New car :D

TangoSixteen · 16 Jul 2010 at 02:43

Whats a good price for one of these ?

£2K, £3K ?

Edit:- Found this

http://pistonheads.com/sales/1819491.htm

Never knew they had a "semi" automatic box! haha. I wonder if in Citroens case that means that it only semi works.

EdGey · 16 Jul 2010 at 05:44

Captain_Slick said:
One of the few small hatchbacks that doesn't look completely girly, tbh. Nice in silver too. Though that mileage is awfully low for a 5 year old car, especially considering it was a company lease. Did she live on the business park or something?

I'd say it looked more girlie than most! Still, its not a bad looking little car.

firefilesuk · 16 Jul 2010 at 05:53

[TW]Fox;16955046 said:
Nope cos then it would be 2 owners from new.

Looks tidy, mind.

yeah, i'm thinking he just worded it wrong though. lease owned for 2 years 12K miles women owned for 3 drove short trips covered 9K.

alexisonfire · 16 Jul 2010 at 08:26

Mucky_Pup said:
How much? I'm not coming in to say you could have got X, Y or Z car for the same money, just curious.

Paid 5k, about the same money as a low spec corsa/fiesta of this mileage. The fiesta ST was my only other choice but one of this spec would have been £7500+ and double the insurance.

IAmATeaf · 16 Jul 2010 at 09:45

[TW]Fox;16954954 said:
A 5.5 year old lease car with one owner from new?

I didnt think any of the big leasing companies kept cars for that amount of time

I read some time ago that the average lease period over the past few years has slowly been creeping towards keeping the car for a longer period, I think the average is currently sitting at 40 or so months. Main reason was the poor resale value 2 years ago but that's sort of picked up over the last year.

VFR_KID · 16 Jul 2010 at 10:07

Had the C2 GT. Thought it was horrible. Plastic coffin. Had plenty poke about it. Then I put it in a field LOL

ro55o · 16 Jul 2010 at 10:19

alexisonfire said:
Well im 6'3 and need the seat all the way back, which means the front seat almost touches the rear.

I was the same, almost looked like I was sitting in the back from the outside

Good little car for what it is, a cheap runaround that's quite cool and got a little bit of poke to it. Steering is lifeless and clutch has no feel to it but it did the job. I always liked the look of them compared to other similar cars.

antijoke · 16 Jul 2010 at 10:21

Does someones bonfire need ******* on?

Looks like a good little car.

UKTopGun · 16 Jul 2010 at 10:34

alexisonfire said:
Paid 5k, about the same money as a low spec corsa/fiesta of this mileage. The fiesta ST was my only other choice but one of this spec would have been £7500+ and double the insurance.

Since when do 5.5 year old Fiestas/Corsas cost £5k :eek:

Looks a nice little car though. Pretty cool looking.

VFR_KID · 16 Jul 2010 at 10:58

one thing i didnt like the most was the back windows don't open. I sometimes like to have them pen so you get cool air coming in without that annoying roaring wind noise.

lordrobs · 16 Jul 2010 at 11:03

We are looking at some cheap small fun for my GF to use and had hoped to get a Grande Punto Sporting... however after seeing her company car park for the first time yesterday I think something smaller might be good :eek:

That C2 looks very smart and would probably do the job well considering my choice (Panda 100hp) "looks like a van"

alexisonfire · 26 Jul 2010 at 14:45

Treated the C2 to a clean today as its done 1,200 miles in the first 10 days i've owned it. Products used were:
autoglym bodywork shampoo conditioner
autoglym super resin polish
meguiars deep crystal paint cleaner
meguiars techart wax
meguiars endurance high gloss
meguiars glass cleaner

Hopefully it should remain fairly clean for the next 1200

alexisonfire · 26 Jul 2010 at 14:55

Oh and just for the randomness, heres two random shots of a mates r32 yesterday..

Mr^B · 26 Jul 2010 at 15:08

Nice car. Not so sure about all the faffing/HDR malarky with photoshop though.

Fr0dders · 26 Jul 2010 at 15:10

you like your HDR dont you

alexisonfire · 26 Jul 2010 at 15:19

None of these are hdr...

Fr0dders · 26 Jul 2010 at 15:26

alexisonfire said:
None of these are hdr...

they arent straight out of the camera either

call it what you want, its still very heavy PP.

Dunks · 26 Jul 2010 at 15:27

What post processing then?

Mr^B · 26 Jul 2010 at 15:32

alexisonfire said:
None of these are hdr...

HDR/tone mapping/random post-processing term

I'm not keen on any of them.

In this case it makes the R32 look like an artist's impression of an R32.

Duke · 26 Jul 2010 at 15:36

Good to see the car getting driven a bit more, the previous owner barely got it warmed up it seemed!