Buying a Car for Commuting - What is the MSE way?

Rossy.

okie363 wrote: »

you could get something like a MK2 renult laguna, you can get a desiel top spec one for around £2k with around 80k miles,

they are great cars too, hight equipment levels etc etc.
since they are only about 6 years old, you can run them into the ground for another few years, and be hardly out of pocket!

they easily get a good 55 mpg, and at 70mph they are refinded and quite

i run a ford focus mk1, and its also very reliable, but they dont have cruise control.

Exactly what i've just done.

Extremely economical and it is very comfy. It's also pretty powerful for a 1.9 turbo diesel

Lithian

23rdian wrote: »

What do you think they are?

Its a car trader, carsite. You can look at the site on google maps here http://maps.google.co.uk/maps?client=firefox-a&channel=s&hl=en&ie=UTF8&q=bedford+autodrome&fb=1&gl=uk&hq=autodrome&hnear=Bedford&cid=0,0,2435640773541697350&ll=52.227405,-0.476918&spn=0.008018,0.019054&t=h&z=16 and you can see on the map there are cars there at that time as well. Carsite according to wiki sell ex-fleet cars "Carsite.co.uk is an e-Retailer of ex-fleet vehicles for major branded fleet disposers. The vehicles listed are c. 15-20% less than normal dealer forecourt prices. Carsite works in partnership with the Fleet to Street disposal channel Auto-online in order to list the vehicles."

So, its a place that has a lot of cars and no physical dealership... they need a place to store cars

Scrappage was you bring in a car, Dealer/manufacturer gives you £1000, .gov gives you £1000

So, if you were a dealer and someone brings in a half decent car, would you rather give away £1000 or offer the customer £2000 normal trade in (so the customer makes the same amount) and sell that trade in for £2500? (via auction perhaps?) So, if you see cars there which look like they'd have sold for more than £2k it would have been daft for the dealer to put it through as a scrappage deal

I think it was the Daily Mail stirring tihs, the text Hubert quoted calls it an army airfield which cost 28mil... why would the gov pay the army? would an airfield even cost 28mil to hire? Its actually Bedford Autodrome... not even army

A._Badger

Wherever that car pound is, it remains one of the stupidest schemes in the long history of madcap government wastage.

I'm sure the South Koreans were incredibly grateful for the boost to exports, but aside from Britain's car dealers, no one else should be.

23rdian

Lithian wrote: »

Its a car trader, carsite

Doubt it very much. Carsite sell ex-fleet stuff. Take a look at the website. Their stock is much younger. Also how many dealers do you know are happy to leave windows down with interiors exposed to the elements.

Like I say, a pointless policy from a pointless government.

jaydeeuk1

Whats that little white car near the front behind the (vitara?)? Looks no bigger than my IQ! Can't be one of those aixams as they're not cars?

Some decent cars there, convertable saab in top left, ford puma, an estate (passat?), grand espace, all worth far more than £1000 surely!


And theres a fiat coupe 16v there! Criminal!

BigDonut

managed to get a look around at a few things.

Focus looked ok.
I also saw a couple of Mazdas can't remember the models
Also saw a polo and a clio but think I would avoid th clio, it felt very small!.

have also seen some vaxhaull astra hatchbacks 1.6 and 1.8 sxi and sri. Are they any good? From what I've read the major thing is to make sure the cambelt was changed every 40k miles.

Logie143

Anyone else thinking that airfield would be the best place to go paintballing?

Logie143

And also, although I would usually agree whole-heartedly that tabloids stir things up for the hell of it, I would say this couldn't be a retailer.

Take, for example the green golf at the top of the pic ( I think it's a golf!?) If i wanted to buy that from them they would have to shift dozens and dozens of cars to actually move it...it's just not arranged for resale.

it is a shame that they're being scrapped though. Couldn't they just clear them off the airfield and rent them out for banger racing stag parties or something?

Horizon81

That picture practically brings a tear to a petrolhead's eye. I bet the majority of those cars were perfectly serviceable. It's just typical of the last government and the whole green brigade who think that somehow scrapping older working cars and producing new ones is greener than the evil co2 emisissions of these old cars. But hey road tax is free or only 20 a year so that's all that matters to these idiots.

As has been said above, it was great for the Korean car industry but precious little else (UK dealers aside). It's hilarious the media is full of new cars getting totally destroyed in this weather whilst millions of old cars sit there - I can see a Freelander, Vitara, couple of Jeep Cherokees, Subaru Forester amongst many others - I'm sure all of these could have been put to good use. What a complete and utter waste. A bit like the past 13 years under Tony's government.

But back off soap box and on topic, you don't want a diesel for goodness sake, not for 10 miles a day. Stick with a 16v peppy little petrol engine supermini. A Fiesta should do you fine. Avoid anthing french and don't pay any extra for a Polo, they're not worth the premium.

BigDonut

Horizon81 wrote: »

But back off soap box and on topic, you don't want a diesel for goodness sake, not for 10 miles a day. Stick with a 16v peppy little petrol engine supermini. A Fiesta should do you fine. Avoid anthing french and don't pay any extra for a Polo, they're not worth the premium.

Thanks, still on the lookout for something - the weather doesn't make it appealing to head out more than is necessary.

Seen a few puntos about the place too so going to check them out.