My mercedes CLS diesel cost £3k 5 years ago. It's got a beautiful interior interesting exterior. Fast quiet 600 miles on 80l tank and its fully loaded for a 2007 tank.
Another stealth tax which was introduced in 2017. £40,000 then with RPI is now £59,113. Like the 40% income tax rate it has never increased ensuring within the next few years everyone will be paying 40% income tax and luxury car tax on every new car.
All cars have been redesigned so that you can't do your own repairs. All the space you used to have under the bonnet is now filled with superfluous systems, 250 unnecessary sensors, and lumps of tech that we don't even want in the vehicle.
Open it up and all you see is more plastic than in the Pacific ocean 😅 Seriously, who pays money for this crap? Anyhow, large parts of the world economy are dependent on this kind of idiocy, which is kind of scary.
Have you ever watched the American Utube were they show you what people have brought their cars in for repairing.It's hilarious, I don't know much,girls were very much kept away from card in my day but! Recently one was brought in because it hadn't got any power in drive!Reason they had out the mat down over the pedals and could locate the accelerator! Well you've got to laff! Lots of love from Wolverhampton.
Those "customer states" videos are shocking. One was an old pickup truck with sheared suspension and snapped chassis. Held together with ratchet straps. Owner said it was driving a bit rough. 😂
A friend of mine is in senior management of an electricity company. Every two years he is given a new EV for work. His work requires him to travel parts of the country extensively. He therefore gives the EV to his wife who travels short domestic distances, with the occasional 50 mile drive. He uses his 'wife's' diesel to drive on the companies business, because he can't afford the down time or aggravation of an EV re-charging fiasco. Over the winter period, his wife found that the range of the EV dropped by up to 40%, at only -4C, and less than 2 years old! This car easily enters the luxury car range. The revolution is nigh.
my son got a ev company car he was having so much downtime being paid while getting his feet up for hours on end wasting time charging and overnight hotel stays, and getting paid 50% of his time for doing nothing, the company saw the light and gave him a proper car.he is less bored and gets home most days after work.
In 2013 I paid 8k for a seat ibiza copa 1.2 this dsg with 22k miles. In 2020 it was involved in a small accident where the insurance company wrote it off, gave me 4,200 and I bought it back for 700 and fixed the damage for 100! I can get 60mpg on long drives if I'm very very careful but consistantly get 50mpg by driving smoothly.
My partner bought a Rover 75 and somebody clipped it about 3 weeks later. Broken bumper, smashed headlight, dented bonnet. Insurance company wrote it off, paid her what she'd paid for it, and let her keep the car. I spent about £100 to fix it with parts from a breaker.
The average wage in the UK is £30k (which gets TAXed). Politicians are so out of touch.... massive wages and they never have to put their hand in their pockets for anything.
NOPE when you start digging in to the figures the true figure is nearer £24K before tax as the so called surveys only look at the higher end working/middle class etc. The figures also class anything a few hundred over £23,873.60 as not in minimum wage btw..... Basically theres constant fudging of the figure..
As a kid I watched Robin Hood on the telly and always wondered why the peasants never revolted against the Sheriff! Now I know why! Lots of love from Wolverhampton.
Years ago, you'd want as many optional extras as you could get on your new car. Now, you'd like the options to be removed: start/stop, Lane assist, overly complex computers, multiple screens etc. etc
Pushbutton start, computerized dome lights, computerized headlights, touchscreens (any), LCD displays in the gauge cluster, infotainment system, over the air updates, any driver assist, any built in satnav, any built in connectivity to the internet... Anything beyond what you would find on a pre-OBD2 late 80s or early 90s car is just unnecessary.
Remote central locking, electric windows, automatic headlights and air conditioning are all VERY VERY nice modern conveniences, albeit I could live without any of them. The main reason not to drive around in cars from the 1960s to 1990s is how much worse you're likely to look if you get into a head-on collision. 2010 safety combined with a 2005 engine and a specification sheet off of a mid 1990s luxury car is probably my ideal!
@@gartgreenside3657 they were only bad when colliding with each other, if you hit a new car with them the new car would just collapse more as designed.
Me too, £19G for my current car (71 plate), £10G for my last car (11 plate). Our little run around, £2G, two years ago. The car before the 11 plate was, I think, about £6G bought used in 2003. £37000 for 22 years of motoring. Future my arse. The 71 & 11 were both brand new, BTW.
I always wanted to win the pools to get a golden Rolls Royce(like Lady Dovker,I think that was her name) and a lovely young chauffeur to go with it! Ended up with a Old Kia Sedonia and a lovely old age pensioner as chauffeur! Love is in the air! Lots of love from Wolverhampton.
I own several vehicles that don't add up to 40k Most expensive vehicle I bought was an Escort Cosworth in 2005 for 16k sold it some years later for 36k That's as close as I got to 40k
Yep since 2005 I have a Civic (£1200) a 2.5 Outback (£1200) an "electric" 3.0 Outback (£1300) they lasted till 2 years ago on an average of 11,000 miles a year over the last 20 years with no repairs other than wheel bearings and CV boots and one rad at sub £300, plus normal service items. 2 years ago I splashed out over £4,000 but less than £5,000 on a basically one owner FSSH gem of an 2009 Outback, as was so good. Hoping this will see me good for yonks, my last £1300 Outback cost me £1300 and lasted 8 years. Anybody dumping 40K on something that will just depreciate from day one and do nowt an older car will do except the shallow types all wrapped up in the "my life is better than your life" little pointless game, they will wise up one day and realise how much money thay have spaffed away on plate snobbery over the years.
@evelghostrider I own several vehicles. The funny thing is I park my 26 year old jaguar s type anywhere and people say you must be doing alright. It's £850 on we buy any car and I've had it 6 years.
Nice! Saying that I think that people are cool if they're driving round in good value older "flashy" cars... and I don't think ANY EV is "flash"... it's more a sign of stupidity.
US fellow here, but with the same sentiment. I was lucky enough to be gifted a car about 3 years ago by a veteran non-profit. It is a 1997 Corolla with around 209k miles. Aside from things any 30 year old car needs, such as tie rods or a new fuel pump, it hasn't needed any major work in my 3 years of owning it. Even parts like the new pump only cost me about 50USD and I replaced it myself. I won't be surprised when in 10 or 15 years my little POS is still on the road and most of the 2020s cars are scrapped.
Exactly, the powers that be are not killing ICE cars they are killing USED cars, as no one wants a second hand battery. So transport for the rich and privileged only…….and motability!
There is a reason that the Dacia Sandero is the best selling car in Europe. In the UK the entry level model is around £14K on the road, it has enough spec, like front lecky windows and A/C but none of the pointless and expensive technology, and if you go for the duel fuel petrol/LPG model, you have around 900 miles of range. Who would spend £40K on a range challenged 'milk float'?
Needed a car to get from Yorkshire to Cornwall for my Mothers 99th. birthday, bought the most expensive car that I've had, Mazda MX-5, about £2,500. I've spent about £220 on it in the last three years. Yes I've got money in the bank, but why would I want to waste it ?
You must be crazy having money in the bank. Totally crazy A) it's NOT yours (You are nothing more than a creditor on their ledger. B) the money is not there. It becomes their property as soon as you hand it over. From there they do just what they like with it . Normally that's lend it to another bank. Or, even worse, invest it in a pensions company. Get it out, but something with everlasting value - while you still can bc depreciation is destroying its purchasing power.
I work for one of the large breakdown companies, I'd say the vast majority of roadside call outs i go to are manufactured post 2018. Car manufacturers just simply do not care about what they put on the forecourt anymore. I have been to countless PSA group diesels with Adblu issues and engines cutting power due to oil dilution because of the stupidly long service intervals. I have recently been to 7 newer Nissan Jukes with sub 20k miles on the clock with failed alternators and the new Nissan Epower vehicle are really suffering with 12v battery drains with sub 1k miles!! Dealers are not interested in taking the vehicles back in under warranty and are expecting the vehicle owners to wait over a month until they can "diagnose" the fault. From all the vehicles I have attended most have been on fleet schemes as I believe this is the only way dealers can shift their stock. All newer cars are dull and the majority I find very uncomfortable to drive, all of these cross overs are cramped inside and unnecessarily big on the outside. I have always been a car enthusiast but I would not hand a penny of my money to a dealer for a cross platformed white good.... even the new Ford Explorer and Capri EVs are the same as VW id4s, just look at the stalks and infotainment inside! I own a 2003 Renault Clio 1.4 which i paid £70 for almost 7 years ago and it has never let me down! Averages 50mpg on a good motorway run, sails through every mot, serviced religiously every year and only ever needs tyres and ball joints, a true hero in the old cars over new debate
Most expensive cars: Paid £5,300 for a 9yo Freelander 15 years ago - still using it. Paid £5,300 for a 9yo Defender, sold it 32 years later for over 10k.
Wife bought x-trail in 2011 diesel near top of range got 145 k on it now only issue ever was the ac/blower a common fault apparently. Just had its mot this morning Zero advisories . Can shove their EVs and overly technical shite right up their sheriffs badge
If they really wanted to lower Your carbon footprint they’d make 10 year old cars tax free and pay you to drive any car older than 15 years as your sole car.
This is correct. Doesn’t matter if you get a discount and that discount comes in at under 40k. If the cost (list price) of the car plus options is over £40k you get hit with the luxury car tax.
1800 quid for a 12yr old Skoda Octavia 1.9 Diesel ~ brilliant car that I kept for 8yrs until a local fool crashed into it while it was parked. 40k for any car is beyond my comprehension. Or financial reach.
In 2019 I bought a 14 year old Volvo XC90 for £3,250 then drove it to Spain 3 days later. Still got it so if it blew up tomorrow, it owes me nothing. Great car.
As a motorcyclist i feel the same, i just want a normal bike for a good price, no i have to have ABS brakes, traction control, eco model sport mode etc etc and the price you are looking at is £15 grand for a 1000cc bike up to a top of the line £30,000 and then they wonder why they can't sell motorbikes, plus high price tag high insurance,
I'm in Australia and I have *never* bought a new car ever! My *newest* cars are a 1992 2.1 Saab classic 900 sedan and a 1992 1HZ diesel 80 series landcruiser with barn doors. I will *never* buy brand new as nothing appeals. The Saab cost me under A$2000 in 2019. The landcruiser cost me $5000 in 2011.
Ditto. Also an Aussie, and never bought a new car in my life, and now unlikely ever to with how sh*t new cars are today. Most ever spent; $22k (11k GBP) on a '98 V6 Honda Accord in the about 2002, when I was obviously feeling particularly prosperous and profligate. The Honda aside, I have bought about 15 other cars during my life, all of which have been $7500 or less (under 3500 GBP). My current daily is a '09 Skoda Superb Elegance TDi, bought in 2021 for $7k (3500 GBP). Cheers!
The more electric and electronic guffery that there is on a modern car, the more potential it has to go wrong. Most of it we never asked for, and certainly don’t need. I work for a massive 2nd-hand car dealers. I’m horrified by how over complicated recent vehicles have become. I get to drive pretty much everything so see it first-hand.
40k and what will it be worth after a year? I have a V70 (£1100) and a A4(£800) 51years old between them and neither have ever let me down. My adult daughters think it’s funny I have cars that are older than them 😂
The depreciation kills it for private buyers you go into negative equity buying EVs which is just reckless and highly dangerous. Make do and mend is so much better .
I have a new Tiguan 1.5 petrol 48 mpg and it’s brilliant. I install EV chargers for a living, buying an EV never entered my mind. Our other car is a 1.2 polo 15 reg from new, 55mpg and I will keep it until forever. Evs without warranty are a financial disaster waiting to happen.
It’s not just about how much you want to spend , it’s also about how you pay. The last time I walked into a car showroom with a polythene bag full of real cash , the dealer wouldn’t take it !
Yeah you are right there we went from a V70 to a Mitsubishi ASX they are 2 worlds apart inside, the ASX is a very good looking durable car just no where near as nice inside I was quite disappointed I do like a luxury car.
I bought a 2005 Xsara Picasso 2.0d for £1495, less £350 for my scrapper, from a great dealer in Crewe, 15 months ago, it's done 81,000 and runs like a top, with no issues. My mechanic of 25 years serviced and MOT'd it all for £250, anyone paying full new price for a car is mad.
Phrenology was a now discredited belief that a person's character could be read by feeling the bumps on a person's head. Hence the old saying, having your bumps felt, if you were acting in a strange manner.
Current Geoff fleet and prices paid: 850 TDi in red £250 850 TDi in green £2200 V70 XC in brown £600 V70 XC in blue £850 V70 FUF in brown £1k Rover 214 £600
Here's my list 2001 Clio 1.5dci 1987 Land Rover 90 v8 1990 Suzuki DA41T (mini truck) 1989 Bedford Racal van Thats what I use from day to day - I have other cars + some projects
I bought my 2013 Astra estate back in 2017, it was 3 and a bit years old at the time. It was £3500. +£300 for a 3 year optional warranty. All in all stood me at £3800.I still have it now, with almost 200k on the clock and it still runs fine. Averaging a 55-65 mpg (depending on where I’m travelling). The best I’ve had (last year) was 75.8mpg coming from Sunderland to Doncaster along the A1 fully loaded. And it’s only £35 tax Bargain P.s. It has full service history and only had 1 previous owner.
@gartgreenside3657 he originally wanted £225 for it. But after spending 20 minutes checking the vehicle over without saying a word he kept knocking £25 off. When he got down to £150 i said I'll take it.
@ Nice... second last car I bought the guy wanted £4k. After looking at it for ages and giving it a good looking over I was thinking "I want it, and will pay asking... don't want to miss out... can I get some cash off anyway?" I asked him what his bottom line was, he told me £3.7k and I shook his hand!
Agree, 4 yrs ago i got a 2015 Yaris 1.3L CVT, with 88,000m £5,500 FTSH (Full Toyota Service History). Does 60mpg most trips, usually 55mpg if i aint soft of the right pedal. The 5sp manual Yaris does the same mpg believe it or not.
So we won't even be able to do what the Cubans had to do and keep their 1950's american cars going forever. 2006 looks like the limit of physically mendable.
I spent £1150 on a 10 year old, 2 wheel drive, base model Dacia Duster 1.6. Timing chain, high profile tyres, terrible paint, horrible lifter tick. Works great for runs to the tip and shops, I have motorcycles if I want to go fast.
I run a £600 Suzuki Grand Vitara 2.5, bought 3 years ago, most it has cost for a Mot, £81. A 2003 Triumph RS955i, £950, bought 14 months ago. But my fav daily is my 52 Morris Minor, with later moggie running gear. Can get most parts locally, the rest by return of post, oh and over 40 MPG. With a little knowledge, the Moggie with run for ever. Cheapest car,£55, MK 6 poverty spec Escort from a local auction, and it had half a tank of fuel. That was 17 years ago.
Most people can't afford to buy cars costing £40k, and maintainance costs are high because modern cars are deliberately made more complex to force owners to visit the dealership service centre where labour costs are over £100/hour. The idea is to make motoring increasingly less affordable to the masses.
I'm 64. Eight years ago I purchased the most expensive car i've ever owned. It was a 2005 Disco 3 for £7k. Still going with 150k on the clock and no intention of changing it. There's far too much computer interference on modern cars so I refuse to own one. Cheapest car i ever bought was a £25 Austin Mini in the late 1970's. I sold it for £300 a couple of weeks later.
The most and the least I have paid for a car? Funnily enough, the two cars that I own today: £2,000 for a five-year old Hyundai fifteen years ago, and £2 10 shillings for a one-owner Austin Seven Ruby nearly fifty years ago! Lots have come and gone in the intervening years, but those two should see me out.
You've almost got the basis of a great novel or history book based on those two facts! Really get out your typewriter ,there is a prize out there waiting for you! Lots of love from Wolverhampton.
Least I've spent on a car was my very first, a 1994 (L) Renault R5 Campus which cost £420. Most I've ever spent is my current car, a 2011 Seat Ibiza Copa 1.4 which cost £3k. I'll never buy anything newer than 2014, never buy anything with an electric handbrake, and never buy anything that thinks it knows better than me (lane departure systems etc).
After buying a 58 plate bmw 120d for 3k, recently did a thousand mile trip averaged 64mpg. Completley comfortable, no drama. Gone are the days I will be paying a monthly.
I've had my van from 2008, a celica GT4 from 2003, and my motorbike I built myself 8 years ago.. Newest car I bought was for my mum, a 2015 VW touareg that does 8k miles per year. She hates the music system in it as its Bluetooth lol
An elderly friend of mine went to pick up her new motability car, they cut the ribbon and she metaphorically turned the key and it wouldn't start. Several weeks later, it still hasn't been fixed. It probably never will be. She's stuck at the mo with a luminous green/yellow courtesy car as they are still trying to find the issue with the new one. 😂
Been driving since legal to do so, nearly 60 now, the most I've spent on any vehicle (Motorbike, Car Van) would be £1.5K. All serviced by myself along with minor repairs, most expensive garage bill was around £250.00. My brother had a problem on his 6 year old Merc headlamp so it needed replacing, it cost him over £2K!
Years ago my brother had a tactic. He would go to the local auctions and buy any old car that no one else wanted. As long as it had 4 half decent tyres and an MOT that was good enough for him. He would drive it for 12 months, then drive it to the scrapyard and get some cash for it. Then he would go back to the auctions and buy another one. His rule was that he paid no more than £100 for a car. He never had to buy tyres or pay for an MOT, and spent many years running a car for peanuts.
@@VisorView 1990s I was picking up ford Fiestas from witney motor auctions for as little as £75 taking them home cleaning them up putting them through mots and selling them for £300 /£400 .. oh the good old days 🤔
In 2021 I bought a 2007 1.6 petrol Skoda Roomster for £1300. Still gioing strong. Just regular wear and tear items bought and a quick rear subframe paint.. starts first turn of key every day…. Who needs £40,000 of crap?Thanks Geoff…
Just to reply to my own comment and for a bit of context. My first car was a 3 year old diesel mondeo, 30k on the clock, cost me 10k, with a bank loan that was £169 per month over 5 years. The second car was a diesel Insignia, 3 years old, 42k on the clock, and it had been speced out of the wazoo by the previous owner. Cost me 10k again, on another 5 year loan, about £185 a month. I made the mistake of selling the insignia about 18 months ago and now I can't find anything close to the car type and costs. The stupid focus on EV and bet zero BS seems to have killed the second hand market and the fiance had become insanely expensive.
Who the hell would want to load themselves with the debt of a new car especially with this government putting taxes up, council tax up, energy up, growth down, NI up so business's can't afford pay rises or bonuses. I will never buy a new car if it means a £400-£600 credit card bill every month for 5 years, total insanity. I'd like to see that video, £4-£5k budget, ten best buys which are also reliable.
I paid a 4 grand for a Peugeot 107. One previous owner, FSH and a clean MOT history. No tax, cheapest insurance bracket, 60mpg and its just cost me fuel and a routine service every year. It owes me nothing
The price of cars is insane! In early 2009 I bought a just over 3 year old 2005 Mondeo ST TDCi hatch with 33k on the clock for £8.5k! Still running it, 183,000 miles and just two MOT fails in its life….a bulb and a brake line! Be lucky get a ten year old car with 60k on the clock for that money these days! The irony of these car prices is that there’s apparently cost of living crisis going on yet half the population seem to be driving around in +£40k cars, there’s a Tesla on every street corner where I live! 🤯
I am happy with my 2007 1.5 Renault Kangoo diesel that I bought six and a half years ago for £700.00. Apart from brake pads, brake shoes, tyres and a battery, it has cost me nothing and never let me down. It does about 50 mpg. No problems with any of the MOTs. It does everything I need a vehicle to do.
I’m in Canada so the currency is CAD but the last vehicle I purchased in 2018 was 15,000 for a two year old F-150 and that serious broke my budget. Before that it was a $10,000 cap. I am a mechanic and welder by trade and also do my own machining so I run the old stuff to the grave. The very thought of purchasing a $100,000 pick up truck littered with useless tech that I won’t find parts for in 5 years make me ill.
Why I always buy as cheap a car as possible miss my£300 rover 420 diesel!!! I remember going too my local Auto Trader office too advertise when I was only 19 too advertise my garage and they had there own photographer printers etc for north east area all those jobs gone when it gone online!!!!
£40k!! I bought myself a 2003 Mercedes SL500 4yrs ago for £9500 with 78,000 mls full service history etc. She would have cost the original owner nearly £80k. I have now enjoyed that glorious V8 engine for 4yrs including a continental trip over some alpine passes down into Italy where at a steady 80mph she still returned 30mpg… why oh why would you spend £40k?? If I had to throw her away tomorrow (which I have no plans to do!) I still won’t have lost as much money as you would the moment you drive your £40k new car out of the showroom!
Hi Geoff, please do the 10 cars for 4K. My usual budget starts at 2k but for the past few cars I’ve owned - I’ve never stretched past 3. All big German saloons or estates as well. Great videos, I’ve been watching for a while but this is my first comment ever
My 'Money Pits' (Older Cars) cost me less than half of any new EVs first 6 months depreciation.... That's the money pits purchase price and running costs combined 🤷♂
My friends sister in a home snd had to have a caret drive for her, she is forced to trade it in after 3 years but only on sn EV! This is Government exploiting the disabled.
I’d rather buy an old car for a few grand and have a great holiday. Just like you’re doing / done. You’re a great example, keep it up Geoff, great video as always.
I only buy up to 31st March 2017. Cheaper road tax, bodies last. I do agree pre-ECU cars are much better than post ECU. I have been a mechanic for 45 years, I can diagnose a modern car, but once fault heads towards ECU, you are writing off the Car. Most components need to be coded, a High Pressure pump (Diesel) fails if mis-fuelled once, Whole fuel system will need replacing, injectors (plus coding) Pipes, filters, Tank. Where as a Distributor, Points, HT leads, easily fixed. Even mechanical Diesel engined cars a great Pug 406 1.9 Turbo or N/A 60 MPG, solid reliability.
I feel sorry for people in those zones. Unfortunately euro6 vehicles are troublesome with all the required systems. If you can avoid the zones, stick to older vehicles.
@@ghunt9146 After 9 months of paying to drive out of our local area, we had to buy a new (second hand petrol) car. Our 13 year old diesel focus was perfectly fine which made it all the more annoying, but comrade khunt wanted rid.
Well the government show you how to avoid all its taxes... You have the ability to " export " your vehicle away from the care of the state.. thats DVLA. once it's out of the system you can have it registered by yourself. Insure yourself to drive not the vehicle. Make sure the policy allows you to drive " any vehicle " on your licence..
All they want people in those zones to do is forfeit their cars and start spending money on public transport or cycling in all weather's. However Kahn and his Cronies will be exempt and be allowed to have cars.
A used car dealer told me people are asking for cars around £3000 these days.Also they are keeping older cars going that 3yeaars ago they would have scrapped.
The most I spent was 6 grand on a 6 year old mazda 6, which kept going wrong. The least I spent was £25 on a Ford Anglia van in 1981. The 850 I have now was £995.
The advent of the EV has killed aspiration dead regarding cars for me. I used to change every three to four years, I have had one new all the time I have been driving but I have bought a year old car mostly. Now I have quit paying thousands and wont be changing either. I have had my current car Lanaguarded and have it routinely serviced, thats me done.
Same here, had my Volvo 9 years, its a 2010. Used to change cars every two years. Last summer I jacked it up, wire brush, evaporust, jenolite rust converter, and then Lanoguard. It is now corrosion free and will last for years. I just change the oil and filters myself. 9x £20 a year road tax is £180. An other car 9x £190 is £1710. More than covered any repair bills.
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Maybe we missed the point. When they say Luxury car tax what they meant was owning a car is a luxury…
Yes. But clearly, based on the prices, buying a new car in the UK is a luxury that very few can now afford. Cheers!
Government do class ownership of a vehicle as a luxury item... this is nothing new.
My mercedes CLS diesel cost £3k 5 years ago. It's got a beautiful interior interesting exterior. Fast quiet 600 miles on 80l tank and its fully loaded for a 2007 tank.
Problem is, many garages can't either, they are so badly designed, easier to learn from the Internet and do it yourself
Another stealth tax which was introduced in 2017. £40,000 then with RPI is now £59,113. Like the 40% income tax rate it has never increased ensuring within the next few years everyone will be paying 40% income tax and luxury car tax on every new car.
Jeramy Clarkson described EVs as White Goods….no more exciting than a new refrigerator. He’s right.
All cars have been redesigned so that you can't do your own repairs. All the space you used to have under the bonnet is now filled with superfluous systems, 250 unnecessary sensors, and lumps of tech that we don't even want in the vehicle.
Open it up and all you see is more plastic than in the Pacific ocean 😅
Seriously, who pays money for this crap? Anyhow, large parts of the world economy are dependent on this kind of idiocy, which is kind of scary.
Have you ever watched the American Utube were they show you what people have brought their cars in for repairing.It's hilarious, I don't know much,girls were very much kept away from card in my day but!
Recently one was brought in because it hadn't got any power in drive!Reason they had out the mat down over the pedals and could locate the accelerator!
Well you've got to laff!
Lots of love from Wolverhampton.
Those "customer states" videos are shocking. One was an old pickup truck with sheared suspension and snapped chassis. Held together with ratchet straps. Owner said it was driving a bit rough. 😂
I hate tech and over engineering. I'll keep my hardbody Nissan pickup
My vehicles are all older models. The newest is 2008 Fiat van... my motorbike I built myself from a V twin engine
A friend of mine is in senior management of an electricity company. Every two years he is given a new EV for work. His work requires him to travel parts of the country extensively. He therefore gives the EV to his wife who travels short domestic distances, with the occasional 50 mile drive. He uses his 'wife's' diesel to drive on the companies business, because he can't afford the down time or aggravation of an EV re-charging fiasco. Over the winter period, his wife found that the range of the EV dropped by up to 40%, at only -4C, and less than 2 years old! This car easily enters the luxury car range. The revolution is nigh.
I have a friend who's done the same. His premium ev is used mainly for the school run !
My friend bought a byd van brand new for around town .. £12k
After 3 years it's made him money through his company.
my son got a ev company car he was having so much downtime being paid while getting his feet up for hours on end wasting time charging and overnight hotel stays, and getting paid 50% of his time for doing nothing, the company saw the light and gave him a proper car.he is less bored and gets home most days after work.
@@evelghostriderWhich is the ONLY way EV's make sense, as company cars, no private owners are buying them.
Those are not luxury cars. I would say 80k plus.
Modern cars are just phones with wheels.
and last about as long
No cheap cars as 'they' don't want the plebs to drive.
In a nutshell
True but i do not like the "plebs" conotation just like we are some low life trash...
"...subsidised by the government..." No. Subsidised by the tax payer.
Excellent - this is an often omitted but truly important point - it's OUR money....they're giving to EV drivers, to pretend they're saving the planet.
You just figure out how taxes work?
Subside as we're car makers in last hundred years?
They don't want you to be able to repair it yourself,they lose money and control over you,when you have old cars,you have freedom! 👍🏻
In 2013 I paid 8k for a seat ibiza copa 1.2 this dsg with 22k miles. In 2020 it was involved in a small accident where the insurance company wrote it off, gave me 4,200 and I bought it back for 700 and fixed the damage for 100! I can get 60mpg on long drives if I'm very very careful but consistantly get 50mpg by driving smoothly.
My partner bought a Rover 75 and somebody clipped it about 3 weeks later. Broken bumper, smashed headlight, dented bonnet. Insurance company wrote it off, paid her what she'd paid for it, and let her keep the car. I spent about £100 to fix it with parts from a breaker.
Anyone who buys a new car is either mad or has money to 'flush' away. Modern cars are getting more and more 'stupid'......and are ridiculously priced.
The average wage in the UK is £30k (which gets TAXed). Politicians are so out of touch.... massive wages and they never have to put their hand in their pockets for anything.
NOPE when you start digging in to the figures the true figure is nearer £24K before tax as the so called surveys only look at the higher end working/middle class etc. The figures also class anything a few hundred over £23,873.60 as not in minimum wage btw..... Basically theres constant fudging of the figure..
As a kid I watched Robin Hood on the telly and always wondered why the peasants never revolted against the Sheriff!
Now I know why!
Lots of love from Wolverhampton.
I think the likes of Starmer walk around London and assume the whole UK is like that, super rich people with endless money
@@Slash1066 walk???? did you mean chauffeur driven??
Nope not at all! The average wage is lower than that! More like 24k. Most people are on lower than that.
Years ago, you'd want as many optional extras as you could get on your new car.
Now, you'd like the options to be removed: start/stop, Lane assist, overly complex computers, multiple screens etc. etc
Yep, who needs an electric parking brake?
How did people know they had a flat tyre before tyre pressure sensors were invented? 🤔
Pushbutton start, computerized dome lights, computerized headlights, touchscreens (any), LCD displays in the gauge cluster, infotainment system, over the air updates, any driver assist, any built in satnav, any built in connectivity to the internet...
Anything beyond what you would find on a pre-OBD2 late 80s or early 90s car is just unnecessary.
Remote central locking, electric windows, automatic headlights and air conditioning are all VERY VERY nice modern conveniences, albeit I could live without any of them.
The main reason not to drive around in cars from the 1960s to 1990s is how much worse you're likely to look if you get into a head-on collision. 2010 safety combined with a 2005 engine and a specification sheet off of a mid 1990s luxury car is probably my ideal!
@@gartgreenside3657 they were only bad when colliding with each other, if you hit a new car with them the new car would just collapse more as designed.
Same here in the US. The majority of the population doesn't want that crap neither.
Trumps stopped the madness
ok if you never drive more than a few miles away and have off street parking
Probably haven't spent £40k on driving in 20 years.
Me too, £19G for my current car (71 plate), £10G for my last car (11 plate). Our little run around, £2G, two years ago. The car before the 11 plate was, I think, about £6G bought used in 2003. £37000 for 22 years of motoring. Future my arse. The 71 & 11 were both brand new, BTW.
I always wanted to win the pools to get a golden Rolls Royce(like Lady Dovker,I think that was her name) and a lovely young chauffeur to go with it!
Ended up with a Old Kia Sedonia and a lovely old age pensioner as chauffeur!
Love is in the air!
Lots of love from Wolverhampton.
I own several vehicles that don't add up to 40k
Most expensive vehicle I bought was an Escort Cosworth in 2005 for 16k sold it some years later for 36k
That's as close as I got to 40k
Yep since 2005 I have a Civic (£1200) a 2.5 Outback (£1200) an "electric" 3.0 Outback (£1300) they lasted till 2 years ago on an average of 11,000 miles a year over the last 20 years with no repairs other than wheel bearings and CV boots and one rad at sub £300, plus normal service items. 2 years ago I splashed out over £4,000 but less than £5,000 on a basically one owner FSSH gem of an 2009 Outback, as was so good. Hoping this will see me good for yonks, my last £1300 Outback cost me £1300 and lasted 8 years. Anybody dumping 40K on something that will just depreciate from day one and do nowt an older car will do except the shallow types all wrapped up in the "my life is better than your life" little pointless game, they will wise up one day and realise how much money thay have spaffed away on plate snobbery over the years.
@evelghostrider I own several vehicles.
The funny thing is I park my 26 year old jaguar s type anywhere and people say you must be doing alright.
It's £850 on we buy any car and I've had it 6 years.
As said by an old pal - 'It's better to be flush, than flash' !
Nice!
Saying that I think that people are cool if they're driving round in good value older "flashy" cars... and I don't think ANY EV is "flash"... it's more a sign of stupidity.
I am sure that makes sense to speakers of British English, but for those of us across the pond, what does it mean?
US fellow here, but with the same sentiment. I was lucky enough to be gifted a car about 3 years ago by a veteran non-profit. It is a 1997 Corolla with around 209k miles. Aside from things any 30 year old car needs, such as tie rods or a new fuel pump, it hasn't needed any major work in my 3 years of owning it. Even parts like the new pump only cost me about 50USD and I replaced it myself. I won't be surprised when in 10 or 15 years my little POS is still on the road and most of the 2020s cars are scrapped.
There's plenty of Corollas older than that in use in third world countries.
They dont want you owning a car at all
Exactly, the powers that be are not killing ICE cars they are killing USED cars, as no one wants a second hand battery. So transport for the rich and privileged only…….and motability!
There is a reason that the Dacia Sandero is the best selling car in Europe. In the UK the entry level model is around £14K on the road, it has enough spec, like front lecky windows and A/C but none of the pointless and expensive technology, and if you go for the duel fuel petrol/LPG model, you have around 900 miles of range. Who would spend £40K on a range challenged 'milk float'?
That Polestar is still 24k overpriced 🤣🤣
Its an EV so not even in the running for the majority...
All cars are over priced that's how they make money!
Needed a car to get from Yorkshire to Cornwall for my Mothers 99th. birthday, bought the most expensive car that I've had, Mazda MX-5, about £2,500. I've spent about £220 on it in the last three years. Yes I've got money in the bank, but why would I want to waste it ?
If I thought my present car wouldn't do a trip like that I'd just hire one for a few days; that might cost £500.
You must be crazy having money in the bank. Totally crazy
A) it's NOT yours (You are nothing more than a creditor on their ledger.
B) the money is not there. It becomes their property as soon as you hand it over. From there they do just what they like with it .
Normally that's lend it to another bank. Or, even worse, invest it in a pensions company.
Get it out, but something with everlasting value - while you still can bc depreciation is destroying its purchasing power.
Great choice, I’m on my 4th and never let me down, for moving more than 2 other car is a cheap Jazz
I work for one of the large breakdown companies, I'd say the vast majority of roadside call outs i go to are manufactured post 2018. Car manufacturers just simply do not care about what they put on the forecourt anymore. I have been to countless PSA group diesels with Adblu issues and engines cutting power due to oil dilution because of the stupidly long service intervals.
I have recently been to 7 newer Nissan Jukes with sub 20k miles on the clock with failed alternators and the new Nissan Epower vehicle are really suffering with 12v battery drains with sub 1k miles!! Dealers are not interested in taking the vehicles back in under warranty and are expecting the vehicle owners to wait over a month until they can "diagnose" the fault.
From all the vehicles I have attended most have been on fleet schemes as I believe this is the only way dealers can shift their stock. All newer cars are dull and the majority I find very uncomfortable to drive, all of these cross overs are cramped inside and unnecessarily big on the outside.
I have always been a car enthusiast but I would not hand a penny of my money to a dealer for a cross platformed white good.... even the new Ford Explorer and Capri EVs are the same as VW id4s, just look at the stalks and infotainment inside!
I own a 2003 Renault Clio 1.4 which i paid £70 for almost 7 years ago and it has never let me down! Averages 50mpg on a good motorway run, sails through every mot, serviced religiously every year and only ever needs tyres and ball joints, a true hero in the old cars over new debate
4K miles is about right for turbo petrol
40k for a fridge 😆😂🤣
Most expensive cars:
Paid £5,300 for a 9yo Freelander 15 years ago - still using it.
Paid £5,300 for a 9yo Defender, sold it 32 years later for over 10k.
The car of the future is an old banger.
Yep - run them all my life - a second class ride is better than a first class walk..
old tractors have 0 computers and only 3 electrical components. Starter motor, alternator and battery. Oh to own a car like this
A few years ago I paid £15k for a 2018 civic diesel. Brilliant car and I plan on running it for another 8 years.
Wife bought x-trail in 2011 diesel near top of range got 145 k on it now only issue ever was the ac/blower a common fault apparently.
Just had its mot this morning
Zero advisories .
Can shove their EVs and overly technical shite right up their sheriffs badge
@@jamesheap7194 A couple of years ago I paid £16K for a 2019 Hyundai Kona EV. Brilliant car and I plan on running it for another 9 years.
@@jamesheap7194 A few years ago I paid £16K for a 2019 Hyundai Kona EV. Brilliant car and I plan on running it for another 9 years.
If they really wanted to lower
Your carbon footprint they’d make 10 year old cars tax free and pay you to drive any car older than 15 years as your sole car.
I spent £18000 on a brand new1.6 diesel Touran 12 years ago. Very cheap to run ,40-50 mpg still looks good........will run it for decades
TAX TAX TAX!!! It's just disgusting how bad this government is💩
I was told that the £40K luxury tax is due based on the manufacturer's list price, not what you pay.
This is correct. Doesn’t matter if you get a discount and that discount comes in at under 40k. If the cost (list price) of the car plus options is over £40k you get hit with the luxury car tax.
I don't spend more than £1000 on a car, it's against my beliefs.😁
ah the church of miser ..... I'm a paid up member
1800 quid for a 12yr old Skoda Octavia 1.9 Diesel ~ brilliant car that I kept for 8yrs until a local fool crashed into it while it was parked. 40k for any car is beyond my comprehension. Or financial reach.
In 2019 I bought a 14 year old Volvo XC90 for £3,250 then drove it to Spain 3 days later. Still got it so if it blew up tomorrow, it owes me nothing. Great car.
As a motorcyclist i feel the same, i just want a normal bike for a good price, no i have to have ABS brakes, traction control, eco model sport mode etc etc and the price you are looking at is £15 grand for a 1000cc bike up to a top of the line £30,000 and then they wonder why they can't sell motorbikes, plus high price tag high insurance,
None of that stuff on my 1969 BSA Rocket 3 - goes great and stops well enough all things considered - still a motorcycle with all its advantages
Once had to pay £500 for second hand abs brake pump on my 2008 corsa
I'm in Australia and I have *never* bought a new car ever! My *newest* cars are a 1992 2.1 Saab classic 900 sedan and a 1992 1HZ diesel 80 series landcruiser with barn doors. I will *never* buy brand new as nothing appeals. The Saab cost me under A$2000 in 2019. The landcruiser cost me $5000 in 2011.
Ditto. Also an Aussie, and never bought a new car in my life, and now unlikely ever to with how sh*t new cars are today. Most ever spent; $22k (11k GBP) on a '98 V6 Honda Accord in the about 2002, when I was obviously feeling particularly prosperous and profligate. The Honda aside, I have bought about 15 other cars during my life, all of which have been $7500 or less (under 3500 GBP). My current daily is a '09 Skoda Superb Elegance TDi, bought in 2021 for $7k (3500 GBP). Cheers!
The more electric and electronic guffery that there is on a modern car, the more potential it has to go wrong. Most of it we never asked for, and certainly don’t need. I work for a massive 2nd-hand car dealers. I’m horrified by how over complicated recent vehicles have become. I get to drive pretty much everything so see it first-hand.
40k and what will it be worth after a year? I have a V70 (£1100) and a A4(£800) 51years old between them and neither have ever let me down. My adult daughters think it’s funny I have cars that are older than them 😂
The depreciation kills it for private buyers you go into negative equity buying EVs which is just reckless and highly dangerous. Make do and mend is so much better .
I have a new Tiguan 1.5 petrol 48 mpg and it’s brilliant. I install EV chargers for a living, buying an EV never entered my mind. Our other car is a 1.2 polo 15 reg from new, 55mpg and I will keep it until forever. Evs without warranty are a financial disaster waiting to happen.
It’s not just about how much you want to spend , it’s also about how you pay. The last time I walked into a car showroom with a polythene bag full of real cash , the dealer wouldn’t take it !
I pushed the boat out and spent 5750 on an xc70. Posh as hell compared to my usual 2k sheds.
Yeah you are right there we went from a V70 to a Mitsubishi ASX they are 2 worlds apart inside, the ASX is a very good looking durable car just no where near as nice inside I was quite disappointed I do like a luxury car.
I bought a 2005 Xsara Picasso 2.0d for £1495, less £350 for my scrapper, from a great
dealer in Crewe, 15 months ago, it's done 81,000 and runs like a top, with no issues.
My mechanic of 25 years serviced and MOT'd it all for £250, anyone paying full new price
for a car is mad.
I love those things but don’t tell anyone 😂😂
@@GeoffBuysCars Indeed, they're not pretty but very practical, pockets everywhere.
Is that the 2.0 HDi invincible diesel?😅
Drove one and hated it, and I like french garbage 😅
Lobster in higher demand than crap ev's
Did I mention all EVs are sh1t? Especially Chinese ones 🤣🤣🤣
Phrenology was a now discredited belief that a person's character could be read by feeling the bumps on a person's head. Hence the old saying, having your bumps felt, if you were acting in a strange manner.
Current Geoff fleet and prices paid:
850 TDi in red £250
850 TDi in green £2200
V70 XC in brown £600
V70 XC in blue £850
V70 FUF in brown £1k
Rover 214 £600
Here's my list
2001 Clio 1.5dci
1987 Land Rover 90 v8
1990 Suzuki DA41T (mini truck)
1989 Bedford Racal van
Thats what I use from day to day - I have other cars + some projects
Your channel is one of the few that really enjoys the quality of content. Keep it up!🤔🐯😁
I bought my 2013 Astra estate back in 2017, it was 3 and a bit years old at the time. It was £3500. +£300 for a 3 year optional warranty. All in all stood me at £3800.I still have it now, with almost 200k on the clock and it still runs fine. Averaging a 55-65 mpg (depending on where I’m travelling). The best I’ve had (last year) was 75.8mpg coming from Sunderland to Doncaster along the A1 fully loaded. And it’s only £35 tax
Bargain
P.s.
It has full service history and only had 1 previous owner.
Bought a metro van in the mid 90s for £150. Had it for 3 years and did 35000 miles in it .cheapest vehicle I've ever had.
£150 is cheap... but I can come pretty close... my 90s cars were a £350 fiesta, a free capri and a £600 capri.
@gartgreenside3657 he originally wanted £225 for it. But after spending 20 minutes checking the vehicle over without saying a word he kept knocking £25 off. When he got down to £150 i said I'll take it.
@ Nice... second last car I bought the guy wanted £4k. After looking at it for ages and giving it a good looking over I was thinking "I want it, and will pay asking... don't want to miss out... can I get some cash off anyway?" I asked him what his bottom line was, he told me £3.7k and I shook his hand!
Where's the lobster? We need to know! That's obviously a body double.
£5,000 buys you all the car you need.
Hot hatch, Estate, SUV, Roadster, Classic, Luxury … Any class, take your pick.
We did. 60 plate Skoda fabia estate, full main dealer service history, 50k miles and 1 owner. £4700
Agree, 4 yrs ago i got a 2015 Yaris 1.3L CVT, with 88,000m £5,500 FTSH (Full Toyota Service History). Does 60mpg most trips, usually 55mpg if i aint soft of the right pedal. The 5sp manual Yaris does the same mpg believe it or not.
So we won't even be able to do what the Cubans had to do and keep their 1950's american cars going forever. 2006 looks like the limit of physically mendable.
I spent £1150 on a 10 year old, 2 wheel drive, base model Dacia Duster 1.6. Timing chain, high profile tyres, terrible paint, horrible lifter tick. Works great for runs to the tip and shops, I have motorcycles if I want to go fast.
Same here!
That'll still be running(with the tick!) in 10 years😂
I run a £600 Suzuki Grand Vitara 2.5, bought 3 years ago, most it has cost for a Mot, £81. A 2003 Triumph RS955i, £950, bought 14 months ago. But my fav daily is my 52 Morris Minor, with later moggie running gear. Can get most parts locally, the rest by return of post, oh and over 40 MPG. With a little knowledge, the Moggie with run for ever.
Cheapest car,£55, MK 6 poverty spec Escort from a local auction, and it had half a tank of fuel. That was 17 years ago.
If the shop owner does not jump at the chance of giving you a 43% discount to sell you that shirt, he is a fool!😂
Most people can't afford to buy cars costing £40k, and maintainance costs are high because modern cars are deliberately made more complex to force owners to visit the dealership service centre where labour costs are over £100/hour.
The idea is to make motoring increasingly less affordable to the masses.
I'm 64. Eight years ago I purchased the most expensive car i've ever owned. It was a 2005 Disco 3 for £7k. Still going with 150k on the clock and no intention of changing it. There's far too much computer interference on modern cars so I refuse to own one. Cheapest car i ever bought was a £25 Austin Mini in the late 1970's. I sold it for £300 a couple of weeks later.
If a car doesn't have a carburettor or an ashtray & cigarette lighter, it ain't worth having.
The most and the least I have paid for a car? Funnily enough, the two cars that I own today: £2,000 for a five-year old Hyundai fifteen years ago, and £2 10 shillings for a one-owner Austin Seven Ruby nearly fifty years ago! Lots have come and gone in the intervening years, but those two should see me out.
You've almost got the basis of a great novel or history book based on those two facts!
Really get out your typewriter ,there is a prize out there waiting for you!
Lots of love from Wolverhampton.
Least I've spent on a car was my very first, a 1994 (L) Renault R5 Campus which cost £420. Most I've ever spent is my current car, a 2011 Seat Ibiza Copa 1.4 which cost £3k. I'll never buy anything newer than 2014, never buy anything with an electric handbrake, and never buy anything that thinks it knows better than me (lane departure systems etc).
@@Eric_Hunt194 Bet you'll never buy a smartphone either. Happy with your landline. 😂
One day they will reinvent the morris 1000 and it will be hailed as the best thing since sliced bread.
After buying a 58 plate bmw 120d for 3k, recently did a thousand mile trip averaged 64mpg. Completley comfortable, no drama. Gone are the days I will be paying a monthly.
At one point, a mint insignia was WORTHLESS because it needed a clutch at 150'000, not worth the price of a clutch job.....
All insignias were worthless...
Why do people scrap cars over a clutch? The replacement could be a dog too.
In 2020 I paid £11,000 for a used Honda crv, I've never spent so much on a car in my life but glad I did, what an awesome motor
I’ve had my van for 10 years and for the first time it didn’t pass the mot, £120 to get it through not bad.
I've had my van from 2008, a celica GT4 from 2003, and my motorbike I built myself 8 years ago..
Newest car I bought was for my mum, a 2015 VW touareg that does 8k miles per year. She hates the music system in it as its Bluetooth lol
What did they do ? change a light bulb?
@@garymarsh6803 Probably failed on emissions? They're getting stricter on that. It's becoming a pain to get through the MOT now.
An elderly friend of mine went to pick up her new motability car, they cut the ribbon and she metaphorically turned the key and it wouldn't start. Several weeks later, it still hasn't been fixed. It probably never will be. She's stuck at the mo with a luminous green/yellow courtesy car as they are still trying to find the issue with the new one. 😂
Why can't these people use a bus or Taxi?
@@ericrawson2909???? and why can't you slither back into the hole from which you came....nasty piece of work.
10 cars for 4k or less, i'd watch that, we tend to pay less than £1k for cars and do our own maintenance
Been driving since legal to do so, nearly 60 now, the most I've spent on any vehicle (Motorbike, Car Van) would be £1.5K. All serviced by myself along with minor repairs, most expensive garage bill was around £250.00.
My brother had a problem on his 6 year old Merc headlamp so it needed replacing, it cost him over £2K!
40k … they all get a 💩 from me!
My last 3 cars under £1000
Years ago my brother had a tactic. He would go to the local auctions and buy any old car that no one else wanted. As long as it had 4 half decent tyres and an MOT that was good enough for him. He would drive it for 12 months, then drive it to the scrapyard and get some cash for it. Then he would go back to the auctions and buy another one. His rule was that he paid no more than £100 for a car. He never had to buy tyres or pay for an MOT, and spent many years running a car for peanuts.
@@VisorView 1990s I was picking up ford Fiestas from witney motor auctions for as little as £75 taking them home cleaning them up putting them through mots and selling them for £300 /£400 .. oh the good old days 🤔
@@VisorView I used to do very similar, but then the auction fees got as dear as the cars so I went over to private buying.
In 2021 I bought a 2007 1.6 petrol Skoda Roomster for £1300. Still gioing strong. Just regular wear and tear items bought and a quick rear subframe paint.. starts first turn of key every day…. Who needs £40,000 of crap?Thanks Geoff…
£3.5k is my average spend on a car. I've been driving a 2006 Toyota Corolla for 6 years now with zero problems.
I'm sure Barrie Crampton will have a few Autotraders.
Yes, please do a 10 cars for 4k video!
Just to reply to my own comment and for a bit of context. My first car was a 3 year old diesel mondeo, 30k on the clock, cost me 10k, with a bank loan that was £169 per month over 5 years.
The second car was a diesel Insignia, 3 years old, 42k on the clock, and it had been speced out of the wazoo by the previous owner. Cost me 10k again, on another 5 year loan, about £185 a month.
I made the mistake of selling the insignia about 18 months ago and now I can't find anything close to the car type and costs. The stupid focus on EV and bet zero BS seems to have killed the second hand market and the fiance had become insanely expensive.
Who the hell would want to load themselves with the debt of a new car especially with this government putting taxes up, council tax up, energy up, growth down, NI up so business's can't afford pay rises or bonuses. I will never buy a new car if it means a £400-£600 credit card bill every month for 5 years, total insanity. I'd like to see that video, £4-£5k budget, ten best buys which are also reliable.
Your ideas are always so creative and interesting. Thank you for your hard work!🎲♀️🐅
I paid a 4 grand for a Peugeot 107. One previous owner, FSH and a clean MOT history. No tax, cheapest insurance bracket, 60mpg and its just cost me fuel and a routine service every year. It owes me nothing
old peougot 1.9 diesels half million miles no probs
Yes please Geoff, the 10 cars you'd buy for 4k or less would be great!
The price of cars is insane! In early 2009 I bought a just over 3 year old 2005 Mondeo ST TDCi hatch with 33k on the clock for £8.5k! Still running it, 183,000 miles and just two MOT fails in its life….a bulb and a brake line! Be lucky get a ten year old car with 60k on the clock for that money these days!
The irony of these car prices is that there’s apparently cost of living crisis going on yet half the population seem to be driving around in +£40k cars, there’s a Tesla on every street corner where I live! 🤯
I paid £400, for a 10 year old flat panda with 6 months MOT
So I brought a fiat panda 4x4 cross diesel 2010 ... could not be happier...£1850.... brilliant on fuel ... basic...and different...
Did you get the lobster back I saw it get abducted yesterday 😊 Edit. Oh there he is 😂
Yes, it's lovely to see the sun shining somewhere!
Lots of love from Wolverhampton.
I am happy with my 2007 1.5 Renault Kangoo diesel that I bought six and a half years ago for £700.00. Apart from brake pads, brake shoes, tyres and a battery, it has cost me nothing and never let me down. It does about 50 mpg. No problems with any of the MOTs. It does everything I need a vehicle to do.
2008 Megane here. Paid £4k in 2010. Still going strong. It had a scrapyard £34 ac compressor 5 years ago. That's it for repairs over 15 years.
I’m in Canada so the currency is CAD but the last vehicle I purchased in 2018 was 15,000 for a two year old F-150 and that serious broke my budget. Before that it was a $10,000 cap. I am a mechanic and welder by trade and also do my own machining so I run the old stuff to the grave. The very thought of purchasing a $100,000 pick up truck littered with useless tech that I won’t find parts for in 5 years make me ill.
Why I always buy as cheap a car as possible miss my£300 rover 420 diesel!!! I remember going too my local Auto Trader office too advertise when I was only 19 too advertise my garage and they had there own photographer printers etc for north east area all those jobs gone when it gone online!!!!
£40k!! I bought myself a 2003 Mercedes SL500 4yrs ago for £9500 with 78,000 mls full service history etc. She would have cost the original owner nearly £80k. I have now enjoyed that glorious V8 engine for 4yrs including a continental trip over some alpine passes down into Italy where at a steady 80mph she still returned 30mpg… why oh why would you spend £40k?? If I had to throw her away tomorrow (which I have no plans to do!) I still won’t have lost as much money as you would the moment you drive your £40k new car out of the showroom!
Hi Geoff, please do the 10 cars for 4K. My usual budget starts at 2k but for the past few cars I’ve owned - I’ve never stretched past 3. All big German saloons or estates as well. Great videos, I’ve been watching for a while but this is my first comment ever
My 'Money Pits' (Older Cars) cost me less than half of any new EVs first 6 months depreciation.... That's the money pits purchase price and running costs combined 🤷♂
My friends sister in a home snd had to have a caret drive for her, she is forced to trade it in after 3 years but only on sn EV!
This is Government exploiting the disabled.
My mother’s friend was given a free car. A scruffy 1980s Rover 213. All it needed was 4 new tyres.
I am very happy to have found your channel. Your videos are a real godsend for all lovers of quality content.🤙🚛💝
I’d rather buy an old car for a few grand and have a great holiday. Just like you’re doing / done. You’re a great example, keep it up Geoff, great video as always.
Having your bumps felt is an old saying. It refers to the bumps on your head
I only buy up to 31st March 2017. Cheaper road tax, bodies last. I do agree pre-ECU cars are much better than post ECU. I have been a mechanic for 45 years, I can diagnose a modern car, but once fault heads towards ECU, you are writing off the Car. Most components need to be coded, a High Pressure pump (Diesel) fails if mis-fuelled once, Whole fuel system will need replacing, injectors (plus coding) Pipes, filters, Tank. Where as a Distributor, Points, HT leads, easily fixed. Even mechanical Diesel engined cars a great Pug 406 1.9 Turbo or N/A 60 MPG, solid reliability.
older cheap cars are pretty much non ULEZ compliance.. so we're screwed in khans prison.
I feel sorry for people in those zones. Unfortunately euro6 vehicles are troublesome with all the required systems. If you can avoid the zones, stick to older vehicles.
Don’t go to London then. It’s a 3rd world toilet anyway.
@@ghunt9146 After 9 months of paying to drive out of our local area, we had to buy a new (second hand petrol) car. Our 13 year old diesel focus was perfectly fine which made it all the more annoying, but comrade khunt wanted rid.
Well the government show you how to avoid all its taxes...
You have the ability to " export " your vehicle away from the care of the state.. thats DVLA.
once it's out of the system you can have it registered by yourself.
Insure yourself to drive not the vehicle. Make sure the policy allows you to drive " any vehicle " on your licence..
All they want people in those zones to do is forfeit their cars and start spending money on public transport or cycling in all weather's. However Kahn and his Cronies will be exempt and be allowed to have cars.
£60 2CV bought in 1996, + new coil and 2 king pins, 4 tyres, great trouble free reliable motoring, love it. Best car in the world.
After the diesel debacle, I have no confidence in the perennity of the technology. Who knows what they'll be plugging in 5 years. So, wait and see..
A used car dealer told me people are asking for cars around £3000 these days.Also they are keeping older cars going that 3yeaars ago they would have scrapped.
I wouldn't have an ev even free, no power, no use
Have it free, sell it to some wokehead
"No power" meanwhile the Rivian top spec has over 800 hp... so... yeah.
@@Ramonatho Pulling a ton up a 1 in 4 Battery dead in about 5 minutes, useless!
@@Enl1thened1 teslas are good if you are rich and can afford car and insurance
The most I spent was 6 grand on a 6 year old mazda 6, which kept going wrong. The least I spent was £25 on a Ford Anglia van in 1981. The 850 I have now was £995.
The advent of the EV has killed aspiration dead regarding cars for me. I used to change every three to four years, I have had one new all the time I have been driving but I have bought a year old car mostly. Now I have quit paying thousands and wont be changing either. I have had my current car Lanaguarded and have it routinely serviced, thats me done.
Same here, had my Volvo 9 years, its a 2010. Used to change cars every two years. Last summer I jacked it up, wire brush, evaporust, jenolite rust converter, and then Lanoguard. It is now corrosion free and will last for years. I just change the oil and filters myself. 9x £20 a year road tax is £180. An other car 9x £190 is £1710. More than covered any repair bills.