Nice to see that everyone's contributions haven't been a complete waste of time. Oh...
Now shes full time I think she really wants new or newer on some kind of low apr finance...:/
Update,
I passed all the ideas on to her and now she is thinking of putting 2.5 k down on a new mazda 2 at 0% APR
I have told her this is not a good idea...
The New fiesta would be a better bet?
+1 for old Yaris
Ours has been bomb proof, we had it on 29,000 miles, 9 years old for £2000 (a old lady owned it before). It's now on 79,000 miles and 15 years old. Yearly oil/filter, air filter, plugs. Brakes once, battery once, tyres and better droplinks. That's all it's asked for.
Zero brakedowns or issues.
So cheap to run, gets minimum 45MPG, can do 55MPG on ~60-70mph motorway runs.
Spoke with her last night...
I think she just want to lease at around £99 per month now....Not actually own the car and swap it after 3 years..
Yep she said thanks for all the feedback...I was showing her on the ipad pro last night
How much is the initial rental?
Then how many miles pa is she allowed for £99 a month? Just for work she'll do 7k miles pa.
1500K
9k
So an average yearly cost of £2700/year not including fuel/tax/insurance?
Buy a £2k car and if youve chosen with any degree of common sense it sure as hell aint gonna cost £700 on service parts in the space of a single year. Neither is it going to cost £1200 a year on servicing after that.
Could buy a 2k car every year and still be up
Plus money back from scrapping or re-selling.
Theres a few old 90s cars out there which are built like tanks and super reliable. Like some of the old Mercs, which are also going up in value
Surely a small petrol would be better, on only 30 miles a day?