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My new car... meet Ruby.
- Thread starter Laura
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Agreed, I like nice cars, but I wouldnt want to rent one for over a grand a month for very long, lol.
She said a cheap one.
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Stefan.
ClioSport Club Member
That must be hard to leave that behind, but a great experience!!
Herr Flick
aka Herman Ze German
Imagine rolling around in that Aston then having to drive the Rav chumpy chip posted. f**k that! Lol.
welshname
ClioSport Club Member
Good plan. Buying something like an Aston for example would be retarded.
Herr Flick
aka Herman Ze German
Navara, £170/month lease job done.But when I park it outside my own house it will be worth itI figured I had to go for something really different. I fancied a navara but the more I spend on a car the less I've got for a house so cheap n cheerful it is.
Ive banked the memories and the good times, remember how I got this money... Life is too short.
do to regret a second of it but now it's time to knuckle down n grow up
BMW 440i
Better way of putting it, although I suppose it's unrealistic to many having to pay a mortgage/rent at the same time, obviously this wasn't of concern to Laura whilst doing this.
Rob
ClioSport Moderator
Contract Hire finance example from Porsche Financial Services
based on 10,000 miles per annum* for Porsche 911 Carrera Coupe PDK
Duration 36 months
Initial Rental (plus VAT) £4,240.53
Monthly Rental (plus VAT) £1,413.51
Excess Mileage 47p per mile
Service, maintenance and tyres Included
Not quite...
BMW 440i
multiply by hourly rate by those 15 seconds and it wouldn't even be worth the saving. Ok, maybe not quite.
The MPG figures surprised me with the Aston, I always thought it would be closer to 20MPG.
Full circle to poorsville?
Bluebeard
ClioSport Moderator
Whichever has fuel
Not really. As said, if you have no commitments, why not spunk all your money on something you'll likely never have chance to own ever again!
Remember I told you, you could extract the fun out of a threesome with 2 Swedish models? Yeah you still could.
If one of them had aids and I pointed it out. It wouldn't actually be my fault. Unless I gave her the aids.
So don't shoot the messenger. Lol
Serious question though.
15k to help your kid through uni or some memories of driving around for a 7k miles in an Aston you can't drive anymore. What would you sooner have gally?
BMW 440i
That's just like saying every year though - £4k on a nice holiday, or that money could go towards this… etc
Memories have different meanings to different people and are the things you look back and smile on when your a cripple in a home.
Agree totally.
Which is why I won't be buying an Aston like Laura did.
I've driven loads of nice cars already so to me I can get better memories for my 15k than just to drive 7k miles in a car that's nearly as nice as some others I have driven.
Doesnt make it wrong for someone else to do that though. We are all different.
Laura still doesn't regret it now. So for her at this stage in her life it sounds like it was the right thing to do. Maybe in 5 years if her boiler explodes and she can't afford to fix it she will regret it then but hopefully she won't ever be in that situation so will always look back fondly.
Jeez you lot are hard work. Live a little.
I lost about 16% of the purchase price, I've not just handed the car back they have given me a tidy sum so I'm hardly in poorsville lol.
I have aves zero interest in saving for a kids college fund when I'm in my 20s when I may not even have children, I could well be dead by 50. Life is for living now. go out enjoy it!
I lost about 16% of the purchase price, I've not just handed the car back they have given me a tidy sum so I'm hardly in poorsville lol.
I have aves zero interest in saving for a kids college fund when I'm in my 20s when I may not even have children, I could well be dead by 50. Life is for living now. go out enjoy it!
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My mum has it.
This really wasn't the greatest page of this thread!
Laura, glad you've enjoyed it, but as AR and few others have said on your FB post, owning your own place will be the best next move you've made. You'll get the tidying/buying stuff for it etc bug soon enough. And with reports of NW prices around 21% in places last year, you're defo onto an appreciating asset winner, rather than £20k loss in 16 months!!
Advikaz
ClioSport Club Member
Agreed. I'd love to run an Aston, but to have an Aston & no house, I wouldn't & couldn't do it.
I appreciate the live your life whilest you're young & that's fine we all make our own choices, but I see a lot of people who've done just that, that now they're older they have bugger all because they didn't invest in their future.
Money in bricks & mortar > cars.
For sure. Living at home or in rented accommodation is a mugs game, especially if you have nice toys that hold you back from purchasing. Back to front priorities. You've done the right thing for the right reasons.
My old boy is on the hunt for a red V8V...ironically.
Good luck with future endeavours!
well she will be up for sale at wilmslow for 40K so tell him to get buying, however i never want to see pictures lol.
I have zero regrets about any of this, best thing ive ever done and ive still got a tidy lump sum back in the bank, just because ive lost a few grand it makes no difference to me, ive got a million more memories and smiles to look back on. Life for me is about living now and not worrying about which uni my imaginary kids might go to and how much money i might leave them when im dead. no ta
I cant expect many people to understand my mentality but going through what i went through and seeing the regrets my mum had about not living life when she had the chance made me do this. Ive met some amazing people had some mind blowing experiences and just had a great time.
Hell people spend a couple of grand on a holiday each year, 2 years of holidays and your not too far off the deprichation I've had to stand. The rest is just running costs, its just a fancy ford after all
If anyone has got a lump of cash and fancy doing something mental.. do it.
I have zero regrets about any of this, best thing ive ever done and ive still got a tidy lump sum back in the bank, just because ive lost a few grand it makes no difference to me, ive got a million more memories and smiles to look back on. Life for me is about living now and not worrying about which uni my imaginary kids might go to and how much money i might leave them when im dead. no ta
I cant expect many people to understand my mentality but going through what i went through and seeing the regrets my mum had about not living life when she had the chance made me do this. Ive met some amazing people had some mind blowing experiences and just had a great time.
Hell people spend a couple of grand on a holiday each year, 2 years of holidays and your not too far off the deprichation I've had to stand. The rest is just running costs, its just a fancy ford after all
If anyone has got a lump of cash and fancy doing something mental.. do it.
Lol. That reads more like you are trying to convince yourself than us.
But seriously though if you feel it was the best possible use of that money to give you maximum enjoyment over the course of your life then it was a good decision.
I tend to work on the basis that I'm happy with my life so no point regretting anything at all on the basis if I did things differently then I might be somewhere else with my life now that I wouldn't be happy with.
Life is definately too short to spend it looking backwards. What's done is done.
But seriously though if you feel it was the best possible use of that money to give you maximum enjoyment over the course of your life then it was a good decision.
I tend to work on the basis that I'm happy with my life so no point regretting anything at all on the basis if I did things differently then I might be somewhere else with my life now that I wouldn't be happy with.
Life is definately too short to spend it looking backwards. What's done is done.
Laura, I know you'd do it again if you had the chance. If I was in a position to do so I'd probably do something similar.
I highly, highly doubt it. In fact I know he isn't.
He's just speaking from a financially sensible point of view, which I understand. However I still think I'd do the same as Laura. Not everything is financially sensible and the hit you take is proportional to the enjoyment you get.
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