family car and chucking surf/SUP boards on top. Plus long journeys, and does about 500 miles on one tank. Still got in the back of my mind that I should have maybe financed it.
Missus has a little bog standard Fiat Panda. £1 deposit and £100 per month with £2g balloon payment after 3 years. Works well as a local runner.
Just wonder about the bigger car and how I could improve the situation there.
Sitting on this dilemma.
So I’m looking to move house
The one I want to buy won’t accept our offer until we sell our house.
I put mine on the market last Monday. Had a viewing on Friday from a no messing cash buyer. Its on at £215k, he’s offered £205k.
He says he doesn’t fuck about and doesn’t negotiate. He’s bought quite a few houses in his time…
The house I want to buy is one of 2 in the area I want to move in and quite frankly I think its a bit of bargain. That will be £305k max. I really like it and want to get in it before my wife’s maternity leave is up at the end of Feb.
There really doesn’t seem to be a huge difference in the monthly repayments from my best case scenario to worst case (selling at 215-buying at 300 or selling at 205 and buying at 305).
Should I at least try and squeeze a few more quid out of this guy. Try and get him as close to 210 as I can and get him to at least cover some of the moving costs?!
Or… should I just lose the dick measuring contest and capitulate at the first hurdle and go for the speed.
GAH.
If it’s really one of two in the area then I’d say this is what you need to do.
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Being a cash buyer is a good card to hold but he’d still have to be expecting a counter-offer surely? But if I were you I’d probably be so worried about missing out that I’d fold as well.
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Whilst writing that post it cleared my thoughts a bit and I think I’m going to say let’s split the difference, call it 210 and I’ll take the house off the market.
See if he comes back up a bit. If he does great, if not I’ll have to go with it.
This is stressful nerve wracking and boring at the same time. I’m already sick of it and I haven’t even really started.
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Yeah, 10k is peanuts when you are talking this amount of money, also it’s not like you’ll feel any benefit from that 10k saving, it’s play money.
Get it sold, get it bought, earn brownie points, reap benefits.
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Cash man would be gone already if he won’t negotiate.
Have you had any other interest?
Is this a purple bricks job by any chance?
