That is a fair question and worth asking. I kept my last car for 13 years from new and it was still going strong when I traded it in, but as a 2 door coupe it was no longer suited to my 51 years, monster belly and my dog. It was also thirsty and a bit heavy on road tax compared to a modern diesel. The Cee'd is perfect for my needs today and should last me a decade at least. Changing a car for something very little different does seem worthy of review.
If you keep the car long enough and average the depreciation over the time, the longer you keep the car the less money you lose per annum and the longer you have to put the pennies away for something new.
Read the first line, he wants something newer. Why should it be a waste of 10k just because he wants something a year to 18 months old instead of 5yrs old.
Have you thought about a brand new car but buying it on a pcp agreement like Ford's Options. They have loads of deals where you only have to put a few hundred pound down as a deposit and similar amount each month for 2 or 3yr contracts, you are free to trade the car in at anytime before the term ends and start all over again with another car. That way your 10K can sit in the bank and fund your monthly payments, it's true you never actually own the car unless you keep it until the end of the contract and pay the remaining future value of the car, but for someone who likes to change cars regularly any depreciation won't affect you, you may just have to keep paying a realatively small deposit each time you change.
Can't believe on a photography forum you guys are worrying about me spending my hard earned cash lol....
My family will get more out of me having a nice motor than a fancy lens and camera
The Seat 1.2 petrol engine is now being considered.....
For 15k I reckon there's a good chance he could get a 1.6 Ecoboost Focus Estate Titanium, possibly even a Titanium X, far from ordinary, well built plenty of toys 150 or 180PS engine. Everyone has different finances and needs/wants, just because he's spending £10k plus his part ex, it doesn't mean he doesn't have money for other stuff too. I'm sure he won't be forcing his family and home won't be going without just because he's bought a newer car.
Question. Which one goes the most above 100mph. Thats the one you need....
I'm willing to bet servicing won't be cheap. My son used to work in a garage that specialised in performance and race cars. He hated it when a Subaru came in because so much in the engine bay was inaccessible or difficult to get to.Subaru Impreza WRX hatch
£500 a year road tax, 22 mpg rising to a lofty 30mpg if you drive it like a nun (unlikely)
I've had mine a year now and love it as much as the day I got it.
Fuel tax and insurance are cheap compared to depreciation , I paid £6700 for it at 4 years old on a 09 plate, at 5 years old it's still worth around the same.
My next door neighbour bought a mini diesel the same week , he commented on the fuel the Subaru uses compared to the mini
Within 3 months he'd spent over £1000 getting the DPF replaced , read some scare stories about reliability and repair costs so sold it losing another £1000
Makes my subaru look cheap as apart from fuel and 4 tyres it hasn't cost me anything.
You need to find a 1.0 Ecoboost to drive, I've driven a Fiesta and a B-Max with the 1.0 engine, it's surprisingly quick and pulls strongly. Other than the engine shaking a bit at idle if you watch it with the bonnet open, you'd never guess all that power is coming from a small 3 cylinder engine. I'm currently working with some engineers who were on the 1.0L engine's development team and they reckon the Focus is the better installation. I'd have said maybe bigger petrol engines may have higher depreciation, I've not heard that higher spec cars would have higher depreciation, I'd have thought they would have been more attractive to buyers and hold their value better. If you are interested in a Focus Estate, see what deals are about at Ford dealers, you might assume that they would cost more, but having spent 6 months looking for a specific spec Focus ST3, I bought a year old car, just 3 months ago. The car was advertised and cost me less than a lot of 2nd hand dealers wanted for the lower spec ST2. Plus the new facelift Mk3 Focus will be hitting the showrooms soon so if you can hang on for a bit dealers may well be flooded with more 2nd hand cars as people trade them in for the new model.
Cheers.... Is the estate variant of the mk3 coming out at the same time as the hatchback? I'm in no rush to swap and was thinking Xmas might be a quiet time at the dealership....
Thats an urban myth, ive driven Diesels (Ford Kuga, Ford C-Max, Kia Ceed estate, Skoda Fabia, Hyundai) with DPF's for the last 8 years and only cover a max 8000 miles a year with a only a 5 mile urban crawl to work and 5 mile back each day, yes the DPF can clog but a simple burn out of 15 minutes once a month at above 50mph cleans it out as does sitting the car on the drive to warm up for 10 minutes once a month before setting off to work, its never an issue, how many of us genuinley dont take their car out on a half decent run once a month and i dont mean a 100 mile run on the motorway.
