Been offered a big contract - having doubts

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    amazingtrade Mad Madchestoh fan

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    On the Corsa site they reckon it would fetch £800-£1000 because its a very high spec model and not really any rust so it would make a perfect base car for them. I paid £1150 for it but round here decent 13 year old Fiestas fetch £800! Its power steering, 0-60 in 13 secs, 103 mph top speed (I haven't tried!!) and group 3 insurance keep its value high.

    Even L reg Corsas in good nick go for £500 round here because small cars are just in huge damand. It was by far the cheapest 16v car I could insure but also has all the electric windows, mirrors etc.

    I paid £1150 for it which was on the high side but if you remember everything I was looking at was a rotten shed even at £1k.

    At the moment including petrol and insurance its costing me just less than £20 a week which not even twice the cost of a bus pass :) For this reason as dull as it is I suspect I have to keep it until things really start going wrong, the engine dies or the just gets too expensive to keep on top of the MOT.
     
    amazingtrade, Sep 8, 2009
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    OK so say its worth a grand.

    Keep it srerviced and run it carefully its going to give you economical motoring for a few years.

    Buy something for 5K and you've got that deprecation to consider.

    BTW, so it does 60 in 13 seconds, I'd say thats about 3 seconds fsater than my transit connect.

    You tell me its all electric.

    Now, remind me why its boring?
     
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    amazingtrade Mad Madchestoh fan

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    I would get bored of anything. It probably partly my mates winding me up down the pub as I have a reputation for not keeping cars very long :)

    Driving wise the main thing I don't like is the vague gearchange its not as slick as the Fords I have had but that said there is nothing wrong with it as a tool you just don't feel like you're engaging in the machine but then so many modern cars the same.

    As I said above I will keep this car until it breaks :). There is just a bit of a keep up the jones is thing going on at the moment as I have the oldest car out of all my mates but that is just silly :)
     
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    I would knock that one on the head.

    There is alway someone out there with something a bit better than yours.

    Fact of life.
     
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    What Mick said.
     
    Setting Son, Sep 11, 2009
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    Discuss it with her.


    :)
     
    DavidF, Sep 12, 2009
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    mr cat Member of the month

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    he needs to see how much his competitors are charging - no good asking £60ph if they're only charging 25...
     
    mr cat, Sep 12, 2009
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