£400/month for a citygo? Jesus Christ... No thanks. Get a 2k car with 1.2 a Mazda 2, polo or a lupo or SEAT arosa and keep it for a couple of years.
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£400/month for a citygo? Jesus Christ... No thanks. Get a 2k car with 1.2 a Mazda 2, polo or a lupo or SEAT arosa and keep it for a couple of years.
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gotta love this obsession with renting modern cars brand new, as if when a car reaches 3 years old it suddenly explodes in a cloud of outdated infotainment and rust.
as vince and grudas have said, get a £2k car, and after the 3.5 years use the £3.5k you've saved+the money you get from selling the car to get something better, or just run it into the ground and save up even more money for the second car.
as vince and grudas have said, get a £2k car, and after the 3.5 years use the £3.5k you've saved+the money you get from selling the car to get something better, or just run it into the ground and save up even more money for the second car.
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That's with fuel and insurance, according to his post.
To be fair you aren't going to find a way to get into a new car for much cheaper than £122 a month...
£350 - £400 a month for a brand new car, fuel, insurance, etc? That sounds like an incredibly reasonable deal at age 17!
When I was 18 I was paying about £350 a month for insurance, fuel and tax alone, on a 2002 Polo!
No need to worry about servicing costs or maintenance or anything with a new car either.
When I was 18 I was paying about £350 a month for insurance, fuel and tax alone, on a 2002 Polo!
No need to worry about servicing costs or maintenance or anything with a new car either.
You do realise thats £5724 to rent possibly one of the cheapest cars available for 3.5 years after which you will have nothing to show for it? At your age I honestly think that's utter madness.
If you really want a Citigo you could buy one outright for £3500 http://www.autotrader.co.uk/classified/advert/201701201501426 or to look at it another way £83 a month. The difference is at the end of your 3.5 years you will still have a car worth in the region of £1500 (I can't see them getting much lower than that) rather than nothing at all.
Alternatively if you want something that small spend even less and go for a Citroen C1. http://www.autotrader.co.uk/classified/advert/201702202490342 That's effectively £48 a month and you will probably still have £800-£1000 in value left at the end of 3.5 years.
Leasing may look cheap on the surface but its genuinally an expensive way to own a car.
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A C1? God no...most awful car ever.
Is it though? It's one owner from new with a 12 month warranty, peanuts to tax, high mpg, and very little to go wrong. Ultimately it's the same engine / body as the Toyota Aygo. Yes it's a hateful place to be but we are talking a reduction from £122 a month to effectively £23 a month assuming you sell it on at the end of a 3.5 year ownership period for £1000. Is the citigo really worth the 500% increase in cost?
Personally I wouldn't have any of these and think the earlier suggestions of fiestas / a yaris are the way to go. My idea with the C1 was to illustrate just how mad sinking £5700 into a similar class of car is given the alternatives out there. I'd also hate to still be driving a citigo as I approach 20, whilst it might look appealing now there's no denying it's an incredibly basic car and the instant he has a couple of years no claims under his belt there will be a whole sea of much better options available.
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This whole thread is fairly laughable but so indicative of most young people today (not that I'm not young myself, but I'd class myself as significantly more sensible 
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My first car in September '15 at the ripe age of 24 was an S reg Corsa B. I bought it for a few hundred quid for the sole reason that it was the cheapest possible car I could insure. I did literally hundreds of quotes and ended up paying £600 for my first years insurance. Now I know that's at 24 y/o not 17 but the point still stands. I bought it to save significant amounts of money (even Corsa C's, mk6 fiestas etc etc were coming in well over a grand to insure) and gain a years NCB before moving into a better car (I now pay almost exactly the same to insure my mk7 Fiesta ST). I didn't care what it looked like to drive, what impression it gave etc etc.. just that it was getting me A-B cheaply (and, as it turned out, reliably!) and I was ploughing money away to put towards the next car amongst other things. Gave it to the inlaws as a runabout to take the dog in last September and its still going strong.
The thought of going out and buying a new ecobox at 17 that you'll want rid of in a year... Hell no.
)My first car in September '15 at the ripe age of 24 was an S reg Corsa B. I bought it for a few hundred quid for the sole reason that it was the cheapest possible car I could insure. I did literally hundreds of quotes and ended up paying £600 for my first years insurance. Now I know that's at 24 y/o not 17 but the point still stands. I bought it to save significant amounts of money (even Corsa C's, mk6 fiestas etc etc were coming in well over a grand to insure) and gain a years NCB before moving into a better car (I now pay almost exactly the same to insure my mk7 Fiesta ST). I didn't care what it looked like to drive, what impression it gave etc etc.. just that it was getting me A-B cheaply (and, as it turned out, reliably!) and I was ploughing money away to put towards the next car amongst other things. Gave it to the inlaws as a runabout to take the dog in last September and its still going strong.
The thought of going out and buying a new ecobox at 17 that you'll want rid of in a year... Hell no.
I'd just get the cheapest things you can. Chances are it's going to get a few knocks. When i bought my first car nearly 10 years ago i got an N reg 1.1 peugeot 106 for £350 from a car auction. Had 10 month MOT Lasted me 2 years. Cheap to fix as it didn't have any fancy computers on it and i could do most of the fixing myself.
Having driven a VW UP and a C1 I'm with you BinnsY. I found the C1 to a be a good, honest little run about that isn't as out of depth as I thought it would be on the motorway. I also found it quite fun to drive with the wheels right out on each corner and that throbby little three pot. Perfect first car IMHO and that saving can't be ignored.
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This whole thread is fairly laughable but so indicative of most young people today (not that I'm not young myself, but I'd class myself as significantly more sensible
My first car in September '15 at the ripe age of 24 was an S reg Corsa B. I bought it for a few hundred quid for the sole reason that it was the cheapest possible car I could insure. I did literally hundreds of quotes and ended up paying £600 for my first years insurance. Now I know that's at 24 y/o not 17 but the point still stands. I bought it to save significant amounts of money (even Corsa C's, mk6 fiestas etc etc were coming in well over a grand to insure) and gain a years NCB before moving into a better car (I now pay almost exactly the same to insure my mk7 Fiesta ST). I didn't care what it looked like to drive, what impression it gave etc etc.. just that it was getting me A-B cheaply (and, as it turned out, reliably!) and I was ploughing money away to put towards the next car amongst other things. Gave it to the inlaws as a runabout to take the dog in last September and its still going strong.
The thought of going out and buying a new ecobox at 17 that you'll want rid of in a year... Hell no.
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yep, kinda sad how the insurance industry is allowed to discriminate by age/postcode and pull numbers out of thin air, imagine if i walked into a pub to order a pint and the reply was "errrm, £100, because your young", and then when i pay £100 for the pint i then refuse to drink it or else the next pint will be even more expensive.
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You are likely to get a few dings and scrapes as a new driver, what will that cost you if you are leasing a new car? at least if you get a few knocks in an old car you own, you don't have to put it right, or not to an 'as new' standard! My first car was an old Focus, I was terrible for tapping the wall I used to park up against, as well as a few posts in car parks. That thing was a tank and never showed any damage 
Do yourself a favour and buy an old Mondeo. It'll teach you to drive, park, it'll carry your mates, all the crap you want to take with you to sleepovers, and it'll go on and on. It can get battered, scraped, dinged, dented, and scrapped when you're done. Parts cost £lol and are in abundance as every man and his dog has had a Mondeo and as it's not a "boy racer" car it'll cost a lot less on insurance.
Do that and when you have a few years no claims / are older than whatever arbitrary age makes you a safe driver nowadays then look at something nicer.
Do that and when you have a few years no claims / are older than whatever arbitrary age makes you a safe driver nowadays then look at something nicer.
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Yeah a near 10 year old C1 is alright and good on the motorway... 
What world do you people live in?
This is interior of the Peugeot 107 (identical to the C1) I had as a accident repair courtesy car. You must have low standards if that is what is considered good these days.
What world do you people live in?
This is interior of the Peugeot 107 (identical to the C1) I had as a accident repair courtesy car. You must have low standards if that is what is considered good these days.
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Thousands (millions?) of people drive "worse" cars than that on motorways and normal roads every day.Yeah a near 10 year old C1 is alright and good on the motorway...
What world do you people live in?
This is interior of the Peugeot 107 (identical to the C1) I had as a accident repair courtesy car. You must have low standards if that is what is considered good these days.
My corsa b with zero creature comforts whatsoever except a radio was "alright" on the motorway. It did 70mph with relative ease and was actually surprisingly comfortable.
What you and many other people seem unable to grasp is not everyone wants to rent a hugely expensive premium badged car with an even more expensive options list, just to get them from A to B.