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Amphrax

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I just been thinking about how much money people have spent on cars over the years... Heres mine!!!

My first car

Red XR2i at £4000 part exchange for the car below

Grey XR2i at £4500 and sold at £1350

Zerec s at £12,000 brand new
Then spent a further £6,000 on it!
Engine blew and rebuilt and then sold for £3200

Subaru wrx sti at £11,500 (still paying loan off for this) sold this private for £8500

Then downsized to
Corsa 1.25 at £4000
I had this for 7 weeks... Worst buy i ever did!

Part exchanged the corsa with £7,500 for
Mits Evolution vii GSR and sold this hor £9500

Fiesta climate at £3990 which got written off recently
Getting insurance payout of £3000.

Now i have no car at the moment! Still looking...
 

eksdee

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£500 for my first car - a Rover 200 1.1 - when I was 17. £5500 for my second car, a 1.6 Vauxhall Astra, when I was 20. I'm 25 now and still have the Astra. Bought the Astra with 11,000 miles on the clock and it has 41,000 now, still runs like a charm and I've only ever had one expensive MoT - for basic wear and tear issues. I guess I've been pretty lucky with cars so far.
 

Tom

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I've spent far too much on cars, but of late I spend less and less. What's the point in spending £20k on something nearly-new, when for a tenth of that I can buy something a bit older, which once cost nearer £50k?
 

Sydrik

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£240 per year for last two years.

Company car!

Before that I shared my Mums.
 

Dudley52

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99 Fiesta bought 4 years ago as my first car for £1500. Still driving it now. Looking to upgrade to a v6/v8, small hatchback cars don't appeal to me. They look shite and sound shite. I'm only driving it as my first car because I didn't have a choice
 

throdgrain

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I've had loads of cars, I cant really list them all.

However the older car thing is the right way to go in my opinion. I bought my Jeep for £8999 at 3 and a half years old, this is a car that sold for 20+ new. It had done 30000 miles, one owner, fsh, all that. I've had it 5 years in May, and done about 45000 miles in it. It's never gone wrong, and they still retail at around 3 grand. Bargain :)
 

old.Tohtori

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I do love when people ask about cars and put in the color, usually women, like it somehow affects the performance and/or price :D
 

TdC

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Fiat Barchetta for a while. Couldn't afford it but I'm a sucker for pininfarina. 10k euros.
Seat Arosa, dark green metallic. Superb little car. Had one issue where a spark plug cable failed, and it tried to kill me once where it started to slide clockwise on a wet road. Free.
VW Polo. Black metallic. Had it for three years, three expensive repairs. So much for "reliable" brands. Cost 10k with 2k back for the Arosa.
AR GT. Dark Grey metallic. Current car. It's not broken itself yet but is a bit of a gas guzzler. Paid 14k euros with 7k back for the Polo.

From the GT I learned that used car salesmen are either the absolute scum of the earth, or my expectations for used cars are too high.
 

Dudley52

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AR GT. Dark Grey metallic. Current car. It's not broken itself yet but is a bit of a gas guzzler. Paid 14k euros with 7k back for the Polo.

From the GT I learned that used car salesmen are either the absolute scum of the earth, or my expectations for used cars are too high.

Isn't that a 4 cyl? what you getting to the gallon?
 

Wazzerphuk

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Value for money win:

1994 Corolla, 27k miles bought in 2003 for £2.3k.

Still going strong, only ever needed to replace tyres, wiper blades and the ignition barrell (excluding non-faul accident damage). Flies through MOT every year without fail.

Japanese manufacture > *
 

soze

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First car was a brand new 1.25 Fiesta which I had on 3 years interest free. It was a bit gutless so I traded it in for a 6 month old 1.6 focus on 5 years credit. £14k car cost me nearly £20k so I was one of the born every minute. 6 years later that is still my private car. I have had company cars ranging from Kias to an M5.
 

old.user4556

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Peppered car history for me.

21 years old, first car, 1995 Ford Fiesta 1.1, took over my sister's car payments on it (about £1000). Loved it, bit ropey on the electrics, but no mechanical problems.

22 years old, second car, 2000 Ford Fiesta 1.6 Zetec S, about 30k miles on it, traded in the Fiesta 1.1 for something similar because I was a DAGENHAM FANBOI. Handled great, ended up getting stung on it needing brakes all round and new tyres all round. Financed it to the tune of £6k or so.

24 years old, third car, brand new Renault Clio 182, recommended by Evo magazine, paid £12500 (terminated finance and handed back fiesta after paying half). Had it eight months, broke my heart. Nippy, great handling, unreliable piece of French shite (trim fell off, leaked oil from the cylinder head, brake servo failed, broke down completely, central locking failed, misfired from cold, dashboard lights flickered like a Christmas tree.

24 years old, fourth car, swapped the 182 + £2k cash for a 1998 BMW Z3 M Roadster with 80k miles on it. Fucking hilarious car, super fast, absolute monster but I nearly died in it and suddenly found god. Traded it in.

Still 24 years old (iirc), swapped the Z3 M for a 2001 BMW 320d with 40k miles because I started working further from home and the Z3 M frank fuel like you would not believe. Traded that in at a main BMW dealer 6 months later

25 years old, fifth car, one year old BMW 120i Sport with 4k miles on it, financed about £19k. Brilliant car, nothing went wrong with it, handled well, great build but a bouncy ride over rough surfaces.

28 years old, sixth car, one year old BMW Z4 3.0si with 5k miles on it, finance about £18.5k, handed back / terminated finance on the 120i. A bit ropey on the reliability (broken suspension springs, premature failure of the brake discs, hood mechanism packed in), but an absolute boon on smooth roads. Rough roads, not so much.

31 years old, seventh car, brand spanking BMW 120d with a load of toys on a company car scheme.

So yeah, pissed a shitload of cash away over the years on cars, but you only live once right?
 

Access Denied

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Firs car was a Mini mayfair, given to me by my aunt. Free.

Traded that for a Citreon ZX. Free.

Traded that for a Mini Cooper. Free.

Scrapped that after 4 years. Missus had an Astra. I didn't pay for it so free.

Astra stolen, given a 2.0 Volvo S40 by my dad, lovely car. Free.

Written off when some cunt went into the back of me.

Missus got a Daewoo, £500.

Traded for a Pug 106.

Traded for a Ford Escort.

All in all, only spent £500 on a car in my life =P
 

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First car was a MK3 Escort 16 Ghia, 3 dr Y reg, and yes we are talking 1982 ish Y reg. it was great, but I jumped a red light and wrote it off along with 3 other cars (I did it in style at least)

Next was a D reg (1986) MK4 Escort 16 Ghia, but it was a piece of shit and had it about 9 months before trading it in for a....

E reg Escort RS Turbo (1988) can you see a theme here with the escorts.... Now this was the nuts, I had it for 3 yrs and only sold it for the deposit on my house

I didn't have a car for a few yrs but I then got a beat up X reg Escort XR3i which I striped, re built the engine and re sprayed myself, got a pic somewhere of it too, it looked great. I sold it to a mate who wrote it off in about 2 months......Cnut

Didn't have a car for about 5 yrs but then got another RS Turbo on a G reg, but I hated it and sold it after about 6 months. I always had a small work van, so I could afford to go with out a car for years at a time, I saved so much money by not having one

I then got a VW Golf VR6 which was my favourite car I have ever owned, it was a P reg, I only used to drive it at weekends in the summer, it was fully loaded with full leather and electric pk, but I bumped a BMW up the arse at Gatwick picking my brother up, I was only going about 10 mph, but cos of its age it got written off, wish I had paid the extra to have it repaired in hind sight

I then bought a brand new MINI on a 56 reg, it was a special edition called a John Cooper works GP, there were only 2000 made and only 450 in the uk, it only had 2 front seats and a cross bar through the back, it was leathal to drive, great fun. Sold that to start my business in Oct 07

I now have a 02 reg focus ST170, which is a bit meh, but I don't need a car, so it's ok to poodle around in
 

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I can't remember the dates, or costs but

Hyundai Pony Pick-up 1.5
Mini - very modified over the years
Fiesta XR2 at the same time as a Triumph Spitfire, then a Triumph GT-6 sold the Fiesta and the GT-6 and got a
Escort RS Turbo
Escort Ghia thing
Citroen Xsara, company car
Lotus Elise - still have it
Mitsubishi Galant
Renault Trafic

I think that's it.
 

Ch3tan

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7.5K for a 2008 Fiesta zetec 1.25 (old shape) 2 years ago. Cost me more than it should have been because it was on zero percent finance. It's been great, and although I always wish for more power it's affordable and gets me from A to B and looks nice.
 

Tom

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First car, a 1993 Vauxhall Carlton Club estate. Boring but reliable, with a noisy diff.

Second car, a 1994 Volvo 850 2.0 estate. Boring but reliable.

Third car, 1999 Volvo V70 2.5. Pretty quick and well-equipped, but creaky inside (as all Volvos were).

Fourth car, 1998 Audi A4 1.9TDi. One of the best cars I've owned, I did about 80,000 miles on it before trading it in for..

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Fifth car, 51 plate (IIRC) Audi TT 225. One of the worst cars I've owned, which was for four months only, as I sold it and got...

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Sixth car, 1994 4.0 TVR Chimaera. Fucking awesome in every regard, including the number of zeros on the end of each invoice. I don't regret it though.

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Seventh car, 1997 Mercedes E300TD, I did about 70,000 on this, a great car but god did it rust. Never buy a Mercedes between 1995 and 2003, trust me.

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Eighth (and current) car, 1998 Lexus LS400. Super Jap barge with just about every toy you can think of, and some you can't. Converted to LPG so I'm getting about 40mpg average (fuel price difference factored in). Not bad for a 4.0 V8.
 

DaGaffer

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First car was a Triumph Spitfire 1500, cost me about £1200 I seem to remember. Since then, all sorts, mix of own stuff and company cars:
Fiat X1/9 (own), Ford Capri 3.0 (own), VW Beetle (own), Rover 214 (company), Rover 416 (company), Vauxhall Cavalier (company), Renault Clio 16v (company), Alfa 145 Cloverleaf (company), Alfa GTV 2.0 (lease), Alfa 156 Selespeed (company), BMW 330Ci (company), Nissan 350Z (own), Audi S3 (lease), Ford Focus (own). There are a few other company cars in there (I seem to remember a Peugeot for a short while, and a Renault Megane for a short while before my first Alfa, but they were only a couple of months' each).
 

Wij

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2000 - Brand new Pug 206 XS 1.6 - £11,000 (pre-reg'd) cash. Sold for £3,750.
2005 - Brand new Focus ST170 with all toys - £12,500 (haggle plus family Privelege scheme) cash. Sold for £4,200.
2011 - 7 month old A3 1.6d - £16,200 cash.

Total £31,750. About £2700 a year.
 

TdC

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Isn't that a 4 cyl? what you getting to the gallon?
yes I have the 4cyl 2l engine. I've averaged 9.8 km / liter over 4800 km or about 28 (guessing) mpg in your funny numerals.
 

Tom

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My car insurance renewal quote dropped through the letterbox this morning. For the last few years I've been insured with a company called A-Plan, who've always seemed competitive, and indeed the first line of the letter included that word.

However, when placed in context with the actual quote, which is near as dammit £2,500, I think they're taking several orders of piss. Even being lazy and using confused.com, I've managed to get it down to about £1,000. Pay in full rather than instalments and I can drop it further. Living in an area with a Manchester postcode and driving a group 20 vehicle are the culprits, although I'd rather drive my barge than a noisy tin box.

The car insurance industry is nothing but a licence to print money, backed up by our government, who insist that we all have to buy the bloody stuff. I would happily see those twats who claim for whiplash and the like in prison.
 

Wazzerphuk

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So if you get whiplash you shouldn't claim? Even though it typically puts you out of action for at least a couple of days.
 

Amphrax

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My car insurance renewal quote dropped through the letterbox this morning. For the last few years I've been insured with a company called A-Plan, who've always seemed competitive, and indeed the first line of the letter included that word.

However, when placed in context with the actual quote, which is near as dammit £2,500, I think they're taking several orders of piss. Even being lazy and using confused.com, I've managed to get it down to about £1,000. Pay in full rather than instalments and I can drop it further. Living in an area with a Manchester postcode and driving a group 20 vehicle are the culprits, although I'd rather drive my barge than a noisy tin box.

The car insurance industry is nothing but a licence to print money, backed up by our government, who insist that we all have to buy the bloody stuff. I would happily see those twats who claim for whiplash and the like in prison.

I have genuine whiplash :( I had a medical last week and the doctor had his fingers/hands on my neck and he said the tension on the right side is different to the left side of the neck isn't right and will take 5 months to heal. I also have to see a physio... We all not that bad you know :)
 

Moriath

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3 grand on a 1.1 escort popular
9 grand on a 1.4 astra 9 years later
company cars for 12 years
10 grand on a mondeo just about to have paid it off

Thats it

ONly got fancy flashy cars when the company was paying for it hehe

Oh currently insurance is at 300 quid plus extras (guaranteed hire care, no claims protection, legal ) comes out about 400 quid.

Which looking at toms i is quite happy with it. Cant see anyone saving me 250 quid like these comparison websites claim. Would only be 150 then heh
 

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