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I have been thinking lately about getting a spare car to do my motorway miles in to work. Should cut my petrol costs by £25 a week. Anyways I don't know what car to look at so I thought I would ask you lot as some are in the same predicament :eyebrows:

 

So you spare car owners what do you have!

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surely although it'll cut your petrol costs by that much the extra tax, insurance, servicing etc will counteract that benefit?

 

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Classic car, free tax, no need to worry about main dealer servicing (they went bust 20 years+ ago anyway :)) and insurance is cheap too.

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You could alwasy get one of these. Best of both worlds :D

 

 

Wouldn't help problem is I work nights and if I finish at 8 in the morning then I drive through Hereford town centre and get to the main road about 845am ( 3 miles) then travel 30 miles in 25 mins and spend another 45 getting through worcester town centre. If I had a bike could weave through all the traffic :)

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surely although it'll cut your petrol costs by that much the extra tax, insurance, servicing etc will counteract that benefit?

 

IMHO yes by loads- by the time you've saved on servicing/wear and tear/potential accident damage/weather damage to the supe it's well worth it. And you can park it and not worry.

 

I have a rover 214sli and a nissan almera 1.4

 

Rover is better on fuel, almera is nicer to drive. rover does about 320-340 miles to £35 fuel, almera does about 270-290 to £35.

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Citroen AX Debut, 1.5 Diesel and 58 grumbling horses :D

It's a bag of shite. No, really.

 

The exhaust fell of a few weeks ago and was hastily bodged together with a massive amount of gun-gum and an expander clip thingy from a kindly AA chap.

The drivers seat is lop-sided with a spring sticking out of one side.

It stinks.

If I go over speed bumps too fast, the n/s/f head-light falls out.

It's currently drinking antifreeze like there's no tomorrow.

It sounds, drives, accelerates and handle like a particularly crappy tractor.

It'll get laughed out of its next MOT; I honestly believe it's currently held together by nothing more than dirt (I refuse to wash it out of principal).

 

But after all that, it costs me £20 a week in fuel, as opposed to £90 a week in the Supra :)

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Some nice answers here I like it. I reckon it will save me around 1200 on fuel so that will cover the insurance, MOT, tax and the depreciation of the Supra!

 

I am looking at a 1.1 Fiesta **shudder** :D

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You could alwasy get one of these. Best of both worlds :D

 

http://www.darrenclarke.com/ism/images/sportism/clarke/darren-on-trike.jpg

 

 

What and look as straight as him???

 

Nice little 2 litre Peugeot 406 coupe ... does the trick!

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