Mk4 R32 to what?
Discussion
Morning everyone,
This may be a bit of a rant, i'm fairly confused about what to do. Bear with me though, i'm just looking for a recomendation.
I currently drive a 2003 R32 Golf which is approatching 110,000miles. I paid £6500 for the car around a year ago and i've done 10,000 miles in it. I've recently moved to within 2 miles of my work and feel like i could afford a faster car with worste MPG. (For ref the Golf gets around 25mpg on avrage.)
I've also noticed that i'll be lucky to get £6000 for the car, it seems that most R32's don't have over 100K. So i'm thinking, i could sell the golf now (before i loose too much money on it) and buy myself something faster and less economic... (I have to say that i still love the Golf and could not fault it but i don't want to loose too much money just by driving it.)
I don't want to spend any more than i'd get for the golf, so i'd assume a safe £5.5k.
I've been looking at a massive range of cars from; Audi S4s (2.7 twin turbo), E36 M3s, Imprezza WRX/STI, Nissian 200SX/Skyline, Volvo T5R etc. Ideally it would be 4WD or RWD and faster than the golf.
Into the mix also is thrown insurance, i'm 24 so it's still not that cheap. M3's and STIs seem to be around the £1100 mark which i'd winse at paying as the golf was around £600.
Take from all that what you will and leave me a recomendation!
This may be a bit of a rant, i'm fairly confused about what to do. Bear with me though, i'm just looking for a recomendation.
I currently drive a 2003 R32 Golf which is approatching 110,000miles. I paid £6500 for the car around a year ago and i've done 10,000 miles in it. I've recently moved to within 2 miles of my work and feel like i could afford a faster car with worste MPG. (For ref the Golf gets around 25mpg on avrage.)
I've also noticed that i'll be lucky to get £6000 for the car, it seems that most R32's don't have over 100K. So i'm thinking, i could sell the golf now (before i loose too much money on it) and buy myself something faster and less economic... (I have to say that i still love the Golf and could not fault it but i don't want to loose too much money just by driving it.)
I don't want to spend any more than i'd get for the golf, so i'd assume a safe £5.5k.
I've been looking at a massive range of cars from; Audi S4s (2.7 twin turbo), E36 M3s, Imprezza WRX/STI, Nissian 200SX/Skyline, Volvo T5R etc. Ideally it would be 4WD or RWD and faster than the golf.
Into the mix also is thrown insurance, i'm 24 so it's still not that cheap. M3's and STIs seem to be around the £1100 mark which i'd winse at paying as the golf was around £600.
Take from all that what you will and leave me a recomendation!
Edited by aldo56 on Friday 9th September 12:08
Thanks for the feedback guys, i've been going back and forward between selling it or not for a while now. The best thing i've read here is that it's going to make very little difference between 110k and 112k (which is about all i'm likely to do for a while).
I may just save my pennies and go wild next year!
I may just save my pennies and go wild next year!
- cough* E46 M3 *cough*
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