Briefly, I`m old-ish, 61, hankering for retirement, current car is a 3 door 65 plate VW Golf GTD 180bhp, all the toys 65,000 miles, fantasic car (imo) £20 per year tax + easily 50mpg.
However, I`m thinking, hankering for retirement and would like to change vehicle now , buy it outright & it will do me 10 yrs, by then I reckon I wont be covering a lot of miles and the next car will probably be a small cheap effort for local commutes.
This is most likely my second last car (gulp), tbh I dont need anything that fast but I`m still alert enough to be overtaking quite a bit & my driving speed is still usually faster than most, that said I don't use my existing car's full performance as I used to as I guess my brain isn't processing as fast
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I`m going round in circles trying to find a car that isn't a significant downgrade from mine, my budget is circa £15k on top of what I get for the Golf (Cazoo offers £12,300), prefer petrol & enough oomph to overtake on straight lines + reasonably comfortable for 300 mile drive or so.
However, I`m thinking, hankering for retirement and would like to change vehicle now , buy it outright & it will do me 10 yrs, by then I reckon I wont be covering a lot of miles and the next car will probably be a small cheap effort for local commutes.
This is most likely my second last car (gulp), tbh I dont need anything that fast but I`m still alert enough to be overtaking quite a bit & my driving speed is still usually faster than most, that said I don't use my existing car's full performance as I used to as I guess my brain isn't processing as fast
.I`m going round in circles trying to find a car that isn't a significant downgrade from mine, my budget is circa £15k on top of what I get for the Golf (Cazoo offers £12,300), prefer petrol & enough oomph to overtake on straight lines + reasonably comfortable for 300 mile drive or so.
