Fuel price affecting the value of big cars
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Lewis07 said:
My advice is to buy an Aygo to sit alongside your Monaro. With a grand down it will cost you £90 per month to finance, costs £35 a year to tax, is insurance group 1 and does 60mpg combined and 50mpg urban. You know it makes sense.
Done - although I call mine a Citroen C1 (it was about £3k less to buy new).The only issue with that is, it'll still cost you more to own both cars and do 12k a year than it will to just run the Monaro (I worked it out to about £90 but it's still more!).
Noose said:
Did we all see Top Gear on Sunday? I caught the last bit of it when they did the test on a 1.4 16valve against an M3 v8 around a test track for 10 laps. The 1.4 or 1.6 thing went round at full tilt and M3 just maintained a distance, and M3 came out with more mpg than the little booger! Down sizing just means u will be driving it harder, u always see small cars trying to hit the 100mark.
All this green stuff is a load of b@ll@cks... if anyone wants to be green they should kill themselves... it will help to elleviate some strain on resources that other humans need.
Yes, well i wouldn't go as far to say that, but our use of oil is just recycling of the earths natural resources, over population is the real issue here, something like another 3.5 billion by 2050. We can live with increases in fuel costs or sell our cars and walk, and have already seen what our governments are prepared to do when it comes to defending oil. What does the future hold when theres not going to be enough food to go around? Worrying about your carbon foot print is like worrying about saving a thinball of water from being evapourated from the worlds oceans, pointless! When the oils gone it will be gone, either in 30 years or 100, the point is we will exhaust it no matter what. The earth has been here for billions of years and survived far greater catastrophies. Its not the planet thats in peril, its humankindAll this green stuff is a load of b@ll@cks... if anyone wants to be green they should kill themselves... it will help to elleviate some strain on resources that other humans need.
Sorry for the doom and gloom, but no point in burying our heads in the sand. So make hay while the sun shines
Enjoy your RO
The prices of big cars are falling quite heavily at the moment, 4x4's are a nightmare pretty much regardless of what it is and anything with a big petrol engine in is bad bad news.
The new tax banding thats due in next year to include cars 2001 onwards will be the big hit on everything and if fuel keeps going up its just going to add to the problem.
Monaro's dropped at the usual rate in the Guide's for July so doesnt seem to impact on them much. BMW 335i's dropped around £1300 this month for example (thats normally top end ferrari or porsche depreciation!)
Way im looking at it theirs going to be some blinding bargains in the used car market next year.
The new tax banding thats due in next year to include cars 2001 onwards will be the big hit on everything and if fuel keeps going up its just going to add to the problem.
Monaro's dropped at the usual rate in the Guide's for July so doesnt seem to impact on them much. BMW 335i's dropped around £1300 this month for example (thats normally top end ferrari or porsche depreciation!)
Way im looking at it theirs going to be some blinding bargains in the used car market next year.
At least everyone's stopped going on about speeding, there are no police to be seen and they've stopped replacing the burned out cameras where I live. In the late 90's it was fuel again with the blockades, and before that it was the Ozone layer, aerosols and skin cancer.
Every few years there is something new for people to moan about and while it's a problem, we need medium term solutions, not the short ones proposed by this government. How can you over night tell a family on a low income that their ratty old Mondeo is now going to cost them £400/year in tax? Soon the Tories will be back and I will hopefully pay less tax.
In the Autumn, when things are a little quieter, I am scheduled to get new pistons, rods, cam, heads, headers, and a 2.3 litre TVS blower. Should be good for 600hp at the wheels. If I cannot afford to run it through winter and it gets too icy for the bike I will buy a £500 Astra and run it on chip fat.
Every few years there is something new for people to moan about and while it's a problem, we need medium term solutions, not the short ones proposed by this government. How can you over night tell a family on a low income that their ratty old Mondeo is now going to cost them £400/year in tax? Soon the Tories will be back and I will hopefully pay less tax.
In the Autumn, when things are a little quieter, I am scheduled to get new pistons, rods, cam, heads, headers, and a 2.3 litre TVS blower. Should be good for 600hp at the wheels. If I cannot afford to run it through winter and it gets too icy for the bike I will buy a £500 Astra and run it on chip fat.
Edited by anonymous-user on Sunday 29th June 11:25
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