Sunglasses_Ron
ClioSport Admin
So after having a think about how much money it’s been costing me for a car that I only use almost exclusively to travel backwards and forwards to work, this happened...
The heating on the Megane had packed up and driving to work at 5am in the freezing cold had become unbearable. We also have a year old ST like Kuga that we use as the family bus but this is my wife’s so using that for commuting wasn’t an option.
I’d been looking at ways to reduce fuel costs and had even been looking at EV’s but the cost of most of them were extortionate. I actually fancied a second hand Zoe but I was put off by the cost of the battery lease.
Then during an unrelated chat with @Daniel the conversation turned to some of the cars he had in stock. He mentioned a Peugeot 407 estate that I thought would have been perfect for fishing trips, but it wouldn’t have done much to reduce my fuel costs. He also told me about a Peugeot 107 he had. 50 mpg’s and £20 a year road tax got me seriously thinking this might be what I was looking for.
After a discussion with work it was agreed that a journey to collect a car that would be my way of getting to work would be classed as an essential journey so I booked a train ticket and made my way down to Daniel’s to collect the car.
On arrival Daniel was very apologetic about the car being so dirty but with the journey I had ahead of me in pouring rain it would have been hanging by the time I got it back anyway.
A quick stop at a motorway services and I chucked £30 of unleaded in at a cost of about £1.50 a litre! 🙀 But this still very nearly filled it up from empty 😂
Off I went up the motorway cruising along comfortably at 70mph. Being such a small car I thought it would be a nightmare to drive for the 140 odd mile journey but I was pleasantly surprised. In fact it would be fair to say that I was very very impressed with how it drove.
On arrival back home I could see that I had only used just over a quarter of a tank so I reckon it cost me about £10 to get back which was pretty impressive!
Now I know this won’t get anyone’s pulses racing and some will be wondering what the f*ck I was thinking buying this but in the current climate this is the PERFECT car for what I’m going to use it for. And I’d even go as far to say that I actually think it’s a cracking little motor! I’m sure most of you know that this is actually a Toyota Aygo underneath and I’ve been told that they are actually one of the most reliable cars on the road! So fingers crossed for some ultra cheap trouble free commuting for the foreseeable future.
Well done if you’ve made it this far reading a thread about quite possibly the blandest car in CS ownership but if you have here’s a couple of pics after it’s first clean in the work wash bay late last night ❤️
The heating on the Megane had packed up and driving to work at 5am in the freezing cold had become unbearable. We also have a year old ST like Kuga that we use as the family bus but this is my wife’s so using that for commuting wasn’t an option.
I’d been looking at ways to reduce fuel costs and had even been looking at EV’s but the cost of most of them were extortionate. I actually fancied a second hand Zoe but I was put off by the cost of the battery lease.
Then during an unrelated chat with @Daniel the conversation turned to some of the cars he had in stock. He mentioned a Peugeot 407 estate that I thought would have been perfect for fishing trips, but it wouldn’t have done much to reduce my fuel costs. He also told me about a Peugeot 107 he had. 50 mpg’s and £20 a year road tax got me seriously thinking this might be what I was looking for.
After a discussion with work it was agreed that a journey to collect a car that would be my way of getting to work would be classed as an essential journey so I booked a train ticket and made my way down to Daniel’s to collect the car.
On arrival Daniel was very apologetic about the car being so dirty but with the journey I had ahead of me in pouring rain it would have been hanging by the time I got it back anyway.
A quick stop at a motorway services and I chucked £30 of unleaded in at a cost of about £1.50 a litre! 🙀 But this still very nearly filled it up from empty 😂
Off I went up the motorway cruising along comfortably at 70mph. Being such a small car I thought it would be a nightmare to drive for the 140 odd mile journey but I was pleasantly surprised. In fact it would be fair to say that I was very very impressed with how it drove.
On arrival back home I could see that I had only used just over a quarter of a tank so I reckon it cost me about £10 to get back which was pretty impressive!
Now I know this won’t get anyone’s pulses racing and some will be wondering what the f*ck I was thinking buying this but in the current climate this is the PERFECT car for what I’m going to use it for. And I’d even go as far to say that I actually think it’s a cracking little motor! I’m sure most of you know that this is actually a Toyota Aygo underneath and I’ve been told that they are actually one of the most reliable cars on the road! So fingers crossed for some ultra cheap trouble free commuting for the foreseeable future.
Well done if you’ve made it this far reading a thread about quite possibly the blandest car in CS ownership but if you have here’s a couple of pics after it’s first clean in the work wash bay late last night ❤️
