FOAK: New car for herself

Ah, good point.

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My snob gland has withered with age but you've just made it go ping.

 

OTOH if it's a company car, the tax will be crippling on the Scooby.

 

My business is a partnership so there's quite a lot of freedom to do
as we please. We're planning to incorporate in 09 and I'm about to
find[1] out the implications of cars and tax and stuff.

[1] cos one of you lot is about to tell me.

 

It's all based on the CO2, and hugging trees. In short diesels good,
big petrols bad.

Buy a tractor.

 

Or something with a 1.9L common-rail turbodiesel, as used in the roomiest,
most pleasant, and most civilised car available for the money.

 

My car isn't all that roomy.

 

Yeah, stop her using the internet.

 

Freelander.

 

S-Max

 

ignore me, just noticed the "got to be brand new" bit.

Why, BTW? Are you buying it through your firm to claim back the VAT,
or something?

 

Not for 16K new he won't.

Phil

 

Really?

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Hmmm, it's close - lowest list is just over £16k, and some online
discount places have them advertised for less. Of course, there's
always the must-have "optional" extras to push the price up.

Anyway, surely everyone ends up going over their original budget on car
& bike purchases.

Don't they?

 

http://www.motorpoint.co.uk has them, 2008 with delivery mileage only,
for £15999.
Doesn't that count as new?
It also has Impreza WRXs at the same price.

 

I've never understood this 'budget' idea. To me it's always been a
case of selecting what I want based on merit and only then starting to
work out if I could afford it. I always used to piss me off, going
into a 2nd-hand car or bike dealer and being asked 'how much do you
want to spend?' co's the answer was invariably 'as little as
possible', whereas how much I'd be prepared to spend would be based
purely on whether I considered what they'd got to be worth what they
were asking.

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