running costs of my old car vs new car help

Joe_Horner

mattyprice4004 wrote: »

How is the size if fuel tank relevant? MPG is what you look at.

Agreed, but the size of tank becomes relevant when people start saying "I get x miles from a tank" or "it costs £y to fill my tank" as some were near the start of the thread.

Without knowing how big the tank is, (say) "250 miles per tank" might be 50 mpg with a very small tank, or it might be 15 with a very big one!

DKLS

Strider590 wrote: »

Classic case of just wanting a new car, but making invalid excuses for buying one, conveniently only listening to sales hype and gossip, whilst ignoring the blatantly obvious facts.]

Normally she's very bright and holds down a responsible job running multi-million pound projects, so this purchase came as a shock.

She wasnt impressed when I said I could run a sportscar for what she had paid out extra to save a few mpg.

kelevraz

OddballJamie wrote: »

I thought it drove nice and revved well. I've driven the mk2 1.6 100bhp, 1.6 115bhp and the 1.8 and I preferred the 115bhp engine. Although I went for an Astra 1.8vvt 140bhp in the end as I've always preferred the shape and managed to get a brand new one for the price of a used Focus Zetec.

What type of driving (city/motorway) do you do and how many miles a year?

i will probably do about 5800- 7200 miles a year and that will just be on the motorways, and im sure an extra 200 or so will probably just be me driving about, doing errands etc. i thought about going for the astra 1.8 but ive heard that in a choice between that and the focus then the focus takes it