help! cheapest car to run and insure

boyse7en

DUTR wrote: »

I did add the line that the new price goes up every year, so did see the point, when he comes to sell/trade it in, then the few hundred quid loss, will be much more.

No it won't.

He paid £3636 for it 14 months ago, and estimates its value at £3200 now (which seems to be a reasonable estimate)

So if he sold it tomorrow, he will have lost £426 in value over the period. The price of the car when it was new is irrelevant, as he didn't buy it new. The original owner took the hit for the much larger loss it made in the first couple of years of its life.

boyse7en

hucknallglynnbob wrote: »

where do you get those last mpg figures from????

i have an 8 year old st220 3.0litre v6 mondeo and i get 25mpg out of that.

My 1999 Alfa Romeo 3-litre V6 just averaged 26mpg driving from home to Centre Parcs fully loaded, with a roof box fitted and two bikes hanging off the back, so I'm pretty sure a small or medium hatch will do far better than that!

hucknallglynnbob

boyse7en wrote: »

My 1999 Alfa Romeo 3-litre V6 just averaged 26mpg driving from home to Centre Parcs fully loaded, with a roof box fitted and two bikes hanging off the back, so I'm pretty sure a small or medium hatch will do far better than that!

agree mate and i've got a heavy right foot!!!

DUTR

hucknallglynnbob wrote: »

where do you get those last mpg figures from????

i have an 8 year old st220 3.0litre v6 mondeo and i get 25mpg out of that.

Perhaps someone with an old corsa can confirm, my ex GFs corsa was no better than my Golf at the time, same with the last GF she has a pug ragtop thing, not great on economy, big engine cars are often little more than ticking over so will give good returns.

DUTR

boyse7en wrote: »

No it won't.

He paid £3636 for it 14 months ago, and estimates its value at £3200 now (which seems to be a reasonable estimate)

So if he sold it tomorrow, he will have lost £426 in value over the period. The price of the car when it was new is irrelevant, as he didn't buy it new. The original owner took the hit for the much larger loss it made in the first couple of years of its life.

If he got £3200 for it, the true worth of a car is when it comes to sell not book prices , we all know that

Skulls

I give up, I'm happy with my loss, all £400 or so. The one thing I must say is there's lots of Citroen C!'s and Peugeot 107's and Toyota Aygos about. Every one is very cheap to run.

olly300

Skulls wrote: »

I give up, I'm happy with my loss, all £400 or so. The one thing I must say is there's lots of Citroen C!'s and Peugeot 107's and Toyota Aygos about. Every one is very cheap to run.

Are they cheap to repair though?

Cars that are cheap to run and insure aren't necessarily cheap to repair.

Johnny_Barnes10

Are Mondeos (2002) cheap to repair?

mattyprice4004

DUTR wrote: »

So quote your budget as the thread will seem !!!! and pointless, 11yr old car may well be at the knee point for reliability, and an 11yr old car is not going to be as economical to run as a newer car, which slides from the thread title, you may pick up a Corsa 1.2 2002 not overly expensive to run assuming the drink drive points etc are no longer valid on your license, but a car of that age and small to medium hatch is going to return 25-30mpg realistically.

So that's why my previous large 197bhp saloon gave me 35mpg, my other large (diesel) saloon gave me 48mpg, and my medium hatchback owned for 3 years gave me 52mpg? All more than 10 years old.

Older cars can be good on fuel, if you have a 1.2 Corsa on an 02 plate doing 25mpg, it's broken!

lindopski_2

I have had a couple of old banger diesels and both have been good on fuel.
I had a Citroen Xantia 1.9 L Reg (1993) that I was given for nowt and I ran that for two years with no hassle and VERY comfortable motoring.
I now own a 1999 Rover 420 SDI Diesel - cost me £350 3 years ago as I was a Cat D write off.
Its never given me an ounce of trouble, getting to the falling apart stages now with age and wear as its done almost 160k
both of them were roughly 50mpg cars.

If you have a few quid though then most of the Citroen Diesels will be great.
C1 probably the best but tiny, or the C2 which would be my choice next time I think.