Background - My work used to be 5 miles away but has relocated and my journey is now 23 miles each way. I dont do many other miles, just to kick boxing twice a week and town etc so say 14k miles a year.
I have just bought a house which will cost quite a bit more per month.
We have a 5 month old baby and my wife is at the end of maternity pay.
Suffice to say I need to minimise my motoring costs.
Now I have read quite a few threads on here where the advise demonstrates that changing to diesel or a few more mpg does not actually save much money overall and I fully understand that but here my problem...
My current car is a 5.7l CV8 monaro doing about 14mpg; it will do 18-20mpg if I am careful but I hate driving like that. It runs on LPG most of the time (about 85%) and LPG is around 57% the cost of petrol so overall I estimate that I am getting the petrol equivelent mpg of 22-24mpg.
On the plus side it is very reliable, comfortable, fast and sounds great. It suited me well as I am large at 6ft 17st and I liked it was a bit leftfield.
In the Winter it takes a while to warm up and defrost windows etc and I guess it wont be great if it snows.
Would I save quite a bit changing car?
My wife has my old 2.2 07 titx tdci mk3 mondeo (bluefin so maybe 175bhp) which is the family car. I could therefore take that back and get her a smaller car or leave her with that and get something different. My preference is to get something else for a change, and replace here car if she wants a smaller one which she has hinted at but then I would need a family size car.
If the way forward is for me to get a more economical car, I am looking more for comfort now than performance although a balance needs to be found as I think I would find under 150bhp frustrating. Heated front screen would be nice (is this only ford?) and more gadgets the better although gps not neccesary. 4 door would be prefferable as I may need to take baby occasionally. Cars that spring to mind as interesting (but I know nothing about) would be bmw 3 or 5 series, Octavia VRS, or even a well specced newer focus or mondeo again but probably petrol this time.
I would probably get about £7.5k for mine and would use this to fund the new one so similar amount.
Whilst writing this I am thinking it would make sense to keep the wifes car as its diesel and she does bugger all miles??
What should I do?
cheers
I have just bought a house which will cost quite a bit more per month.
We have a 5 month old baby and my wife is at the end of maternity pay.
Suffice to say I need to minimise my motoring costs.
Now I have read quite a few threads on here where the advise demonstrates that changing to diesel or a few more mpg does not actually save much money overall and I fully understand that but here my problem...
My current car is a 5.7l CV8 monaro doing about 14mpg; it will do 18-20mpg if I am careful but I hate driving like that. It runs on LPG most of the time (about 85%) and LPG is around 57% the cost of petrol so overall I estimate that I am getting the petrol equivelent mpg of 22-24mpg.
On the plus side it is very reliable, comfortable, fast and sounds great. It suited me well as I am large at 6ft 17st and I liked it was a bit leftfield.
In the Winter it takes a while to warm up and defrost windows etc and I guess it wont be great if it snows.
Would I save quite a bit changing car?
My wife has my old 2.2 07 titx tdci mk3 mondeo (bluefin so maybe 175bhp) which is the family car. I could therefore take that back and get her a smaller car or leave her with that and get something different. My preference is to get something else for a change, and replace here car if she wants a smaller one which she has hinted at but then I would need a family size car.
If the way forward is for me to get a more economical car, I am looking more for comfort now than performance although a balance needs to be found as I think I would find under 150bhp frustrating. Heated front screen would be nice (is this only ford?) and more gadgets the better although gps not neccesary. 4 door would be prefferable as I may need to take baby occasionally. Cars that spring to mind as interesting (but I know nothing about) would be bmw 3 or 5 series, Octavia VRS, or even a well specced newer focus or mondeo again but probably petrol this time.
I would probably get about £7.5k for mine and would use this to fund the new one so similar amount.
Whilst writing this I am thinking it would make sense to keep the wifes car as its diesel and she does bugger all miles??
What should I do?
cheers