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What do you drive?

One Thousand Words said:
Please do link me to this wonder car for under a grand
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a few years ago, when i was taking my 'career break' in tahoe, i would buy a car in the winter and sell it in the summer. i was operating on a shoestring and found great value in cars costing less than $1000. i had an audi 4000 which cost about $800 and was awesome:

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a couple of years later, i found an isuzu trooper on craigslist, being sold by a couple who just moved into the marina in san francicso and had no where to park their second car. they were desperate to sell it. i think they wanted $950 and i got it for $750. not the best pic:

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i drove it all winter in tahoe where it performed amazingly in the snow. drove it down to san francisco in the spring and sold it for $1200 :)

it can be a crap shoot but i think you can get a lot of car for your $1 in the ~$1000 market.

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The Audi in particular would blow the budget as soon as you started needing parts. That Isuzu would be great for a snow runner though. I'm wanting to get a place back in Queenstown and leave a shit box there for when I go back for the ski season. I'm looking more at a clapped out diesel Land Rover but even an old rusted Toyota would do the trick

The thing with a new car now days is they nearly all come with at least five years fixed servicing as well as road side assistance. If you buy it through a business you also claim any depreciation over those five years which means it generally costs only a few thousand a year after tax. Choose something that holds it value under say $30-40k and it is cheaper than a divorce after the third breakdown spent arguing with your mrs
 
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I'm not sure why you lot are bickering about this as if it's a binary choice between a shitbox OR a brand new car. The vast majority of people buy something in between these two opposites.
 
That was kind of my original point in using the phrase decent run-around as oppose to 'shit box' but it may have been lost in translation somewhere along the way with our antipodean friend :)
 
I tend to go for three year old cars. Great value and still new enough to run without any major issues (usually!).
 
Anything approaching 100 000km and you have to think timing belts, which are expensive unless you replace them yourself and terminal if one goes on you
 
curious_24 said:
Yup, very true. I once found out the hard way...
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Ditto. I was on my way to score some gear when the belt snapped and fucked the engine on my old Renault 21. I wasn't taxed or insured either, so ended up dumping the car, spending my last tenner to get a taxi home and then reported the car as stolen - not something you want to have to deal with when rattling..
 
Nightmare mate. A while back I had inadvertently gone overdrawn and missed a payment on my insurance and got pulled over for some minor misdemeanor and when they discovered I wasn't insured (which was a surprise to me) I got six points and a four hundred note fine.... Which was a bit of a cunt :)
 
englandgz74 said:
Nightmare mate. A while back I had inadvertently gone overdrawn and missed a payment on my insurance and got pulled over for some minor misdemeanor and when they discovered I wasn't insured (which was a surprise to me) I got six points and a four hundred note fine.... Which was a bit of a cunt :)
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Yep, I've had almost the same thing happen, though I got pulled by one of those ANPR cars. As well as 6 points and £400 fine, I had to shell out nearly £300 to get it out of the compound. Bloody car only cost £700 to begin with...
 
http://www.thedailymash.co.uk/news/...cars-find-they-contain-tossers-20150930102445

I regular give the finger to dickheads driving cars like these who overtake dangerously on b roads for no other reason than to end up 1 car infront at the next roundabout queue 5 mins later.

having said that, I'm actually considering an older year audi a3 3door hatchback as my next car as they are cheap 2nd hand and relatively safe.
 
Ceres said:
http://www.thedailymash.co.uk/news/...cars-find-they-contain-tossers-20150930102445

I regular give the finger to dickheads driving cars like these who overtake dangerously on b roads for no other reason than to end up 1 car infront at the next roundabout queue 5 mins later.

having said that, I'm actually considering an older year audi a3 3door hatchback as my next car as they are cheap 2nd hand and relatively safe.
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Yeh mate. I spend 70% of my working life on the road, and there are basically 3 makes of vehicle and 3 types of driver I avoid at all costs: blokes driving BMWs and Audi's, women driving Range Rovers. These are guaranteed to cut you up, not show any consideration for other road users and basically be annoying, arrogant fucktards..
 
F.U.B.A.R. said:
Yeh mate. I spend 70% of my working life on the road, and there are basically 3 makes of vehicle and 3 types of driver I avoid at all costs: blokes driving BMWs and Audi's, women driving Range Rovers. These are guaranteed to cut you up, not show any consideration for other road users and basically be annoying, arrogant fucktards..
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Women driving gold range rovers, with a private reg, not using their indicators, driving erratically, a lot of the time I imagine they are probably drunk.

There are range rovers with private plates EVERYWHERE here and I just think, you fuckers don't even own that car, you're leasing it and you are probably insecure as fuck.
 
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