Is it even worth buying owning or buying a vehicle anymore?

peter_the_piper

50 miles every day, days are not always 8 hours. Not everyone would be able to use a bike.

cattom

I live in the sticks. nearest shops are about 2 miles away. used to have a village shop here but like everything else these days, it was shut and turned into a house. we get about 3 or 4 buses a day, plus the school ones of course. I shan't be giving up my car just yet.

midimanuser

Grumpy_chap said:

I am a bit like the OP in that I have my car on SORN (again) because of lock-down and just not going anywhere.  Also, like the OP, I can use another car occasionally.  I have only actually done 50 miles since the beginning of this year.

Pre-COVID, I was seriously looking at going for a new car and glad I have not as that would have been a wasted expense up until now.  I will certainly wait until we know what "new normal" ends up looking like.  I actually think this realisation by people that they may not need a car in the way they did before could end up a bigger impact to the car industry than anything yet.

That is my point about the car industry too. 
There are currently hundreds if not thousands of vehicles on the forecourts that are still being advertised for the same price as what they were prior to Covid and none of them are going anywhere. The government and the BOE thinks that the public are going to coming running out and start spending all of their money. But in reality I think that it might be the opposite of that, because so many people may have lost their jobs. 
Did you see that article the other day where there were thousands of vehicles parked up in storage because of the pandemic.  

A_Lert

I've got family to care for who need door-to-door transport pretty much. Buses just aren't an option. Taxis might be, but they're expensive too.

Ganga

I am retired and use my car about twice a week ,i only did 9 miles this week BUT the car is handy for the shops and picking up the grandchildren,i know a taxi would do the same but not as convenient .

Belenus

Korkyb said:

I live out in the sticks - 25 miles away from the hospital where I work as a nurse.
I have (obviously) continued to attend work all through the Covid 19 Pandemic.
Not everyone can work from home.

I will not be selling my car & using my bike.

Thank you for that. 

DanM92

It's all about where you live really - I.e. the majority of people living in Central London probably don't own a car due to the fact everything is on their doorstep. Whereas anyone living in rural areas probably do for obvious reasons.

Grumpy_chap

midimanuser said:

There are currently hundreds if not thousands of vehicles on the forecourts that are still being advertised for the same price as what they were prior to Covid and none of them are going anywhere. The government and the BOE thinks that the public are going to coming running out and start spending all of their money. But in reality I think that it might be the opposite of that, because so many people may have lost their jobs. 

In the "right now" the car industry have done a good job creating demand on the back of "not safe to get public transport with other people" scare tactics.  Not sustainable like that.

There are also a lot of people who carried on working throughout but spent less as everywhere was closed, so those people have money burning s hole in their pockets.

Norman_Castle

If you're working from home and are happy using your bike or walking locally with access to a car I'd certainly be questioning the need to own a second car.

midimanuser

Grumpy_chap said:

midimanuser said:

There are currently hundreds if not thousands of vehicles on the forecourts that are still being advertised for the same price as what they were prior to Covid and none of them are going anywhere. The government and the BOE thinks that the public are going to coming running out and start spending all of their money. But in reality I think that it might be the opposite of that, because so many people may have lost their jobs. 

In the "right now" the car industry have done a good job creating demand on the back of "not safe to get public transport with other people" scare tactics.  Not sustainable like that.

There are also a lot of people who carried on working throughout but spent less as everywhere was closed, so those people have money burning s hole in their pockets.

Some may have, but what would be the point of going out and peeing it up on buying a new car and going back to all of the cost. I suspect people will be looking to do other things than spending their money to have something sitting around on the drive.