The most you have paid for a car?

[daddy cool]

£13,750, for my mx5, 13 years ago.
Its still my only car, probably worth about £1,000 now....

[BGarside]

£7k on a 3-year old Focus TDCi. Much better value than the £6.5k Seat Leon which followed it and cost me a further £3k over the next 3 years, then sold for £1850.

Current car cost £2600 & since spent £1700 on preventative maintance so I'm still only down £4.3k.

[Jabosoc]

£1500 for a Volvo 850 T5 in 2007.

That's most, not least.

Least paid was £80 for a Peugeot 309 in 2009, although I've also had a few freebies along the way.

[haddock82]

Well seeing how this thread is going i'm a cheapskate! (or skint!)


Most Expensive - 1970 VW Beetle £1600
Cheapest - Various free cars (horrible automatic clio, Saxo VTS...) but actually paid for - £65 1993 Ford Fiesta (taxed and MOT!) even gave me £5 off as the door mirro glass had fallen out just before i came to get it!

[Dannbodge]

Just paid £15k for a E90 335i

[p1stonhead]

Davey S2 said:

£40K for a Cayman S

Will this thread be closed when Turbo Terrific posts '£8M - McLaren F1'?

Yeah think that'll pretty much do it!

Couple of others have f1's so there could be a willy waving contest

[Fluid]

The Most, £16K on a E46 M3 in 2008.

The least, £25 for a Chevette in 1997.

[forzaminardi]

My first car - £10,000 for a Celica 190. Crazy in retrospect, that was getting towards two thirds of my total annual salary back then. As I've earned more I seem to have paid less, circa £5k for a Mondeo (accounted for by the Celica trade-in), then circa £1k for my Accord V6 until last year £9k for my S2000. I don't like to assume anything about other peoples' lifestyles or incomes, but when I look at the cars that many people today drive about in (even quite dull cars), I realise my notional idea of £200-£250 per month being a reasonable amount to pay for a loan. let alone a lease, is really outdated...!

It would be interesting to find out how much per month the average Brit spends financing their car(s).

[R2T2]

Most: My current car, cost me £3,500 a year ago, and have spend about £1500 in preventative maintenance.

[TheAngryDog]

How many of these are actual bought out right? Not financed?

[E36Ross]

€5,300 on a '90 Ford Sierra Cosworth.

€80 on a '97 Ford Ka, Quick polish and sold it for €350 2 days later.

[krisdelta]

Mine was £34,600 on a AM V8 Vantage, went from that to my cheapest car in 15 years (£520 Honda Accord!) and now in a Z4MR, which I am just getting to know

[bishbosh66]

£35,000 for an Audi A4 Avant 136 TDI 2011 model. Bought December last year with 41,000km on the clock. You just gotta love Danish car registration tax (currently 180%).

[liner33]

TheAngryDog said:

How many of these are actual bought out right? Not financed?

all of them if they read the op's post

[ali355]

Most was £28.5k for an XFR that I bought a month ago. I think it was about £65k new. The least was £250 for an F reg Micra. It was awful. My friends nicknamed it the shed. Had it for three months I think and somehow managed to sell it for £50 less than I bought it for!

[Alex]

liner33 said:

all of them if they read the op's post

Ah. My TVR was financed. The most I have paid cash for a car is £13.3k at auction for our Fiat Ulysse MPV. Had to think about that!

[Craikeybaby]

£4k on my MR2, although leasing my last MX-5 for 2 years cost me just over £5000.

[Davey S2]

TheAngryDog said:

How many of these are actual bought out right? Not financed?

I financed half of my Cayman S.

Most I have paid with cash was £32K for a new Lotus S2 Exige.

[snoopy25]

£11,800 for my Saxo VTR in 1999 lol (Stop laughing at the back! lol)

Came with 2 years free insurance which saved me over £3k lol

[siovey]

Most expensive on finance was a brand new focus ST2 back in 2006 - £13800
Most expensive for cash was my E46 M3 in 2011 - £12250
Least - the shed I'm driving now - £2500