18000 miles a year

Draeger said:
A lot of folk on here appear seriously naive and exhibit less than a spoonful of life experience.
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Dogbreath is one of the older posters here and probably has more 'life experience' than you give him credit for.

He also commutes a long distance each day and is probably right in what he says. Big commutes suck your free time away and your money, they reduce your quality of life and with rising fuel prices they are unsustainable.
 
[TW]Fox;18118109 said:
Dogbreath is one of the older posters here and probably has more 'life experience' than you give him credit for.

He also commutes a long distance each day and is probably right in what he says. Big commutes suck your free time away and your money, they reduce your quality of life and with rising fuel prices they are unsustainable.
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For some people they have no choice than to commute, regardless of how distasteful it is. I have 2 kids in school, so up rooting them to move nearer to work, if that was even an option, isn't going to happen. You say it sucks your money but how much are the expenses involved in moving house these days? 10K is not out of the question at all between stamp duty, moving costs and solicitors, let alone the aggravation of trying to find a house and sell one at the moment.

But back to the OP...if you have to do the sort of commute being discussed then buying something which can hit an easy 700+ miles from a tank of fuel is as good a way as any of doing it. My Seat Exeo will hit 750 a tank, has a half decent stereo, bluetooth, cruise and climate and has long life servicing.
 
Why buy a new Seat Exeo when a 2002 A4 TDI is more or less the same car yet costs £5k?

Why do you have an Exeo and a diesel 3 Series, btw?
 
J1nxy said:
Because you'd buy nearly new and have the current generation VW TDI engine with better service costs, fuel economy and a warranty.
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And spend 10 thousand extra quid?

It's just a rebadged old A4. What's the point?

Save on the depreciation He is going to nuke the value of anything he buys doing big miles - add his private mileage on and he's going to be well over 20k a year. Why buy a nearly new Seat for a 5 figure sum, especially when said car quite literally is simply the old A4 with a new badge?

I dont expect you to agree as you bought an Exeo (I'm sure it's a useful companion to your diesel 3 Series saloon, seems odd to have two pretty much the same types of car), but looking at it sensibly there is little rational reason to spend a pile on an Exeo.

The marginal fuel economy increase of a 2.0 TDI 140 over a 1.9 TDI 130 wont pay for the thousands and thousands of pounds extra to buy.

And a 4 year old 75,000 mile Exeo (Assuming he buys a 1 year old 15k miler) is going to be worth virtually nothing.
 
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Depends on the type of commute.

Both myself and a friend have a 70 minute commute each way.

Difference being I do 20 miles in that time and he does 60. I would rather swap with him ignoring the slight cost increase as its terrible sitting in stop/start traffic with merge in turns etc that 99% of the population don't understand.
 
[TW]Fox;18118649 said:
And spend 10 thousand extra quid?

It's just a rebadged old A4. What's the point?

Save on the depreciation He is going to nuke the value of anything he buys doing big miles - add his private mileage on and he's going to be well over 20k a year. Why buy a nearly new Seat for a 5 figure sum, especially when said car quite literally is simply the old A4 with a new badge?

I dont expect you to agree as you bought an Exeo (I'm sure it's a useful companion to your diesel 3 Series saloon, seems odd to have two pretty much the same types of car), but looking at it sensibly there is little rational reason to spend a pile on an Exeo.

The marginal fuel economy increase of a 2.0 TDI 140 over a 1.9 TDI 130 wont pay for the thousands and thousands of pounds extra to buy.

And a 4 year old 75,000 mile Exeo (Assuming he buys a 1 year old 15k miler) is going to be worth virtually nothing.
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At the time we bought the Seat I was doing a very long commute every day and my wife need a replacement car. We decided that she would run the BMW for a year or 2 and I'd get something to replace hers. From the requirements we had the Exeo meet them better than the likes of a Mondeo or simliar car so we bought it, and its been a very good car to drive and own since. Its comfortable, cheap to run, well built and has a decent kit list. The interior is that of the late model A4 cabro rather than saloon and it has a lot of standard kit which the A4 had only as options.

For 5K you can buy a 100K 2003 A4 100BHP diesel...there are a lot of other options without resorting to something with that sort of mileage and age on it. But as the OP asked for something new or nearly new then the Exeo meets his requirements.
 
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