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Conanius said:
so yeah... a random citroen white van.... for THREE TIMES the price of the fiesta....

fiesta ta. :p
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He was saying you can get 3 year old 30k milers for £1200 - an L reg one would be a few quid at the most.
 
Does it feel real bad when you get in the fiesta? Going from an amazing handling car to a erm...not so good handling car?

Do you try and drive the fiesta like the elise?!

Sensible thing to do, but i cant belive you can go from two extremes!
 
I want to get a disposable car next year, something for free preferably just to drive to the station and back in.

It's an exercise in bangernomics - the least cash possible spent on a car.
 
Conanius said:
so yeah... a random citroen white van.... for THREE TIMES the price of the fiesta....

fiesta ta. :p
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R reg C15's with tax and test and less than 80k (with a bomb proof 300,000 mile capable 1.8 peugeot engine in them) can be had for less than £400.

What would i know anyway?

I dont understand why more people dont go the little white van route when it comes to cheap motering, practically zero maintenance costs as they are designed to maintaned by skinflint plumbers and builders, cheap to run for the same reason, if you are just looking to get to work, they are ideal.

Ugly as sin as you can see though.
 
[TW]Fox said:
It doesn't look it from the photo - looks faded and... stuff.

I'd rather put the miles on the Elise :o
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Well it does need a wash and a polish to restore it to its original glory.

Run an Elise as your only car for 16 months and 20 000 miles and then let me know if you'd rather carry on racking up the miles on your once mint condtion car. I know that for £500 I could have bought a Xantia with 150k on the clock from some random guy in Autotrader but personally I'd much rather buy a car that is as basic as they get (so less to go wrong) from someone who I know has looked after the car.


I realise that to a few people who have posted £500 for an L Reg Fiesta seems like madness but when you're used to spending more than that on discs and pads for your car £500 for a fully working car that will pay for itself in 9 months and actually allow you to do sensible stuff like going to the Tip seems pretty good value.
 
Del Lardo said:
Well it does need a wash and a polish to restore it to its original glory.

Run an Elise as your only car for 16 months and 20 000 miles and then let me know if you'd rather carry on racking up the miles on your once mint condtion car. I know that for £500 I could have bought a Xantia with 150k on the clock from some random guy in Autotrader but personally I'd much rather buy a car that is as basic as they get (so less to go wrong) from someone who I know has looked after the car.


I realise that to a few people who have posted £500 for an L Reg Fiesta seems like madness but when you're used to spending more than that on discs and pads for your car £500 for a fully working car that will pay for itself in 9 months and actually allow you to do sensible stuff like going to the Tip seems pretty good value.
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Indeed. Ignore Fox - he is just jealous you've got an Elise! :p
 
S@njay said:
Does it feel real bad when you get in the fiesta? Going from an amazing handling car to a erm...not so good handling car?

Do you try and drive the fiesta like the elise?!

Sensible thing to do, but i cant belive you can go from two extremes!
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I have the same thing with my two cars (RX7 and Toyota Estima), of course you don't try to drive them the same. You just kind of automatically adjust your driving to suit, I don't even think about it.
 
[TW]Fox said:
Why does everyone assume any disagreement with somebody with a nice car is down to jealousy?
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Because having a nice car is the be all and end all and you are obviously better than someone else if you have a better car, you see EVERYBODYS measure of success is how nice a car you have.

I've got a 6 year old KA that is falling to bits because i havent lifted a finger to it in 3 years.
I must be right at the bottom of the social pile.
 
To be honest I don't mind putting miles on the VX, it can handle them ok.

I just don't want to leave it at a train station carpark every day for obvious reasons and subject it to lots of 2/3 mile journeys.
 
DreXeL said:
I have the same thing with my two cars (RX7 and Toyota Estima), of course you don't try to drive them the same. You just kind of automatically adjust your driving to suit, I don't even think about it.
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My girlfriend forgot to adjust her driving habits last weekend when she was driving the MR2.

"What's wrong with your car, it's stopped accelerating"

"That's the rev limiter"

"What? You mean it stops are 7300rpm? How rubbish is that?"
 
eidolon said:
My girlfriend forgot to adjust her driving habits last weekend when she was driving the MR2.

"What's wrong with your car, it's stopped accelerating"

"That's the rev limiter"

"What? You mean it stops are 7300rpm? How rubbish is that?"
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:D
 
£500 is nothing for someone who has an Elise.

If I was him, I'd rather have something cheap and clock all the miles onto that rather than my pride and joy.

£500 isn't that over priced considering the mileage it has on it - he could probably get a good few thousand miles out of that car without having to spend any cash on it. :)
 
Enfield said:
£500 is nothing for someone who has an Elise.
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Thats irrelevant.
Not every Elise owner is rich. Didnt someone on here buy an elise on finance? Would you call him rich?
 
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