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Strider590 wrote: »When I bought the Vec, I walked into a dealers and paid cash, I could quite easily afford £400 a month in car finance, why would I spend stupid money on a decidedly average motor? If i'm gonna spend that sort of money, I want something special, not a Micra on stilts.Idiophreak wrote: »Right...but OP was talking about spending a quarter of that...
The amount is irrelevant, it's still a finance type deal (ie cannot afford in cash), we tend to live to our means, one mans 100 a month is another mans 400.
It's all relative.....“I may not agree with you, but I will defend to the death your right to make an a** of yourself.”
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Strider590 wrote: »The amount is irrelevant, it's still a finance type deal (ie cannot afford in cash), we tend to live to our means, one mans 100 a month is another mans 400.
It's all relative.....
You said you wouldn't pay £400/month for a Micra on stilts, but the Micra on stilts in question is only £105/month. You are right, of course, there are probably a number of cars I'd prefer for £400/month...I just don't know what that has to do with anything.
I guess you're saying that you had the option of getting something "good" for £400/month, or the "Micra on stilts" equivalent (ie the Vectra) for less and you chose that...but you seem to be contradicting yourself there...
And FWIW, it's a very bold assumption to say that someone with car finance "cannot afford in cash". I could easily afford to buy a car in cash should I so wish - I just find leasing a car more convenient.0 -
You have been panning the Juke all through this thread for poor dynamics, poor handling, being 'average' and - lets get this straight - you drive a Vectra 1.8?????? :eek:
You couldnt make it up!!
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:rotfl: Love it!Yes it's overwhelming, but what else can we do?
Get jobs in offices and wake up for the morning commute?0 -
Idiophreak wrote: »You said you wouldn't pay £400/month for a Micra on stilts, but the Micra on stilts in question is only £105/month. You are right, of course, there are probably a number of cars I'd prefer for £400/month...I just don't know what that has to do with anything.
I guess you're saying that you had the option of getting something "good" for £400/month, or the "Micra on stilts" equivalent (ie the Vectra) for less and you chose that...but you seem to be contradicting yourself there...
And FWIW, it's a very bold assumption to say that someone with car finance "cannot afford in cash". I could easily afford to buy a car in cash should I so wish - I just find leasing a car more convenient.
No, this is not what I was saying at all.
I'm talking from the point of getting oneself into debt for a car that's really nothing to write home about, regardless of what it costs. I don't see why anyone in their right mind would do that.
But with some people trying to twist my words, i'd have to go right back to the start and re-write everything i've said in laymans terms..... I can't be ar5ed, i've got much better things to do.“I may not agree with you, but I will defend to the death your right to make an a** of yourself.”
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Like drive about in your Vectra?
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Like work.....
You know that thing you do when not trolling people on internet forums
“I may not agree with you, but I will defend to the death your right to make an a** of yourself.”
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Strider590 wrote: »Like work.....
You know that thing you do when not trolling people on internet forums
I think i was closer to the truth - from one of your other posts on here I see you upload videos to youtube of you driving about in your vectra?
http://www.youtube.com/user/Strider9655/videos
Folks, i kid you not....0 -
Could be worse, might have been an Austin Ambassador Y Reg!
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