New daily runner help choosing please :-)

Hi

I have had sooo many cars over the last 15 yrs and could have paid of my mortgage instead but tough.

My M3 goes in April and as I don't do many miles I think I'm going to get a nice £5k runner.

My wife has a new Audi A6 Avant so that's the family sorted so I would like a few ideas on what to get.

I only do sporty cars so no SE or base models. Below is a list of my current thoughts and might even get a tow bar on it to tow my s1 to far away shows.

Also leaning towards diesel as sick of making regular trips for SuperU for the M3 :-)


Vw Golf Mk4 anni td
Seat Leon Cupra or FR td
Skoda Octavia vrs td
Skoda Fabia vrs
Ford Mondeo St tdci
Mini cooper S
Honda Civic type R

I have had all of the above except the Skodas and my fav so far would be anni in silver or Mondeo in silver with towbar.


Thoughts and help please :-)

Cheers

Chris




 

Meant to say the other thought is my wife getting a new Vw Golf GTD as a company car and not get her car allowance anymore.

From monthly cost point of view-

If I take the GTD and she holds the Audi we will save £300 per month but with no new car outlay, over what we pay now.

If we buy a £5k car, we will save £600 per month but obviously have to spend £5k upfront. But if I buy the correct car then depreciation should be small so get most back on resale.

I would take the GTD, if you don't have it and your wife runs it, what happens to the A6?  Not sure from what you have put if the GTD. Was going to replace the A6, as it would be a bit if a squeeze as a family car.

Plus , buying a £5k car might in theory save you ?£600pm, but how much would you spend on it getting it perfect to your standards - you know you like your cars to be perfect.  a company car may seem an expensive option, but everything is covered and nothing to worry about.

The first shout RichardHall was me using wife's company GTD and her keeping the A6.

The Audi will stay defo as we have winter wheels with tyres as well as the standard 20's, roof bars for the bikes, 3 yrs alloy and tyre insurance and GAP insurance.
We still do foreign trips so its a cracking family bus.

My daily only needs to do 30 miles a day and virtually doesn't move at weekends.

So my thoughts were a £5kish daily with no monthly payment but I do have issues with the standard of my cars 🙊

What was your very first car ? 
Go old school , somthing you don't see often 

dano999 said

What was your very first car ? 
Go old school , somthing you don't see often 

What a great idea :-) but I am not doing a 1978 yellow Fiesta 1.1 L again 😁

Massbad69 said

dano999 said

What was your very first car ? 
Go old school , somthing you don't see often 

What a great idea :-) but I am not doing a 1978 yellow Fiesta 1.1 L again 😁

 hahaha,  what was your dads first car then ? 
Somthing people need to look at twice 

He shared it with 3 mates and he was an older Dad so it was in 1950.

I can't remember but it might have been a wee Austin 7 :-)

Get yourself a s2 Porsche 944, the price will only shoot up in a few years, and soo much fun to drive 

ans4r said

Get yourself a s2 Porsche 944, the price will only shoot up in a few years, and soo much fun to drive 

My mate just sold his concours 944 s2 convertible and gave me 1st shout for £4500, which was a total steal, it was insured for £8000 and came 2nd in the Scottish Porsche clubs annual concours event.

He had completely rebuilt it and colour changed it, to a superb standard.

My other mate bought it when I told him about it !!

Massbad69 said

ans4r said

Get yourself a s2 Porsche 944, the price will only shoot up in a few years, and soo much fun to drive 

My mate just sold his concours 944 s2 convertible and gave me 1st shout for £4500, which was a total steal, it was insured for £8000 and came 2nd in the Scottish Porsche clubs annual concours event.

He had completely rebuilt it and colour changed it, to a superb standard.

My other mate bought it when I told him about it !!

Chris, go clamp your head in the nearest big bench vice and spin the handle till it really hurts!  

After that. 
Found a Skoda for you Chris. 
http://www.carandclassic.co.uk/car/C542450
A Skoda 100,  1967.
2.5k, now that won't brake the bank and think of the economy, the prestige. 
Now your can try one mate! 

Mike although its cool its not for my daily thanks :-)

Oh and the vice hurt 🚑

So I've been looking through lots of cars of different prices and ages, from ideals to RS4's :-)

My thoughts are now back to a black GTD !! I need to have it sorted for the end of October as the Golf has a 20 week lead time thru my wife's work and I need it in April.

I can't really put any spec onto the GTD as we will be taking it over 12 months and whatever the cost of the extras, we pay minus 20% over the term.
i.e 19's would cost us £60 a month
     metallic paint £45 a month etc

So it will be a standard car in black and then a red one the year after.



1 curve ball is the BMW I3 is as cheap on her company car list as the GTD. If it was a 1 yr contract I might have had it for a bit of fun but its only on a 3 year deal !!

You are lucky having the option of 1 year contract, all ours are four years or 80,000 miles. I'm only a year in and 25,000 miles.

I know the i3 is a three year deal only, but have you looked at any of the other Hybrids, such as the Audi A3 - as the company car tax savings can be huge.  When I changed mine last year a GTD was £35 on top of my allowance. In the end I went for a top spec Lexus CT which cost me £200pm on top, but taking into account the company car tax, worked out cheaper than the Golf as you can offset your personal contributions. On top of that I get a mileage allowance of 14p mile for diesel which only just covers fuel, yet the Lexus I get 19p as it's petrol and only costs me 11p mile to fuel it.  With the business mileage I cover, it means I make enough profit to pay for all my private mileage!

RichardHall my wife has done a spreadsheet with all the costs, its on my works PC so I can't quite remember it exactly but they only do Bmw, Vw, MB and Audi.

Randomly the GTD is the stand out deal by a fair bit. Even more randomly its £110 per month cheaper on a 1 yr deal than a 3 yr deal ??

Total cost incl comp car tax is £70 per month for a 1 yr GTD because if its £180 tax a month bizarrely her comp give her back £110 per month, leaving us with a £70 bill :-)

Over the 3 yr deal her comp give her nothing back so its £180 in tax a month !!

These are rough figures.

That looks an amazing deal, makes you wonder how the leasing co make any money. There were some wiered ones when I chose mine - nor that I wanted one, but an entry level Mondeo was £105pm extra, yet a Mondeo Titanium X was £25pm.  I would get your GTD deal signed before it changes.

I don't know how the GTD is cheaper over a year, I'm presuming the leasing comp gets more back on the car as a year old because of the good residuals ?????

We will order one late Oct as its got a 21 week lead time and don't need it until mid April.

Think I might get black even though I always get red ?? The red looks better but blacks a change.

GTD it is then!

Hairyarse  maybe :-)

Thinking about mk4 R32 again :-)

Get the GTD - it's only for a year you then have a perfect reason to change your mind when the lease expires.  I have had Solid VW black and it's not that bad to maintain if you know how to clean cars as you do.  Mine went after a year old and 25,000 miles and hardly a mark on it.  It's quite rare to get Solid black, I think it's so much better than the metallic.  I've got four red cars so I am biased very much towards red, but non of the others were made in Solid Black else I would have had one for a change.