cheap car? buy/tax/insurance

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Thinking about switching from bike back to car. Atm I rent a car every now and then to go to the Brecons or exmoor etc. But it maybe cheaper to just swap vehicles.
Don't care about speed, or comfort or looks, can be dented or cat d or what ever, as long as it's machanvialy sound and reliable. But it would need to be dirt cheap to insure and dirt cheap to run, so cheap tax, cheap insurance. As I do so few miles then mpg doesn't matter, other than tax band. It's nice having such cheap fixed costs on the bike ~£75 each for tax and insurance.
Upto 1k, is there anything out there suitable or are the super cheap tax band cars still to new.
 
Get something older and Japanese with a 1.4 or the likes and it'll fall into the circa £120-180ish tax band
 
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Avoid the sort of small cheap car that first time drivers use and crash, so look a bit higher than you might think. An old Mondeo or Focus or something.
 
Aren't all mondeos going to be expensive tax?
Is there an easy way to tell tax bracket? Or it using the tax calculator in the gov site.
 
Go onto parkers they have a tax info section.

I'd expect the 1.8 to be under 200 per year.

Remember 50 quid per year ved could easily be offset by insurance differences

Edit - Focus 1.6 is £180 per year - Mondeo 1.8 post 2003 about £225
 
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Well 2003/2004 diesel cars are great on tax costs. But insurance is no go.

1.8 soda Fabian, 1.8 ford focus are £550 even a 1.3D corsa is £480.
 
Yes, the Soda Fabian is a particular favourite of mine. Honestly dude do you never give your posts a quick check to make sure they make sense before hitting post :p
 
fiat punto? under a 1.4 is cheap tax along with all other running costs, my step dad use to have a punto sport 1.2 and it never gave him any problems at all
 
Nissan Almera or Toyota Corrolla. As someone said already, a mundane old Jap mobile should tick most of your boxes.
 
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Because they are cheap. If I had 60k to spend in a car, I would.
I would love an electric car, virtually no maintenance.
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Surely as the self professed OCUK electric vehicle expert you know very well that many electric cars are available for far less than 60k. What a strange post.
 
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Surely as the self professed OCUK electric vehicle expert you know very well that many electric cars are available for far less than 60k. What a strange post.
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Hardly strange, there are zero super cheapo electric vehicles, and there's o Ly one decent electric vehicle for normal mileage, unless you're after a town car.

So no, it really isn't a strange post at all.

On top of that, find one single post, where I have said current electric cars are suitable for everyone?
However you will find lots of posts about future expansion. Look how many people have changed their mind in the last few years, since Tesla S showed up. That was so hard to foresee, or not.
 
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I'm not stupid at all. It's simple to understand where this post if coming from. You are the biggest fan on electric cars. So why don't you buy one ?

I'm fully aware of the £12k offset but surely if electric cars are the future, as you wax lyrically about, then you would buy one.

Put your money where your mouth is.
 
Yes you are stupid. It's quite clear 12k is a huge gap.
So it is very stupid ti suggest it.

Electric car are the future, doesn't mean I can afford one know. Doesn't even mean there's one out their that suits me atm.
So yes its a retarded post by you.

And what money, I don't have 13k to throw on a car that isn't even suitable. and nor do I suggest others do that either.
 
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