cheap car for city driving 2000 miles a year

thrifty_pete

I`ve just sold my ´51 plate Nissan Almera 1.8, in one year it cost me £350 in maintenance, £287 insurance, £350 in fuel, depreciated £200 and £175 in car tax.
I only drove it 2000 miles!!!! So for £1362 :eek: I could have almost gone around by taxi! I cycle to work, so its only needed for Tescos and socially.
I´m thinking a 4 year old Citroen C1 might be a better bet, with the £500 depreciation offset by the soon to be £20 car tax, and presumably cheaper insurance. Is it just a fact of life that you can't really run a car for less than £1000 + fuel per year?
Pete

hewhoisnotintheknow

i would imagine keeping your current car would be the best bet

goldspanners

why would a citroen c1 be any different? just because of a few quid on tax?

i think your fooling yourself here.

as you said you dont really do many miles to warrant a car, why not as you say use taxis and hire a car if you go anywhere further than tesco?

daveyjp

Our Aygo costs less than £1000 a year to run. Service £100, insurance £200, fuel for 4,000 miles about £400, tax £35.

jeannieblue

What about a Smart car?

Less than an hour to Top Gear...

goldspanners

jeannieblue wrote: »

Less than an hour to Top Gear...

its usually about this time when i find out its been cancelled for some crap sporting event. or as bbc scotland seem to do often up here is put top gear on at a different time than usual to show something rubbish. no other tv show gets moved around or cancelled as much as this does it?

gilbert_and_sullivan

daveyjp wrote: »

Our Aygo costs less than £1000 a year to run. Service £100, insurance £200, fuel for 4,000 miles about £400, tax £35.

Depreciation?

jeannieblue

goldspanners wrote: »

its usually about this time when i find out its been cancelled for some crap sporting event. or as bbc scotland seem to do often up here is put top gear on at a different time than usual to show something rubbish. no other tv show gets moved around or cancelled as much as this does it?

Don't really have that problem down here - it was rescheduled the other week, but generally it doesn't get moved about much... poor little Scotsman...

BeenieCat

Well a smaller engine would definitely cut the costs. How about getting a 1.0 or something? Would most likely be cheaper to insure, tax and run.

blackste

c1 is a seriously cheap car to run. however, if your only needs are social and supermarket runs, why not get your shopping delivered by your supermarket, and use taxis for the social life?

before_hollywood

dont bet on less insurance with a smaller car, my stilo and a picanto are the same as i had quotes for both